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Herashchenko

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2018-10-25
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  1. “In conclusion, I would like to quote Max van der Stoel, who said that "[m]ankind has spent centuries perfecting the art of war. We are still in our infancy when it comes to building peace." That is why I believe that the problem of ensuring peace in any part of the world is key to guaranteeing human rights and sustainable development. Not only has the time come for a decisive increase in the role of women in that process, it also demands practical realization. We have a unique opportunity to reject bureaucratic declarations and take practical steps to advance women's rights, enable their participation in peace negotiations and post-conflict reconstruction and protect them from sexual and gender-based violence. I urge us to ramp up those efforts without delay.”

    2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source

  2. “Incidentally, the International Committee of the Red Cross has never been given access to Ukrainian political prisoners held in Russian territory or in the occupied areas, which is a gross violation of their human rights. Prisoners who have been released have spoken about the existence of sexual violence. The militants have not shrunk from assaulting members of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission. Last year, in May 2017, a representative of the Special Monitoring Mission was sexually harassed by an armed militant who simply refused to let her pass. The crime was prevented only by the intervention of her colleagues from the Mission. We were also told about sexual violence by 12 prisoners who were freed in December 2014, who included both men and women, and many of them mentioned incidents of group sexual violence.”

    2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source

  3. “Russian women - the wives and mothers of Russian soldiers detained in Ukraine - are also asking the Russian Federation to do this. It would be a wonderful humanitarian gesture on both sides. All that is needed is the political will. With a view to defining the full extent of the violations of human rights, including sexual violence, in the occupied territories of Crimea and Donbas, Ukraine has been insisting that special observers be sent from the special monitoring and humanitarian missions of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross.”

    2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source

  4. “Oleh should be able to receive his prize in person, not through intermediaries. This year, as Ukraine's representative to the Minsk humanitarian group, I have made dozens of proposals to the Russian Federation to hand over to Moscow Russians who have been convicted of serious crimes in Ukraine in exchange for our prisoners in Crimea, a humanitarian gesture that would ease the lives of hundreds of women and children. However, so far Russia has not responded to our proposal and has blocked questions about freeing its hostages and political prisoners. Incidentally, it is not only Ukrainian women who have been hoping for a large-scale liberation of prisoners on both sides, which Ukraine has proposed doing as soon as possible.”

    2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source

  5. “Right now six Ukrainian women are still held captive, and 21 have been declared missing, while about 1,500 women have been widowed and more than 2,000 have lost their sons. Many people here will have heard the names of Oleh Sentsov, Serhiy Glondar, Uzair and Teimur Abdullayev, Volodymyr Balukh and 70 other Ukrainian political prisoners held in Russian Federationjails, as well as the dozens ofprisoners illegally imprisoned on the territory of occupied Donbas. Their families - mothers, wives, sisters and daughters who are unable to see or speak to them - continue to wait for them. Today the European Parliament awarded Oleh Sentsov the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. We welcome that decision and encourage all States Members of the United Nations to make every effort to liberate Oleh Sentsov and the other political prisoners.”

    2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source

  6. “That is why Ukraine has been insisting on the speedy launch ofa peacekeeping mission for Donbas under the auspices of the United Nations, with a broad mandate for an interim administration. That is essential if we are to prevent a humanitarian disaster and protect the civilian population, especially women and children, who are the most vulnerable of all. Needless to say, Ukraine would welcome a mission that included as many women peacekeepers as possible. As Ukraine's representative to the humanitarian group in Minsk, my main efforts have been aimed at freeing hostages. Over the course of the war, we have been able to liberate or find 258 women who were hostages of illegal armed groups.”

    2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source

  7. “How many more Ukrainian women will have to die defending their motherland in order to stop the armed conflict in Donbas instigated by Russia? A huge continuing problem are the mines and explosive devices that are literally all over 7,000 square kilometres of Ukrainian territory. They have killed 92 women in Donbas over the years. A few days ago three children were blown up by a mine near occupied Horlivka in the district of Donetsk. The Ukrainian Parliament is now planning to adopt a major law on humanitarian demining. Military technology and resources, including mines marked as manufactured in the Russian Federation, are coming in over an uncontrolled 400-ki10metre stretch of the Russian-Ukrainian border.”

    2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source

  8. “The number of posts to which women can be appointed has increased significantly, ensuring their equal access to military ranks. This year for the first time a woman received the rank of major-general and leads our military's medical service. The numbers of civilian and military victims of the Russian Federation's armed aggression against Ukraine have risen every year, and I would particularly like to address the humanitarian disaster caused by the war against Ukraine. Women serving in our armed forces have been dying in Donbas since 2014. A few days ago, Olesia Baklanova, a soldier, was killed. She was just 19 years old. In February, Sabina Galitskaya, a nurse, died when her car, which was clearly marked as a medical vehicle, was hit by a Russian anti-tank missile. She was 23.”

    2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source

  9. “Unfortunately, women make up only 12 per cent of the Ukrainian Parliament, which is certainly not enough and does not correspond to Ukrainian women's professional potential. We are therefore working on changing our legislation and introducing gender quotas, which have already proved their worth in elections at the local level. In September, the Government approved a national action plan to implement the recommendations outlined in the conclusions of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, defining specific measures for the period leading up to 2021. Our work on a national strategy for gender equality in the security and defence sectors continues, and there are now more than 25,000 women, of whom 3,400 are officers, in contract-based military service in the Ukrainian armed forces on an equal footing with men.”

    2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source

  10. “It provides for the inclusion of the principle of gender parity in professional training, a policy on expanding women's participation in peacebuilding processes and a system for protecting women and girls who are victims of the conflict. One important component is preventing and combating gender-based violence during military action. Within the framework of creating an institutional mechanism for establishing a gender policy, the Deputy Prime Minister okaraine has already been tasked with its coordination and a position of special Government representative for gender policy issues has been established. We are currently working on broadening women's participation in Ukrainian political life.”

    2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source

  11. “Data from the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, and from the International Labour Organization only emphasizes the importance of ending the gender gap in the representation of women at every level, in political decision-making and in ensuring equal pay. Considering that the armed aggression against Ukraine is now in its fifth year and that it is women and children who are the war's primary victims, the Government of Ukraine has launched efforts to effectively implement resolution 1325 (2000) and to guarantee and protect the rights of women in every public arena. Our national action plan for implementing the resolution for the period leading up to 2020 is proceeding successfully.”

    2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source

  12. “I have to agree with the Secretary-General's observation that 2020 will be a test of our obligations in that regard, and we must speed up our efforts to implement its main priorities. I believe that the United Nations has a unique opportunity to fulfil one of its founding principles, which is "to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small". The equal participation of women, and their access to high-level Government positions and decision-making processes at every level, is vitally important to achieving gender parity. That is not only affirmed in article 2 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, it is also reinforced in the Sustainable Development Goals.”

    2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source

  13. “Ms. Herashchenko (Ukraine) (spoke in Russian): I represent Ukraine as the President's special envoy for the peaceful settlement of the situation in Donbas and as a direct participant in the Minsk peace process. I would like to thank the presidency of Bolivia for convening this open debate and the Secretary- General and the Executive Director of UN-Women for their statements. Ukraine also endorses the statement to be made later today by the observer of the European Union. We are pleased with the inclusion in the Secretary- General's report on today's topic (S/2018/900) of information on the measures that the Government of Ukraine is taking to implement Council resolution 1325 (2000), particularly on the start of the implementation process for our national action plan.”

    2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source