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Clinton

lines on the record: 83
first: 2000-09-07
most recent: 2011-04-06
sittings or episodes: 5
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“President Preval announced recently, along with the United States and a Korean company, the biggest investment in Haitian history and the first ever textile mill onsite in Haiti. I think we can do much better with tourism and other things, but a good beginning has been made. None of this is going to happen unless we get rid of the rubble and start building the homes and clean out the tents. That will do more than anything else to empower people and to make them believe that this whole thing is real. Again I say, the democratic transition of power, for any one who understands the history of Haiti, is a cause for celebration. And as we all see in Cote d'Ivoire, the people who are leaving probably deserve more credit than the people who are coming in. I think that this Commission will work, but only if it is funded.”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“It has sunshine, wind and the capacity for biomass, which can all be employed. I ask everyone here to think about this. We are not just helping Haiti here if we support the plan; we may be helping the developing countries of the world to imagine a whole different way of building sustainable economies. It could be relevant to Africa; it could be relevant to South-East Asia; it could be relevant to all kinds of places. And it is really important that we do it in a way that empowers both local communities as well as the national Government. As I said, I think we are doing well with health care. They have a really good education plan, but it is not funded. They are doing much better with the economy.”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“I am convinced, if one looks at the progress that has been made - the hospitals that are being built, the health networks that are being built out, the education plan that the Government has adopted and the options that Haiti actually has to set a model for the Caribbean when it comes to a mixed energy system that will be largely self-sufficient and less expensive - that these are really important things. The Caribbean as a whole - and the members of the Security Council may find this surprising - has the highest electricity rates in the world, because it has no indigenous energy sources. But most Caribbean islands, including Puerto Rico, which is part of the United States, where I have worked, and Anguilla, where I have helped people, and others, could almost all be energy self-sufficient. Haiti can lead the way.”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“I think that it is really important that the Commission is trying to leave the Haitian Government, when we are all gone, with the capacity to coordinate further NGO activities and adequately run the country and have in place a transparency system that the whole world accepts as not just adequate but good. Finally, let me say that I think that donors, the Government, NGOs and United Nations agencies will have to continue to work together. I think we still do not know exactly how we are going to resolve all these questions.”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“Bringing rubble to rock crushers also provides work for the people of Haiti, which we are trying to do on a neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood basis. Thirdly, while most large non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been registering their projects with the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, I once again ask all NGOs to do so. NGO involvement in Haiti has been remarkable and a blessing in many ways, but also occasionally a curse, because the President has never had a comprehensive record of all NGO activities in Haiti. The great thing that happened after the tsunami in Indonesia was that, for the first time, NGOs came forward to say, "Okay, we want to be helpful here, but we want it to be consistent with the Government's plan".”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“This may be the first time that the Security Council has ever discussed it. But if one spends any time in Port-au-Prince, they will know that Haiti cannot bring the country back until all the rubble has been crushed and either used on site as a base to rebuild streets or homes, recycled as building material or carted away. We cannot build schools, organize the energy system or decide on the most cost- effective way to do good sanitation so that there will never be another cholera outbreak unless we get the rubble out of the way. As the Secretary-General has said, 2 million cubic metres have been removed, but we have a lot left to go. We can destroy it all much quicker than anybody thinks, and use it in the reconstruction process. But we have to have the machinery to do it.”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“After the exposition is over and people have made their presentations according to the standards established by the Commission and the Government of Haiti, it will be very important that we begin to move. We can move hundreds of thousands of people out of tents in a hurry once the exposition is over and people are approved for final consideration as contractors. I urge that this be done. Secondly, I would urge donors, insofar as they possibly can and consistent with their own policies, not to earmark the contributions that they make to the reconstruction fund, but to allow the Haitian Government to spend funds in support of the goals established in coordination with the Reconstruction Commission, which, as I said, includes all the major donors. For example, debris management is not a particularly glamorous topic.”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“There are other things that everyone is concerned about, such as housing. It always takes longer to address housing than anything else, but the Haitian Government has approved a process that includes a housing exposition. We have already had one big meeting on housing in Haiti. There will be an exposition in a few weeks' time that will include actual demonstration homes, with priority on earthquake and hurricane resistance. This is the first time we have ever had a building code - ensuring energy efficiency; providing sanitation; looking at alternatives to centralized electricity and sanitation systems that work and that are more cost-effective; and making maximal use of recycled materials, including the rubble that is now being crushed neighbourhood by neighbourhood in Port-au-Prince. All of this is going to be done.”