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  1. “Seeing the Council working hard to fulfil those demands will enable hundreds of women to be ready to participate actively in the political process and run as contenders for all positions and levels of decision-making, as we rightly deserve.”

    2022-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8955 (2022) · source

  2. “It should link reconstruction to a comprehensive political solution and to the voluntary and safe return of Syrian refugees. Lastly, it should support the criminalization of all violence against women by guaranteeing a consensus-based, gender-sensitive Constitution based on all international conventions. Gender analysis and feminist policies should always be high on the negotiation agenda. We therefore urge the Council to push for the launch of genuine negotiations under its auspices and under the umbrella of international law, and including all the countries involved in the Syrian war. Perhaps our dream of building a civil and democratic Syrian State without the Al-Assad regime or any form of tyranny may come true.”

    2022-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8955 (2022) · source

  3. “The Council must put pressure on the regime and the de facto Powers to allow international organizations to investigate crimes committed by force of arms and prevent impunity for the perpetrators. It must emphasize that any Syrian leadership must represent the will of the Syrian people, including young men and women, and be free from any external interference. The Council also needs to advance the political process to reach a comprehensive and sustainable political solution that includes the active participation of women, in accordance with the Geneva communiqué (S/2012/522, annex), resolution 2254 (2015) and other relevant resolutions. It should link the political solution to accountability in a way that guarantees women’s rights.”

    2022-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8955 (2022) · source

  4. “Empowered by their strength and will, Syrian women seek to transcend the role of the victim of the killings, arrests, displacements and asylum-seeking they have experienced. We seek to counter all the forms of exclusion that patriarchal authorities impose on us in armed conflicts. We are trying to leverage our experiences to bring about radical change so that we can assume our role in rebuilding Syria. We therefore call on the Security Council to take the following actions. The Council must put pressure on the Syrian regime to release detainees and uncover the fate of the forcibly disappeared without undertaking negotiations. It must adopt mechanisms to ensure that there is no normalization of relations with the regime.”

    2022-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8955 (2022) · source

  5. “We also know the impact of sexual violence on the status of women and their reproductive and political roles. We also know that the politicization of humanitarian issues by the Syrian regime and its international allies has contributed to increasing the economic and legal vulnerability of women and depriving them of education and health. If the conflict persists, Syria will become a source of extremism and a regional centre for organized crime, particularly in terms of drug smuggling, which is a major source of revenue for the regime. The camps and shelters, which already lack services, will also become spaces for the commission of every kind of violence against women and girls.”

    2022-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8955 (2022) · source

  6. “In my capacity as a witness to Syrian women’s participation in the revolution since it was launched, and to the many violations that the Syrian regime commits against women inside and outside prisons, I would like to inform the Council that women’s problems are not limited to the spread of systemic violence that occurs when perpetrators cannot be deterred. They are also rooted in the United Nations reports that monitor the violence and explain the extent of its spread and impact on women and society but that unfortunately do not provide any action plans. They merely treat the victims as statistics. As women politicians, we know the root causes of the abuses that women are subjected to, as well as their connection to the political economy of war and violence.”

    2022-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8955 (2022) · source

  7. “It is attempting to restore and strengthen the legitimacy of the regime by highlighting certain issues and exceptions, such as the revival of the Arab Gas Pipeline and the efforts of the United Arab Emirates to encourage Syria’s return to the League of Arab States, among other things. We have also listened with concern to Special Envoy Geir Pedersen’s recent statements in support of normalizing relations with the regime under the pretext of so-called engagement. All of those developments have had a negative impact on the implementation of the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, given the absence of alternative or economic and diplomatic measures from the international community that can contribute to achieving justice and peace in Syria.”

    2022-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8955 (2022) · source

  8. “We know that the de facto Powers, having achieved organizational, administrative and military progress, want a future political solution that guarantees their control and gains in the areas under their influence. We also know that the Council is aware that Russia and some Arab regimes have made attempts to normalize relations with the regime despite all the atrocities it has committed against Syria and the Syrians. We know that internationally and regionally Russia is taking advantage of the fluctuating position of the United States and the absence of European influence.”

    2022-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8955 (2022) · source

  9. “In addition, there are more than 2.4 million children in Syria not enrolled in school, and approximately 40 per cent of them are girls who make up one of the country’s most vulnerable groups. We can only imagine what future awaits them. Despite every effort, especially those of the Special Envoy for Syria, the Security Council has so far failed to find a political solution to the Syrian issue. As a result, Syria has become a humanitarian tragedy, held hostage and subject to regional and international conflicts, which has made us Syrians lose hope for a just political solution. That is reflected in the fact that the areas of influence in Syria’s de facto geographic divisions are backed by certain countries that are granted immunity for all violations of international humanitarian law.”

    2022-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8955 (2022) · source

  10. “Meanwhile, as a result of international interventions, the Syrian opposition has been unable to restructure itself in order to be able to present itself as an alternative to the regime. It is the country’s entire people who are paying the price throughout Syria. Syria today has become four Syrias, each of them a large detention centre imprisoning those living within it. Ninety per cent of Syrians live below the poverty line and 60 per cent suffer from food insecurity. There are 9 million Syrians living outside the areas controlled by the regime, and 5.6 million Syrians are in need of humanitarian aid and relief mechanisms, which the Security Council constantly politicizes.”

    2022-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8955 (2022) · source

  11. “My name is Thuraya Hijazi. I am a feminist and political activist and the Director of the Release Me project in north-western Syria, which works to empower women survivors of violence and to develop local peace programmes. I am also a former detainee in the Syrian regime’s prisons. Today I want to attempt to convey the voices of women in my country because, as the Security Council is aware, we will soon mark 11 years since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, which has become a deep-rooted crisis, notwithstanding the repeatedly frustrated attempts of all Syrians to realize their dream of bringing about political change. The Syrian regime, which is still holding steady owing to unconditional support from Russia and Iran, has yet to be held accountable, while the international community remains silent.”

    2022-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8955 (2022) · source