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Bachelet

lines on the record: 133
first: 2010-10-26
most recent: 2023-10-20
sittings or episodes: 10
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“In that regard, I would like to conclude by recalling that we are close to the twenty-fifth anniversary of the signing of the Presidential Act of Brasilia on 26 October 1998, which marked a truly historic moment, ending a boundary dispute in the Americas, with the active participation, as guarantors, of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and the United States. That is clear evidence of the value of the regional actors in building sustainable peace.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“Women are crucial partners in economic recovery, social cohesion and political legitimacy, and women’s participation in mediation processes can help ensure that a greater diversity of members of the community becomes engaged in peacemaking. Precipitating women’s meaningful participation in all decision-making, eradicating all forms of violence against women, both online and offline, and upholding women’s rights would not just help shift power but also result in giant steps forward in sustaining peace. I want to highlight the positive experiences of bilateral, subregional and regional arrangements as a crucial part of our collective endeavour to build confidence and maintain international peace and security.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“As we mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, human rights are facing pushback in all regions. Painfully, we see a significant global retrenchment of human rights and an erosion of the rule of law, including in contexts of armed conflict. We urgently need to come back to the core principles. The United Nations is a norms-based organization. Rebuilding consensus among Member States is an essential task for the international system. Diplomacy should be a tool not only for reducing the risk of conflict but also for managing the heightened fractures that mark the geopolitical order today and carving out spaces for cooperation for shared interests. Women’s participation in mediation is essential for achieving lasting, positive peace, which goes well beyond just the silencing of guns.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“More than ever, the United Nations is called on to play a vital role in that regard by encouraging and promoting dialogue among its Members to achieve the goal of strengthening regional organizations and enabling them to play an increasing role in maintaining international peace and security. In the Secretary-General’s policy brief on the New Agenda for Peace published in July, he calls for robust regional frameworks and organizations in the face of growing competition at the global level and threats that are increasingly transnational. Those regional frameworks and organizations should promote trust- building, transparency and détente. But we cannot forget that conflicts proliferate where there is poor governance, human rights abuses and grievances over the unequal distribution of resources, wealth and power.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“And even when conflicts have already arisen, those tools can be useful in terms of maintaining channels or bridges between the parties or through third parties. The role of regional organizations and their work in cooperation with the United Nations are crucial. Regional and subregional intergovernmental security mechanisms are fundamental and relevant in that context. But they need to be effective. Chapter VIII of the United Nations Charter contains provisions concerning regional arrangements and their role in maintaining peace, in addition to the Security Council’s role in those arrangements.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“Chapter VI of the Charter of the United Nations describes the tools available to parties to conflict the purpose of prevention: negotiation, inquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement and other peaceful measures and means. Preventing crises is primarily the responsibility of Member States. We have to rebalance our approach to international peace and security and do everything to help countries avert the outbreak of crises that take a high toll on humankind. But in order for dialogue, mediation and the other tools I mentioned to be effective, they need to be planned ahead and implemented at early stages, and they need to be persistent and substantive. In order to truly build trust among parties to conflict, those parties need to respect and implement their agreements if they really want to prevent conflict.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“Ms. Bachelet: I want to thank the Permanent Mission of Brazil for inviting me to participate in this important and timely open debate. We must recognize that the world order is shifting. It must adjust to a more fragmented geopolitical landscape. We witness the growing complexity of the conflict environment, making the resolution of conflicts more difficult, as local and regional dynamics intersect in complex ways with the interests of external parties. To confront those new challenges, we must build a robust and universal approach to preventing conflict and violence that aligns with the approach- guiding action across the human rights and sustainable development pillars. Prevention saves lives and safeguards development gains.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“Lastly, placing victims at the centre of accountability strategies will contribute to the sustainability of accountability and justice efforts. That is not only the right thing to do in acknowledgement of the victims in whose names these processes were created, it also helps identify and address the conditions that led to serious violations in the first place. Most importantly, that means providing a space for the full participation of victims and affected communities in all their diversity to ensure that their voices are heard, including, whenever possible, in the Council itself.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“Crucially, investigative and accountability mechanisms mandated by the United Nations intergovernmental organs must receive adequate and sustainable funding and the necessary technical capacity to discharge their mandates effectively. Secondly, it is essential that efforts promoting independent and impartial investigations, justice and accountability have the Council’s support. In that regard, I encourage further reflection on how the Security Council, drawing on the full breadth of its mandate and legal power, can systematically and consistently support appropriate justice and accountability measures. In its own process, the Council could also consider regularly inviting briefings by investigative and accountability mechanisms, as well as relevant civil-society actors in the field.