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“I think they go a long way towards speeding up the reconstruction and delivering other improvements. The Haitians have an education plan for the first time that would put all their children in school and give them one nutritious meal daily. In the past, no more than half the kids have gone to school. Many of those here today, and many Members of the United Nations, have talked to me over the years about the so-called restavec system, where Haitian children are in effect sold into labour for other families, often just so that poor families in Haiti can send the rest of their kids to school and feed them. If Members implement and fund this education programme, which the Haitian Government has recommended, 90 per cent of the restavec system will vanish in a matter of weeks. So we have to begin this.”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“Otherwise, we would be failing. If we could not do that, we could not coordinate, we could not give any direction to donors and we could not follow the lead of the Haitian economic plan. I am not being critical of the fact that we have approved more money than has been provided - that is what we are supposed to do. On the other hand, once it happens, we need the funding. Participants should have before them a one-page document from the Office of the Special Envoy that states that 37.2 per cent of the money pledged more than a year ago here in New York has actually been disbursed. Now that there has been an election and the international community has accepted the results and verified and participated in the oversight of it, I think greater donor disbursements are important.”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“It is very important that all this be done in a way that builds the long-term capacity of the Haitian Government and that includes the transparency set up by the Commission, so that donors have real confidence and the people of Haiti can see the houses going up, the Haitians being hired and the Haitian businesses being brought into partnership. This is an enormous opportunity to rebuild the Haitian economy even as we move people out of tents. But I think that it is important that we do it in a way that strengthens the capacity of the Government of Haiti and the confidence of people in the process. That means that we also will need some more funding. As I have said, the Commission has approved 87 projects, which are valued at $3.26 billion. In fairness to donors, our goal has always been to have the Commission ahead of donors.”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“Mulet and all the other people who work there on a daily basis that I think they have done remarkable things to try to help deal with the emergency situation. I would like to offer a few brief recommendations before other speakers take the floor. Once a new President is inaugurated and a new Administration has responsibility for reconstruction, I think it will be more important than ever that we keep up the coordination that President Preval has endorsed between the Haitian Government, donors, non-governmental organizations and, increasingly, when we begin building houses, the many people who will have contracts to build them.”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“I would say to all present that, notwithstanding the cholera epidemic, that Haiti is probably further along in building a sustainable health system than in any other major challenges, in terms of modernizing the educational system and making it universal and the energy system and doing some other things that have to be done. So I am very grateful for what has been done. Mr. President, you wanted to talk about peacekeeping today. That is not my purview. I do want to say, however, that I think that MINUSTAH has done a great job, under the leadership of Brazil and supported by the Argentines and so many other countries. They have been great. I agree with you, Sir, that one cannot have peace over the long run without development. I leave it to others to decide how the allocation of responsibilities should be done, but I will say to Mr.”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“So my goal and that of President Bush is to make this work and then give it to the people of Haiti - give it to a bank, or whoever the Haitians determine after a couple of years. Through the Global Initiative, we have a business group there headed by Denis O'Brien, the head of Digicel, who just funded the restoration of Haiti's remarkable Iron Market. It was restored to the condition it was in in 1891, and there are now nearly 100 people who make a living there every day thanks to the support of the Government. You may think these are symbolic things, but it is quite a symbol. If you have seen it, it is a stark contrast to the abject difficulties people are facing. We are also working with Partners in Health and the Ministry of Health to help Haiti rebuild its health system.”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“There are some other questions that I think are very important, for example, the granting of dual citizenship to the Haitian diaspora, which I believe would dramatically increase the level of investment and involvement in Haiti - something that President Preval has supported but which requires a specific and rather extended constitutional process. I have worked on this through the office of Special Envoy, through the staff resources of my foundation, and through the fund I established at President Obama's request with former President Bush. We have now, with the approval of the Haitian Government, established the beginnings of a mortgage process, which the Haitians have never had before, and a systematic small-business loan process. Haiti has had microcredit and big finance, but never really a vigorous small-business loan system.”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“The Commission does not have the authority to implement projects, only to approve them. There are several significant questions which, quite properly, have been left to the Haitian Government, for example how to resolve the land issues, which the Secretary- General mentioned, necessary to do large-scale housing construction outside the area impacted by the quake. Other questions include: what will be the basic economic structures? What kind of energy sector will they have, what kind of education sector will they have, what kind of health-care sector will they have, what kind of array of ports and airports will they have?”