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1. “I once again thank Council members for the opportunity to brief them on the importance of gender- responsive efforts for countering violent extremism and for counter-terrorism and the need for such efforts to be undertaken with local civil society actors.”

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2. “I would like to conclude by noting that those are just a few examples of the importance of gender-responsive, rights-based approaches to countering violent extremism and terrorism. Prioritizing individuals and their experiences is essential for successfully countering violent extremism and for counter-terrorism efforts. While we continue to expand normative frameworks and resources in that regard, it is crucial to focus on their implementation and alignment with international law. In order to realize gains in sustainable peace and human rights, our efforts must be co-designed and implemented in partnership with local and national stakeholders from the respective countries or regions.”

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3. “The gender and human rights implications of measures related to countering the financing of terrorism are receiving increased attention, but more needs to be done to ensure that the gender and human rights implications of measures for countering the financing of terrorism are properly understood and addressed from policy through practice. That includes ensuring that efforts related to anti-monitoring laws and countering the financing of terrorism do not hinder financial inclusion, which is particularly relevant for women, as it correlates with their financial independence and economic empowerment, which can in turn increase their resilience to violent extremism.”

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4. “Women-led and women-focused organizations often have profiles that leave them vulnerable to experiencing the consequences of countering the financing of terrorism more intensely. For example, organizations that challenge the prevailing gender norms may see their work disrupted under the auspices of anti-monitoring laws and obligations that are related to countering the financing of terrorism. Smaller organizations and those with less financial resilience may struggle to meet the compliance standards related to countering the financing of terrorism and anti-monitoring laws, especially when measures are arduous and unduly restrictive.”

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5. “Individuals can address their lived experiences, while accounting for intersectional identity factors such as gender, age and sexual orientation. In order to address safety concerns, particularly for women and girls, mobile listening and counselling clinics are used to allow for flexible, safe and private spaces in which women may process their trauma. Secondly, efforts to counter the financing of terrorism have long been known to both intentionally and unintentionally constrict civic space, human rights and access to financial services. While the impacts are felt broadly across a diversity of actors, power and resource imbalances mean that the misapplication of measures for countering the financing of terrorism can have a disproportionate effect on marginalized communities.”

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6. “In West Africa, some of our local partners facilitate dialogues, training and workshops using peacebuilding education and restorative justice methods to engage individuals who have been involved in terrorist groups. In the wake of the violent Boko Haram insurgency, trauma consciousness and resilience support has risen to the forefront of those efforts. The organizations provide training for counsellors and civil society actors as first responders to victims of the insurgency. During trauma and resilience workshops, trainers create a safe space that is conducive to the facilitation of open dialogues, addressing topics such as anger, conflict and power as they are experienced by individuals. That approach enables trainers to address the gendered nature of trauma and sexual and gender-based violence.”

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7. “Accountability and reconciliation efforts for returnees from Syria and Iraq should take into account the local attitudes towards individuals associated with violent extremist and terrorist groups and, where appropriate, engage with communities in order to help them to support returnees. Assumptions and stereotypes about women’s agency and their status as the victims of perpetrators further complicate the process of designing effective rehabilitationandreintegrationpoliciesandprogrammes. Other stereotypes include the demonization of women who are suspected of having committed crimes, which can be particularly challenging when they are in the process of reintegrating into a community. None of that is intended to detract from the prevalence of human trafficking and gender-based violence against women.”

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8. “First, policies and programmes that focus on the disengagement, rehabilitation and reintegration of persons associated with violent extremism or terrorism are more successful when they account for individual experiences and needs and are not confined to the victim/perpetrator binary. The gendered nature of power relations within societies and within terrorist groups is a critical dynamic that should be recognized. Most rehabilitation and reintegration interventions have been designed for male perpetrators. Building on the existing evidence base, it is important to design rehabilitation and reintegration programmes and policies that take into account gendered norms, structures and processes and their relevance to violent extremism and terrorism and to countering violent extremism and counter- terrorism efforts.”

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9. “When women, men and people of diverse gender identities are invited to participate in activities as expert speakers, authors, trainers or consultants, they should be fairly compensated. In order to illustrate the importance of those guiding principles, allow me to highlight their application to two areas of counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism interventions that were mentioned in the Secretary-General’s sixteenth report to demonstrate what gender-sensitive approaches look like in practice. I will focus on rehabilitation and reintegration and then turn my attention to countering the financing of terrorism.”

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10. “For example, considerations related to participants’ physical and mental safety, the risk of reprisals, access to transportation and the need for childcare and associated costs are crucial to ensure that individuals can participate in project activities. Lastly, civil society experts should be compensated for their engagement. In many countries, women’s labour and expertise are undervalued across the board, including in Government, civil society and academia. That disparity enables an environment in which women — far more frequently than men — are expected to speak and write without compensation in order to establish and maintain credibility in their fields.”

