Statement by the Deputy Permanent Representative of Brazil, Ambassador Norberto Moretti, at the High-Level Event on the Secretary-General's Common Pledge on Women's Participation in Peace Processes - October 28th, 2025

Mr. Chair,

Excellencies,

Colleagues,

I thank the organizers for their continued work to advance women's full, equal, meaningful, and safe participation in peace processes worldwide.

As we celebrate twenty-five years of UNSC Resolution 1325 and thirty years of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, we must recall, yet again, that women continue to represent only a small fraction of negotiators and mediators in major peace processes.

This should be a concern not only for women but for all because, as robust data show, women make peace agreements more durable. The Common Pledge was created precisely to help bring them meaningfully to the peace and security table. Brazil joined the initiative as soon as it was launched last year.

During our presidency of the PBC in 2024, we placed the WPS agenda at the center. We promoted the systematic inclusion of gender perspectives across all discussions, in accordance with the Commission's Gender Strategy and Action Plan. We also made sure to invite women peacebuilders and civil-society representatives from conflict-affected contexts to brief the PBC. Their local knowledge and leadership are essential in mediation, reconciliation and rebuilding trust within communities.

We also continue to be guided by the belief that peacebuilding benefits from inclusive and intergenerational approaches. In particular by protecting women's and girls' rights, and ensuring access to education and basic services - rights that remain under threat in many parts of the world.

Brazil continues to focus on women`s participation in mediation and preventive diplomacy beyond the UN. We are members of the Southern Cone and Ibero-American Women Mediators Networks, which serve as vital platforms to amplify women`s expertise, foster peer support, and advance inclusive approaches to conflict resolution. Women mediators, particularly those deeply inserted in their local realities, bring indispensable perspectives to formal and informal peace processes alike.

As the world faces multiple conflicts and increased geopolitical tensions, we must always address their disproportionate impact on women and girls and devise strategies to respond to this evolving landscape, including preventing conflict-related sexual violence.

We need more effective policies, tools, and platforms to advance the WPS agenda.

Colleagues,

Today we reiterate our support for the full realization of all WPS resolutions. We also renew our effective commitment to the Common Pledge.

To this effect, Member States, international and regional organizations, and civil society, must all combine efforts to turn our common pledge into practice.

We will continue to advocate for predictable financing for women-led initiatives and to promote women`s participation and leadership in all spheres of decision-making processes, conflict prevention, mediation, peacebuilding, and sustaining peace.

We will maintain our support for UN Women's essential role as a global champion and key partner in these efforts.

In all such efforts, the overarching goal is and will be the same: help build a future where women are not only present at the table, but shaping peace that lasts.

Thank you.