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“We have approved more than 87 projects that, when completed, will help 2 million Haitians. The idea is to take the Haitian Government's own development plan and make sure that all the projects approved are consistent with that, then to offer transparency through a website that will show what projects have been approved, who is funding them, who got the money and what the progress of the project is, and offering a performance audit at the end of that. This is essentially modelled on what was done through the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency (BRR) in Indonesia after the tsunami in South Asia. Because the burden imposed by the earthquake on the capacity of the Government of Haiti was so much greater, I think that, with all of its frustrations, it has worked pretty well.”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“First, for the members of the Security Council who have not followed this, this is really a unique body, because it is the only one, in my experience, in which one half of the members of the Commission represent every major element of Haitian society, including local governments, the private sector, the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the legal sector, and one half of the Commission represents the international community - the major national donors and the multinational donors. The Commission seeks to approve all substantial projects that are a part of the reconstruction, including, voluntarily, the projects undertaken by NGOs in Haiti. There has never been any attempt before to coordinate the work of the Government of Haiti with that of the donors and the NGO community.”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“Let me remind the Council that before the earthquake, there had been a series of hurricanes that had taken out about 15 per cent of Haiti's GDP, which occasioned the involvement of the United Nations there and MINUSTAH before the quake. The quake was a dramatic setback to daily life and to development, but it also presented some new opportunities. In a little less than eight months, the Reconstruction Commission established by the President and the Parliament has taken a number of important steps.”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“On most days, I have been grateful to the Secretary-General for asking me to be the Special Envoy to Haiti, although it has turned out to be a more challenging task in the aftermath of the quake. I am very grateful to President Preval for asking me to serve as the co-Chair of the Reconstruction Commission, with his Prime Minister, Jean-Max Bellerive. I will do what I can if the new Government wishes me to continue, but my position on this has always been that the future of Haiti should be for the Haitian people to determine. Having said that, let me make a few observations about the questions that have brought us here today. We were making good progress on development after the Secretary-General asked me to work in Haiti, before the earthquake.”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“Haiti, for all of its troubled past, is overseeing now the peaceful transfer of power, after a devastating earthquake which took out virtually 20 per cent of all the public employees of the entire country and devastated more than half its gross domestic product (GDP). Sometimes we focus so much on the problems that we forget to acknowledge the small miracles of human nature in concern for the future of a country. I personally believe that this is a remarkable thing, and I thank you, President Preval, and the people of Haiti for undertaking this election with hundreds of thousands of people living in tents and under tarps, with the almost impossible task of verifying where people live and getting their identification up. It is a remarkable thing.”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“Mr. Clinton: Let me first of all thank you, Mr. President, for having brought this issue before the Council and for Colombia's genuine friendship with the people of Haiti. You mentioned the police officers from Colombia; they are part of a contingent of 49 nations providing police, and then there are the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) forces, about 18 nations. Your country has also disbursed 100 per cent of its pledged aid and helped the Haitian people to rebuild their economy, particularly through the work you have done through the coffee sector. For all that, we are very grateful. I would also like to thank President Preval for many things, but one I think is important. Every day we pick up the newspaper with worry about what is happening in cote d'Ivoire, or whether more civilians have been killed in Libya.”
2011-04-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6510 (2011) · source
“President, I hope the discussion that you have brought to the forefront by chairing this summit here in the Security Council is not just another meeting, but that we will follow through and do everything we can to make one of the most important missions of the United Nations - peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding - more effective. The United States will do its part, but we must all do everything we can so that we are supporting those brave men and women wearing those wonderful- looking blue berets - when we see them we are proud of them - and not just sending them to do a mission that from the very beginning is impossible.”
2010-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6389 (2010) · source
“These missions can help contain and resolve conflicts that would otherwise engulf nations and regions. They can help prevent fragile States from becoming failed States and sources of wider instability. And they can help struggling countries start on the road to becoming productive partners. I look around this Chamber and I see representatives from countries that have known war in the very recent past, that have been torn apart, and still are, by conflict. They have re-emerged, and they have sustained themselves, against great odds; and they are now nations contributing to solving their own and other problems. So, Mr.”
