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STORY: UN / WOMEN PEACE AND SECURITY
TRT: 02.17
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 OCTOBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
25 OCTOBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“I am ashamed of the many atrocities that continue to be committed against women and girls, including by some of our own peacekeepers. I am angered by the continued political exclusion of women. Peace processes, humanitarian programmes and peacebuilding plans ignore them and fail to meet their needs and protect their rights.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Look at the pictures of peace negotiations on Syria or Yemen. There may be one woman at the table or in one delegation. This is fully representative of the general picture. And all this is against a backdrop of women and girls suffering inequalities that are aggravated by conflict, who are targeted for particularly brutal crimes by violent extremist groups including Daesh and Boko Haram.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women:
“This Security Council is very aware of the atrocities committed against women and girls in war-ravaged countries. We still count the days since the Chibok girls were abducted. We remain concerned about the many who have not been found in Nigeria and elsewhere, though we welcome the release of 21 Chibok girls. We continue, though, to count the days when all of them will be released.”
9. Med shot, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“In Syria, South Sudan, and Yemen men are the ones making decisions even as we sit here in negotiations. And maybe it is time to heed the famous aphorism that the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result. Too often what gets labelled as women’s participation is just checking a box.”
11. Med shot, delegates
12. Wide shot, Security Council
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (25 Oct) told the Security Council that he was “ashamed of the many atrocities that continue to be committed against women and girls, including by some of our own peacekeepers.”
Ban, addressing a Security-Council debate on women, peace and security said he was “angered by the continued political exclusion of women.”
The Secretary-General said “peace processes, humanitarian programmes and peacebuilding plans ignore them and fail to meet their needs and protect their rights.”
Ban said “look at the pictures of peace negotiations on Syria or Yemen. There may be one woman at the table or in one delegation. This is fully representative of the general picture. And all this is against a backdrop of women and girls suffering inequalities that are aggravated by conflict, who are targeted for particularly brutal crimes by violent extremist groups including Daesh and Boko Haram.”
Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said the Security Council “is very aware of the atrocities committed against women and girls in war-ravaged countries.”
Mlambo-Ngcuka said “we still count the days since the Chibok girls were abducted. We remain concerned about the many who have not been found in Nigeria and elsewhere, though we welcome the release of 21 Chibok girls. We continue, though, to count the days when all of them will be released.”
US Ambassador Samantha Power said in Syria, South Sudan, and Yemen “men are the ones making decisions even as we sit here in negotiations.”
Power said “too often what gets labelled as women’s participation is just checking a box.”
The blueprint for gender and peacekeeping work for the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) is rooted in Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) which was the first Resolution to address the disproportionate and unique impact of armed conflict on women.
The resolution stresses the importance of women’s equal and full participation as active agents in the prevention and resolution of conflicts, peace-building and peacekeeping.
Resolution 1889 calls for further strengthening of women's participation in peace processes and the development of indicators to measure progress on Resolution 1325.
Resolution 1820 explicitly links sexual violence as a tactic of war with women peace and security issues.
Resolution 1888, as a follow up to Resolution 1820, mandates that peacekeeping missions protect women and children from sexual violence during armed conflict, and requests that the Secretary-General appoint a special representative on sexual violence during armed conflict (Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict).
Most recently Resolution 1960 was adopted which builds on and deepens the women, peace and security agenda on sexual violence.
