STORY: SRSG Keating hosts Open Day on

women, peace and security

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DATELINE: 13/NOVEMBER/2017, MOGADISHU SOMALIA

SHOT LIST:

1. Med shot, Banner of the SRSGs open day meeting

2. Wide shot, Participants attend meeting
3. Close up, Participants attend meeting
4. Close up, Participants attend meeting
5. Med shot, Participants attend meeting
6. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) SRSG Michael Keating
7. Security Council Resolution 1325, which in a way has brought us
together today and other resolutions represent a major step forward, a
major breakthrough and are my instructions as a representative of the
UN. My job is to do everything to fulfill them. But the question for us in
this room today is how do we translate that into something that delivers
real results in Somalia given Somalia has very specific history, very
specific culture.
8. Med shot, Participants attend meeting
9. Close up, Somalias Mininter for Youth and Sports, Khadija Mohamed
Diriye and a participant
10. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) SRSG Michael Keating
11. We owe it to the dead and we owe it to those who have been
wounded and to you who have suffered to honour that suffering by
achieving results in the area of peace and security and Im 100% sure
that women have absolutely central role in doing that
12. Med shot, Participants at the forum
13. SOUNDBITE: (SOMALI), MINISTER FOR YOUTH AND SPORTS
I see this forum as an important one and the government has been
working on how to include women in participation of security affairs.
This forum has come at the right time when government is involving
women and the general public to contribute towards security and
stabilization of the country in order to realize development.
14. Wide shot, Participants attend the meeting
15. Med shot, Participants attend the meeting
16. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH), The Chairperson of the Somali National
Women Organization Ms. Batula Sheikh Ahmed Gaballe
In Somalia, womens political empowerment, particularly their enhanced role
in the leadership and decision-making, is closely interlinked with the state of
security. Among women who are present in this meeting today, theres none
(of us) whos not affected by the lack of security in the country
17. Med shot, Participants attend the meeting
18. Med shot, Participants attend the meeting
19. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH), Asli Ismail Duale of Women Education And
Voicing Entrepreneurship
Womens economic empowerment has to be priority agenda and to discuss
technically the best practices; and moving towards the promotion of mens
role in the advancing womens economic empowerment
20. Wide shot, Participants at the meeting.

STORY

SRSG Keating hosts Open Day on women, peace and security

Mogadishu, 13 November 2017 - The Special Representative of the United

Nations Secretary-General for Somalia, Michael Keating, hosted Somali
women leaders at an Open Day on the Security Council Resolution 1325 on
women, peace and security.

SRSG Keating noted that the United Nations Security Council Resolution
1325 represents a major breakthrough, as it reaffirms the role of women in
peace-making, prevention and resolution of conflicts, peace negotiations, and
prevention and protection of women and girls from conflict, and stresses the
importance of their equal participation and full involvement in all efforts aimed
at achieving peace and security.

The question for us, in this room, today, is how do we translate that into
something that delivers real results in Somalia, Keating posed to the women
leaders in attendance.

We owe it to the dead, and we owe it to those who have been wounded, and
to you who have suffered, to honour that suffering by achieving results in the
area of peace and security, and I am one hundred percent sure that women
have absolutely a central role in doing that, he said.

Resolution 1325 also urges all actors to increase the participation of women,
and incorporate gender perspectives in all United Nations and countries
peace and security efforts.

This forum is being held at the right time, when the government is involving
women and the general public to contribute towards security and stabilization
of the country in order to realize development, H.E. Khadija Mohamed Diriye,
the Minister of Youth and Sports said in her remarks.

The Minister appreciated the Open Day event as important in boosting the
Federal Governments efforts in enhancing womens participation in peace
and security affairs of the country.
The event brought together women from the political arena, civil society,
security and the private sector, to deliberate on womens leadership in peace
negotiations and conflict resolution in Somalia.

The chairperson of Somalia National Women Organization, Ms. Batula Sheikh

Ahmed Gaballe, who played a critical role in the advocacy campaign for the
attainment of womens 30% reserved seats in the 2016 electoral process,
emphasized on the inter-linkages of womens political empowerment and
leadership and decision-making role and the state of security in the country.

In Somalia, womens political empowerment, particularly their enhanced role

in leadership and decision-making, is closely linked with state of security, Ms.
Batula emphasized.

Participants at the Open Day, through the voices of Mina Hassan Mohamed
and Farhiya Ali Farah, presented additional statements calling for improved
protection of women parliamentarians, and concerted efforts to make Somali
a secure and peaceful country.

The Security Council Resolution 1325 also calls on all parties to conflict to
take special measures to protect women and girls from sexual and gender-
based violence, particularly rape and other forms of sexual abuse, in
situations of armed conflict.

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