LEONOR ZALABATA TORRES (Colombia) said that women are fundamental to achieving total peace, outlining various initiatives her Government is taking to ensure the advancement of women and girls. “We are revolutionizing peacebuilding,” she added. It is essential to understand that the main threats to general security and the security of women are restrictions imposed on the participation of women in peace processes. Women are defenders of human rights and territorial rights. They must not put their lives in danger to contribute to such causes. Women should not be “secondary actors”, she continued, noting that Colombia celebrates diversity and inclusion and will continue to do so.

MERETE FJELD BRATTESTED (Norway) said women’s rights and gender equality are under attack because of global democratic backsliding. The rights of all to ental right – and a key priority for Norway, she said, adding that in many places, rights and norms are being weakened with devastating, real-life impacts for women and girls. She also pointed out that, at the current rate, it will take an estimated 300 years to end child marriage, 286 years to close gaps in legal protection and remove discriminatory laws and 47 years to achieve equal representation in national parliaments. Women and girls should not be viewed simply as victims of the challenges of our times. They are actors and the potential of half the population must be better utilized, she said, adding: “A just world is an equal world.”

FATEMEH ARAB BAFRANI (Iran) said her country is committed to the protection of the rights of women and girls, and it has promoted policies and budgets to in that regard. Ranking high among States in statistics on the right to education, Iranian women’s literacy has increased from 35 per cent before the 1979 Islamic revolution to 95 per cent today, while their access to higher education has increased twentyfold. The country employs a whole-of-society approach to empower women and girls and reduce poverty. It also spearheaded programmes such as “Women of the Sanctions Generation”, aimed at helping 500 women entrepreneurs who have been negatively affected by sanctions. Iran focuses particularly on female heads of households, she added, highlighting a national plan to boost women’s employment and entrepreneurship. Despite the country’s progress, unilateral coercive measures by the Unites States negatively affect the gains negatively.

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STEPAN Y. KUZMENKOV (Russian Federation) said that ensuring gender equality and improving the status of women is a key undertaking facing the global community. He underscored the need for UN?Women to strictly comply with its mandate to support and assist rather than provide the substantive content for the decisions of the intergovernmental organs of the United Nations system on the subject of women. Moreover, the date Cork women project work of UN?Women should be carried out upon the request and with the consent of the States in question. Russian women are focused on employment and career growth, but also on having and raising children, he said, adding that a priority for the State is to support mothers and offer material incentives to stimulate the birth rate.

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NATASHA LEPAGE (Luxembourg) said that her country is the only member of the European Union to have achieved wage parity. Nevertheless, men are overrepresented in high-level positions, whereas women are underrepresented in managerial positions, including in the civil service. Yet, they are “key actors in our society”, and they must have the necessary means to participate in public life. Luxembourg’s parental leave makes it possible to choose a flexible system that is adapted to the needs of the new family. Both parents can take parental leave at the same time if they wish to do so. “In 2023, women should have the same salaries and opportunities as men,” she added.