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lines on the record: 75
first: 2008-02-12
most recent: 2019-05-23
sittings or episodes: 10
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“Looking at the millions of persecuted civilians around the world, looking at the faces of hapless Rohingya women and children at the world's largest refugee camp, in Cox's Bazar, we must resolve to do something that makes sense for them.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“We therefore reiterate that protection of civilians mandates need to be realistic and achievable, and must be backed by viable political strategies and adequate resources. We must also devise contingency plans so that the protection of civilians capabilities in the field are resilient enough to tackle sudden threats, including asymmetrical ones. This year marks the twentieth anniversary of resolutions 1265 (1999) and 1270 (1999), which gave the first explicit mandate to protect civilians to United Nations peacekeeping operations. This milestone year can be used to reflect upon where we stand when it comes to realizing the protection of civilians mandate, with a special focus on the occasions where we could not apply ourselves.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“The international community and the United Nations should make appropriate use of the tools at their disposal to that effect, particularly when it comes to the protection of civilians agenda. As a major troop- and police-contributing country, Bangladesh has vast experience in tackling protection of civilians challenges in the field. We take a pragmatic approach to the protection of civilians mandate, both in practice and through preparedness. We realize that, mandated or not, there is an inherent expectation of peacekeepers in the field to protect civilians in danger. Often, those expectations are unrealistic and are not matched by adequate resources. Moreover, the situations on the ground are becoming increasingly hostile and complex.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“Fifthly, Bangladesh has supported the women and peace and security agenda of the United Nations ever since it played a lead role in the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000). We are committed to increasing the number of female peacekeepers in order to achieve the target set by the United Nations. We have received first-hand accounts from Rohingya women fleeing from Myanmar on how rape and other forms of sexual violence can be used against women during conflicts. We are more convinced than ever that women peacekeepers can play a natural role in protecting their fellow women and supporting them physically and mentally to overcome traumatic experiences of sexual violence. Sixthly, ensuring accountability and justice for serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law is of paramount importance.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“Thirdly, in the case ofthe escalation ofviolence, we must ensure the unhindered, safe passage ofthe relevant humanitarian personnel and supplies to minimize civilian casualties and human suffering. We must honour our shared commitment to allow the unfettered access of humanitarian assistance and medical care during times of natural disasters and conflicts. Fourthly, Member States must respect their disarmament commitments across the board, including those relating to conventional weapons such landmines and other explosive weapons. The use of such lethal weapons with the capacity to kill indiscriminately in the commission of atrocity crimes against civilians is a serious violation of international humanitarian law, and the State concerned must be held accountable for such use.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“Secondly, the United Nations must build its capacity to translate early warnings into early responses through effective measures to prevent the escalation of violence against civilians. In that regard, the Security Council's protection of civilians mandate must the pressed into application in a timely manner. In doing so, it is critical to put greater emphasis on strategic analysis and assessment of risks, including understanding the core grievances and dehumanizing motives of parties, if any. Accompanying efforts must be made to find local solutions by targeting resilience factors and bridge-builders among stakeholders and developing nationally owned and focused strategies.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“First, States should assume the primary responsibility of identifying fault lines for conflicts, and driving and directing priorities, strategies and activities for conflict prevention and sustaining peace, thereby ensuring the harmonious coexistence of the various religious and ethnic groups concerned, with adequate opportunities for growth and prosperity for all. The United Nations needs to invest more in the field than in Headquarters in order to build capacities to detect early warning signs and work more closely with host Governments and other stakeholders to scale up its upstream prevention activities to match its enhanced role in conflict prevention and sustaining peace, as mandated by the historic twin resolutions (Security Council resolution 2282 (2016) and General Assembly resolution 70/262).”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“Such initiatives would also serve as a critical confidence-building measure for the Rohingya to return, which is the only practical and sustainable solution to the crisis. Our own experiences with the protracted Rohingya crisis have exposed us to various layers of challenges regarding the protection of civilians, particularly when the State concerned is unwilling to discharge its own responsibility to protect all civilians in its territory. Also, as one of the leading troop- and police-contributing countries in the past three decades, we have experienced first-hand the relevance of the protection of civilians mandate as well as its implementation challenges. Against that dual backdrop, we wish to take this opportunity to stress six specific points.