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  1. “It is key to support the efforts of local women activists to demilitarize and disarm all our societies and to stem the flow of small arms, as set out in the Arms Trade Treaty and other legal instruments. It is the responsibility of all actors, including the Security Council, the United Nations system, regional and subregional organizations and, importantly, Member States, to fulfil their obligations. The women and peace and security agenda, if implemented and financially resourced, can be a path to peace in my country and around the world, with gender equality, women's empowerment and the protection of women's rights playing a central role in conflict prevention and the creation of a sustainable peace.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  2. “For Afro-descendant women in Colombia and indigenous women leaders worldwide, ensuring our collective security also means that the principles of free, prior and informed consent and consultation; autonomy; cultural integrity and meaningful participation are respected, and that our rights, as enshrined in national and international human rights standards, are fully promoted and protected. Peace in Colombia and elsewhere is not simply a matter of ending war and violence but also of addressing collectively the root causes of conflict, including social, gender and racial injustice, and promoting the well-being of all peoples, of all races and religions.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  3. “It is critical that the Colombian Government and its implementation commission accept and integrate the ethnic perspectives and indicators, including specific gender ethnic indicators, developed and provided to them by indigenous and Afro-descendant organizations earlier this month. Political will on these indicators is needed, and they must be included in the legal framework of the peace accord. They will help effectively transform the wartime conditions that are hampering the well-being, social development and collective security of indigenous and Afro-descendant women and our communities.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  4. “There is an urgent need to establish a direct line of communication between indigenous and Afro-descendant authorities and representatives of women's organizations in all mechanisms of the Comprehensive System for Truth, Coexistence, Reparations and Non-Repetition to ensure that these cases are prioritized, the perpetrators are brought to justice and survivors provided with life-saving medical and psychosocial services. Finally, it is crucial that the framework plan for the implementation of the peace accord include specific goals and indicators designed to measure the progress and outcomes of policies, programmes and reforms in a manner corresponding to the needs, values and rights of indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  5. “Just last week, we buried our brother Jair Cortes, the sixth leader killed in that municipality, and we had to urgently move out several women leaders and their families who had received death threats. Sexual and gender-based violence and the stigmatization that comes with it, especially for indigenous and Afro-descendant women and their children, is also a matter of integral and collective security. The silence around these crimes is as appalling as the crimes themselves. Women activists risk their lives to bring cases to justice.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  6. “The proliferation of weapons is fuelling increased fear and forced displacement among largely indigenous and Afro-descendant communities and negatively impacting women's participation and mobility, as well as resulting in increased sexual and gender-based violence. We are alarmed at the increasing number of assassinations and threats to human rights defenders and peace activists across Colombia. For example, in Tumaco, a municipality near the border with Ecuador, urban leaders and members of the Community Council of Alto Mira and Frontera continue to be targeted by paramilitary groups and FARC and other dissidents who seek territorial control in order to grow and sell coca.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  7. “The Security Council and the international community must support the Colombian Government in the process of designing and implementing gender- responsive, community-based security and self- protection systems, in consultation with Afro-descendant and indigenous communities. The failure to listen to our security concerns and warnings has had devastating results. (spoke in English) We believe that to listen and comply is vitally important. (spoke in Spanish) This brings me to my second point: the need to guarantee our integral and collective security. Security involves the safety of our leaders and communities and respect for and the protection of territories and territorial rights.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  8. “In Colombia, there is no representative of Afro- descendant women on the High-level Body on Gender, the body established to oversee the implementation of the accord's gender chapter. As the parties to the peace accord work with the international community to demobilize FARC fighters, paramilitaries and other armed actors have filled the power vacuum left by FARC forces in many areas in Colombia. This has created an urgent need for local women's organizations and community leaders to be consulted and to participate in the design of local protection strategies aimed at keeping our communities safe.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  9. “First is ensuring the ongoing participation of women, in all areas related to the implementation ofthe peace accord, with a focus on diversity. As with women around the world, women in Colombia, and particularly Afro-descendant women, have been mobilizing for decades to make visible the violations of our rights but also to ensure significant transformations in the way peace and security is approached. My dear sister Rita Lopidia, from South Sudan, was here last year (see S/PV.7793) and gave testimony on the importance of South Sudanese women participating in the ongoing peace and security dialogues. In Afghanistan, the few women on the High Peace Council must continue fighting to have their voices heard.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  10. “Colombia, however, risks wasting this opportunity for peace if it does not completely disarm and if the communities most impacted during the internal armed conflict, including women, human rights leaders and activists, continue to be ignored in the implementation of the peace accord. I am here today to make visible their urgent calls and wish to stress that for my people, this is truly a matter of life and death. I should like to focus on three urgent priority areas: the participation of ethnically diverse women; ensuring the security of human rights defenders, civil- society activists and indigenous and Afro-descendant communities; and the inclusive monitoring and implementation of peace processes.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  11. “The first is the explicit inclusion of a gender perspective as an intersectional principle, and the second the inclusion of the ethnic chapter, which provides important safeguards to ensure respect for the autonomy of indigenous and Afro- descendant peoples and the protection and promotion of their rights from a gender, family and generational perspective. The inclusion of these two specific principles is a historic advancement in the area ofpeace and security from which the United Nations and other countries experiencing violence and armed conflict could learn. The peace accord was very important for civil society, women, indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples and our communities. We continue to expect that its implementation will include our engagement and active participation of women.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  12. “I can speak first-hand to the importance of inclusive negotiations and implementation processes that support the participation of women and groups from ethnically and racially diverse backgrounds, in reflection of the principles underlying resolution 1325 (2000). Columbia has become a fresh source of hope because of the comprehensive peace accord that was reached. Two provisions were particularly progressive, though we had to push that door really hard. Those two provisions could radically change future peace processes around the world.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  13. “It is an honour and a great responsibility to have been nominated by my colleagues around the world to represent the women and peace and security civil society and community at today's important debate. As spokesperson for the Afro- Colombian Peace Council, I was extensively involved in the historic Havana peace process between the Colombian Government and the guerrilla group Fuerza Alternativa Revolucionaria del Comun (PARC), and I advocated for the rights and expectations of Afro- descendant peoples to be part of the peace accord that Colombia and the world are celebrating today.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source

  14. “On behalf of the Afro-descendants of Colombia's ancestral regions, I bring warm greetings oflife,joy, hope and freedom. I am present at today's meeting in my capacity as a member of the human rights team of the Proceso de Comunidades Negras, the Red de Solidaridad Afro-Colombiana, la Alianza Negra por la Paz and the Instancia Especial de Alto Nivel con Pueblos Etnicos. I am also speaking on behalf of the non-governmental organizations working group on women, peace and security. I am an Afro-descendant woman and a peace and human rights activist. I have spent half of my life raising awareness about and fighting for the cultural, territorial and political rights of Afro- descendant women and our communities, and for our self-determination.”

    2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source