Foreign Affairs committee  UN Women is known to be under-resourced, particularly in terms of women, peace, and security. We welcome the recommendations for the assistant secretary-general role, particularly to ensure that there's a UN Women representative who is able to attend all the senior management mee

Foreign Affairs committee  This is the recommendation that the members of the working group and other civil society were really working with. The reason we've been calling for increased resourcing not only at UN Women but across the board is that it's very similar to a cabinet structure, where we see that

Foreign Affairs committee  Unfortunately, it's far from consistent. I can give you a couple of examples, just from 2015. In 2015, in the UNMISS mandate in South Sudan we saw strengthened language, such that the mission has now been tasked with considering gender as a crosscutting issue. The reason we thin

Foreign Affairs committee  To add to that, the feedback we're receiving, particularly from some of our Middle Eastern colleagues, is that not only are they being affected by the shrinking space and the shrinking availability of core funding, but some of them also are being caught up in the anti-terrorism f

Foreign Affairs committee  To add to that, when we talk about grassroots support—and this is the criticism that we hear directed across different UN entities—it's always the same organizations that end up being funded by the international systems, and they're not necessarily representative of a diverse pop

Foreign Affairs committee  There are two parts. We never advocate a cookie-cutter approach to peacekeeping. In fact, we've seen some mandates where the mandate's almost the same across different peacekeeping missions, but they've just changed some of the language. That's not an approach that works. It's no

Foreign Affairs committee  If I may answer in English, I think the prioritization of women's recruitment is the responsibility of the UN system and of individual member states as well. The UN system often says the reason there aren't more women diplomats and women in senior positions is that member states

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. I will answer it in English, if you don't mind. Your question points to the importance of community engagement across the peace operation. We've been doing a lot of work with some of our colleagues who have appeared before you already in terms of co

Foreign Affairs committee  In terms of the treatment, particularly of Yazidi women in northern Iraq, a number of organizations are calling for that to be classified as genocide, the systematic sexual enslavery and the kidnapping of young women and children as well. There is advocacy being made and there's

Foreign Affairs committee  I want to concur with what Jacqueline said and to build on it. In every single crisis and conflict and post-conflict situation that we are collectively working on, women are already there trying to be local community peace builders, and working with different ethnic and cultural

Foreign Affairs committee  In terms of what needs to be done at the UN for consistent implementation on women, peace, and security, there needs to be consistent leadership. Too many times it's left up to the individual, and that's from the secretary-general down. It's a question of consistency, political w

Foreign Affairs committee  Good afternoon. Thank you very much for the invitation to participate in these hearings, which I've been following with great interest from New York over the last few weeks. The NGO working group consists of 16 international NGOs, including the Nobel Women's Initiative, the Ins