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“We are also making sincere efforts to deter and contain the downstream escalation of the crisis to the regional or international level. During her address to the General Assembly at its seventy-second session (see A/72/PV.14), Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the creation of safe zones in Myanmar's Rakhine state for the protection of civilians under the auspices of the United Nations or relevant regional partners. Our Foreign Secretary, in his statement to the Council in February (see S/PV.8477), elaborated further on the idea of safe zones, along with other concrete proposals for the safe, dignified, voluntary and sustainable return of the Rohingyas and their integration into Myanmar society. We seek the support of the international community, and the Security Council in particular, to take due consideration of those proposals.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“On paper, we have been successful in shifting the focus of peacebuilding largely from post-conflict situations to conflict prevention. But on the ground, for the Rohingya people, for example, what difference does it make? In effect, a crisis in recent history, with many signs of escalation and relapse since the 19705, gave us enough early warning to prevent it. Yet we seriously failed to save a whole ethnic minority community from persecution, which the High Commissioner for Human Rights called a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing". As a peace-loving nation with an unwavering commitment to promoting and sustaining global peace, we are doing everything possible to safely and securely host the Rohingya community fleeing persecution in Rakhine state in our own territory.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“Indeed, in the wake of what our people endured during our liberation war in 1971, we attach great importance to the issue of the protection of civilians during conflicts within the ambit of international human rights law and international humanitarian law. We endorsed the Kigali Principles on the Protection of Civilians and have incorporated a strong and comprehensive protection of civilians component in our peacekeeping training and recruitment guidelines. The ongoing Rohingya humanitarian crisis once again reveals to us the inability of the international community to stand by a persecuted people when they need them most. Ironically, the height of the crisis coincided with our collective efforts at the United Nations to build consensus around the concept of sustaining peace.”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“We align ourselves with the statement delivered by the representative of Venezuela on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. We thank the Indonesian presidency for organizing this open debate and for the concept note (S/2019/385, annex). We also thank the Secretary-General and our other briefers for highlighting some of the important aspects of the protection of civilians. In September 1974, the father of our nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in a statement to the General Assembly, said, "The very struggle of Bangladesh symbolized the universal struggle for peace and justice. It was, therefore, only natural that Bangladesh, from its very inception, should stand firmly by the side of the oppressed people of the world" (A/PV2243, para. 5).”
2019-05-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8534 (2019) · source
“As a member of the Group of Friends of Women, Peace and Security, we shall remain engaged in our efforts to enhance women's participation in mediation, peacekeeping, peacebuilding and sustaining peace, and disarmament and arms control. We acknowledge the critical importance of preserving and augmenting the gender advisory capacities in United Nations peace operations through the allocation of adequate resources. Our delegation will lend support to pursuing any items on the women and peace and security agenda identified as unfinished from the three review exercises undertaken within the United Nations peace and security pillar in 2015.”
2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source
“On our part, we have recently concluded a framework of cooperation with the Office of the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict for addressing the needs of the victims. Our authorities will remain sensitized to promoting the effective participation of Rohingya women in decisions affecting their community in the present and future. We urge the Security Council to remain seized of the gender dimension of the crisis in its continued deliberations on the situation in Myanmar. In general, Bangladesh remains committed to supporting the Secretary-General in all his initiatives to promote the implementation of the women and peace and security agenda, and particularly in giving effect to his zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse.”
2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source
“The Independent International Fact-finding Mission on Myanmar has once again brought to the fore the inhuman brutalities unleashed against the Rohingya women by the Myanmar security forces and their local collaborators. The Fact-finding Mission concluded that rape had been used against many of these women as a premeditated tactic. In the initial days of the crisis, it was a race against time to provide necessary medical and psychosocial services to the victims. The trauma suffered by these women continues to be exacerbated in the backdrop of the prevailing uncertainty over the prospects for their safe and dignified return to their homes in Myanmar. The victims among the Rohingya women and their families have every right to seek accountability for those who perpetrated against them the gravest crimes under international law.”
2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source
“The growing recruitment of women into our armed forces and other law enforcement agencies will allow us to reach our shared targets for the deployment of female peacekeepers in the near future. Our policy approach to consider gender as a cross-cutting issue across our national development strategies has reaped dividends in terms of reaching the gender-related targets in the Millennium Development Goals, and currently in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. In the course of their empowerment, our women at the grass roots have emerged as key agents of change and a preventive force against the spread of violent extremism and intolerance. Faced with the Rohingya humanitarian crisis, we are now currently working with the relevant humanitarian partners to create safe, inclusive spaces for the women and girls residing in camps.”
