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Jarhum

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  1. “We hope that those recommendations will be adopted and that they will make a significant contribution to ending the conflict in Yemen. The lack of action on those recommendations is a moral failure that contributes to the continued suffering of more than 27 million Yemenis.”

    2018-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8404 (2018) · source

  2. “It should urge the Special Envoy to ensure that women have equal representation in the peace consultations process and address the demands that we sent to him in our letter of March 2018. It should call for the establishment of a mechanism to hear the voices of rural women, as well as women victims and survivors of war, ensuring that their priorities are integrated into the negotiation process and the political solution. It should demand support for women peacemakers and urge the allocation of funding directly and flexibly to grass-roots women, activists and women's movements in order to support their efforts. It must call for the establishment of a clear mechanism to protect women and women human rights defenders and address their integrated protection needs, including their physical, psychological, digital and collective security.”

    2018-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8404 (2018) · source

  3. “On strengthening the engagement of women policymakers, the Council should recognize the priorities of women identified in the national agenda for women and peace and security, submitted in 2016, and call on the Government to report on the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. It should refer explicitly to resolution 1325 (2000), on women and peace and security, as well as subsequent resolutions, clearly demand no less than 30 per cent participation by women in delegations and all related ceasefire and peace processes, and impose vacant seats if women are not included. It should mandate an independent women's delegation at the peace negotiation table.”

    2018-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8404 (2018) · source

  4. “It should request a gender audit of ongoing relief operations, demand a solution for humanitarian diversion and reiterate the importance of integrating gender issues into the humanitarian response plans. It should demand the establishment of a mechanism to hold perpetrators accountable within a wider context of transitional justice and reparations, and impose individual targeted sanctions against warlords and those who obstruct the peace process. It should request that the Committee established pursuant to resolution 2140 (2014) include gender expertise and gender-responsive reporting mechanisms.”

    2018-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8404 (2018) · source

  5. “It must demand the establishment of an international fund for the reconstruction of Yemen in a transparent manner, to be co-financed by the Arab coalition countries and the international community. It should enact measures to support economic stability, reconstruction and the restoration of social services, while urging the establishment of anti-corruption mechanisms. It must recognize the rights of southerners through a just solution that speaks to the demands of the southern people. It should demand a local ceasefire in Taiz governorate and support our five-point initiative to protect civilians in Al-Hudaydah. It must demand the initiation of resettlement programmes and asylum facilities to address the situation of Yemenis abroad.”

    2018-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8404 (2018) · source

  6. “It should call for the release of all arbitrarily detained and forcefully disappeared persons, particularly civilians, politicians, journalists, activists and members of the Baha'i minority, and demand an end to the issuance of the death penalty. It should send peacekeepers to Yemen from neutral States that have not engaged in any way in the conflict in Yemen. It must call for immediate action to address the logistical challenges preventing the peace negotiations from taking place, and urge a comprehensive and inclusive process that is guided by the implementation mechanism and the National Dialogue Conference. It should adopt all papers submitted during the National Dialogue Conference, including the final document and visions submitted by all groups to inform the framework for a political solution in Yemen.”

    2018-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8404 (2018) · source

  7. “It should call for the disarmament of all outlawed armed groups, demand the relocation of military camps and depots outside of cities and request the revival of the local security apparatus. It should enforce a ban on the Houthis' use of landmines, urge them to submit a landmine map, request the commencement of demining operations and call for support for landmine victims. It must call for the prevention of the transfer and use of arms in Yemen. It should demand the lifting of the restrictions on ports and the normalization of air traffic in all governorates, allowing commercial aviation to operate. It should enforce a ban on child recruitment and request the immediate revival of the mobilization, disarmament and reintegration programmes for child combatants.”

    2018-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8404 (2018) · source

  8. “Women must be meaningfully represented, present at the table and engaged in decision-making. Wejoin the many voices calling for a ceasefire and the resumption of the peace process. We affirm that there can be no just and sustainable peace without an inclusive process. As the Council moves forward in its discussions, resolutions or other actions, we strongly urge it to adopt the following recommendations. On security measures, it should demand an immediate ceasefire, starting by ending the air bombardments led by the internationally recognized Government and its allies in the Arab coalition and pursue confidence-building measures towards restoring State institutions.”

    2018-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8404 (2018) · source

  9. “Although women continue to play a leading role in peacebuilding, and despite presidential statement S/PRST/2017/7 of 2017, explicitly calling for the meaningful inclusion of women, women are still largely excluded from the peace negotiation process. We attribute that to the patriarchal philosophy of peace mediation, which rewards violence by granting space at the negotiation table only to holders of weapons, rather than the real peacemakers. We welcome the recent efforts of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen to support the engagement of women, starting with the expansion of his gender team and the establishment of the women's technical advisory group. However, we emphasize that women's engagement must not be restricted to an advisory role in the mediation efforts.”

