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2019-11-22
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2019-11-22
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  1. “We dream of a democratic country and an inclusive future in which human rights are respected, including women's human rights. But our future, indeed our present, depends upon decisive action by the Security Council.”

    2019-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8674 (2019) · source

  2. “The Security Council should also support the ongoing efforts of the Special Envoy to address the situation of detainees as part of his tasks and ensure that the gender-specific consequences for many detained and kidnapped women after their release are addressed. The failure of the Security Council to date to stop the bloodshed in my country and end impunity in Syria undermines its credibility in terms of carrying out its core mandate of maintaining international peace and security. Members heard - just this year here, in the Chamber - briefings about the serious impacts the war has had on civilians, including women, children, persons with disabilities, the families of the disappeared and medical workers. As Syrians, all of us wish desperately for the day when all are free from violence and war.”

    2019-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8674 (2019) · source

  3. “Thirdly, the Council should ensure that the new constitution includes provisions that reflect principles of international human rights law, including with regard to gender equality and non-discrimination. The constitution must also include provisions that criminalize all forms of gender-based violence and any kind of discrimination on the basis of gender, race, ability, color or other status. In addition, it must include provisions on the primacy of international conventions over national law. I return to our most important priority, namely, giving the release of all arbitrarily detained persons a humanitarian priority and, accordingly, to the granting of unconditional access to all places of detention.”

    2019-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8674 (2019) · source

  4. “In conclusion, I call on the all members of the Council to ensure the full implementation of resolution 2254 (2015), which was adopted by consensus as a road map for the future of Syria. I also call on the Council to prioritize the following actions. First, the Council should call for an immediate ceasefire to end the current conflict and ensure that all civilians are protected from repeated attacks. Secondly, the Council should ensure women's equal and meaningful participation in all ongoing and future political decision-making processes. A minimum of 30 per cent representation of women, on the way to reach the goal of 50/50 gender balance at all levels of decision-making, must be guaranteed.”

    2019-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8674 (2019) · source

  5. “All warring parties in Syria must release all persons who have been arbitrarily detained or kidnapped, in keeping with international human rights law and the provisions of resolution 2254 (2015). Addressing this issue is a precondition to building confidence between the parties to the conflict and the Syrian people; and between the United Nations and the people of Syria, as mentioned by the Special Envoy. If the United Nations exerts pressure to prioritize this issue, the legitimacy of its role in the process will increase in the eyes of millions ordinary Syrians, who have felt for long that they have been let down by the international community efforts to put an end to their suffering.”

    2019-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8674 (2019) · source

  6. “Parties to conflict detain many women and children, using them as hostages to blackmail and exert pressure on their fathers or husbands who are politically or militarily active. The majority of detained or forcibly disappeared persons over the past decade have been human rights defenders, often under the pretext of the so-called counter-terrorism efforts. Women activists, including relief workers, have faced various forms of violence that is not limited to arrest. Women and girls who are detained face gender-specific consequences for being women, particularly in our societies. That causes them acute stigmatization upon release and can result in honour killings, divorce or even suicide.”

    2019-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8674 (2019) · source

  7. “That has been possible thanks to the efforts by the Special Envoy and very strong advocacy by Syrian feminists. We very much hope that this percentage will increase in the negotiations process. That percentage must be enshrined in our new constitution in order to ensure that women's rights are guaranteed in Syria's future. The matter of detainees and missing and kidnapped persons is a thorny issue. Regrettably, no progress has been made since the previous Security Council briefing (See S/PV.8593) on the matter, held in August. Despite the Council's expressed sympathy, over 100,000 Syrians remain kidnapped or detained, as my colleagues from Families for Freedom reported. They are still subject to torture and other ill-treatment.”

    2019-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8674 (2019) · source

  8. “There can be no democracy in Syria without gender equality or women's effective participation in the political decision-making process. I stress those demands because they continue to be overlooked in forums and decision-making platforms to this day. Since 2014, despite the efforts of the Special Envoy and the demands of Syrian feminists, there have been only two women in the Government and the opposition delegations to the negotiations process. Many civil society activists support the ongoing constitutional process and consider it a path to the political process. The Constitutional Committee, which met for the first time this month, is a good step forward in increasing women's participation, which, as the Special Envoy mentioned, has reached approximately 30 per cent.”

    2019-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8674 (2019) · source

  9. “The Security Council must therefore pressure all parties to abide by their obligations in accordance international law and ensure that all those who have committed serious violations against millions of Syrian women and men are held accountable legally and punished. Any efforts by the Council to ensure legal accountability and punishment, as well as transitional justice mechanisms, must have the gender perspective and the impacts of armed conflict on women and girls at their core. That cannot wait until a political process is concluded. Despite the fact that space for Syrian civil society to influence the political process remains limited, feminists and human rights movements persevere in their pursuit to chart the future of Syria, especially on issues related to justice, citizenship and human rights. Let me be clear.”

    2019-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8674 (2019) · source

  10. “Syrian women have faced numerous threats to their rights from all sides, not only by existing Syrian discriminating laws but also by practices of other groups, such as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham and the Al-Nusra Front and others, which have been terrorizing and committing violence against women and girls, as well as depriving them from their basic rights. Syrian women make up the majority of those forcibly displaced. Ensuring conditions conducive to their safe, voluntary and dignified return to their places of origin is therefore essential, as stipulated under the international law. All parties to armed conflict in Syria today continue to operate as ifthey can act with impunity.”

    2019-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8674 (2019) · source

  11. “This is the sixty-fifth attack on health facilities in north-west Syria since last April, according to reports by the Syrian American Medical Society. Furthermore, tens of thousands of people, the majority of whom are women and children, have been displaced in north-east and north-west Syria as a result of the recent military operations, which have been causing catastrophic humanitarian emergencies. The current deteriorating political and humanitarian crisis in Syria has led to an exacerbation of discrimination against women, and in turn to an increase in gender-based violence, early and forced marriage and trafficking of women.”

    2019-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8674 (2019) · source

  12. “My statement will focus on three key issues: first, the gender impact of military conflict on millions of women and ensuring accountability and punishment; secondly, securing the effective participation of Syrian women in the political process as well as in all aspects of peace and security; and, thirdly, the release of detainees and forced disappearances by all parties. The Syrian conflict, which has been ongoing for more than eight years, has had tragic impacts on all Syrians, particularly women, girls and children. As the Special Envoy noted, just this week 16 people, including women, children and medical staff, were killed as a result of a missile attack near a maternity hospital in a displaced persons' camp in Idlib.”

    2019-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8674 (2019) · source

  13. “I thank you, Madam President, for having invited me to brief the Council today. As the President noted, I am a member of the Syrian Constitutional Committee and a member of the Syrian Women's Advisory Board. For more than half my life, I have worked for the empowerment of Syrian women and the advancement of their rights in all fields and continue to fight to achieve that. Today, I am briefing the Council in my capacity as a Syrian civil-society feminist. The fate of millions of Syrians is still in the hands of the Council because of the continued military operations in Damascus, Idlib, Aleppo, the north-east and other governorates.”

    2019-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8674 (2019) · source