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Torry

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2007-10-23
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2007-10-23
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  1. “As such, the onus is on you here in New York to cast your light on the path we follow. Our failure is your failure; our successes, your successes."”

    2007-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5766 (2007) · source

  2. “The NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security respectfully urges the Council to consider how it could provide more effective monitoring and reporting on the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000), including through the establishment of a focal point and an expert-level working group, with appropriate leadership to ensure its active engagement with all aspects of the work of the Council. We would like to thank members for their attention and to end with a quotation from Ms. Barbara Bangura of Sierra Leone, who spoke in an Arria- formula meeting in October 2006. She said that "women rely considerably on the guidance and assistance that the United Nations, in its many forms, provides. Resolution 1325 (2000) can only be successful if the Security Council is proactive in the use of resolution 1325 (2000) in its work.”

    2007-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5766 (2007) · source

  3. “As the situation stands, some field missions do have a mandate to monitor and report on, for example, grave violations of human rights, but the data and trends regarding many violations, such as sexual violence, are still lacking. Reports need to provide a picture of the security situation in regard to women, especially the violence that affects their everyday lives. Strong accountability mechanisms are imperative to drive and to support timely and systematic implementation. Such a mechanism would help to address inconsistency in invoking resolution 1325 (2000) in the directives from the Council to the field and inadequate monitoring and reporting on implementation by field missions - particularly on violations of human rights, such as sexual violence.”

    2007-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5766 (2007) · source

  4. “However, where mission mandates contain adequate language on the integration of a gender perspective or women's human rights, too often the gender mandate is not reflected in the directives, guidance, terms of reference and incentive structures for mission staff, including the Special Representative. Mandates also need to contain standard provisions for regular and adequate monitoring of and reporting on implementation of resolution 1325 (2000) by the field missions. Reporting is needed on concrete and specific issues that address the following questions: what is the status of women's participation in the maintenance and promotion of peace and security? What is being done to ensure that women are able to effectively participate in elections? What work is being done with national women's machineries in regard to matters of security?”

    2007-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5766 (2007) · source

  5. “This is a matter of international peace and security. We note the progress that has been made and that has been mentioned by other speakers here this morning. We would like to focus on the role of the Security Council in driving progress in the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000). It does make a difference when the Security Council integrates resolution 1325 (2000) into its work. For instance, in the June 2006 mission to the Sudan led by the United Kingdom, Council members met with women's groups and gender experts in both Khartoum and Darfur. Two months later, on 31 August 2006, the Security Council issued resolution 1706 (2006), which both invokes resolution 1325 (2000) and contains useful gender-specific language. Resolutions need to contain such language.”

    2007-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5766 (2007) · source

  6. “Seven years later, the integration of resolution 1325 (2000) into the work of the Security Council remains inconsistent. This means that in the situation in Darfur, women are still struggling to be part of peace talks in Tripoli. This means that in the situation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, sexual violence continues unabated and with impunity. Greater efforts must be undertaken to end impunity and to prosecute those suspected of crimes against women, particularly sexual violence - not only in the States where the crimes occurred and the States of which the suspects are nationals, but also in other States where suspects may be found. Seven years later, there are still no monitoring or accountability mechanisms to ensure the coherent and effective implementation of resolution 1325 (2000).”

    2007-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5766 (2007) · source

  7. “Seven years later, we come here to ask this question: what has the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000) meant for the situation of women and girls in Sierra Leone, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Liberia, in Burundi, in Cote d'Ivoire, in Afghanistan, in Haiti, in Timor-Leste and in all other situations on the agenda of the Security Council? Seven years later, women and girls in situations of armed conflict continue to be subjected to widespread and systematic sexual violence. This is a matter of international peace and security. Seven years later, women remain largely excluded from the very structures that make the decisions to sustain peace or to engage in conflict. They are still marginalized in peacemaking and peacebuilding processes. This is a matter of international peace and security.”

    2007-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5766 (2007) · source

  8. “Ms. Torry: I would like to thank the Security Council for the invitation and the honour to be here today. I am here on behalf of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security, a coalition of international civil society organizations formed in 2000 to advocate for a Security Council resolution on women, peace and security. We continue today to advocate for full and effective implementation of resolution 1325 (2000). Unfortunately, we are not at a point where we can say that implementation has been coherent and effective. We value the opportunity to discuss that as we mark the seventh year since the adoption of that resolution.”

    2007-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5766 (2007) · source