Statement of Colombia, May 11, 2016

Women should be included in all stages of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of counter-terrorism efforts. Those efforts must be accompanied by the promotion of education for girls and women, which in the medium- and long-term, enables them to increase their capabilities, knowledge and resources and which, by extension, will enable them to play a more active role in the actions that States and societies take in countering terrorism and violent extremism.