Security Council Open Debate on Sexual Violence in Conflict, April 2018: Poland (Extract 1)

Poverty and social exclusion are risk factors associated with genderbased violence. The economic empowerment of women means ensuring proper funding for programmes that address the economic and social needs of survivors, as well as implementing initiatives aimed at changing the conditions that enable violence to occur in the first place. We also believe that there is a need for a broader discussion in the Security Council of the importance of women’s economic empowerment in post-conflict settings in more general terms. Peacebuilding and recovery funding still largely ignore women’s economic role.