2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source
“Considering the sea changes we have witnessed so far, we are aware that any such change needs to be actively facilitated in order to gain traction within society in an organic manner. In that context, the United Nations and its many partners can indeed act as standard-bearers for societies in transition. The women and peace and security agenda has catalysed decisive and forward- looking initiatives in a number of contexts around the world towards expanding women's participation in maintaining peace and security. In Bangladesh, women's political participation has been ensured through certain statutory provisions and affirmative action leading to their vibrant presence in all representative institutions, from the local to the national levels.”
2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source
“The photos of two of our fighter helicopter pilots deployed in the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - which were still to be found around the United Nations premises recently - have been an eloquent testimony to the heights our women have scaled so far. The deployment of our first all- female formed police unit in Haiti was a critical step towards expanding women's participation in United Nations peace operations. However, our women and girls continue to face formidable challenges. It perhaps takes generations to bring about changes in certain entrenched societal norms that continue to retard women's advancement in the true sense.”
2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source
“We have often shared at the United Nations our national experience with women's empowerment in the aftermath of gaining our independence as a war- ravaged country in 1971. It was evident from the outset that without the active and meaningful participation of our women, our nation-building initiatives would not result in creating the peaceful, just and equitable society that our founding fathers had envisaged. The history of Bangladesh's development trajectory has been a story of continued forward strides by our women in every sphere of our society.”
2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source
“We thank the Bolivian presidency for organizing this open debate. We appreciate the briefing by the Secretary-General and his annual report (S/2018/900) concerning progress, challenges and gaps in implementing the women and peace and security agenda. We also thank the other briefers for sharing their insights. We take particular note of the Secretary-General's recommendations for further mainstreaming women's participation in peace processes and in United Nations peace operations. Bangladesh is currently working to conclude the preparation of its national action plan, pursuant to resolution 1325 (2000) and its successor resolutions. We hope to finalize the process to coincide with the advent of the twentieth anniversary of the resolution.”
2018-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8382 (2018) · source
“In addition to the current political stalemate, the continuation of Israeli settlement policies constitutes a serious obstacle hampering the just and lasting settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The OIC group remains firm in its conviction that the Security Council must act to enhance prospects for peace, hope and justice and maintain the viability of the two-State solution, based on the 1967 borders, through immediate engagement, along with international actors, in launching and sponsoring a multilateral political process to resolve all final status issues, on the basis of the long-standing terms of reference and parameters enshrined in United Nations resolutions and within a specific time frame.”
2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source
“While praising in that regard the role and endeavours of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the continued need for its services bears witness to the dire situation being endured by Palestinian refugees across the region and embodies political commitment to their right to return. The OIC reiterates its call, on this occasion, for the international community to make sure their plight and growing needs are receiving adequate attention, including in terms of necessary funding to UNRWA, and to assume their historical, political, legal and humanitarian responsibilities towards finding a just and durable solution to the question of Palestinian refugees, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 194 (III).”
2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source
“As the Israeli military onslaught, which has surpassed all levels of brutality, continues to claim the lives of hundreds of Palestinian civilians who have been peacefully marching to protest the illegal Israeli blockade, and aggravates the already critical humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, its tragic consequences and implications should be central to all international efforts. Immediate action should be taken to halt the human rights violations by Israel, avoid and end impunity, ensure accountability for its crimes and illegal blockade ofthe Gaza Strip, provide international protection for the Palestinian people and address the dire humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem. The ongoing plight of millions of Palestine refugees reflects the cruel reality of missing justice.”
2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source
“It is a litmus test for international collective resolve and particularly that of the Council, which is required to take concrete actions to ensure respect for and compliance with its resolutions and prevent unilateral actions by Israel, the occupying Power, that seriously undermine the vision of the two-State solution to which we are committed, as such acts have repeatedly thwarted a peaceful solution to this conflict. It is incumbent on the Security Council to intervene urgently, responsibly and effectively to avert dire repercussions that may plunge the volatile region into a cycle of further instability. The Security Council should, in that regard, take decisive action to implement its relevant resolutions, including those pertaining to Jerusalem, including resolutions 476 (1980), 478 (1980) and 2334 (2016).”
