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  1. “In order to promote the Security Council resolution on women and peace and security in Central Africa and to contribute to the new dynamic of an ECCAS of the peoples that we want, which leaves no one behind and which collaborates with its partners in order to restore peace to the subregion, COPAC seeks the political, material and financial support of the United Nations and its partners to facilitate its work, in particular with regard to further involving regional civil society, represented by COPAC, in awareness-raising and dissemination regarding the Sustainable Development Goals and the principles of good governance and inclusion for greater ownership by populations and decision-makers; supporting mutually supportive gender-sensitive early-warning work between Governments and civil society in order to take concrete action to consolidate peace, establish security and stabilize the subregion in general and prevent conflicts; strengthening the capacity of COPAC and its member organizations to make them more effective and professional; creating multi-stakeholder platforms, both virtual and physical, for the sharing of best practices to facilitate dialogue, mediation and conflict resolution; and, lastly, supporting COPAC and civil society organizations in Central Africa to better contribute to the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000), on women and peace and security, particularly so as to address the challenges of the shrinking regional civic space and all forms of violence against women and vulnerable groups, including armed violence.”

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  2. “Other challenges include poor institutional capacities and the lack of professionalism in institutional activities; the unfavourable environment for the functioning and development of civil society organizations due to the closed, restricted or, sometimes, extremely repressed civic space; the mistrust of Governments towards civil society organizations, which are often seen as opposition organizations; and a lack of inclusiveness, as civil society organizations have little, or hardly any, involvement in consultations on, and the monitoring and evaluation of, development policies and projects. The expectations of COPAC are simple.”

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  3. “Moving on to COPAC’s challenges and expectations and the major challenges for civil society organizations in Central Africa, in general, and for COPAC, in particular, despite the progress made, civil society in Central Africa continues to face challenges that prevent it from fully playing its role. Those clearly include a lack of financial resources, leading to a lack of management capacity, communication, visibility and service provision. Today we are therefore grateful to the Security Council for having invited us and for affording us this platform.”

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  4. “We started campaigns on civic space in four countries, namely, Cameroon, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic, which are known to be very restricted in terms of civic space, where one cannot express oneself freely. However, we started to work with the authorities and to raise awareness among civil society organizations and put them in touch with the authorities. Some are positive about that, and we continue our work. We are involved in continuous advocacy. Early warning, mediation and negotiation are also among our skills and actions. The list is by no means complete. We believe that, with frank collaboration with civil society, Governments will find solutions to most of the problems that arise from violence.”

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  5. “Civil society carries out field activities in election observation; capacity- building of the smallest associations; protecting vulnerable people and defending the rights of victims of violence, including armed violence, particularly involving women and young people; awareness- raising to support peace at the borders and in conflict zones; support for refugees and persons internally displaced from conflicts — internal or displaced from neighbouring countries in the ECCAS region; advocating for the free movement of people and goods in Central Africa, which raises a serious issue of violence; combating terrorism, violent extremism and the dissemination of hate messages on social networks through awareness-raising campaigns and training and information workshops; training women and young people in income-generating activities to promote entrepreneurship in order to combat economic violence, because that is widespread; educating young people about citizenship through educational talks; awareness- raising among young people about the harmful effects of drugs, narcotics and all forms of violence in schools; and awareness-raising to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, which we have undertaken with the support of various institutions and international organizations.”

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  6. “We welcome and commend the partnership between UNOCA and ECCAS, in particular the leadership of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. François Louncény Fall, which has enabled COPAC to become a representative organization of Central African civil society, with a regional secretariat, equipped since 2020 with substantial material — computer and all other kinds of equipment — sophisticated equipment, I must say — for data collection, as well as to combat COVID-19. That has served us well. I must outline civil society actions, since we are active on the ground, as I said.”

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  7. “We very much welcomed the efforts and support of ECCAS and its partners, including United Nations entities, in particular the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) and the United Nations Development Programme, for the establishment and operationalization of COPAC, as well as its capacity-building. We also welcome the support from ECCAS and its partners, thanks to which the countries of the region are currently equipping themselves with the second generation of national action plans on women and peace and security. There is visible progress, which is reflected in the changes to national laws that we see in some countries. However, the problems of dissemination and implementation on the ground, which we are capable of overcoming, remain.”