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11. “Such stakeholders are best equipped to define what success looks like and the means to measure it, as well as to identify the nature and terms of their engagement in countering violent extremism and counter-terrorism initiatives, including on whether a countering violent extremism framing is most appropriate in each circumstance. Thirdly, inclusivity means more than casting a wide net. It means actively seeking to remove barriers to participation. Countering violent extremism and counter-terrorism efforts are only as inclusive as they are accessible. The participation and leadership of boys, men, girls, women and people of diverse gender identities can vary significantly, depending on when and where activities, meetings and consultations are held.”

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12. “Peace and security interventions that fail to account for gendered roles, needs and power relations have a substantially higher risk of doing harm and of reinforcing norms, institutions and structures that enable gender-based injustice and violence. Secondly, gender-responsive stakeholder engagement should be inclusive and participatory and prioritize the empowerment of the most marginalized and affected. All aspects of countering violent extremism and counter-terrorism interventions, including their design, should be co-led by stakeholders, partners and programme participants of diverse gender and intersecting identities, prioritizing the women’s civil society organizations and marginalized groups most affected by a policy or programme.”

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13. “They must avoid creating, or exacerbating, drivers of violence and, instead, make a positive contribution to peace and the promotion and protection of human rights. They must therefore be conflict-sensitive, uphold do-no-harm standards and account for the diverse needs, challenges and risks to men, women, girls, boys and people of diverse gender and intersecting identities. Furthermore, the maintenance of strong, independent institutions of oversight and accountability over justice and security actors and interventions to prevent and address abuse and corruption is a crucial prerequisite for equitable and inclusive community engagement.”

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14. “For the Council’s consideration, and based on the Global Center’s experience and diverse network of civil society partners, I will share a set of key principles that should inform more gender-sensitive, rights-based countering violent extremism and counter-terrorism approaches to addressing the threat posed by ISIL (Da’esh) and many other terrorist groups. First, the do-no-harm principle and gender and conflict sensitivity must underpin all components of countering violent extremism and counter-terrorism policies and practices. Countering violent extremism and counter-terrorism policies and programmes must account for the complexity of drivers of insecurity beyond those posed by terrorism.”

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15. “In that regard, tentative progress has been made, particularly in the promulgation of normative frameworks, resources and guidance documents. However, we see greater opportunities to move beyond the status quo by better understanding and addressing how gender identities intersect with other identity factors, including ethnicity, age, religion and geographic origin, and by operationalizing the existing guidance in countering violent extremism and counter- terrorism programmes and measures in partnership with local and regional civil society stakeholders to ensure their contextualization.”

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16. “Mainstreaming gender into the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of countering violent extremism and counter-terrorism measures is not just a matter of realizing the goal of the participation of women. It is about ensuring the inclusive and equitable participation and leadership of people of diverse gender identities. It requires accounting for the experiences, needs and challenges of individuals and recognizing how gender identities relate to other identity factors. Simply put, integrating a gender perspective is a prerequisite for successful human rights-based and people-centred policies and programmes intended to address peace and security issues, including those that seek to counter violent extremism and terrorism.”

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17. “They have also called for greater participation and leadership by women, amplified the work of women and women’s organizations and addressed the role of gender stereotypes and masculinities. Similarly, the Secretary-General’s 2015 Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism (A/70/674) recommends that States Members of the United Nations mainstream gender perspectives across efforts to prevent violent extremism. Indeed, the Secretary-General’s sixteenth report (S/2023/76) on the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) reflects on the grave abuses against children and women, their significant representation in camps and detention facilities and the need for gender- and age-sensitive approaches to their rehabilitation and reintegration.”

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18. “Moreover, the perspectives of local civil society must inform this organ’s decisions and the broader work of the United Nations, especially when those decisions affect those most affected by terrorism and counter- terrorism. We hope to see our local partners sitting in this seat next time, and we call on Council members and the United Nations system to support and safeguard their participation. In addition to adding invaluable perspectives to the Council, local and national civil society have been instrumental in moving towards gender-sensitive policies in programmes and policies on countering violent extremism and counter-terrorism. Security Council resolutions and discussions have long emphasized the need to integrate a gender perspective into countering violent extremism and counter-terrorism approaches.”

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19. “We recognize its efforts to secure a civil society briefer for today’s meeting who operates at a local or a national level and the steps that it took to ensure their safety in the light of increased reprisals for both civil society and United Nations personnel, as seen most recently in the expulsion of the head of the Human Rights Division of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali and the pressure placed on the civil society briefer. No one should face retaliation for speaking out on human rights abuses. Indeed, the Security Council has a long history of being a forum for debate and action on such matters.”

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20. “Ms. Praxl: I thank the Security Council very much for inviting me today to share some observations regarding the importance of gender mainstreaming across all countering violent extremism and counter- terrorism efforts. My name is Franziska Praxl-Tabuchi, and I am the Director of Multilateral Relations at the Global Center on Cooperative Security. I want to thank the Government of Malta for inviting me to brief the Council today on gender- responsive approaches to addressing terrorism.”

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