2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source
“The OIC will therefore remain resolute that any form of recognition thereof, whether explicit or implicit, is illegal and bound to have far-reaching and dangerous consequences on facilitating and deepening the illegal annexation of East Jerusalem by Israel, thereby undermining the possibility of implementing the two-State solution on the basis of the 1967 borders. In that regard, we condemn Israel's continued settlement colonization of the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, in contempt of the Security Council's resolutions, including resolution 2334 (2016) and the relevant provisions ofinternational law. That illegal settlement policy, entrenching Israel's decades-long military occupation of the Palestinian land, remains a core challenge to the will of the international community and a major obstacle to peace.”
2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source
“Such policy of forcible transfer of the Palestinian population irrefutably constitutes a grave breach of international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention and amounts to a war crime, which highlights once again the urgent need for accountability. These developments, together with all measures aimed at altering the demographic composition, character and status of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, are all null and void and have no legal validity whatsoever and directly violate the Charter and resolutions of the United Nations.”
2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source
“I have the pleasure to deliver my statement on behalf of the States members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). I extend my sincere congratulations to Sweden and wish it every success, as the President of the Security Council for this month. This meeting is taking place amid severe challenges besetting the Palestinian cause as a result of the escalation in Israeli systematic violations against the Palestinian people, their land and their sanctities. Israel's ongoing aggression and threats against the Palestinian Bedouin community of Khan Al-Ahmar is clearly another deplorable chapter in Israel's illegal, oppressive and destructive measures, replicating a constant Israeli colonial, ethnic-cleansing and displacement policy that has been aggravating the ongoing human tragedy of the Palestinian people.”
2018-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8316 (2018) · source
“We reaffirm the need to ensure enhanced, predictable and sustainable funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNWRA). We call upon Member States in a position to do so to enable UNRWA to discharge its mandate in a meaningful manner. Bangladesh emphasizes that provocations, unilateral actions and the escalation of tension are totally incompatible with our shared pursuit of peace and security in the Middle East. We expect the Council to demonstrate unity of purpose in order to find peaceful, just and lasting solutions to all protracted conflicts and humanitarian situations in the region, including the Palestinian question.”
2018-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8244 (2018) · source
“We reaffirm the overriding importance ofpreserving the question ofEast Jerusalem as a final-status issue in the peace process. Fourthly, Bangladesh urges the Council to prevail upon Israel to immediately halt its illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. We remain concerned about the total disregard to comply with the provisions ofresolution 2234 (2016). Immediate priority must be given to ensuring international protection for the Palestinian people suffering for decades from the occupying Power's policy of collective punishment. Fifthly, we reiterate our concern about the prolonged uncertain situation endured by millions of Palestinian refugees in a number of host countries.”
2018-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8244 (2018) · source
“We urge the Council to send a firm and unequivocal message against the unlawful killing and injury of innocent Palestinian civilians. We join the Secretary-General in calling for an independent and transparent investigation into those incidents, and for Israel, the occupying Power, to comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law and relevant United Nations resolutions. Thirdly, we continue to insist on lifting the illegal Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has created a dire humanitarian situation. Provocative policies and legal measures concerning the occupied East Jerusalem and the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque must be reversed in deference to relevant United Nations resolutions and international public opinion.”
2018-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8244 (2018) · source
“The plan is yet another constructive proposal on behalf of the Palestinian people in their just struggle over seven decades for their inalienable right to self-determination and independence. We urge all concerned to give due consideration to the peace plan, as the status quo on the Palestinian question is neither acceptable nor tenable in the framework of the two-State solution. Secondly, the Government and people of Bangladesh share grave concerns about the prevailing situation and tension in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem. We condemn the killing of at least 41 Palestinians during peaceful demonstrations since the commencement of the Great March of Return nearly four weeks ago.”
2018-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8244 (2018) · source
“We thank the Peruvian presidency for convening today's open debate. We convey our delegation's deepest condolences following the sad demise of the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Cote d'Ivoire. We thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process for his informative briefing. Bangladesh aligns itself with the statements made by the representative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, and by the representative of Iraq on behalf of the Organization ofIslamic Cooperation. In our national capacity, our delegation would like to make five key points. First, we reaffirm our support for the peace plan presented by the President of the State of Palestine to the Council on 20 February (see S/PV.8183).”
2018-04-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8244 (2018) · source
“Against the backdrop of the immediate crisis faced by the Rohingya women and girls, our authorities are moving ahead with work on developing a national action plan on women and peace and security through consultations with all the actors concerned. We look forward to continued engagement with the Special Representative's Office and other partners to translate our plans and commitments into results-oriented action.”