2010-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6389 (2010) · source
“Today I am announcing that the United States will provide new funding to help implement that important measure of resolution 1888 (2009), including the establishment of a Special Representative's office and the ramping up of its efforts to support justice and accountability. We will also contribute to training and protection to those who work for accountability on the ground in the DRC, and to help the DRC develop and implement its own justice mechanisms. The United States is, as we have been from the very beginning, committed to improving United Nations operations - not just because we think it is the right thing to do, and not just because the humanitarian imperative is so strong in our own value system - but because we actually think it is smart and strategic as well.”
2010-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6389 (2010) · source
“It is heartbreaking when we receive reports, either from the United Nations itself or through the press, that civilians near where United Nations troops are stationed continue to suffer horrific attacks and violence. One place where we need better coordination, and where it is absolutely urgent, is the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where sexual and gender-based violence against civilians has reached unimaginable proportions. Last year, after visiting the DRC and meeting with women who were brutally assaulted and raped, I chaired the Council's adoption of resolution 1888 (2009), to combat sexual violence in conflict zones. I regret to say we have not made progress.”
2010-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6389 (2010) · source
“We also support management reforms for improved efficiency, accountability and transparency. The United States is expanding its efforts to help other countries train and supply formed police units that have the skills and experience to fulfil these difficult missions. These police units provide a critical bridge between short-term security operations and long-term work on governance and the rule of law. And there should be a special focus on boosting the number of women police officers and peacekeepers, like the Indian women I met who were serving so well in Liberia. The United States is also funding new United Nations efforts to integrate the protection of civilians into every facet of its missions, from strategic planning to on-the-ground operations.”
2010-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6389 (2010) · source
“I also very much wish to associate myself with the comments of the President of Uganda, concerning the fact that we need to do more in cooperation with regional forces and with countries themselves. Ultimately, the countries we are trying to help stabilize and the civilians we are trying to protect, pay the price of our inadequate financing, organizing and executing of these missions. So improvement begins with clear, credible and achievable mandates for all United Nations missions - and, of course, that starts right here. The United States also strongly supports operational reforms that would enable United Nations field missions to deploy more rapidly, with adequate numbers of well-equipped and well-trained troops and police, and with the quality of leadership and civilian expertise they require.”
2010-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6389 (2010) · source
“It is no longer enough to just provide peacekeepers. That must be accompanied by effective mediation, peacemaking and peacebuilding. We are concerned about the growing gap between multifaceted mission requirements and the resources available to meet them. Too often, despite their ambitious mandates, United Nations missions lack key capacities. They do not have enough helicopters; they do not have enough medic units; they do not have enough police mentors or crisis response tools. And they are often hampered by inadequate efforts to improve governance and the rule of law. Sending out these missions without the resources and support they need undermines their effectiveness and jeopardizes the safety of United Nations personnel.”
2010-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6389 (2010) · source
“Their presence has provided much-needed order, stability and hope in so many places, and we should never forget the sacrifices and service of these soldiers, police officers, advisers and aid workers who do the hard work and face the danger far from this Chamber that we are in today. Last year, President Obama met with the leaders of top troop- and police-contributing countries to thank them and discuss how to make United Nations peacekeeping more effective. And I would like to take this opportunity to reaffirm our appreciation for the contributions of all of the nations that have made financial commitments. We will do our best to work together to improve every aspect of United Nations peacekeeping operations. As the presidential statement says, these undertakings have become increasingly complex.”
2010-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6389 (2010) · source
“I have seen the good that the United Nations has accomplished all over the world, and I have been privileged to meet many of the dedicated men and women who work under the blue flag in troubled lands very far from their homes: places like Liberia, where United Nations forces have provided the space and security that that war-torn country needed to begin putting itself back together; Pakistan, where United Nations aid workers are assisting people whose homes and livelihoods have been washed away by the floods; and, of course, Haiti, where United Nations peacekeepers, led by Brazil, were immediately back on the streets after the earthquake, despite having suffered grievous losses themselves.”
2010-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6389 (2010) · source
“And I am very glad that it is clear-eyed about the current limitations of the United Nations and that it recognizes that all of us, as Member States, have a responsibility to work together to improve this core function.”
2010-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6389 (2010) · source
“I commend the Security Council, the Turkish leadership and the Secretary-General for the important statement that will be issued at the end of this Council meeting, and for the emphasis placed on the centrality of peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding. I think we have heard today - and will hear from the rest of our colleagues - how important it is to improve these functions as both a humanitarian and a strategic imperative. I am pleased that the statement itself emphasizes reducing and resolving conflicts and also providing better protection to civilians from violence, including protecting women and children from sexual violence.”
