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Cherepakha

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2022-04-11
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  1. “We call on all members of the Security Council, international institutions and Governments to stop the war and demonstrate their solidarity with concrete and practical actions to find and use the tools necessary to stop the Russian aggression and ensure that their decisions are not blocked or ignored. We call on members to ensure the security of the children, women and men of Ukraine.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source

  2. “We know and have seen these things, and we want Council members to hear our voices telling them that violence and rape are now being used as a weapon of war by Russian invaders in Ukraine. At the same time, the war also shows the important role that women play as they stand up for Ukraine in the process of restoring peace and strengthening and developing the country and its democracy. We do not want the Council to look at us only as the victims of the Russian military aggression. Women in the peace and security sector — volunteers, activists, journalists and human rights defenders — are an integral part of progress and development in Ukraine. We have knowledge, skills, expertise and strength, but we need to be saved and protected now.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source

  3. “Reports are coming in from Kyiv, Kherson and Chernihiv oblasts from the survivors themselves and witnesses. The women and girls were raped by a group of occupiers multiple times in front of their family members and other people. The lives of the survivors, their children and family members were threatened. These are real cases, real people and real facts. We see people who are extremely traumatized, in fear for their life and not ready to talk about what happened. Those who somehow manage to escape to a safer place are too traumatized to report what happened. They need support and therapy and time to recover first. We know that many of those cases will hardly, or even never, be disclosed, unfortunately, as many of those who suffered have already been killed by Russian invaders.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source

  4. “They are undressed in front of groups of males, harassed and shamed. Two female journalists were kidnapped in Zaporizhzhya oblast and another was killed near Kyiv while performing their professional duties. Women and girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence and rape during wartime. A number of incidents and cases have already been reported. Unfortunately, that is just the tip of the iceberg. Many survivors remain under threat to their life. They remain in occupied territories and are cut off from assistance, connection and everything else. We receive calls to the national hotlines operated by La Strada-Ukraine. Today there have been nine reported cases of rape by Russian soldiers in the temporarily occupied towns and villages, involving approximately 12 women and girls — children.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source

  5. “This tragic list of crimes committed by thousands of ordinary Russian soldiers, claiming that they did not know where they were, can be continued. Women are important actors of peace and security in Ukraine, and their contribution during the war is truly incredible. Together with activists, volunteers and journalists, they have also become the target of the occupiers. Ukrainian volunteer Yulia Payevska, who for many years saved the lives of people in occupied Russian territories in eastern Ukraine, was captured by Russian troops while organizing assistance for civilians in Mariupol. A video shows that she was forced to ask that a solution be found to the situation. At this time, there is no information about her condition or current whereabouts. Women prisoners of war are exposed to torture, including sexual violence.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source

  6. “It is being called an evacuation. Women have been deported under the threat of being raped and killed. Women in local administration and self-government bodies are also exposed to threats of being kidnapped, tortured and killed. The head of the village of Motyzhyn, in Kyiv oblast, Olha Sukhenko, was found dead, together with her husband and son, after being taken by Russian troops who occupied the village. They were severely tortured and killed because she stayed with her community and performed her duties, organizing support, medicine and food for people. The deputy of the Zaporizhzhya oblast administration, Leyla Ibragimova, was kidnapped from her home. The director of a kindergarten in Kyiv oblast, Larysa Osypenko, was killed by the occupiers because of her profession. The Russian troops said, “You should not raise Nazis”.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source

  7. “Russian strikes hit a railway station in Kramatorsk, where civilians, mostly women, children and the elderly, were waiting for a train to evacuate them. In a city where our colleagues, women’s rights activists, put so much effort into promoting the spirit of resolution 1325 (2000), Russian strikes hit maternity wards, children’s hospitals and kindergartens and the theatre building in Mariupol, where women and children sheltered, despite the clearly marked signs warning that children were inside, visible from the sky. It is a city that has always connected us with sisters and colleagues from the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. We have received calls from women in Mariupol informing us about the forced deportation of civilians, including unaccompanied children, by Russian troops to Donetsk and, further afield, Russia.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source

  8. “With the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the whole population of the country is under threat. Women and children, as always happens in wartime, are the most vulnerable. In my presentation, I would like to focus on four aspects related to the impact of Russia’s aggression on women and children. Women and children make up the majority of internally displaced persons and refugees who left the country in an attempt to survive. Often, they become vulnerable to the risk of gender-based violence, exploitation and trafficking. Very often, during evacuation, even with clearly marked signs announcing that they are civilians and unarmed, carrying children, they are brutally killed by Russian troops.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source

  9. “Ms. Cherepakha: Today I have the honour and responsibility to speak and testify, as a representative of one of the civil-society organizations that stand for the protection of the independence and freedom of Ukraine from invasion by Russia. These organizations consolidate their efforts at the national, regional and community levels with the State, individuals, men and women, adults and children. They provide assistance that help save the lives of civilians, often the most vulnerable. They collect evidence and the testimonies of the survivors of war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine. They do so to document them and help to bring justice. I speak as a women’s rights activist, a specialist, a mother and, since 24 February, a displaced person.”

    2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source