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  8. “However, we commend and congratulate the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), which, during the sixteenth ordinary session of its Assembly of Heads of State and Government, held on 23 November 2014 in N’Djamena, issued a statement that on the one hand committed its member States to considering civil-society organizations as fully fledged stakeholders in the area of peace and security, and on the other instructed the ECCAS General Secretariat to draft a formal cooperation framework with civil- society organizations and increase measures to combat violence against women in armed conflict.”

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  9. “The rights most often violated are the right to life, to a fair trial and to freedom of opinion and expression, which shows that the people of the subregion are more concerned about seeing their strategic needs met than their practical needs and demonstrates their aspirations for greater consideration and for respect for their dignity and their desire for justice.”

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  10. “There are serious human rights violations occurring in the countries of the subregion and at their borders, and it is women who are worst affected by them. The study participants said that 56 per cent of the people most affected by human rights violations are women, and I can confirm that. That also confirms information in country reports on the status of their implementation of resolution 1325 (2000), which clearly reflects the reasons for women’s insistent calls to be considered as equal partners in the work of decision-making with regard to preventing and responding to human rights violations.”

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  11. “I will keep our remarks on the human rights situation fairly brief in view of the previous speaker’s statement. In the current volatile security and health environment, COPAC is particularly concerned about the human rights situation in Central Africa. According to a study conducted on 20 September 2021 on gender- related human rights violations and threats to security in Central Africa, commissioned by the West African Network for Peacebuilding together with COPAC, some populations in the subregion are either suffering or in extreme distress, and yet the leaders of their various countries solemnly declare that their primary concern is the happiness of their peoples. The report evaluates the relationship between the leaders and peoples and draws the following main conclusions.”

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  12. “In addition to conflict situations, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has exacerbated vulnerabilities and fragilities among the peoples of Central Africa, where civil society’s low level of engagement and exclusion from health-crisis management programmes did not help to prevent the spread of the pandemic. Nonetheless, international organizations now acknowledge civil society as an important agent in promoting peace, respect for human rights, an awareness of gender-based violence and the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000). Civil society plays an important role in advocacy, monitoring and evaluation with a view to creating an environment conducive to more effective policymaking and equitable and sustainable inclusive growth.”

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  13. “We will also address the plight of young people, who are making demands and organizing protests. If we map recent conflicts or old conflicts that have re-emerged, we can see that they are concentrated in the Great Lakes region and around Lake Chad and the Gulf of Guinea, affecting a number of countries, particularly Burundi, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Chad. In some cases, those conflicts lead to problems with neighbouring countries accused of fuelling the tensions, as is the case with the conflict between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”

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  14. “Those factors include such underlying causes as the triple threat represented by a lack of governance, respect for human rights and democracy that fuels political conflict, through, for example, electoral violence; conflicts between arable and livestock farmers; the illicit or unequal exploitation of resources to which populations lay claim; and conflicts with religious undertones. Their major consequences are the conflicts we see across Central Africa; instability in regional forums, with low levels of regional integration and cooperation; weak State institutions and at times corruption that is deeply entrenched in all customs and practices; the oppression of the poor and disenfranchised; and insecurity and instability, which are also exacerbated by instability within States with adverse effects, especially on women and minorities.”

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  15. “Each has at least 500 members and the largest has approximately 1,200. The establishment of COPAC solved the problem of the lack of leadership at the subregional level, which undermined the possibility of relevant interactions between civil society and the decision-making bodies in the region and across the continent. Turning to the security situation, according to a study conducted by the African Union Peace and Security Council in June 2020, the peace and security landscape in Central Africa is both heterogeneous and complex. It reflects the ever-evolving social, economic and political dynamics of its various communities, as well as the numerous factors that shape the nature, trajectory, scope, intensity and duration of conflicts across the continent.”

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  16. “Ms. Nlate: (spoke in French): On behalf of the Steering Committee of the Coalition des organisations de la société civile d’Afrique centrale pour la préservation de la paix, la prévention des conflits, la resolution et la transformation des crises (COPAC), I have the honour to brief the Council on the regional context, the human rights situation and the situation pertaining to the implementation in Central Africa of resolution 1325 (2000), on women and peace and security. At the outset, and because it is the first time that our organization has had the honour of addressing the members of the Council, I would like to provide a short summary of the work of COPAC. Who are we? Our organization was established on 10 October 2019. It has five principal networks and platforms in Central Africa, which have existed for more than 15 years.”

    2022-06-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9058 (2022) · source