have the sensitivity to see that it is women who have the hardest time in crisis situations, we don't have the capacity to see how we can solve it. And why do I say this? The Special Rapporteur and many other experts and participants spoke about improving tools to address situations of violence, discrimination and racism. In order to improve these tools, a fundamental voice is needed, not only from the organisations and activists who have been fighting against this for a long time. The fundamental missing voice is that of the victims. If member states do not listen to the victims of these situations, there will be a part of the problem that we will never be able to solve. We do not come here to give lessons to every one of our countries and I do not want to be self-referential. But the reality is that I come from a country that can prove that paradigms have been changed. If states do not dialogue with victims, and victims do not take responsibility for designing state policies together with the state to change realities, there is a voice that we do not listen to. Part of preventing conflict has to do with including victims in the way we build power within our communities. We don't want to give lessons, I just want to tell a partial reality of a place in this world: Argentina. Argentina in the 1970s experienced a dictatorship that left us with disappeared people and many appropriated children. I was one of the children born in a concentration camp in our country. I am a victim of a violent situation, a situation of discrimination, committed by the Argentinean state. But, I am a member of the Argentinean state today because I understand, along with many others like me, that it is only by designing public policies that we can prevent in the future this type of genocide like the one we are experiencing in our country. I want to emphasise this, because I think it is important for peace to be lasting and, above all, so that these

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