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Askira

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2017-01-12
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2017-01-12
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  1. “I am grateful for the rare opportunity to share this experience and some of my recommendations with the Council. As a young woman, I am truly honoured that the Council is listening to young people on the front lines.”

    2017-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7861 (2017) · source

  2. “We need a peace architecture, a way for citizens - young and old, male and female, boys and girls - and the State working together to reduce the scourge of Boko Haram, but also to address the conflict between farmers and herders and ethnic and religious conflict. Right now peacebuilding is urgently needed, especially when it can be used to engaged young people and women in dealing with the horrors we have seen from Boko Haram and the Islamic State - not that they should stop at that. Of course, it is impossible to exaggerate the humanitarian need, as I highlighted before. From my story, we can see clearly that the need for scaling up is plainly there. I believe that donor agencies and the members of the Security Council will try their best to actually see this scaled up to the maximum.”

    2017-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7861 (2017) · source

  3. “In other regions, it is still too unsafe for people to relocate and we need aid that is adequate to addressing such emergency situations - aid that prevents trauma and local conflicts, promotes people's coexistence, affects communities and reduces tension. Secondly, as the Council looks at security in our region today, I would like to ask it to go beyond just looking at the war against Boko Haram, extending it to proactive prevention of violent conflict as a long- term solution to the emergent threat to the ethnic and religious balance here in Nigeria and in the Lake Chad region in general.”

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  4. “And to the members of the Security Council and the Governments they represent, I want to say that ordinary Nigerians like me are working every day to improve security and reintegration into the community, and to start rebuilding our lives and our region. We are grateful for the Council's political, military and financial support. While the Council debates, our region is in shambles. I want to add two points. First, we are grateful for all the humanitarian and development assistance. As the United Nations and its members' Governments design future programmes, I would like to ask that they ensure that the programmes they support have mechanisms to communicate with and listen to communities, and that there is transparency and flexibility. In some areas, we have seen that helping people recover is a challenge, and support is needed for that.”

    2017-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7861 (2017) · source

  5. “Those who gave the most were people who did not have much at all, but still gave because they did not want anyone to sleep in the cold. By 3 January, we were able to reach a little more than $1,500, with which we managed to buy about 500 blankets and share them with 500 people. It turns out that we are still receiving a lot from people, because people are still supporting one another. People are still believing that they should actually help one another. I launched the campaign through social media. It got the attention of many and made an impact in the community. I thought it was important to recognize the collegial efforts of people on the ground who want to remain your friends and who are changing life and protecting the community to the best of their ability.”

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  6. “We could not protect her and we could not protect her community. She said: "I really want to be like you, Fatima, because you inspire me." That was so touching. People here are not hopeless, but the frustration and desperation make them want to make changes. I know of many young people whose stories are inspiring. I know a lady who actually volunteered her time to go and teach the people in an internally displaced persons (IDPs) camp. I know a group of young boys who came up with a challenge to do something. They encouraged many young people to engage in different ways to pass on this message, enrol in school and even teach in their community schools and in IDP camps, as well. I started a campaign on 8 December to raise money and get clothing and blankets for women and children IDPs.”

    2017-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7861 (2017) · source

  7. “Another is a young girl, Yaga, who looks a lot like I did when I was 15 years old. We all know how 15-year-olds are. She was abducted by an armed group and, fortunately, got released. Yaga is struggling to be integrated into her community, her family, her friends, people with whom she has been staying with her whole life. I noticed the fear in her face when I was speaking to her and she mentioned to me that she had suffered from stigmatization. We all knew she was scared of being alone. She was scared of people pointing to her a terrorist. She was scared that people would look at her as associated with Boko Haram. That girl could easily have been me, but I had met her - who could not be me - and she was in this situation because we did not do enough to prevent violent conflict from affecting her.”

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  8. “Ms. Askira: I thank you, Sir, for allowing me to speak at this meeting today. May I kindly invite the Council to join me, here in the outskirts of Maiduguri, the place where I live. Please take a moment to picture a community of vulnerable women and children outside the city, with neither a floor nor a bed. There is a woman in her early 70s lying sick in the sun, covering her body with a carpet cloth; that is what she calls a blanket. Her grandchildren, aged 4, 6 and 7, are sitting right next to her, often with no idea of what to eat. I was in this community, on the outskirts of Maidugiri, three days ago. I went to give assistance and give blankets to the children. This is to tell the Council that such communities actually exist. They do not exist because people choose to live there, but because people do not have a better place to go.”

    2017-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7861 (2017) · source