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“First, enhancing the normative and institutional framework will further strengthen the legal basis for accountability and justice efforts upon which national and international accountability actors can build their proceedings. In my view, the adoption of a convention on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity would fill a significant gap in the current international framework and facilitate international cooperation in the area. The relevant treaties that provide a jurisdictional basis for accountability, including the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, deserve universal adherence and should be ratified by all States, and I equally encourage all States to accept the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice in the common interests of the entire international community.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“In particular, we have developed specific guidance on integrating gender sensitivity into investigations and the analysis of the root causes of violence and abuse, as well as on the pursuit of gender-sensitive reparations, including specifically for victims of sexual and gender-based violence. In that regard, it is vital to meaningfully involve women and girls, along with other victims and beneficiaries, in justice and accountability efforts, as leaders and agents of change. One of the aims of today’s open debate is to work towards establishing a global strategy for enhancing the role of the international community in holding States and others accountable for serious violations of international law. To that end, allow me to put forward some views from my own perspective.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“That means, in particular, both promoting the meaningful involvement of victims and marginalized communities and emphasizing their access to remedies and reparations, including rehabilitation, with a particular focus on mental health and psychosocial support. It also means supporting national stakeholders, including civil society actors, to identify innovative, pragmatic and context-specific justice solutions to achieve tangible differences in people’s lives. Thirdly, my Office has been strengthening the focus on gender sensitivity in all phases of justice and accountability processes.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“Secondly, together with the Executive Office of the Secretary-General and the wider United Nations system, my Office is working to enhance the Organization’s support for national transitional justice mechanisms, including truth commissions and reparations programmes. An important element emerging from such work is the need to tailor transitional justice initiatives to adequately address, and comprehensively respond to, the underlying patterns and root causes of violations. Our work indicates that, for justice responses to be truly effective, they must be people-centred and gender-sensitive, and seek, respect and acknowledge the views of victims.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“My Office is committed to providing the support necessary for each mandate entrusted to it in order to operate in line with the highest standards of human rights fact-finding, including through the use of modern methodological and investigative techniques. Efforts have focused on the gathering and preservation of information with a view to increasing the likelihood that it can be used in diverse legal proceedings; strengthening the chain of custody; explaining and procuring the full and informed consent of victims, witnesses and other information providers in accountability contexts; and ensuring the effective preservation of, and access to, digital materials.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“My Office is continually strengthening its support for such mandates, which we see as key contributors to justice and the rule of law, including by accelerating and streamlining the operationalization of mandates. The work of those mechanisms has been used by international courts addressing both State and individual criminal responsibility, as well as by national prosecutors and judges pursuing international crimes, including under the principles of universal and extraterritorial jurisdiction. The conviction in Germany of Syrian Colonel Anwar Raslan for overseeing torture at a Syrian detention centre nearly a decade ago adds to the growing number of jurisdictions working with diverse partners, including vital society actors, towards delivering accountability for international crimes.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“Through further action by the Human Rights Council, there are currently no fewer than 12 active specific human rights mechanisms addressing various forms of accountability. Today I would like to highlight three ways in which my Office contributes to efforts to strengthen accountability and justice for serious violations of international law. First, the Human Rights Council has stepped up its response to serious human rights violations that may also amount to international crimes. That includes creating mechanisms with mandates to establish the facts and circumstances of violations; collect, consolidate, preserve and analyse information and evidence; identify those responsible; and make recommendations towards establishing future accountability.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“In that context, I am privileged to sit on this panel with the President of the International Court of Justice, an institution central to the common objective of upholding the rule of law at the international level. United Nations intergovernmental organs have taken significant steps to advance accountability, often with a specific focus on fostering individual criminal responsibility for international crimes. The Council’s creation of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to enhance criminal accountability for the crimes of Da’esh/ISIL was accompanied by the establishment by the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council of independent investigative mechanisms to do the same for Syria and Myanmar.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“Ms. Bachelet: I would like to thank the delegation of Albania for organizing today’s important open debate on accountability and justice. Impunity fuels and intensifies many of the crises currently on the Security Council’s agenda. That emboldens perpetrators, silences victims and undermines the prospects for peace, human rights and development. Our collective experience has shown that justice and accountability are fundamental to the pursuit of peace and security. I am therefore encouraged by the international community’s growing resolve to fight impunity, through the United Nations system and beyond, including through a renewed focus on both State and individual responsibility for serious violations of international law.”
