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2013-07-17
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2015-10-20
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  1. “Yet, it is not easy to carry out that duty in practice because of the prevailing geopolitical interests and, not least, because actions under that principle can lead to conflicts with a strictly literal interpretation of another principle, that of non-intervention, as enshrined in paragraph 7 ofArticle 2 of the Charter of the United Nations. Nonetheless, owing to the unacceptable human costs of inaction, the search for effective juridical means for practical applications of the principle of the responsibility to protect must be one of the most urgent priorities of the United Nations. The Holy See strongly supports any initiative and any step towards achieving a more effective and concrete application ofthe principle ofthe responsibility to protect, especially in cases of mass atrocities.”

    2015-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7539Resumption1 (2015) · source

  2. “Fourthly, the United Nations, and the Council in particular, would acquire greater authority and legitimacy if countries could discern clear and effective criteria for the application of the principle of the responsibility to protect and for the corresponding invocation of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations. The responsibility to protect all peoples from massive atrocities, instances of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity is today widely recognized and accepted.”

    2015-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7539Resumption1 (2015) · source

  3. “As laid out in General Assembly resolution 69/321, the membership deems that the criteria for qualified candidates must include proven leadership and managerial abilities, extensive experience in international relations, strong diplomatic communication and multilingual skills, while considering equal and fair distribution based on gender and geographical balance. Thirdly, on the question of fairness in the application of the Charter of the United Nations and all international agreements and treaties, my delegation believes that the arbitrary interpretation of existing laws and the application of double standards in dealing with the parties in conflict are some of the underlying causes of the feelings of victimization that turn into hatred and violence.”

    2015-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7539Resumption1 (2015) · source

  4. “There are, doubtlessly, good reasons for that practice. However, it makes some of the wider membership wonder if their inputs really matter and if the resolution has already been decided on and adopted before they are heard. Secondly, with regard to the question of the transparency that the wider membership demands from the Council, we hear that voice getting stronger lately, not only in the context of the bigger question of the reinvigoration of the work of the United Nations as it turns 70, but also in the more immediate context of the selection of the Organization's next Secretary- General. In that regard, it is imperative that the Security Council and the General Assembly maintain a transparent working relationship.”

    2015-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7539Resumption1 (2015) · source

  5. “My delegation believes that Member States would like to have an equitable share in influence, especially in the Security Council, the only United Nations body with the power to make binding decisions. That calls for greater interactivity; in particular, it requires real open debates and a willingness to take into account the Views of the wider membership and the actors in the various conflicts being considered. Such views can bring greater legitimacy to the Council, helping it to better shape its understanding of crisis situations and improving its ability to respond. Moreover, in order to show greater consideration of the views of the wider membership, the Council may want to re-examine its practice of first adopting a resolution on a matter that is only subsequently debated by the wider United Nations membership.”

    2015-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7539Resumption1 (2015) · source

  6. “My delegation wishes to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open debate on the Security Council's working methods and wishes to raise four points. First, there is a need for genuine equity among Member States with regard to the influence that they can exert. on the decision-making processes in the various United Nations bodies, including the Security Council. Pope Francis, in his address to the General Assembly on 25 September, affirmed that, beyond the many achievements of the United Nations, "the experience of the past 70 years has shown that reform and adaptation to the times are always essential as we work towards the ultimate goal of ensuring that all countries without exception can participate in our decisions and have a genuine and equitable influence on them" (A/70/PV.3, p. 3).”

    2015-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7539Resumption1 (2015) · source

  7. “And, closest to our hearts here, who will protect the reporters and photographers and editors and radio commentators and television hosts - the men and women who swallow fear every day, who constantly calculate the risks of simply doing their jobs, wondering if the next breath will be their last? The safety ofjournalists is not a political topic or a professional rallying cry for me, it is deeply personal. The journalists we have lost all left families behind, often with young children who grow up with only the faintest memory of a parent who will never come home. As much as I want to, I know that I cannot personally protect all the AP journalists at work in every corner of the globe. But, every day, I try to do it anyway - because there are 31 photos on the AP Wall of Honor, and 31 pictures is enough.”

