"WOMEN IN POLITICS"

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Women are playing an increasingly high-profile role in bringing peace and security to Somalia, concluded participants in a UN-supported meeting today in Mogadishu called Global Open Day on Women, Peace and Security. UNSOM

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Press conference by Dennis Francis, President of the 78th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, on the High-Level Week including the General Debate with international leaders which was held from 19-26 September 2023.

Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed said having only one out of the five leaders of the permanent members of the Security Council attend the General Assembly’s General Debate was “disappointing,” and added that “we might have had more commitments that would have been tangible had they been here on many of the SDGs.” UNIFEED

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, said, “The Taliban ask to be recognized by the United Nations and its members, but at the same time, they act against the key values expressed in the United Nations Charter.” UNIFEED

Human rights defender from Myanmar, May Sabe Phyu said, “We, women of Myanmar believe that to achieve gender equality, it is a must to end militarism and the impunity enjoyed by the military for their actions. We know in our hearts that women's rights and gender equality will never be advanced if the junta remains in power.” UNIFEED

Addressing Security Council Members on the situation in Somalia, UN-Women Executive Director, Sima Bahous, said, “You have repeatedly called for women’s meaningful participation. But we need you to demand it and be more specific about what you mean and what you expect.” UNIFEED

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan is supporting initiatives to prepare and educate women parliamentarians on their new roles in the country’s future. UNMISS

Advocating for quotas for women in Syrian political bodies “of at least thirty percent,” the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Geir Pedersen, said in over nearly 12 years of conflict, “there is almost no indignity Syria’s women and girls have not suffered.” UNIFEED