2022-06-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9052 (2022) · source
“My Office is fully committed to supporting those systems and the work of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine and to cooperating with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and other international justice mechanisms, in accordance with our established United Nations frameworks. Let us commit to putting a stop to this senseless conflict. We must be steadfast in our efforts for peace and resolute that justice will be done.”
2022-05-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9027 (2022) · source
“If the perpetrators of violations against civilians and persons hors de combat are brought to justice, potential perpetrators will think twice before unleashing similar unlawful attacks or acts of violence and creating new victims. Accountability also contributes to the healing process for the victims, their families and society at large. National justice systems are the most crucial. I urge the parties to the conflict to investigate all violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law allegedly committed by their armed forces, and I welcome Ukraine’s efforts in that regard.”
2022-05-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9027 (2022) · source
“The list of gross violations of international human rights law and serious violations of international humanitarian law continues to grow each day. We cannot let the number of victims continue to rise. A one-day ceasefire alone would spare the lives of at least 50 civilian children, women and men, including many older persons. A one-day ceasefire would prevent 30 to 70 civilians from being injured and a dozen from becoming disabled. A one-day ceasefire would allow several thousand civilians to safely leave areas where they are currently trapped in hostilities. Most important, a ceasefire will show that the horror in Ukraine can be stopped. It is of the most fundamental importance that the ongoing hostilities cease, once and for all. Advocating for accountability is a cornerstone of my Office’s work.”
2022-05-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9027 (2022) · source
“My Office is collecting such evidence, which will be included in its future reporting. The only way for those horrors to stop is for armed forces to fully respect their obligations under international human rights law and international humanitarian law. It is vital that all parties give clear instructions to their combatants to protect civilians and persons hors de combat, as well as to distinguish between civilian and military objects. Those in command of armed forces must make it clear to their members that anyone found to have been involved in such violations will be prosecuted and held accountable. Accountability demands that evidence be preserved and that mortal remains be treated with decency.”
2022-05-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9027 (2022) · source
“As of 4 May, my Office had documented 180 such cases, of which five victims were eventually found dead. We have also documented eight possible forced disappearances of people considered to be pro-Russian in Government controlled territory. My staff heard about cases of women having been raped by Russian armed forces in areas that were under their control, as well as other allegations of sexual violence by both parties to the conflict. And yet, the stigma around rape and sexual violence continues to prevent victims and their families from feeling safe to report. That only highlights the importance of ensuring adequate and safe support services for victims. Grim evidence of torture, ill-treatment and summary executions of prisoners of war committed by both parties to the conflict is surfacing.”
2022-05-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9027 (2022) · source
“Families were shot at as they tried to escape in convoys. In some areas, it was dangerous to cross the street, with snipers or soldiers shooting at anyone who tried. Local authorities are compiling lists of dead and missing, continuing exhumations, taking DNA from relatives, while also trying to reconnect those districts to electricity and water. In other areas controlled by Russian armed forces and affiliated armed groups such as the Kharkiv, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions, we continue to document arbitrary detention and possible enforced disappearances of representatives of local authorities, journalists, civil society activists, retired servicemen of the armed forces and other civilians by Russian armed forces and affiliated armed groups.”
2022-05-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9027 (2022) · source
“As my Office consistently reports, most of those casualties have been caused by the use of explosive weapons with wide-area effects in populated areas, such as shelling from heavy artillery, including multiple launch rocket systems, missiles and air strikes. My Office is also documenting the devastating consequences of the conflict on other human rights. In areas around Kyiv, from late February for about five weeks, Russian forces targeted male civilians, whom they considered suspicious. Men were detained, beaten, summarily executed and, in some cases, taken to Belarus and Russia, unbeknownst to their families, and held in pre-trial detention facilities. My staff met with families who are searching for their missing male relatives, desperate to know where they are, if they are alive, and how they can get them back.”
2022-05-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9027 (2022) · source
“We could not even bury her.” “My uncle died from loss of blood after sustaining fragmentation injuries. I know only that he was buried in a collective grave.” I could share many more such messages. Last week, on 28 April, when the Secretary-General was visiting Kyiv to meet the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the city was hit by two missiles. At least one woman, a journalist, was killed, and four civilians were injured in the attack. An OHCHR team was in Kyiv on that day too, preparing to visit Bucha. On the same day, we corroborated 22 civilian deaths and 40 civilian injuries in other places of Ukraine. In Ukraine as a whole, my Office has recorded 6,731 civilian casualties since 24 February. We know the real figures are considerably higher.”
