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Summit</title></head> <body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:120.0pt;text-indent:-120.0pt;tab-stops: 120.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>WUNRN</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'> <o:p></o:p> </span></p> <div></div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a href="http://www.wunrn.com">http://www.wunrn.com</a></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>INTERNATIONAL WOMEN LEADERS GLOBAL SECURITY SUMMIT</span></strong><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a href="http://womenandglobalsecurity.org/">http://womenandglobalsecurity.org/</a></span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Summit&nbsp;Goals:&nbsp;</p> <ul type=disc> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;launch a process to amplify the efforts of women leaders and facilitate more collective action on global security <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;generate public awareness and support for women's leadership on global security <o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;generate ideas and increased resources for women's leadership on global security<o:p></o:p></span></li> </ul> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>__________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:purple'>Sunday 18 November 2007<br> New York<br> <br> </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:purple'>Recommitment to UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace &amp; Security, at Global Women's Security Summit<br> <br> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:purple'>&quot;Women's empowerment leads to increased security for all, this simple sentence means a lot,&quot; said H.E. Mary Robinson (former President of Ireland) one of the co-chairs at the International Women Leaders Global Security Summit, which ended in New York yesterday (17 November). This ground-breaking summit brought&nbsp;together a diverse group of participants&nbsp;including from grassroots/community leadership as well as&nbsp;former and current heads of state, to identify and articulate a new model of collective leadership to address critical human security themes including Climate Change, Economic Insecurities, Terrorism and the Responsibility to Protection, amd who from the outset noted the interconnectivity of the four conference themes.<br> <br> During the summit, UN Security Council resolution 1325 advocates&nbsp;including Cora Weiss of the Hague Appeal for Peace, former Finnish Defence Minister Elizabeth Rehn (who co authored Women, War and Peace with current President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf) and femLINKPACIFIC's Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, took the opportunity at group and thematic discussions to remind participants, that there was a critical need to ensure the operationalization of the landmark security council resolution on Women, Peace and Security&nbsp;including through the development of regional and national action plans, which will support and ensure compliance to the three &quot;Ps&quot; of the SC resolution - participation, protection and peacekeeping.<br> <br> Additionally, there was an articulation and agreement of the need to strengthen global women's information-communication-media networks. <br> During the closing remarks, Bhagwan Rolls was able to cite the example of the Pacific regional women's media network on Women, peace and security/UNSCr1325 as well as community radio initiatives, to reiterate the reality that women found &nbsp;moving the Bhagwan-Rolls noted that not only was this about reliance on mainstream media/press (especially in the global north) to cover and communicate issues to support women's participation and perspectives, but more importantly to support women's production of their own media content to improve women's visibility and capacity to participate in and influence formal (policy processes): &quot;This would not only enable women to highlight our own human security priorities, but also provide consistent and relevant talking points, using evidence drawn from women's grassroots networks, to influence nationa, regional and global security policy, including the availability of a database of women's experts.&quot; Bhagwan-Rolls also reaffirmed the use of Track II Dialogue, citing the example of &quot;peacewomen&quot; initiatives in Fiji, and a regional project titled Peace Talks to support women's participation in the Forum Regional Security Committee process. <br> <br> Earlier, in the final discussions on the Economic Insecurities, Carolyn Macaskie of the UN Peacebuilding Commission, reiterated the economic root causes of a vast majority of the conflicts, the PBC is workin to manage: &quot;...Ethnicity is very rarely the cause of conflict, it is more often about the disparaties in the economic situations,&quot; and the working group participants agreed that greater aid effectiveness needed to ensure building government and women's NGO capacities to ensure that women's economic insecurities were also addressed, and capacity was improved to influence policy, especially in fragile states, as Mary Robinson concluded later, &quot;addressing women's economic insecurities means you are addressing future economic insecurities.&quot;</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:purple'>The working group on Economic Insecurities had also highlighted the concern on greater need for Financing for Gender Equality, rather than miiltary expenditure. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:purple'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:purple'>Prior to the conclusion of this inaugural global summit, participants also agreed that there was a critical need to ensure the availability of resources, especially financial resources, to support women's participation, noting that a recent AWID report had noted that there was very limited funds available to support women's human rights: &quot;We need to move resources closer to the women in the communities, to their constituencies, and there needs to be an accesisble and flexible fund for women to be on the spot when a crisis erupts,&quot; said Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi&nbsp; the Co-Founder/ Executive Director of the African Women s Development Fund, the first Africa-wide fundraising and grant-making organization for African women. She was also the President of the Association of Women s Rights in Development (AWID) from 2003-2005, adding that funding agencies also need to be more specific in earmarking funds for women: &quot;Women have brought about the peace, even when they are dealing with their own trauma and difficult personal situations,&quot; she noted, adding that resources also needed to be mobilised to support women's own security needs.</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:purple'><br> The Summit, was&nbsp; jointly organised by the Annenburg Foundation Trust in partnership with the Council of Women Leaders, The White House Project and the Women Leaders Intercultural Forum is the largest gathering of world women leaders addressing issues of global security ever held in the United States. Participants included current and former women heads of state and government, and women leaders from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin Americam Europe, North America, as well as the Pacific. </span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:purple'>_______________________________________________________________</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:purple'><a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=24698&amp;Cr=women&amp;Cr1">http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=24698&amp;Cr=women&amp;Cr1</a>=</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:purple'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:purple'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:purple'>When Women are Empowered, All of Society Benefits  Migiro</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:purple'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><LEFT><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:purple'>16 November 2007  </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:purple'>United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro today highlighted the importance of empowering women to build healthier, better educated, more peaceful and more prosperous societies. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:purple'> Study after study has shown us that when women are fully empowered and engaged, all of society benefits, Ms. Migiro <a href="http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/dsgsm353.doc.htm">told</a> the International Women Leaders Global Security Summit in New York. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:purple'> Only in this way can we successfully take on the enormous challenges confronting our world  from conflict resolution and peacebuilding to fighting AIDS and reaching all the other Millennium Development Goals, she stated, referring to the ambitious set of anti-poverty targets the world has pledged to achieve by 2015. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:purple'>She recalled that at the 2005 World Summit, leaders declared that gender equality and human rights for all are essential to advancing development, peace and security. Five years before that, the Security Council adopted resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:purple'>But while global goals and commitments on women s empowerment are in place,  we still have far to go in implementing them fully  from school enrolment to women s economic independence and representation in decision-making bodies, she stated. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:purple'>The Deputy Secretary-General noted that in almost all countries, women continue to be under-represented in decision-making positions; their work continues to be undervalued; and violence against women and girls continues unabated worldwide. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:purple'> Changing all this requires all of us  women and men  to work for enduring change in values and attitudes, she said.  It means working in partnership  Governments, international organizations, civil society and the private sector. It means men assuming their responsibility. It means ensuring that women and girls enjoy their full rights, and take up their rightful place in society. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:purple'>With regard to tackling violence against women in particular, she recalled that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had earlier this year urged the Security Council to establish a mechanism to monitor that scourge, within the framework of resolution 1325. He had also encouraged Member States to consider proposals to strengthen the UN s  gender architecture. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:purple'> The Secretary-General and I believe we could significantly advance our cause by replacing several current structures with one dynamic UN entity, she stated.  Such a new body should be able to call on all of the UN system s resources in the work to empower women and realize gender equality worldwide. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:purple'><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><br> <br> <br> <br> ================================================================<br> To leave the list, send your request by email to: wunrn_listserve-request@lists.wunrn.com. Thank you. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </body> </html>