2010-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6389 (2010) · source
“Finally, let me thank all members very much, not only for their votes but also for their extremely helpful and substantive comments. The meeting rose at 11.25 a.m.”
2009-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6195 (2009) · source
“There are no further speakers inscribed on my list. The Security Council has thus concluded the present stage of its consideration of the item on its agenda. Before I adjourn the meeting, I want to thank Ambassador Susan Rice, our Permanent Representative, and the United States Mission and all who work with her every day on behalf of our country. I also wish to thank Ms. Esther Brimmer, Assistant Secretary for International Organizations, and her staff, as well as Melanne Verveer, our Ambassador for Global Women's Issues. I also want to extend my best wishes to Ms. Norma Chan, Chief of the Security Council Secretariat Branch, who is retiring today after 36 years with the United Nations. We want to give Norma a proper send-off as she embarks upon a new chapter in her life. We thank her for her dedicated service.”
2009-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6195 (2009) · source
“I thank the Secretary-General for his statement and for his support. I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Bedouma Alain Yoda, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Cooperation of Burkina Faso.”
2009-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6195 (2009) · source
“Well, I hope our work today, and every day going forward, will hasten the time when thousands of women around the world will be able to feel comfortable in walking the streets of their cities and villages freely again, to work outside their homes, collect firewood and water without fear, play with their children, spend time with their husbands and enjoy all the blessings of life in freedom, peace and security. That is our dream for a better future for them and for us, and I thank this body for the strong commitment that this resolution represents. I now resume my functions as President of the Council. I kind of like being a president, so this may go on a little longer than anticipated. I now invite the Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-moon, to take the floor.”
2009-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6195 (2009) · source
“It is time for all of us to assume our responsibility to go beyond condemning this behaviour and take concrete steps to end it, to make it socially unacceptable, to recognize that it is not cultural; it is criminal. And the more we say that, over and over and over again, the more we will change attitudes and create peer pressure and the conditions for the elimination of this violation. When I was in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, I was told of an old proverb that says, "No matter how long the night, the day is sure to come".”
2009-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6195 (2009) · source
“Even when they suffer terrible losses in conflicts they had no part in starting, women have the will to reach across divisions, find common ground and foster understanding. As they seek peace, so must we by making sure they are part of all efforts. So I urge United Nations Member States to make sure that their foreign assistance programmes include measures to prevent and respond to violence against women and children and to ensure that women are included in designing and implementing those programmes. In his speech to the General Assembly last week, President Obama challenged nations of the world to assume responsibility for the challenges confronting us. Certainly, the challenge of sexual violence in conflict cannot and should not be separated from the broader security issues confronting the Council.”
2009-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6195 (2009) · source
“We must seek to ensure that our respective military and police forces, especially those that will participate in peacekeeping missions, develop the expertise to prevent and respond to violence against women and children. This will be helped by increasing the number of women who serve in United Nations peacekeeping missions. When I visited the Mission in Goma, I was very impressed at how integrated it was in every way - staff from every country, every kind of person represented, and many women in the leadership as well as in the ranks. Let us not forget that it is often women who lead the call for peace in communities shattered by violence. We have seen women in this role from Liberia, Rwanda and Northern Ireland to Guatemala.”
2009-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6195 (2009) · source
“In States where conflict is taking place and in those that are moving beyond it, local police must receive better training, the rule of law must be strengthened, and survivors must be ensured full access to justice and protection throughout the judicial process. We envision that the team of experts called for in the resolution will help us to strengthen initiatives like those. Beyond the measures outlined in the resolution, the Security Council should take additional steps. Protecting women and children should be a critical priority for all troops who wear the blue helmet. To reflect this, new and renewed peacekeeping mandates should include language condemning sexual violence and giving further guidance to peacekeeping missions to work with local authorities to end it.”
2009-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6195 (2009) · source
“It also calls on the Secretary- General to rapidly deploy a team of experts to work with Governments to strengthen the rule of law, 3 address impunity and enhance accountability, while drawing attention to the full range of legal venues that can be brought into play, including domestic, international and mixed courts that bring local and international judges and prosecutors together to strengthen local justice systems. We must also recognize that ending conflicts outright is the most certain path to ending sexual violence in conflicts. So pursuing peace and successful post-conflict transitions should be our highest priority.”
