Statement of Italy, October, 2015

Thus the participation of women in negotiations becomes fundamental to guarantee adequate intervention in the phases following the signing of peace agreements. Even more fundamental is the inclusion of gender issues at the negotiating table to not render the presence of women completely irrelevant. Maintaining a gender perspective in negotiations guarantees, during reconstruction, a new definition of "security" as the human and social condition based on the exercise of one's fundamental human rights (i.e. meeting one's basic needs, health, education, work) which are the main instruments ofpeace.