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  1. “I also emphasize the importance of supporting our role as young people, women and civil society in the process of achieving security and stability in Yemen.”

    2022-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8946 (2022) · source

  2. “Secondly, there must be greater support for civil society organizations led by young people and women by letting them participate effectively in the peacebuilding process. Thirdly, there should be a focus on young women — a category that does not appear clearly or tangibly in the various classifications and categories of people receiving international support at the moment. Fourthly, support must be provided for the holding of meetings by the committee on the memorandum of understanding on Taiz. Fifthly, a focal point between the various local mediators and the Office of the Special Envoy must be created. Finally, I hope that Taiz and its humanitarian and political dimensions will be on the international agenda in the future, because it can help to resolve the crisis in Yemen.”

    2022-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8946 (2022) · source

  3. “We are continuing those mediation efforts, and other parties have responded to our call. That cooperation must continue to find solutions to ensure water supply to our citizens. If successful, it will be one of the most important successes by civil society since the beginning of war. Once again, as a young person working on the ground, I am grateful to the Security Council for this invitation. I reiterate to the Council that we will not stop making efforts to achieve our objectives. In that context, I would like to share with the Council and international actors a number of recommendations. First, it is important to ensure the active participation of youth, women and civil society, by helping to establish a consultative council for youth to cooperate and coordinate with the Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen.”

    2022-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8946 (2022) · source

  4. “Politicians ignore it, as does the world’s conscience, although the Security Council adopted memorandum of understanding on Taiz through Stockholm Agreement, pursuant to resolution 2451 (2018). Women, young people and civil society in Taiz are sparing no efforts to reopen the main roads. Since 2015, we have launched numerous campaigns for their reopening, but none has been successful. Women and children continue to live for a seventh year in a besieged and uninhabitable city. With regard to basic services, in particular the supply of water, we as local mediators, with the assistance of various local stakeholders, have reclaimed a number of wells that had been under military control. We have therefore now enabled inhabitants to supply themselves with water, which had been interrupted for seven years.”

    2022-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8946 (2022) · source

  5. “The alternative roads are truly perilous, but must be taken by trade caravans, humanitarian workers, travellers, patients seeking care, students, workers and all those who live on one side of the city in order to get to the other side. This casts an even darker shadow to an already bleak existence. Taiz has become a place that lacks those who have medical expertise, those with big capital, even local and international organizations, which relocated to Sana’a and Aden, leaving this city to die for the past seven years. Taiz still faces roadblocks with no services. This is the worst phase that we have experienced, and yet more than 3 million people suffer on a daily basis. Taiz is not in the spotlight.”

    2022-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8946 (2022) · source

  6. “I travelled 120 kilometres south, a trip that took eight hours, so that I could brief the Council today. It would have taken far less time had the main roadways not been closed. I was forced to take narrow mountain routes and passes that are dangerous and often blocked due to accidents involving vehicles and trucks or due to floods and landslides during the rainy season. Such road accidents usually leave behind civilian casualties. Another road to the east of the city, which used to take 10 minutes and was used by many residents of Taiz before the war, is now blocked. We must undertake a trip of at least six hours to go from one side of city to the other.”

    2022-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8946 (2022) · source

  7. “If the daily work carried out by women and young people on the ground were to cease, then the problems we face would be exacerbated, and we would lose even more friends and loved ones to the war. Our efforts do not enjoy the attention of the media, which is interested only in the war and the destruction it causes. Nonetheless, our efforts prove that young people, women and civil society in Yemen are capable of contributing to the peacebuilding process. In that connection, we need the support of the Council and the international community so that our efforts will be more effective and in the right direction with a view to implement Security Council resolutions, particularly resolution 1325 (2000) and resolution 2250 (2015). I am from the city of Taiz.”

    2022-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8946 (2022) · source

  8. “Young people participate in peace negotiations among various armed parties. That is why we have recently created, in cooperation with a large number of youth organizations, the first youth support group that attempts to raise young voices at the national level and exert pressure to establish youth consultative council, which is in contact with the office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Yemen. The aim is to ensure the participation of young people in the peace negotiations as we believe that peace negotiations must not be limited to armed warring parties but must include unarmed groups such as young people, women and civil society.”

    2022-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8946 (2022) · source

  9. “I am here to brief the Council on behalf of the women and young people who are working in favour of Yemen’s peacebuilding process, about the situation in my city, Taiz. Our mediation efforts there have made a real difference to the lives of local citizens, whose suffering only worsens as they remain without any support. Our Foundation believes in the role of young people and women in resolving community conflicts. Because local authorities are in a weak situation due to the war, we have established community councils to solve daily disputes among the population. Those councils, in which young people are participants, became important in resolving disputes and ease tensions. The role of young people is not limited to local action, but also extends to the national level.”

    2022-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8946 (2022) · source

  10. “I would like to start by thanking the Norwegian presidency of the Security Council for giving me the opportunity to deliver this briefing on behalf of the Sheba Youth Foundation for Development — a local youth-led foundation where I work with many young people and women to restore peace and security to my country, Yemen, which has been devastated by war for over seven years. My name is Ola Al-Aghbary, and I am a young woman from Yemen. Like thousands of Yemeni young people and women on the ground, my life is threatened by missiles and air strikes. Nevertheless, we remain determined to persevere in our daily work to promote community coexistence and establish security and peace in Yemen.”

    2022-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8946 (2022) · source