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1. “To that end, Switzerland supports the work of the Global Survivors Fund, which works to develop survivor-centred reparation programmes. Besides that, the documentation of crimes is crucial to their prosecution. For example, in its defence of the right to the truth, Switzerland is committed to ensuring that survivors of sexual violence in Ukraine, Kosovo, Iraq and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have access to justice and reparations. If sexual violence is not prevented and people are not protected against it, there can be no equal participation. And as we well know, the full inclusion of women is a sine qua non for lasting peace.”

   2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378 (2023) · source

2. “We must take that into account if we are to improve our prevention of those crimes. The illicit proliferation of small arms and light weapons increases the risk of conflict-related sexual violence. In our prevention efforts, we need to take a systematic approach to using arms-control and disarmament tools in a gender-sensitive way, and that principle also applies to sanctions regimes. And we should promote the participation of women in forums aimed at reducing arms proliferation. For that reason, Switzerland supports the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research in its studies that relate to the issue’s links to the aspect of gender. Thirdly, all survivors should have fair and unimpeded access to justice. Victims of conflict- related sexual violence are entitled to effective remedy and reparation under international law.”

   2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378 (2023) · source

3. “We must fully and sustainably implement the tasks that the Council set itself in resolution 1820 (2008). I would like to highlight three points for action in that regard. First, we must invest more in the deployment of expertise and capacities in United Nations missions. Women’s protection advisers must be mobilized and provided with sufficient resources to enable them to fulfil their mandates. We must strengthen capacities and expertise in protecting people from sexual and gender-based violence and preventing, monitoring and prosecuting it. Those capacities must be strengthened within troop- and police-contributing countries, panels of experts on sanctions and national institutions. Secondly, there is a close link between illicit arms proliferation and sexual violence.”

   2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378 (2023) · source

4. “Mr. Geissbühler (Switzerland) (spoke in French): I thank the United Kingdom for convening this debate and the briefers for their contributions and shocking first-hand accounts. In the words of Nadia Murad, who briefed the Security Council in April 2022, “We need more than moral outrage. We need action.” (S/PV.9016, p. 6) Fifteen years after the adoption of resolution 1820 (2008), conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence, as well as impunity, persists. In Myanmar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, the Sudan, South Sudan and in the context of Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine, State and non-State actors continue to use rape, sexual violence, sexual exploitation, abuse and trafficking as tactics and tools of war, torture and terrorism.”

   2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378 (2023) · source