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  1. “Our peacekeepers, one of the largest contingents in United Nations peacekeeping, carry those ideals with them, aiming to impart them to people in distant parts. The United Nations system, particularly the Security Council, can collate those experiences and practices, examine and study them and transmit them in an institutionalized fashion. This may contribute to move us forward from advocacy to implementation, from thought to action and from hope to fruition.”

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  2. “Immediate access to financial resources for the most disadvantaged, such as war widows and other female heads of household, provided employment, generated income, improved food security for the family unit and jump-started the economic development process. Bangladesh's experience in empowering rural women through micro-credits and education is well known. Our investments in women have contributed to the values of pluralism, democracy and human rights. We believe that those ideals provide the matrix for sustainable peace. We are prepared to share this with the world, particularly with societies of a comparable milieu. Bangladesh's vibrant civil society organizations work to spread those values in Africa, Afghanistan and Timor-Leste.”

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  3. “It is during the stages of peace-building and reconstruction that women can make an even greater contribution. Recently, the Second Committee, which the Ambassador of Bangladesh has the privilege to chair this year, organized a panel discussion on women's empowerment, microcredit and poverty eradication. Simple innovative ideas like microcredit and non- formal education for women in post-conflict societies can render an immense service to positive societal transformations. A politically and economically empowered woman who is also educated can form the backbone of any post-conflict society- indeed, all post-conflict societies. In many places devastated by conflict- Kosovo, Timor-Leste, Afghanistan and others - microcredit has proved to have a stabilizing effect on local economies.”

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  4. “While numbers are important, it is equally significant that issues pertaining to gender be mainstreamed and integrated so that outcomes benefit women. That empowerment must be effected both politically and economically. Your delegation, Mr. President, has initiated in the Third Committee this year a draft resolution on women and political participation. We commend you on that. Bangladesh has co-sponsored that draft resolution, because we deeply believe in its contents. Once a peace process is set into motion, women's groups and networks can be energized to work together with the United Nations system to educate and raise awareness with regard to human rights and the rule of law in areas of conflict. Their adequate participation in peace negotiations will help them focus on the special difficulties that women confront at such times.”

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  5. “One is adequate representation of women at all levels of decision-making, both at the pre-conflict stage and during hostilities. The same applies at all points in peacekeeping, peace-building, reconciliation and reconstruction. The other is the need to continue to maintain sustained commitment at all times to gender justice and women's empowerment. Ensuring protection from, and zero-tolerance for, impunity for war crimes committed against women are of paramount importance. Greater representation of women in peacekeeping operations and the appointment of a special representative to the Secretary-General should make profound impacts in enhancing gender sensitivity at all stages of peace missions.”

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  6. “It is therefore no accident that in the Council Bangladesh was so closely associated with the evolution and adoption of landmark resolution 1325 (2000). It was the Bangladeshi presidency that issued the statement on women and peace for the first time in the Council on International Women's Day in March 2000. The thesis of that statement was that equal access to, and full participation of, women in power structures and their full involvement in the prevention and resolution of conflicts were essential ingredients for the maintenance and promotion of peace and security. On the third anniversary of resolution 1325 (2000), we need to reflect further on how best to advance its implementation. We need to analyse what poses the main challenges and how they can be overcome. Certain practical steps immediately come to mind.”

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  7. “Let me begin by complimenting you, Mr. President, on the manner in which you have stewarded the Council's deliberations during the current month, as well as on your initiative in organizing this open debate on a subject so close to every Bangladeshi heart. Mr. Guehenno's comprehensive briefing also deserves high praise. We feel privileged by the presence of Ms. Angela King and Ms. Amy Smythe. Gender mainstreaming and women's empowerment are key components of Bangladesh's foreign policy thrusts. They have indeed gone a long way towards aiding our own positive societal transformation, as well as towards marginalizing extremist and irrational thought and action. They have helped render moderation and tolerance the twin characteristics of Bangladeshi society, and enabled us to play the constructive role that we play in the global arena.”

    2003-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4852Resumption1 (2003) · source