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STORY: UN / WOMEN PEACE AND SECURITY
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DATELINE: 30 NOVEMBER 2012, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
30 NOVEMBER 2012, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, Michelle Bachelet
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General:
“As the case of Mali powerfully underlines, armed conflict affects women and men differently. This means that women have to be part of the solution. One of the key messages of the Secretary-General’s report on women, peace and security is that early and sustained engagement with women is crucial to ensure the sustainability of peace efforts as well as vital to deepen democracy and to promote respect for human rights. Actively engaging women must be a priority, not an afterthought.”
5. Med shot, Hervé Ladsous
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women:
“Just two weeks ago, nearly one thousand women leaders and members of civil society groups gathered in Bamako and delivered a common call for peace expressing solidarity across ethnic and other divisions and recommended specific measures to protect women’s rights and prevent violence against women and children. They asserted that now is the time to dedicate funding to reparations, care and the empowerment of survivors. Wherever there is conflict, whether in Mali, Syria or the Eastern DRC, women must be part of the solution.”
7. Wide shot, Security Council
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Pacekeeping Operations:
“The critical key to removal of the obstacles that impede women’s full participation in conflict prevention and peace building is the active, systematic consultation with local actors and leaders, including women’s civil society organizations; this is the only way to develop effective, context-specific and gender-aware solutions.”
9. Med shot, Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant of the UK
10. Zoom out, Security Council
Top United Nations officials today (30 November) highlighted the role of women’s organizations and civil society groups in preventing violence and resolving conflict, stressing that their contributions are vital to building a peaceful world and must be further supported.
Speaking to a debate of the Security Council on women and peace and security, Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson said on a recent trip to Mali, women had given him “disturbing accounts of the abuses” they face in the northern part of the country now under extremists’ rule and occupation. Sexual violence against women was widespread.
Eliasson said the fact that the rights of women and girls are being curtailed in the northern part of Mali showed how armed conflict affects women and men differently, and said “actively engaging women must be a priority, not an afterthought”.
The Executive Director of UN Women, Michelle Bachelet, told the meeting about a recent gathering in Bamako, the capital of Mali, where one thousand women leaders and members of civil society groups “delivered a common call for peace expressing solidarity across ethnic and other divisions and recommended specific measures to protect women’s rights and prevent violence against women and children.”
Bachelet said “wherever there is conflict, whether in Mali, Syria, the Middle East, or the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, women must be part of the solution.”
In his remarks to the event, the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Hervé Ladsous, said that UN peacekeeping missions have supported important progress in some areas, notably women’s political participation at local and national levels. In other areas, including the protection of women activists, more could be achieved.
Ladsous emphasized that the key to removing the obstacles that impede women’s full participation in conflict prevention and peacebuilding is the active, systematic consultation with local actors and leaders, including women’s civil society organizations
He said this was “the only way to develop effective, context-specific and gender-aware solutions.”
Today’s debate, which was originally scheduled for late October but was postponed due to Hurricane Sandy, marks the 12th anniversary of Security Council resolution 1325, which called for women’s engagement in conflict resolution and peacebuilding.
Meeting briefly in the wake of the storm, the Council issued a presidential statement on the issue, in which it called on the international community to give women’s civil society organizations a prominent role in the negotiation, planning and implementation of peace processes and post-conflict development programmes.
In his annual report on women, peace and security, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon noted measures that have improved coordination and accountability and highlights a growing number of inspiring examples of women, peace and security in action.
