Raychelle Omamo
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Raychelle Awour Omamo (born July 1962) is a Kenyan lawyer and politician and an advocate of the High Court of Kenya. From 2020 to 2022, she was the Kenyan Foreign Affairs Minister.
Quotes
[edit]"Raychelle Omamo (Kenya, SC President) on Women and Peace and Security- Security Council Media Stakeout" (2021)
[edit]- speech during the 21st Annual debate on Women peace and security. "Raychelle Omamo (Kenya, SC President) on Women and Peace and Security- Security Council Media Stakeout" (October 21, 2021)
- We cannot think of a better outcome than calling on members to commit & invest in the existing recommendations and frameworks of the women peace and security agenda.
- We must stand firm on the fact that there has to be inclusion of women in every sphere in life. Women have a right to education, they have a right to participate in decision making, they have a right to dignity and all the rights enshrined in the universal declaration of human rights.
- The security council must raise its voice in favor of women who are suffering oppression, women who have been sidelined and marginalized.
- Progress has been made and it has been made because women stand up and advocate. It has been made because women make other women visible.
- We must not lose faith in the agency of women. We must not lose faith in the fact that women can change today and transform tomorrow.
- When women come together, there's power.
"Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Raychelle Omamo has called for structural reforms to revamp agriculture in Africa in a bid to promote self-reliance.
[edit]- during a Food Security Ministerial led by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.[https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2022/05/omamo-urges-structural-reforms-to-revamp-agriculture-in-africa-at-blinken-led-session/ ( (NAIROBI, Kenya, May 20 2022)
- We need to reflect on Africa’s unfavorable integration into the world economic order and our susceptibility to shocks from afar.
- We need a global order that will release Africa from the shackles of dependency, from a State in which Africa is unable to make its own decisions. We need to return Africa to a state of self-reliance.
- It is time that we must make and take bold actions. Our actions must solve problems in multiple ways and create solutions that are multifaceted. We must seek to achieve SDG 1 and 2,” CS Omamo said while referring to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty and hunger.
