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2023-10-17
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2023-10-17
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  1. “That is the message that the Concertation des Collectives des Associations Féminines de la Région des Grands Lacs wishes to express in one voice, in the hopes that our plea will be heard. In conclusion, I would like to express my appreciation for the cooperation with the Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region and the support of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region. Our gratitude also goes to Ambassadors Huang Xia and João Caholo for their continued support to COCAFEM/GL, as well as to the Special Envoy of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission on Women, Peace and Security and other women leaders from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the region who continue to advocate loudly for the inclusion and protection of women in the Great Lakes region.”

    2023-10-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9440 (2023) · source

  2. “In order to improve the protection of displaced women and children from abuse and violence in camps and host families but also to ensure their right to education, we recommend strengthening provisions to counter all forms of gender-based violence by ensuring that the perpetrators are arrested and brought to justice and by strictly enforcing the existing laws. We also recommend restoring destroyed school infrastructure and equipment, and the implementation of mechanisms for the safe and easy integration of boys and girls into the school structures of their host communities. Given the global context, which includes various challenges, we call for the Security Council to continue to prioritize the situation of women and girls in the Great Lakes region.”

    2023-10-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9440 (2023) · source

  3. “To that end, we call for the holding of a special session on the situation in the Great Lakes at which we, as women, can present our peace and security agenda; support for marginalized groups, including women, young people and persons with disabilities, through cross-border projects funded by partners to contribute more effectively to dialogue, the peace process, conflict resolution and peacebuilding; the equal, direct and significant participation of civil society, young people, women and persons with disabilities in the region in all peace processes supported by the United Nations and international partners; support for local and community peace-building initiatives based on gender-sensitive needs in line with the programme of action for women and peace and security in the Great Lakes region; support for initiatives responding to humanitarian emergencies for displaced women, particularly those resulting from the conflicts in North Kivu; support for the creation of a regional mechanism for the involvement of women in mining and women’s entrepreneurship, including intra-community and cross-border trade; the promotion and institutionalization of a community psychosocial approach in peace and security efforts, conflict prevention and the fight against sexual and gender-based violence.”

    2023-10-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9440 (2023) · source

  4. “The role of civil-society organizations therefore becomes crucial and should be further reinforced not only to build real bridges between communities and Governments but also to create spaces for accountability and dialogue between them, raise awareness among communities regarding a culture of peace, tolerance and non-violence and mobilize citizens as possessors of rights. COCAFEM/GL and its allies in the region would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the efforts made by the States in the Great Lakes region under the guidance of the guarantors of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework Agreement for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region. However, women’s movements would like to be more involved in the high-level consultation and exchange frameworks aimed at establishing lasting peace and security.”

    2023-10-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9440 (2023) · source

  5. “As a result, the conflict situations in the Great Lakes region amplify the inequalities between men and women, and many children are currently living in difficult circumstances. By the end of August, our teams in Goma, in North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, had recorded at least 27,441 children displaced, of whom 15,158 were girls and 12,283 were boys. Of those, 250 — 148 girls and 102 boys — had disabilities and 210 — 60 boys and 150 girls, including 71 adolescent mothers — were heads of households. Three major problems emerge from the precarious security situation in the region — the low cohesion of cross-border communities; poor protection of women and girls against sexual and gender-based violence and limited political spaces and spaces for dialogue for women’s voices.”

    2023-10-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9440 (2023) · source

  6. “As the Council is aware, the Great Lakes region has been experiencing crises and movements of people between countries, particularly Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and their various neighbours, for more than two decades. The high level of militarization and the recurring conflicts in the region threaten its stability and have had severe consequences in terms of deteriorating social cohesion and especially for the protection of civilians, women, children, persons with disabilities and older people. The impacts of those repeated crises on women and girls are many. Population displacement disrupts children’s education at both the primary and secondary levels, and girls are twice as likely as boys to be unable to access school in conflict zones.”

    2023-10-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9440 (2023) · source

  7. “I thank the Council for this opportunity to speak on behalf of civil society on the situation in the Great Lakes region and the issues that are important to it. I have the pleasure and honour to represent the women of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. The Concertation des Collectifs des Associations Féminines de la Région des Grands Lacs (COCAFEM/ GL), which I have the honour to represent today, is a network that brings together 11 women’s collectives from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda — made up of 1,861 associations — and whose alliance extends to other countries in the region.”

    2023-10-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9440 (2023) · source