General Women, Peace and Security

“The third aspect concerns development and cooperation. The process of constructing a post-2015 development agenda requires renewed efforts to provide official development assistance and to promote innovative financing mechanisms, encouraging partnerships between countries, international bodies, civil society and the private sector.

“Women, peace and security are a priority issue for Chile on the Security Council agenda. Since the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), the world has made progress in the protection of women and girls in armed conflicts. Our efforts to empower women and promote initiatives to combat violence against women and girls have been tireless. As a result, today women are at the center of the new development and peace architecture.

“We have enhanced the participation of women in political and economic life. (..) Sustainable development must include human rights.”

“Croatia will continue focusing its donor activities on gender and child-sensitive issues, on maternal health and prevention of mortality in children aged under five as well as on enhancing girls' education.”

“Nowadays we witness all around the world how heavy the toll in armed conflicts and wars is. In any humanitarian crisis, those paying the highest price of the conflict are civilians, especially women and children.”

“We must continue to advance gender equality and empowerment of women. We must do more to increase access of girls to education, increase women participation in leadership and decision-making positions, and enhance their economic empowerment. I will be convening a High-Level thematic debate on this topic in March next year.”

“One bottleneck that has bedeviled Africa has been the espousing of the pseudo-ideology of sectarianism of religion or tribe as well as chauvinism vis avis [sic] the women. It is this pseudo-ideology that has fuelled most of the conflicts in Africa. We are also witnessing the same pseudo-ideology causing havoc in the Middle East and North Africa.

“Tuvalu has made steady progress towards the achievement of its MDGs . . . . We have designed a roadmap to advance our developmental strides as we transition from MDGs to SDGs. National policies have been adopted and implemented on financial management, women and gender development . . .and outer islands development.”

“We appreciate that the international community is rightly concerned with humanitarian crisis and about human rights abuses that resulted from the failed coup and the rebellion. . . . My government has recently signed into law the Media Laws to guarantee freedom of expression and has also ratified (3) UN core Conventions, namely: a) Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women . . .