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Al-Karib

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2023-10-25
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  1. “We should show the women of Ethiopia, Myanmar, Somalia, South Sudan, Ukraine and Yemen and those involved in so many other conflicts around the globe that their rights are not dispensable. And we should demand that the United Nations take a principled stand by ensuring that women’s rights, and women’s full, equal and meaningful participation, are always a fundamental part of any peace process it supports. We should uphold the central principle of the women and peace and security agenda, which is that there can be no peace without the protection of women’s rights.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source

  2. “Lastly, it should condemn all attacks and threats against women human rights defenders and peace activists and remove any restrictions on their civic space and their right to continue their essential work. The current conflict in the Sudan is a result of a failure to uphold women’s rights and women’s participation in shaping my country’s future. I urge the international community not to repeat that mistake in other crises. We should all show solidarity with Palestinian women, who have suffered under the world’s longest occupation and are now caught up in an escalating crisis in Gaza, and support their calls for an immediate ceasefire. We should support the calls of Afghan women to hold the Taliban accountable for gender apartheid.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source

  3. “We repeat our demand for the meaningful representation of women, including feminist movements, at 50 per cent at all levels, from start to finish. The Council should call on all the parties to ensure safe and unhindered humanitarian access and fully fund the humanitarian response and women’s organizations. It should pursue accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including sexual violence, and expand the existing sanctions regime to include sexual violence as a criterion for designation. It should strengthen the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan to enable it to effectively support the protection of civilians and human rights, including women’s rights, and to consult meaningfully with civil society.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source

  4. “The suffering of women in the Sudan mirrors women’s suffering across Africa. We are being treated as collateral damage rather than as agents in our own lives. The fundamental premise of the women and peace and security agenda is that relegating women — and their rights — to the margins of decision-making further entrenches women’s exclusion and prolongs violence. That must change now. I therefore urge the Security Council to take the following action. The Council should demand an immediate cessation of hostilities and the institution of a comprehensive ceasefire in the Sudan aimed at ending all the violence targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure. It should emphasize that Sudanese women and civil society are critical to all efforts to make peace.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source

  5. “After experiencing violence and torture at the hands of the RSF, a number of those women and girl died by suicide. Moreover, women’s access to health care, especially comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care, is limited, owing partly to a lack of skilled providers and to attacks on and occupations of hospitals. The war has also resulted in millions of women losing their livelihoods, being displaced and finding themselves desperately dependent on humanitarian aid. Yet a lack of funding and the Sudanese Armed Forces’ denials of humanitarian access and imposition of other obstacles have created serious challenges to humanitarians’ ability to reach those in need. Furthermore, the delivery of humanitarian aid is rarely informed by women’s views, despite their prominent role in the response.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source

  6. “Both the Sudanese Armed Forces and RSF have committed serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. While calling on both parties to end such acts, United Nations experts have expressed concern at consistent reports of widespread violations by the RSF, including subjecting women and girls to enforced disappearance, sexual assault, exploitation and slavery, forced work and detention in inhuman or degrading conditions. The fear of stigma and reprisals means that we do not even know the full scale of violations. That pattern of widespread, ethnically motivated attacks, including sexual violence, could amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. In my view, the targeted attacks on specific communities in El Geneina also pose a serious risk of genocide.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source

  7. “Alerted by her screams, neighbours started gathering and the perpetrators, identified as RSF soldiers, quickly fled. The same day, two other women were gang-raped inside their homes in the same area. From that day on, reports of sexual violence and kidnapping flooded human rights and women’s organizations. Women were subjected to brutal atrocities, torture and trafficking by RSF in greater Khartoum and in Nyala in South Darfur. RSF’s brutality was in full display in El Geneina city in West Darfur, where they raped women from Massalit and other native African tribes in front of their families, whom they then killed. More than 4 million women and girls are now at risk of sexual violence in the Sudan and countless others have been slaughtered.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source

  8. “Transition authorities failed to address the systemic violence, including in Darfur; the repression of protesters; the discrimination against women and the impunity that has plagued the Sudan. Perpetrators, in some instances, were appointed as top Government officials. The subsequent military takeover illustrates how only paying lip service to the women and peace and security agenda, without insisting on women’s rights and women’s meaningful participation in peace and political processes, is not enough to overcome the repressive patriarchal status quo. War erupted again in April, this time reaching Khartoum. The gendered nature of the conflict became clear mere hours after the fighting began. The first case of gang rape was reported at noon on 15 April inside a woman’s home in Khartoum.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source

  9. “Those atrocities took place under Omar Al-Bashir, who led a militarized regime reliant on the Sudanese Armed Forces and armed militias such as the Janjaweed in Darfur, which later became the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The mass protests led by women and youth that began in December 2018 and led to the fall of Al-Bashir were, in part, a direct response to how women’s bodies and voices had been systematically under attack for over 30 years. In 2019, the Council heard from Sudanese protester Alaa Salah (see S/PV.8649), whose voice was one of many calling for freedom, peace and justice. While Al-Bashir was forced out of office by that women-led movement, further change did not come.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source

  10. “Ms. Al-Karib: I thank the Security Council for the opportunity to brief members today. My name is Hala Al-Karib. I am the Regional Director of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa, a network of about 100 women’s organizations from across the region. Today’s open debate is an opportunity to reflect on the urgency of this agenda and why women’s rights must be central in addressing any conflict or crisis. Sadly, my country, the Sudan, starkly illustrates the consequences of failing to do so. The current conflict in the Sudan is the result of decades of violence against civilians, violence that has impacted nearly every aspect of women’s lives. During this time, mass atrocities and violence, including sexual violence and rape, have been used against my people.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source