2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source
“The culture of impunity often surrounding conflict- related sexual violence also perpetuates the vicious cycle. In cases where the State concerned is unwilling or unable to ensure accountability and justice for such crimes, the international community, especially the Security Council, cannot avoid its responsibility. There have been resounding calls for the Council to consider referrals to the International Criminal Court and for appropriate sanctions against the entities listed in the Secretary General's report. In particular, the Secretariat also has a responsibility to ensure that the State actors listed are barred from United Nations peacekeeping operations. The shrinking resources for protection and gender experts in peacekeeping missions must be reversed.”
2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source
“The Special Representative's three-pillar strategy deserves to be further discussed and elaborated on in the context of the mutually reinforcing agenda on women and peace and security, sustaining peace and the Sustainable Development Goals. There is no denying that a bulwark against the use of sexual violence as a tactic of war and of terrorism can be created only when the structural and gender- based inequalities that are inherent in our mindsets and societies can be effectively addressed. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development provides many cross-cutting pathways for advancing women's empowerment and gender equality. Yet even that universal and ambitious Agenda will continue to fall short unless the gender-related targets are pursued in parallel with progressive change in prevailing gender norms across societies.”
2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source
“It would be regrettable if such incidents were to take place despite the overwhelming presence on the ground of law enforcement personnel and humanitarian actors. While recommendations for additional safeguards are being duly considered, there is no guarantee against such aberrations other than restoring hope among the displaced Rohingya by ensuring the safe, secure and dignified return to their homes in Myanmar's Rakhine state. We believe that Security Council members will be in a position to gather further insights into the possibilities for the Rohingya's voluntary repatriation during their forthcoming visit to Myanmar and Bangladesh. It is crucial that priority be given to preventing conflict-related sexual violence and that we remain committed to responding to such violence.”
2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source
“It will be critical for the international community to support the work of the United Nations agencies concerned and their partners by providing services to those in need. In an otherwise socially conservative milieu, the women- and child-friendly spaces in the camps provide a lifeline for the survivors of sexual violence and related trauma. We encourage community leaders and service providers to help the affected women and girls to come forward to articulate their needs and register their voices in decisions that impact their lives and futures. The concerns over stigma need to be addressed and must be shifted from the victims to the perpetrators in a demonstrable manner. Our authorities have looked seriously into reports of the trafficking and sexual exploitation of Rohingya women and girls.”
2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source
“Pramila Patten, the Secretary General's Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, that she could help amplify the voices of the Rohingya women in the Chamber. We hear and share Ms. Sultana's concerns about the protection needs and challenges faced by the displaced Rohingya women and girls in Bangladesh. It continues to be a race against time to ensure humanitarian assistance and protection for nearly 700,000 displaced people, the majority being women and children. Humanitarian actors have identified more than 2,000 pregnant women requiring particular attention. In general, considerable unmet needs remain in terms of providing reproductive health care and services to survivors of sexual violence and others.”
2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source
“We consider the report's recommendations to be objective, pragmatic and urgent. We urge the Security Council to ensure concrete deliverables on the basis of the recommendations to further validate its recognition of conflict-related sexual violence as a threat to international peace and security. At the previous open debate on women and peace and security, held in October 2017 (see S/PV.8079), we flagged the need for Rohingya women and girls to have an opportunity to have their voices heard in the Council. We acknowledge the powerful testimony given today by Ms. Razia Sultana, a Rohingya representative, on behalf of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security. It is a credit to Ms.”
2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source
“We thank the Peruvian presidency of the Security Council for organizing this open debate. The Secretary-General's report on conflict-related sexual violence makes for difficult reading. The report aptly observes that: "[w]hile significant normative progress has been achieved in recent years words on paper are not yet matched by facts on the ground." (S/2018/250, para. 10) It is also perhaps telling that the majority of the 47 listed parties from 19 country situations enumerated in the report happen to be non-State actors. The analytical perspectives shared on the underlying causes of sexual violence in times of war and peace and the multidimensional motivations and drivers that the perpetrators take recourse to in unleashing such violence reinforce the complexity and depravity of this scourge.”
2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source
“If Member States unite and stand behind that draft resolution, it would assure the people who have been violated, battered, forcibly evicted and traumatized that they are entitled to return to their place of residence in safety, security and dignity, and can consider doing so. Only if, and when, they can voluntarily return to Myanmar can the road map outlined by the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State make a real, meaningful difference on the ground. Bangladesh will continue to pursue its bilateral efforts with Myanmar as far as it can, but the international community must accompany us in the process. The Rohingya women and girls have not yet had a chance to have their voices heard in this Council, but as the Special Advisers have said, "Once again, our failure to stop atrocity crimes makes us complicit."”
