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Mounkaïla

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2023-05-23
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2023-05-23
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  1. “I should not conclude without asking representatives to spare a thought for the communities, the displaced women and young people and the refugees who are living in conditions that we can hardly comprehend. All the women of my country and my region are standing alongside me before the Council today. I ask the members of the Council to help us to educate our daughters, to be protected, organized, funded and represented, and to participate equitably in all areas of society, including in humanitarian and conflict-related coordination and decision-making structures. By doing that, they will build lasting peace.”

    2023-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9327 (2023) · source

  2. “Lastly, I am asking the Council to ensure that any of its decisions or actions, including any interventions that it requests and any reports it commissions, include a robust and intersectoral gender analysis, with data specifying sex, age, disabilities and other characteristics as necessary in the context, in particular when implementing resolution 2417 (2018). The Council should insist on gender analyses of conflicts so that it can address the rights and needs of women and girls, who are always the worst affected. That will ensure that commitments undertaken based on the women and peace and security agenda are in line with the Council’s responsibility to end conflict and hunger.”

    2023-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9327 (2023) · source

  3. “The Council and countries that are major contributors of greenhouse gases have to take responsibility for the extent of the climate effects that regions such as mine are experiencing. I ask the Council to support our calls for climate-change adaptation programmes in the agricultural sector, in which more than 80 per cent of women in my country are involved, not only to ensure our agricultural security but also to support our transition to a green economy that is sustainable, respectful of the environment and that recognizes the role of women, so that our young people today and our generations to come can live in dignity.”

    2023-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9327 (2023) · source

  4. “Thirdly, in line with the 10 resolutions on women and peace and security that the Council has adopted and the related joint commitments that many representatives around this table have signed, I urge the Council to emphasize the full, equal and meaningful participation and leadership of women and girls in humanitarian responses, as well as community dialogues, peacebuilding and peace negotiation processes at every level. Women have a key role to play in those processes. Sustainable peace is not possible without them. And in doing so, the Council will also help to build future women leaders. Mediation by women and girls in the Lake Chad basin has greatly contributed to the restoration and stabilization of the region. Fourthly, I would like to revisit the issue of climate change.”

    2023-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9327 (2023) · source

  5. “First, the Security Council should encourage the donor community to allocate more funding to rebuilding gender-sensitive livelihoods such as sustainable agriculture, in which women play a central role, reviving economic opportunities and access to financial services so that women survivors of violence, including sexual violence, can have a chance to rebuild their own lives and communities. Local organizations and communities must be more genuinely empowered to respond to multiple crises. Secondly, our communities are very fragile, with the result that there is very little difference between host communities, internally displaced persons and refugees in terms of fragility. We should promote only inclusive responses and sustainable solutions based on local responses that draw on the know-how of communities, in particular women.”

    2023-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9327 (2023) · source

  6. “In 2021, women-led organizations from four Lake Chad basin countries that were grappling with the devastation caused by Boko Haram — Chad, Cameroon, the Niger and Nigeria — organized the Network to address the challenges we were all facing. Our belief that the voices of women and girls must be heard and taken into account united us and gave us the courage to chart our own path through prevention, mediation and peacebuilding. That experience could be leveraged to address the current influx of Sudanese refugees and build peace. As an African woman, I would like to address the Security Council today with a collective message from my sisters across the Lake Chad basin that I hope will define the Security Council’s approach to ending conflict and hunger. On their behalf and my own, I offer the following five-point message.”

    2023-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9327 (2023) · source

  7. “They make sacrifices so that their children do not go to bed hungry and can stay in school, and in order to care for their loved ones and their communities more generally. They demonstrate exceptional courage and resilience every day. Others, like me, have organized and mobilized to try to break these vicious cycles. I am a founding member and the current President of the Network of Women’s Organizations of the Lake Chad Basin. But the women’s movement, like other areas on the development, peace and humanitarian fronts, remains poorly resourced and is unlikely to be considered when planning solutions. Women are the primary victims and at the same time the first to provide solutions in every crisis situation.”

    2023-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9327 (2023) · source

  8. “In 2022, heavy rains and flooding had an enormous impact on human lives, property, farmland and livestock in the Lake Chad basin, affecting 5.5 million people, killing nearly 1,000 and putting 1 million hectares under water, 70 per cent of which was agricultural land. That lost productivity could have fed 5 million people. In the Lake Chad basin, the humanitarian crisis, whether climate- or security-related, has a female face — more than 80 per cent of the people living in poverty are women and children. Fighting among armed groups and various law-enforcement bodies has left thousands of schools and hundreds of health facilities closed, while opportunities for decent employment and livelihoods are increasingly scarce. In the light of that bleak picture, women are struggling day and night to give hope to their families.”

    2023-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9327 (2023) · source

  9. “There were challenges, but we had the most important thing, the foundation of all development — our security. Since 2015, the entire Lake Chad basin region has been facing a humanitarian crisis as a result of the attacks perpetrated by Boko Haram and other armed groups. In just two years, from 2020 to 2022, an additional 7 million people have been identified as being in need of humanitarian assistance and protection, bringing the total number in need of urgent humanitarian assistance in the seven countries of the Lake Chad basin and the Group of Five for the Sahel to nearly 34 million. In addition to the armed conflicts that are undermining people’s livelihoods, the climate crisis is escalating.”

    2023-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9327 (2023) · source

  10. “Ms. Mounkaïla (spoke in French): First of all, I would like to thank the Secretary-General and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross for their remarks, and Switzerland for inviting me to brief the Security Council today as it considers the very urgent issue of conflict and hunger in the world. I am speaking as a woman from the Niger, a country located in the Lake Chad basin and the Sahel. Before 2015, Diffa, one of the eight regions of the Lake Chad basin affected by the Boko Haram conflict, was our leading area for pepper cultivation and marketing, and I was one of the leaders of the organizations that supported women in rural areas in processing agricultural and seasonal products. In addition to its legendary peppers, Diffa is also the Niger’s leading oil-producing region. The region was not developed.”

    2023-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9327 (2023) · source