UN / WOMEN PEACEKEEPING

Addressing a virtual high-level dialogue on Women, Peace and Security, Peacekeeping Chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said, “there can be no sustainable peace if women are not fully involved as active players in bringing about peace.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:05
• Production Date: 27 October 2020
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: JEAN-PIERRE LACROIX
• Corporate Name: DEPARTMENT OF PEACE OPERATIONS - DPO
• Subject Topical: PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS; WOMEN IN ARMED CONFLICTS
• Geographic Subject: KENYA
• MAMS Id: 2576290
• Parent Id: 2576290
• Alternate Title: unifeed201027k

Description

STORY: UN / WOMEN PEACEKEEPING
TRT: 01:05
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 27 OCTOBER 2020, NEW YORK CITY

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1. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters exterior

27 OCTOBER 2020, NEW YORK CITY

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations:
“There can be no sustainable peace if women are not fully involved as active players in bringing about peace. And peacekeeping is much more effective when we have more women in our peacekeeping operations.”

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3. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters exterior

27 OCTOBER 2020, NEW YORK CITY

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Raychelle Awour Omamo, Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Kenya:
“We understand that is imperative to increase the numbers of women peacekeepers, but women peacekeepers must, in a qualitative and practical sense, also add critical value to the lives of women and their communities in the field. Victims of conflict are often deprived of basic human needs and rights, especially those set out in the SDGs, and action by women peacekeepers to advance these needs should be prioritized and deployed very early in the peacebuilding and stabilization processes.”

FILE - NEW YORK CITY

5. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters exterior

Storyline

Addressing a virtual high-level dialogue on Women, Peace and Security, Peacekeeping Chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said, “there can be no sustainable peace if women are not fully involved as active players in bringing about peace.”

Lacroix said, “peacekeeping is much more effective when we have more women in our peacekeeping operations.”

Also participating in the dialogue, Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs Raychelle Awour Omamo said it was “imperative” to increase the numbers of women peacekeepers, but “women peacekeepers must, in a qualitative and practical sense, also add critical value to the lives of women and their communities in the field.”

Omamo said, “victims of conflict are often deprived of basic human needs and rights, especially those set out in the SDGs, and action by women peacekeepers to advance these needs should be prioritized and deployed very early in the peacebuilding and stabilization processes.”

The high-level dialogue took place as the 20th Anniversary of Security Council resolution 1325, which recognized the disproportionate and unique impact of armed conflict on women and girls.