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