Riyaz Patel
UN Women’s Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has noted the “stark contrast” between offers of support and reality, presenting the UN Secretary-General’s latest Women Peace and Security (WPS) report in the Security Council.
“We still live in a world that tolerates and excuses women’s continued exclusion from peace and political process and institutions,” Mlambo-Ngcuka stated, pointing out that after conflict, men dominate large-scale reconstruction while economic recovery for women is overwhelmingly limited to small-scale activities like micro-enterprises.”
South Africa’s former Deputy President continued: “Feminist organization’s repeated calls for disarmament, arms control and shifting military spending to social investment go unanswered.”
Adding that several recent peace talks had largely excluded or sidelined women, she said this was unacceptable.
“We can do better than this.”
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