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2022-01-18

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2023-08-03

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1. “Peacekeeping operations are another key pillar of the women and peace and security agenda. On the one hand, increasing the participation of women in civil and military contingents is a critical factor in ensuring the overall success of peace missions. It is also vital to ensure that peacekeeping operations and special political missions improve their monitoring and reporting of threats and violence against women negotiators, activists and human rights defenders, and that such monitoring and reporting are included in early warning system signals of conflict escalation. The barriers to women’s participation are structural and rooted in the various forms of discrimination and violence that women have to deal with. They are exacerbated by conflicts and crises.”

   2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949Resumption1 (2022) · source

2. “The role that women play in peace processes must be protected by States so that they can do their critical work without fear of intimidation or reprisals. The right of women to fully participate in every aspect of public life depends on their ability to do so in a safe environment. Threats against and attacks on women peacebuilders are unacceptable. They deter women from participation and leadership. That is particularly true of women from marginalized communities, because they already have to overcome many other barriers to enter public life. States must take steps both for prevention and to ensure accountability. They should take every possible measure to avert threats and attacks against women who participate in peace processes, while also ensuring that if such acts do take place, the perpetrators are held accountable.”

   2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949Resumption1 (2022) · source

3. “However, women’s participation cannot be substantive or meaningful if their physical safety is not also assured. It is a deeply regrettable fact that women negotiators, activists, politicians and human rights defenders continue to be attacked for their involvement in peace processes, including through sexual violence. The Secretary-General’s 2021 report on women and peace and security (S/2021/827) points to 35 verified killings of women human rights defenders, journalists and trade unionists in seven countries affected by conflict in 2020. The threats and harassment visited on many women in order to silence their voices and deter them from participating in peace processes force many of them to abandon their countries of origin.”

   2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949Resumption1 (2022) · source

4. “It has been more than 20 years since the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), and little progress has been made in fully implementing it. Women continue to be excluded from peace processes, which necessarily results in agreements that not only fail to provide for women’s rights and needs but also undermine the sustainability of those peace processes. Let us not forget that there is also a growing number of armed groups for whom gender inequality is a strategic goal and for whom misogyny forms part of their central ideology. Bearing in mind the impact that conflicts have on women’s lives, it is vital that those who have the power to decide who gets to sit at the negotiating table can guarantee women a seat and that they can participate equitably and substantively.”

   2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949Resumption1 (2022) · source

5. “Mr. Mainero (Argentina) (spoke in Spanish): At the outset, my delegation would like to thank Norway sincerely for convening today’s open debate on a topic as relevant as that of addressing the violence, intimidation and reprisals that target women involved in peace processes. Through its resolution 1325 (2000), the Security Council recognized for the first time the central role that women should play in conflict prevention and resolution. Since then, the world has become more aware both of women’s difficult situation as well as of their positive contributions in conflict situations. The world is also increasingly aware of why it is so essential to ensure women’s meaningful participation in conflict prevention and in peacekeeping and peacebuilding processes. However, large gaps remain.”

   2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949Resumption1 (2022) · source