2022-05-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9027 (2022) · source
“Reports of deadly incidents, such as attacks on hospital No. 3 and the drama theatre in Mariupol, on the railway station in Kramatorsk, on residential areas in Odesa, have become shockingly frequent. There seems to be no end in sight to the daily reports of civilian deaths and injuries. My team on the ground conveys the palpable trauma and shock experienced by the people they speak with, the vast majority of whom have either personally witnessed a violation or are victims themselves. Rather than try to describe what victims are going through, let me use their words. Residents of Mariupol set up a Telegram channel to share information about their relatives who perished in the city: “He was killed in front of his wife and children.” “Her body remained under the debris of her house.”
2022-05-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9027 (2022) · source
“The mission continues to verify allegations of violations of international human rights law and of international humanitarian law in the context of the Russian Federation’s armed attack on Ukraine. Many of those allegations concern violations that may amount to war crimes. Based on the mission’s work, my Office updated the Human Rights Council at the end of March, and will present a report on the human rights situation in Ukraine covering the period from 24 February to 15 May at the next session of the Council in June. My press statement on Ukraine of 22 April summarized our most recent findings. It pains me to say that all our concerns remain valid, and the situation keeps deteriorating. Today is the seventy-first day of the escalation in hostilities, expanding the already eight-year-long conflict to all regions of the country.”
2022-05-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9027 (2022) · source
“Ms. Bachelet: For over eight years, since 15 March 2014, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) — through the human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine — has been monitoring the situation in country. To date, we have released close to 50 periodic and thematic reports. On 24 February, we quickly adapted to a very different working environment. Like millions of Ukrainians, the staff of my Office relocated to other regions of the country, but — and I am very proud to say — have not paused their work for a single day. Currently, the mission has staff on the ground in Uzhgorod, Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro, Donetsk and Odesa, and conducts field visits to various parts of the country, including the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions just last week.”
2022-05-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9027 (2022) · source
“There must be clear advocacy for and significant investment in women human rights defenders and peacebuilders: removing obstacles such as the digital divide; expanding financial support; and significantly increasing accountability for attacks and intimidation. The work of addressing discrimination, inequality, denials of women’s civic space and gender-based violence should also be viewed as a priority for building peace.”
2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source
“For example, the October 2021 report of the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya documents the disproportionate effect of the conflict — and the proliferation of militias — on women, including the emblematic killings of a woman political leader and a woman journalist. It also highlights the repeated attempts to silence prominent women through violence, including through online incitement to violence, and the resulting chilling impact on women’s engagement in civic space. Those investigative efforts — including through the deployment of dedicated capacities — require more consistent and more effective financial resources. Decisions on peace that do not reflect women’s voices, realities and rights are not sustainable.”
2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source
“Going forward, peace operation mandates could explicitly include provisions for the protection of all civil-society actors and United Nations interlocutors from threats and reprisals, particularly women peacebuilders, as is already the case for the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. Strengthening the timely and disaggregated collection of data on women’s participation and protection in peace processes is also essential to a more effective monitoring of results. In recent years, OHCHR has been strengthening the gender perspective of United Nations investigative bodies, providing training and guidance and deploying dedicated gender and gender-based violence experts.”
2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source
“We also need to do more and better to provide safe spaces for women human rights defenders to interact with the Council and its subsidiary bodies, without fear of retribution. I am encouraged to see some States working to mitigate reprisals against women peacebuilders who engage with the Council, including tailored contingency plans in coordination with United Nations peace operations on the ground. I also applaud States that provide support to women briefers who face retribution as a result of their cooperation with the Council, including technical, financial and advocacy assistance. It would be valuable for the Security Council to consider harmonizing approaches to ensure the safe involvement of women in peace processes, as well as their participation in the Council’s work.”
2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source
“I also recommend greater efforts in Colombia to combat continued conflict-related sexual violence and to guarantee that the victims of such crimes are treated with dignity and have access to adequate protection, justice and reparation. That work will serve the cause of justice and, therefore, peace. At the heart of resolution 1325 (2000) and subsequent resolutions of the Council is the need for strategies that create inclusive and safe participation channels for women from all backgrounds, movements and communities. Protection of their work, lives and rights is central to that effort. The international community must stand united and push back against attempts to attack, silence and criminalize women and their right to defend rights, participate in decision-making and express dissenting opinions.”