2009-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6195 (2009) · source
“Resolution 1888 (2009) identifies specific steps that the United Nations and Member States can and should take to improve the Organization's response to sexual violence committed during situations of armed conflict. It calls on the Secretary-General to appoint a special representative to lead, coordinate and advocate efforts to end sexual violence. We expect that person to engage at high levels with civilian and military leaders to spearhead the United Nations activities on this front.”
2009-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6195 (2009) · source
“In Chad and the Sudan, United Nations peacekeepers have clear instructions underscoring their responsibility to protect local populations against sexual and gender-based violence. I recently met with United Nations troops in Liberia, who provide an excellent example of the steps a United Nations mission can take, both through its own actions and in cooperation with the host Government, to prevent violence against women and girls. It is also very important that the United Nations Mission in Liberia includes an all-women police unit from India. That all-women police unit has helped to motivate more Liberian women to become police officers, and the Mission has launched a joint United Nations- Liberian campaign against rape. These steps are essential but, alone, they are not sufficient.”
2009-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6195 (2009) · source
“The dehumanizing nature of sexual violence does not harm just a single individual, a single family or even a single village or a single group; it shreds the fabric that weaves us together as human beings. It endangers families and communities, erodes social and political stability, and undermines economic progress. We need to understand that it holds all of us back. Also, our failure as an international body to respond concretely to this global problem erodes our collective effectiveness. So we must act now to end this crisis, not only to protect vulnerable people and promote human security, but also to uphold the legitimacy of this body. The international community has made progress. Many peacekeeping mandates now include Security Council requests for strengthened measures to prevent and respond to sexual violence.”
2009-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6195 (2009) · source
“Reading the headlines, one might think that the use of rape as a tactic of war happens only occasionally or in a few places, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo or the Sudan. That would be bad enough, but the reality is much worse. We have seen rape used as a tactic of war before in Bosnia, Burma, Sri Lanka and elsewhere. In too many countries and in too many cases, the perpetrators of this violence are not punished, and so this impunity encourages further attacks. Last month, I travelled to Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where over 1,100 09-53396 rapes are reported every month. I met with survivors of sexual violence, and the physical and emotional damage to individual women and their families from these attacks cannot be quantified, nor can the toll on their societies.”
2009-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6195 (2009) · source
“The resolution we have adopted today represents a step forward in our global efforts to end violence perpetrated against women and children in conflict zones, and it builds on two prior Security Council resolutions - resolution 1325 (2000), which calls on all parties in conflicts to respect women's rights and increase their participation in peace negotiations and post-conflict reconstruction efforts; and resolution 1820 (2008), which affirms the ambitions set out in resolution 1325 (2000) and establishes a clear link between maintaining international peace and security and preventing and responding to sexual violence used as a tactic of war to target civilians. Yet, despite these actions by the Security Council, violence against women and girls in conflict-related situations has not diminished; in fact, in some cases it has escalated.”
2009-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6195 (2009) · source
“Satisfying that responsibility includes our protecting the lives and physical security of all people, including the women who comprise half the planet's population. This responsibility is particularly acute in circumstances where peace and stability are challenged. Even though women and children are rarely responsible for initiating armed conflict, they are often war's most vulnerable and violated victims.”
2009-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6195 (2009) · source
“I now have the privilege of making a statement in my capacity as Secretary of State of the United States of America. I am very grateful to speak before the Security Council on this important issue. I want to thank everyone who has worked very hard to reach this point 09-53396 on this resolution and, of course, to have it adopted unanimously. We are here to address an issue that has received too little attention, not only in this Chamber over the past six decades, but also, I would suggest, in all of our halls of Government across the world. It is an important issue that goes to the core of our commitment to ensure the safety of the United Nations Member States and their citizens. Under the United Nations Charter, the 15 members of this Council bear primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security.”
2009-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6195 (2009) · source
“I wish to draw the attention of members to document S/2009/362, containing the report of the Secretary-General pursuant to Security Council resolution 1820 (2008). It is my understanding that the Council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. Unless I hear any objection, I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. There being no objection, it is so decided. A vote was taken by show of hands. In favour: Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, France, Japan, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mexico, Russian Federation, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Viet Nam The President: There were 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 1888 (2009).”
2009-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6195 (2009) · source