Statement of Denmark on the Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security, October, 2015
Statement of Denmark, October 2015
Denmark remains as committed to implement SCR 1325 as ever. Denmark was among the first countries to formulate a national action plan for implementing this resolution and last yearwe adoptedour third national actionplan (2014-2019). We emphasize using the untapped potential of women. We seek to involve women actively, on an equal basis, in prevention and resolution o f conflicts, peace negotiations, peace building and peace keeping, humanitarian response and in post conflict reconstruction. And we commit to concrete actions in order to achieve these ends.
Statement of Denmark, October 2015
It is widely acknowledged that the absence o f women from early peace negotiations and reconstruction measures can have a long-lasting negative impact on development o f good governance. No society can afford the luxury o f leaving out half o f their population from decision-making processes.
Therefore, the SecurityCouncilmust send a strong messagein support ofwomen's political participation in peace and development processes to the benefit o f all women and men.
Statement of Denmark, October 2015
Denmark has identified a number of 1325 commitments of which I will just mention a few:
We will focus on promoting women as peace-builders in Danish funded programmes in fragile and conflict-affected states,
Our military deployments to peacekeeping missions will all receive mandatory training on the role o f gender in peace support operations,
We will immediately investigate suspected criminal misconduct during deployments and when relevant ensure prosecution o f the alleged perpetrators,
We will continue to focus on recruitment of Danish female police officers to international missions including for leadership functions.