    2018-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8404 (2018) · source

  10. “Other members of the Women's Solidarity Network are actively working to stop the recruitment of children as combatants. They do so despite the limited means to help those children. Meanwhile, the United Nations has, since 2016, suspended its own disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes targeting children, citing security concerns and awaiting a political solution. The comprehensive National Dialogue Conference, organized under the auspices of the United Nations and supported by the Council, was an important milestone in the country's history. Yemeni women participated effectively to produce a landmark framework and a charter for their rights and freedoms. That was later reflected in the draft constitution of 2015 and should remain fundamental in moving forward with any political resolution in Yemen.”

    2018-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8404 (2018) · source

  11. “Members of the Women's Solidarity Network work relentlessly to end the bloody conflict over water and land resources, evacuate schools from armed groups and restore the rights of our sons and daughters to education, and we risk our lives on a daily basis to rescue families trapped in conflict zones. Many members of the Network play a leading role in alleviating the suffering of citizens by conducting relief projects and negotiating the opening of humanitarian corridors. We are particularly proud to share the news that the Mothers of Abductees Association, which regularly demonstrates and calls for the release of its members' sons while enduring risks and abuse, was able to secure the release 336 detainees. That is compared to zero detainees released through the United Nations- sponsored process.”

    2018-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8404 (2018) · source

  12. “On the situation in the south of the country, we echo the voices of the southern Yemeni women on the importance of reaching a just solution to the southern cause and realizing their right to self-determination. Today, after three decades of strife, southern grievances have still not been addressed. We have also seen the total exclusion of southerners and their cause from the current peace framework and negotiations, usually justified by the limitations of resolution 2216 (2015), which has been interpreted to limit negotiations to two sides. We as women have the highest stake in peace.”

    2018-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8404 (2018) · source

  13. “We have supported many women human rights defenders in providing their safe exit to neighbouring countries, assisting in filing for asylum and seeking resettlement in third countries. Unfortunately, none of those cases have resulted in resettlement. Although the Yemen refugee crisis does not in numbers amount to the Syrian one, it is still a problem affecting hundreds of thousands of Yemenis. Policies such as the European Union Dublin Regulation, the United States executive order to ban citizens from seven nations, including Yemen, from entering the United States, and the recent Saudi policies to deport Yemenis have all contributed to separating families.”

    2018-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8404 (2018) · source

  14. “Documented cases of gender-based violence, including rape, rose by 70 per cent in the first five months of the war. Child marriages increased by 66 per cent. Women in the besieged city of Taiz spend long hours walking through rough terrain or traversing areas controlled by armed groups, where they are repeatedly harassed. They do that to provide their families with basic living necessities and to protect their men from forced recruitment, abduction, detention and torture. Young women, including Sana'a University students, have been subjected to violent repression by Houthi armed groups, including by women thugs known as Al-Zaynabiyat. Some women have been beaten, electrocuted, arrested and released only on the condition that they refrain from engaging in activism. Others have had male family members detained on their behalf.”

    2018-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8404 (2018) · source

  15. “The warring parties continue to disregard international humanitarian law with virtual impunity in Al-Hudaydah, Taiz and across the country. Meanwhile, actors directly or indirectly involved in the conflict are disregarding the main principles of the Arms Trade Treaty. The extensive use of landmines by the Houthis has resulted in hundreds of deaths and injuries and is a direct impediment to accessing aid. Future generations will pay the price. As we prepare for the upcoming International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, I would like to remind the Council that Yemeni women were already suffering from legal, institutional and social violence. As a result, they now bear the burden of the multidimensional insecurities of this war.”

    2018-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8404 (2018) · source

  16. “Ms. Jarhum: I thank the Council for providing me with the opportunity to brief the Council on behalf of the Peace Track Initiative and the Women's Solidarity Network - a coalition of 250 Yemeni women and women-led organizations working on the protection of women and peacebuilding in Yemen. Yemen has been spiralling into a devastating war for over four years. In our country, there is a bleeding wound in every home and a story of continuing loss and despair. Dying children scream "Do not bury me!" as the conflict rages, but their cries go unnoticed. The use of explosive weapons by the forces affiliated with the internationally recognized Government and its allies in the Arab coalition, as well as the Houthis, has resulted in many civilian casualties.”

    2018-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8404 (2018) · source