Women account for more than half of the world's population. Families cannot b...

Women account for more than half of the world's population. Families cannot be
homes without women playing a key role in maintaining and nurturing them.
Societies cannot be peaceful communities without the vital participation of
women. My Delegation commends the measures the United Nations has
undertaken over the past years in promoting the role of women in peace and
security in many parts of the world, particularly in conflict areas. Most notable
among them have been the adoption by the DPKO of directives and plans on
gender equality in peacekeeping operations, the integration of gender quality in
planning, monitoring and collecting data by humanitarian entities and the
development by many United Nations agencies of strategies to further
mainstream gender into the mandates for conflict prevention and peace building.