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2019-05-23
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2019-05-23
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  1. “Accordingly, commanders tasked to execute such mandates should be allowed the necessary latitude devoid of unrealistic caveats. That is the only way to ensure effective country-specific strategies in peacekeeping. We must ensure that all components receive the proper training, skills and equipment to be able to protect civilians as well as themselves and to deliver on such mandates in accordance with applicable law. In conclusion, Kenya fully affirms its commitment to enhancing its performance with regard to the protection of civilians and encourages all Member States to do the same by supporting the Kigali Principles on the Protection of Civilians, which seek to assist peacekeepers in effectively implementing their protection of civilian mandates.”

    2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source

  2. “Kenya fully endorses the Vancouver communique, which specifies that United Nations peacekeeping missions must have clear and achievable mandates, as well as the resources and capability to carry them out. Peacekeepers have been faced with more complex environments with ever-increasing security risks and peacekeeper casualties are more now than they have ever been before. The Security Council's mandates must be explicit, practical and with an unambiguous focus, taking full note of the fundamental tasks of the peacekeepers and the situation on the ground. Troop-contributing countries must be involved in the deliberations on those mandates as they are developed and adjusted for their on-the-ground expertise and point of view.”

    2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source

  3. “In many cases, women have been faced with the impossible choice of either putting themselves at risk of violence or saving their husbands, brothers and sons, who, as men, are often targeted to be killed or kidnapped. Kenya condemns sexual exploitation and abuse by those entrusted to protect civilians. We need to prevent and combat those violations of women's and girls' fundamental human rights. As a troop-contributing country, we are committed to the implementation of resolution 2272 (2016), which seeks to hold accountable troop-contributing countries that fail to credibly deal with allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse. Kenya is already implementing the resolution by strengthening sexual exploitation and abuse predeployment training.”

    2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source

  4. “All such factors affect the overall capability of missions to effectively protect civilians. Historically, gender-based violence has been used as a calculated tactic of war. Extremism and terrorism are prominent features of conflict situations often posing new forms ofthreats to women's rights and lives. Women who are, or are assumed to be, family members of fighters are often targeted by security actors and experience harassment within their communities, affecting their ability to live freely. In areas where civilians affected by conflict receive aid and other humanitarian support, women and girls have been forced to provide sexual favours and bribes in order to receive their portion of support.”

    2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source

  5. “The protection of civilians is put at risk, as national and international responses require anti-insurgent and counter-terrorist measures that are in strict conformity to obligations under international humanitarian law. That is a challenge that we believe all Member States need to address boldly and sustainably. I would like to address a few areas that are of concern to my delegation. They include the issue of gender-based violence and sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers, a lack of clarity of mandates of peacekeeping missions and their scope, the absence of common applicable doctrine, resource gaps and difficulties in the integration of the diverse set of military, police and civilian actors required for effective protection of civilians.”

    2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source

  6. “The protection of civilians in armed conflict is a humanitarian as well as a human rights issue and is in conformity with international humanitarian law. Although there have been some achievements in that area in the past few years, including increased engagement by the Council through the adoption of resolutions 1738 (2006), 2175 (2014) and 2286 (2016) and prioritizing the protection of civilians in peacekeeping mandates, much remains to be done. My delegation notes with concern that today's conflicts are increasingly non-conventional and are characterized by armed insurgencies where civilians are used by armed groups and terrorist organizations both as human shields and as potential recruits as fighters, including child soldiers.”

    2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source

  7. “The Security Council's continued consideration of this agenda item is an indication of its commitment to protecting civilians in conflict situations. Civilians continue to account for most casualties in armed conflicts today. According to successive reports of the Secretary-General, it has become a constant problem in many conflict-affected regions, especially in Africa, such as the Central African Republic, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, as well as Syria, among others, where hundreds of thousands of civilians have been uprooted from their normal daily lives by the effects of conflict. We must continue to make concrete and specific efforts to ensure the dignity of those distressed by war.”

    2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source

  8. “I thank the President for organizing this important open debate. I also thank His Excellency Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Mr. Peter Mauer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and Mr. Federico Borello, Executive Director of the Center for Civilians in Conflict, for their informative briefings earlier. We take note of the Secretary-General's report on the protection of civilians in armed conflict (S/2019/373) and the concept note (S/2019/385, annex) that you, Mr. President, provided to guide this debate, which marks the seventieth anniversary of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the twentieth anniversary of the Security Council seizing the protection of civilians in armed conflict as an agenda item.”

    2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source