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=== Alaa Salah's speech at UNSC ===
As a member of [[MANSAM]], one of the major Sudanese women's networks who signed the 1 January 2019 [[Forces of Freedom and Change]] declaration,<ref>{{Cite nameweb |date="SPA_Declaration_Freedom_Change2"2019-11-04 |title=Declaration of Freedom and Change – تجمع المهنيين السودانيين |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191104230627/https://www.sudaneseprofessionals.org/en/declaration-of-freedom-and-change/ |access-date=2022-12-23 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref> Salah gave a speech at the 29 October 2019 meeting of the [[United Nations Security Council]] (UNSC).<ref>{{Cite nameweb |date="UNSC_SC139982"2019-10-29 |title=Security Council Urges Recommitment to Women, Peace, Security Agenda {{!}} UN Press |url=https://press.un.org/en/2019/sc13998.doc.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191104225101/https://www.un.org/press/en/2019/sc13998.doc.htm |archive-date=2019-10-29 |access-date=2022-12-23 |website=press.un.org}}</ref>
 
Salah stated that despite women often having constituted 70% of protestors, they were "side-lined in the formal political process" of [[2019 Sudanese transition to democracy|creating transitional institutions]]. She stated that women's representation in the new governance structure "[fell] far below [their] demand of 50% parity". She argued that "there is no excuse for [women] not to have an equal seat at every single table". She summarised her argument for women's representation stating,
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Salah also called for judicial accountability and disarmament; and for the political process to be inclusive of women, "civil society, resistance groups, ethnic and religious minorities, those who have been displaced, and people with disabilities to lead to sustainable peace".<ref>{{Cite nameweb |title="NGOWG_Salah_UNSC2"Statement by Ms. Alaa Salah at the UN Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security |url=https://www.womenpeacesecurity.org/resource/statement-unsc-wps-open-debate-october-2019/ |access-date=2022-12-23 |website=NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security |language=en-US}}</ref>
 
==See also==
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==References==
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<ref name="SPA_Declaration_Freedom_Change">{{cite web | title= Declaration of Freedom and Chang |trans-title = <!-- trans-title is the English translation --> | website= [[Sudanese Professionals Association|SPA]] |date =1 January 2019 | url = https://www.sudaneseprofessionals.org/en/declaration-of-freedom-and-change/ | access-date = 4 November 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191104230627/https://www.sudaneseprofessionals.org/en/declaration-of-freedom-and-change/ |archive-date= 4 November 2019 |url-status=live <!-- live|dead|unfit|usurped -->}}</ref>