2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source
“In contrast, Colombia’s 2016 Final Peace Agreement was a global landmark in terms of women’s participation and the inclusion of gender-specific measures. The Truth Commission and the Special Jurisdiction for Peace have also promoted women’s participation, and the Special Unit for the Search for Persons Deemed as Missing has recognized women’s essential role in the search for missing people. Nonetheless, the implementation of gender-specific measures on issues such as land reform, political participation and security guarantees — including for women human rights defenders — and other points of the agreement should be strengthened.”
2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source
“Ensuring women’s presence in the armed forces will be helpful on many levels, including that of fostering public trust. In Myanmar, women human rights defenders have long been a force for peace and inclusivity, including at the forefront of resistance against military rule. But many women’s civil-society groups have been forced to shut down amid the violence that has gripped the country since February last year. Women medical workers, media workers, protesters, participants in civil disobedience, activists on social media and those providing food and shelter to people in need have been targeted for assault and arbitrary detention. Women and girls appear to number more than 2,100 of the estimated 10,533 people detained by the State Administration Council and its affiliated armed elements between February and November last year.”
2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source
“Extremely violent armed-group attacks also increase the threat of abductions, violence, exploitation and abuse of women and girls, as well as local closures of schools, particularly for girls. I was therefore encouraged, during my recent mission to the region, to hear senior members of the Group of Five for the Sahel (G-5 Sahel) Joint Force emphasizing the importance of the increased integration of women into political, security and development policies to address the crisis. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) will continue to support implementation of the G-5 Sahel Joint Force Compliance Framework to address those issues, including obstacles to women’s direct participation in the security forces.”
2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source
“I further call on States to create safe pathways and resettlement programmes for Afghan women human rights defenders and to immediately halt the deportation of Afghan women who seek protection. It is also vital to maintain a strong human rights presence and focus for all United Nations engagement in Afghanistan, with strong advocacy and tangible support for women human rights defenders and peacebuilders, and for women’s human rights. In the Sahel region, critical deficits in women’s empowerment are clearly a factor in the complex development, security and humanitarian crisis. Several countries in the region are at the very bottom of the United Nations Development Programme’s Gender Inequality Index.”
2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source
“In recent months, many Afghan women human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers and judges have been forced to flee or to go into hiding — often after repeated threats. Many have lost all sources of income. Afghan women have been excluded from decision-making that affects their lives and families and prevented from fully exercising their right to participate in all spheres of civic and public life. I urge the Security Council to ensure that perpetrators of human rights violations and abuses in Afghanistan — including against women and girls — are held to account in order to enable conditions for sustainable peace. I ask all States to use their influence with the Taliban to encourage respect for fundamental human rights.”
2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source
“Intimidation and reprisals by State and non-State actors against people who cooperate with the United Nations also remain high, including in countries on the Council’s agenda. Those human rights violations significantly undermine global efforts to prevent conflict and sustain peace because they deter women from participation and leadership. In Afghanistan, the de facto Cabinet and other key forums, at the national and provincial levels, exclude women. That heavily undermines their capacity to ensure a durably peaceful future in which all have an equal stake. Facing a humanitarian disaster of unprecedented proportions, the country needs all its people to come together. Instead, denial of the fundamental rights of women and girls is massively damaging the economy and the country as a whole.”
2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source
“The enabling environment that lies at the heart of the women, peace and security agenda is also largely absent. In 2020, my Office verified 35 killings of women human rights defenders, journalists and trade unionists in seven conflict-affected countries where data could be retrieved. That number, which is certainly an undercount, surpassed the confirmed numbers of killings in 2018 and 2019. We have also documented patterns of attacks against women working on gender equality, sexual and reproductive health and rights, corruption, labour rights and environmental and land issues. In every region, we have seen women subjected to arrests and detention; intimidation; sexual violence; and harassment via smear campaigns.”
2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source
“Women’s safe and meaningful participation is necessary to ensure a fuller range of action to bind society together and address not only the root causes of conflict but also its full impact, including gender-based violence and the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. Implementing resolution 1325 (2000) requires consistent policies for public recognition, effective protection and vastly increased strategic, flexible, sustainable and targeted financing for women’s civil- society organizations, including women human rights defenders, and it requires action to end the violence that so frequently targets women and girls who seek to lead movements for change. In reality, barely 1 per cent of funding in fragile or conflict-affected countries goes to women’s rights organizations.”