2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source
“The Security Council has spoken with one voice in condemning the violence, but it must show its resolve by sending an unequivocal message to Myanmar through a resolution calling for an immediate cessation of the violence and unfettered humanitarian access for all those affected, as well as for action to ensure the safe, dignified and sustained return of all those who have been forcibly displaced to Bangladesh and accountability for the perpetrators. The significant number of Member States that today have reaffirmed their commitment to ending sexual violence during armed conflict should also demonstrate their support for the draft resolution being steered through the General Assembly by the Organization ofIslamic Cooperation.”
2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source
“The team of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict is visiting the camps this weekend, while the Special Representative herself will be there the following week. She had previously urged the Myanmar authorities to issue clear orders through the military chain of command to prohibit such crimes, conduct rigorous investigation and accountability processes, institute training for the security forces and implement a policy of zero tolerance, in line with resolution 2106 (2013), on sexual violence in conflict. It is high time to move past words into action.”
2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source
“The international community has equally failed its responsibilities in this regard." As a country that played an instrumental role in the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), we cannot remain silent or objective in the face of such atrocities happening just across our border in total impunity. In Bangladesh, our humanitarian partners are trying, to the extent that they can, to provide support to the women and girls who have survived rape and sexual violence. Special priority has been given to supporting the nearly 2,000 pregnant women who have fled to Bangladesh so far. Properly addressing the gender-sensitive issues of protection and assistance in already overcrowded camps, amid vulnerable host communities, is an uphill task.”
2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source
“In several cases, women and girls were reportedly raped in their homes and at police stations, and at other times in full view of family members, including children; anyone trying to protect their female kin was dealt with severely by the perpetrators." The Special Advisers of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide and the Responsibility to Protect, respectively, have made a compelling case, and in their words, "Myanmar has failed to meet its obligations under international law and primary responsibility to protect the Rohingya population from atrocity crimes.”
2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source
“In its report released on 11 October, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights rapid response mission to Bangladesh says that "[w]ell into the course ofthe mission, more and more information began to be shared both by girls and women who had survived rape or other forms of sexual violence. Information was collected related to girls as young as five to seven years of age who had been raped, often in front of their relatives, and sometimes by three to five men taking turns, all dressed in army uniforms." The rest of the report makes disturbing reading, but to cite further, "[t]estimonies also indicate that many women, even ones who were pregnant, were raped.”
2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source
“In her address to the General Assembly this year, our Prime Minister said that the "forcibly displaced people of Myanmar are fleeing an ethnic cleansing in their own country, where they have been living for centuries." (A/72/PVJ4, p. 14) The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has also termed it a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. As is evident from numerous eyewitness accounts, rape and sexual violence have been systematically used as a main tactic by Myanmar security forces in order to drive the Rohingya out of Myanmar and prevent them from returning to their homes.”
2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source
“Bangladesh thanks the French presidency for convening today's open debate. We align ourselves with the statement delivered earlier by the representative of Canada on behalf of the Group of Friends of Women, Peace and Security. In open debates on women and peace and security, Bangladesh usually focuses on a particular set of issues. This time, however, we have to depart from that. One of the briefers this morning referred to the crisis in Myanmar. That description hardly captures the grim realities of the catastrophe. In the past two months, nearly 600,000 people, mostly Rohingya and the majority of them women and children, have fled to Bangladesh in sheer desperation to save their lives and dignity. Thousands are still arriving on an almost daily basis.”
2017-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8079 (2017) · source
“The overarching recognition of the primacy of politics in sustaining peace makes it evident that a coherent and coordinated application of the various tools available to the United Nations can also help enhance the effectiveness of peacekeeping operations in specific situations.”
2017-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8033 (2017) · source
“We acknowledge the potential merit of the Secretary- General's nine-point reform agenda in streamlining resource deployment with clear and achievable mandates. We look forward to bold, ambitious and forward-looking recommendations on financing for sustaining peace in the Secretary-General's report, which should also take into consideration the potential contributions of peacekeeping missions to that effect. This open debate has been a good opportunity for the Security Council, along with the broader membership, to revisit the possibilities for further enhancing the performance and contribution of peacekeeping operations in the broader context of the reform of the United Nations peace and security architecture.”
2017-08-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8033 (2017) · source