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  1. “Thirdly, the Security Council must call on the leadership of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement and the international community to significantly increase support for local and national Yemeni women-led and women’s rights organizations, especially core, flexible and long-term funding, and publicly underscore the crucial and legitimate efforts of women peacebuilders and humanitarians. Fourthly, the Security Council must initiate and coordinate with Member States the provision of an effective and sustainable economic rescue package for Yemen. The package should include effective and sustainable measures to help stabilize the economy and strengthen the financial system to prevent further increases in food prices and enhance living conditions.”

    2021-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8797 (2021) · source

  2. “Secondly, the Security Council must undertake more coordination and mobilization with Member States, especially those with influence on the conflict parties, to expedite an inclusive, transparent and accountable peace process, and ensure the full, equal and meaningful participation of women, youth and civil society of all political backgrounds from all regions of Yemen, including the south, in all diplomatic tracks and stages of the peace process, while ensuring a minimum 30 per cent quota for women as a matter of urgency.”

    2021-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8797 (2021) · source

  3. “First, the Security Council must redouble efforts to engage conflict parties and their backers to secure a sustainable, inclusive and nationwide ceasefire, in line with resolution 2532 (2020), that would support viable conditions for protecting civilians, including women, and lead to a resumption of peace negotiations. That goes hand in hand with fully enforcing the Riyadh agreement as a steppingstone for achieving stability and safety for the communities living in the southern governorates.”

    2021-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8797 (2021) · source

  4. “In addition, as the Security Council itself has recognized, politically active women and women human rights defenders face threats, intimidation and attacks for speaking out about violations in their communities. To ensure that Yemeni women can continue to play active roles in public life, it is critical that they can do so without fear of retaliation. The Yemeni people feel disappointment and abandoned by the international community. We need help from the Security Council, and we need it now. We therefore urge the Council to do the following.”

    2021-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8797 (2021) · source

  5. “Women are doing all that against the odds, challenging gender norms and with far too little backing and resources from national and international actors. Increasingly in the past year, women in the north faced an additional hurdle in their efforts: authorities have imposed mahram, whereby women must be accompanied by a male relative when travelling. Despite the critical role that Yemeni women have played in humanitarian action and peacebuilding, they have been excluded from formal and meaningful roles in the United Nations-led peace process, and, for the first time in two decades, they have been completely excluded from the new Yemeni Government. The United Nations and Yemeni authorities must do more to ensure women’s formal and direct participation as stipulated in resolution 1325 (2000).”

    2021-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8797 (2021) · source

  6. “When cities were under siege or roads had become unsafe for the delivery of humanitarian assistance, Yemeni women stepped in to negotiate local ceasefires and successfully called on warring parties to open up humanitarian corridors. In my work, I support the inspiring efforts of young women and men to mediate, resolve conflict and build peace. While the conflict rages at the national level — with women and young people largely marginalized by the parties to the conflict and the United Nations — women are leading the peace agenda in our communities. Women have played an important role in addressing tribal tensions and community strife because they know their own communities; they best understand their needs, as well as the factors that trigger tension and conflict.”

    2021-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8797 (2021) · source

  7. “With regard to Yemeni women’s leadership, humanitarian relief and peacebuilding, our resilience is close to a breaking point. The conflict has put immense strain on the social fabric of our society. Tensions are high since the outbreak of violent local disputes. Gender-based violence is increasing, and it often goes unreported owing to survivors’ fear of being killed, detained or exposed to further violence. Survivors are also silent because of stigma and a lack of security and the rule of law. Despite this challenging situation, the overwhelming majority — 80 per cent of humanitarian first responders — are women. Yemeni women have been providing life-saving humanitarian assistance, even when the international community has been unable to reach communities desperately in need.”

    2021-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8797 (2021) · source

  8. “The alarming decline of the economy and currency since the outbreak of the war, in addition to the devastating impact of the coronavirus disease, have made the lives of millions of ordinary Yemenis more bitter as they face severe shortages of fuel, exorbitant increases in the costs of the necessities of life and no access to the most basic services, such as electricity, water or health care especially for women, who have been considerably affected. To survive, many women reduce how much they eat so that they can give more food to their children. They cut down on the number of meals they take, and they borrow food from friends or relatives. Families are going into debt to meet their most basic needs, and women are under increasingly greater pressure as the number of households headed by women grows.”

    2021-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8797 (2021) · source

  9. “I cannot describe to Council members the terror that haunts me and so many other Yemenis like me who have endured untold suffering throughout almost seven years of war. Yemen today faces multiple crises. With the recent escalation on the frontlines and the challenges in implementing a de-escalation agreement, the country is far from achieving any political, economic or social stability in the near future. Even prior to the outbreak of war, Yemen was the poorest country in the region, and, to date, the country has lost $90 billion in economic output.”

    2021-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8797 (2021) · source

  10. “I thank you, Mr. President, for this opportunity to brief the Security Council on Yemen. I do so today on behalf of the SOS Center for Youth Capabilities Development, which is a non-governmental organization that works on governance, peacebuilding, development and human rights. I am one of the millions of Yemeni women who have suffered the scourge of war. In late March 2015, as mortars and missiles began to fall around us in Aden, my family and I fled to Taiz, in search of shelter. But Taiz was no different: at every sunset, we could hear the rumble of tanks as they passed through our neighbourhood before firing on the city below. We fled again, this time to Sana’a, but unfortunately there too the sound of aerial bombing followed us.”

    2021-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8797 (2021) · source