    2013-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7003 (2013) · source

  8. “An attack on ajournalist is a proxy for an attack on the ordinary citizen - an attack on that citizen's right to know information about their communities and their institutions. It is true that, today, a journalist's tools are readily available to those average citizens. They have smart phones, cameras and satellite transmissions, and many make important contributions to news coverage. Indeed, authenticated images and reports from deep inside Syria - some by average citizens, some by partisans - have contributed to the world's understanding of the fighting in that country in the past two years. Their work enriches what we learn about the world every day; yet, the threat to them can be just as great as the threat to professional journalists. Who will protect them?”

    2013-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7003 (2013) · source

  9. “Many - too many - turn up dead: 12 in Somalia last year alone, five in Pakistan, four in Brazil, three in Syria, others in Russia, Nigeria, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Thailand, Ecuador, India and the Philippines. So why should the world's leaders care about threats against journalists? Many officials the world over complain that journalists are headstrong and nosy. They ask questions, they write stories and take pictures that do not always sit well with the powerful people they cover. They aim their cameras at things some people do not want the world to see. Yet journalists represent the ordinary citizen. They ask questions on behalf of those people. They go to places the people cannot go to, and they bear witness.”

    2013-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7003 (2013) · source

  10. “More than 30 journalists are murdered every year, and many are abducted and tortured first. In the overwhelming number of cases - 90 per cent - the killers go unpunished, free to attack and kill again. CPJ has found that most murderedjournalists - 5 in 6 - are killed in their own hometowns covering local stories concerning crime and corruption. They are attacked by people who know their work, and often know them personally. The journalists are menaced, arrested, beaten again and again; their families or colleagues threatened. The attacks frequently escalate and some journalists flee their homeland for an exile's life. Others are jailed, sometimes for years. Some disappear off the face of the Earth.”

    2013-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7003 (2013) · source

  11. “We bring visitors to the Wall of Honor and it is important to explain why this is such a special place to us. These people are part of our professional family. They are in my head and heart each time we send AP journalists off into the world's many treacherous spots. But more often, journalists are not heading off to an assignment in a treacherous spot. That dangerous assignment is the country they call home, and the threat is not from war. Indeed, most journalists who die today are not caught in some wartime cross-fire; they are murdered just because of what they do. And those murders are rarely ever solved; the killers rarely ever punished. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) documents the attacks on journalists each year, and its annual accounting is grim indeed.”

    2013-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7003 (2013) · source

  12. “Like those five men, most of the 31 people on our Wall died covering conflict, beginning with the 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn in the United States. They fell during the Spanish-American war in Cuba, the Russo-Japanese War, the Korean conflict and the Second World War, which claimed five AP journalists. Another five died in Vietnam. Many were shot to death - in an ambush, a riot or at a checkpoint; captured, tortured and shot by the Nazis. Two were attacked by mobs during civil unrest. Others were mortally wounded by mortars or shells. One went down on a warship, another on a refugee ship. Others were lost in plane crashes or one of many helicopter crashes, including the 1993 crash in Afghanistan that took the life of the only woman on the Wall of Honor, my friend Sharon Herbaugh.”

    2013-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7003 (2013) · source

  13. “I pass it every morning, frequently pausing to look at the faces of the five men killed on my watch as editor: Nazeh Darwazeh, killed on 19 April 2003 while filming a confrontation between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus; Saleh Ibrahim, shot to death on 23 April 2005 as he arrived to cover an explosion in the Iraqi city of Mosul; Aswam Ahmed Lutfallah, shot to death by insurgents as he filmed their gunfight with police in Mosul on 12 December 2006; Ahmed Hadi Naji, who left home astride his red-and- white motorbike on the way to the AP Baghdad office and disappeared - his body was found in a morgue six days later, on 5 January 2007; he had been shot in the back of the head; and Anthony Mitchell, headed home to Kenya from a West Africa reporting trip when the plane he was on crashed in Cameroon on 5 May 2007, killing all aboard.”

    2013-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7003 (2013) · source

  14. “Ms. Carroll: I thank you, Madam, for the opportunity to talk about an important subject - the right of journalists around the world to work without threat or peril. Everyone who walks into the main newsroom at the global headquarters of the Associated Press (AP) here in New York passes our Wall of Honor, a softly lit display of photographs and biographies of the 31 AP journalists who have died on assignment since the organization was founded 167 years ago.”

    2013-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7003 (2013) · source