Participation

Women played a crucial part. That is why throughout the Pacific we are supporting efforts to strengthen women's participation in policing through recruitment, retention, training and mentoring support. In the Philippines, Australia is funding women's participation in peace processes that bring together Muslim, Christian and Indigenous women.”

“Throughout the modern history of the Kingdom of Bahrain, going back two centuries, its leadership always been keen to interact with its people and engage in a dialogue with them in full transparency and commitment.

“In our country, indeed, it was not until 1971 that women were entitled to vote, yet only 40 years later, in 2011, the people of Andorra elected a parliament with the second highest number of female representatives in the world.”

“My government has established some democratic institutions – the Government, the National Assembly and the Senate, all largely representative of the Burundi population and which respect the need for an ethnic and gender balance. It is important to highlight the parity in male-female representation in the Senate.

“The parity in male-female representation in the Senate demonstrated the Government's efforts to fairly represent women, who made up most of the population, in State institutions, he said.”

“In our experience, societies are stronger when women are fully able to take part in the political and economic lives of their countries, when their voices are heard, their choices respected.”

“Papua New Guinea is committed to gender empowerment and equality. We recognize women and girls, not only as key national development partners but whose inherent human dignity must be respected and safeguarded. This is a central pillar of our Constitution and a core value of our national development roadmap.”

“The Philippines also recognizes the important role played by women in the promotion of peace and continues to deploy more female peacekeepers to peacekeeping missions. We aim to attain and surpass the 10% deployment target of women in country troop contingents and 20% for police deployments.”

“We also recognize the important role of women as agents of change - not mere victims - in all initiatives related to the resolution of disputes and conflicts.

“The United Arab Emirates has also been focusing its efforts on reducing gender discrimination. Therefore, we look forward to taking an active role in the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), based on our successful national experience in empowering the women of the United Arab Emirates, who actively participate in managing the affairs of the State as well as the community.”