2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source
“Ms. Bachelet: The Security Council has played a vital role in the drive to ensure that peace is built by and for women. Yet between 1992 and 2019, only 13 per cent of negotiators, 6 per cent of mediators and 6 per cent of signatories in major peace processes worldwide were women. And that was before the pandemic struck and before a wave of intensifying conflicts, undemocratic political transitions and disastrous humanitarian crises took hold in many societies, further reducing women’s rights. The situation that now faces women human rights defenders and prospects for women’s full — not tokenistic — participation in shaping and building peace are vastly worse. That harms all of us.”
2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source
“I encourage the Security Council to acknowledge and make full use of the transformative impact of transitional justice in its consideration of matters of international peace and security.”
2020-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8723 (2020) · source
“Clear mandates such as those provide a strong and welcome foundation for United Nations engagement with Government and civil society. Transitional justice should not be seen as an alternative to criminal accountability for perpetrators of atrocity crimes. But that criminal accountability, which is vital, should be accompanied by a broad range of complementary measures to support truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, which help to break cycles of violence. There is clearly no single way to get the mix of those measures precisely right. But there is a way to get it wrong — and that is to consider that victims’ rightful demands for justice are an inconvenient distraction that can be papered over or indefinitely delayed. A failure to engage in such processes will not resolve conflicts; it will fuel recurrence.”
2020-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8723 (2020) · source
“Locally led and locally appropriate permutations of transitional justice have the best chances of success. Without humility and modesty, the risk of failure is real. However, the international community, and the Council in particular, have key roles to play in assisting transitional States in those complex processes — by sharing experiences, mandating international support and encouraging the implementation of genuinely comprehensive approaches. A recent example is the Council’s mandating, in paragraph 5 (e) of resolution 2489 (2019), of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan explicitly to advise on the “establishment and implementation of judicial and non-judicial processes to address the legacy of large-scale human rights violations and abuses as well as international crimes and to prevent their recurrence”.”
2020-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8723 (2020) · source
“Those and other measures that recognize victims’ rights, tackle root causes of the conflict and its consequences for the people and promote positive social, economic and political transformation constitute pillars designed to structure a culture of non-repetition in the country. I look forward to hearing Mr. Francisco de Roux address the Council shortly on his experience and insight in that area. In its sustaining peace resolution (resolution 2282 (2016)), the Council rightfully emphasized that a comprehensive approach to transitional justice is a key component of the efforts to sustain peace. Creating trust and understanding between former enemies and charting a path towards sustainable peace and reconciliation will always be a difficult challenge. We know that transitional justice cannot be imported or imposed from outside.”
2020-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8723 (2020) · source
“The landmark victims law of 2011 calls for a wide range of preventive and potentially transformative measures. They include the promotion of mechanisms that prevent and resolve social conflict, legal empowerment of victims, distributive land restitution measures and measures to dismantle economic and political structures that have benefited from, and given support to, armed groups. I acknowledge the importance of the Council’s support of that key process. To further that work, the Colombian Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition has established 28 field presences and engaged in non-repetition dialogues at the community level. It has also received thousands of testimonies from victims and individuals from State and military institutions.”
2020-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8723 (2020) · source
“In virtually every conflict or post-conflict situation, it is particularly crucial for military and police forces — and, more broadly, all institutions of Government — to regain the confidence of traumatized and abused communities. Fair, even-handed and accountable use of public power is central to rebuilding shattered trust in law enforcement. To that end, vetting processes and security sector reforms should be given high priority, while noting that a disciplined, professional and principled force is in the interest of the security forces and the Government itself as well. Considerable work is currently being undertaken in Colombia with regard to such guarantees of non-recurrence in the context of the Comprehensive System for Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition, which my Office supports.”
2020-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8723 (2020) · source
“For a society to truly succeed in establishing a transition to sustainable peace, issues such as systemic discrimination and exclusion, institutional deficiencies, unfair power structures, inequalities and structural impunity must be identified, acknowledged and addressed. Guarantees of non-recurrence will therefore often relate to institution-building. It is also essential to ensure the broadest possible participation of civil society organizations in decision-making. In recognition of that value, many transitional justice recommendations emphasize the empowerment of civil society, history education, trauma counselling and memorialization initiatives.”
2020-02-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8723 (2020) · source