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Jolie Pitt

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2015-04-24
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  1. “Our times will be defined not by the crises themselves, but by the way we pull together as an international community to address them.”

    2015-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7433 (2015) · source

  2. “We must send a signal that we are serious about accountability for such crimes, and that is the only hope for establishing any deterrence. So I call on Member States to begin preparations now so that Syrian women are fully represented in future peace negotiations, in accordance with multiple Security Council resolutions. And ifI may make a wider final point to conclude my remarks, the crisis in Syria illustrates the fact that our inability to find diplomatic solutions causes mass displacement and traps millions of people in exile, statelessness and displacement. Fifty-two million people are forcibly displaced today - a sea of excluded humanity. And while our priority must be ending the Syria conflict, we must also broaden out the discussion to this much wider problem.”

    2015-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7433 (2015) · source

  3. “And while these debates are important, I also urge the Security Council to visit Syrian refugees, to see at first hand their suffering and the impact it is having on the region. Those refugees cannot come to the Council, so I ask that the Council go to them. Please. Secondly, I echo what has been said about the support from Syria's neighbours, which are making an extraordinary contribution. It is sickening to see thousands of refugees drowning on the doorstep of the world's wealthiest continent. No one risks the lives of their children in such a way except out of utter desperation. If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety. Thirdly, the barbarism of those who inflict systematic sexual violence demands a much greater response from the international community.”

    2015-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7433 (2015) · source

  4. “So, on behalf of Syria's refugees, I make three pleas to the international community. The first is an appeal for unity. It is time for the Security Council to work as one to end the conflict and reach a settlement that also brings justice and accountability for the Syrian people. It is very encouraging to see ministerial representation from Jordan, Spain and Malaysia here today. But I think we would all like to see the Foreign Ministers from all the Security Council member countries here, working on a political solution for Syria as a matter of urgency. In the past few months, we have seen intensive diplomacy at work elsewhere in the region. Now let us see what is possible for the people of Syria.”

    2015-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7433 (2015) · source

  5. “We know in excruciating detail what is happening in Yarmouk, Aleppo and Homs. The problem is a lack of political will. We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think that this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent. I say this as someone who is proud to have been part of the United Nations system for 13 years. I do not think enough people realize just how many people are fed, sheltered, protected and educated by the United Nations every day of the year. But all of that good is undermined by the message being sent in Syria, which is that laws can be flouted, chemical weapons can be used, hospitals can be bombed, aid can be withheld and civilians starved with impunity.”

    2015-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7433 (2015) · source

  6. “Is my son a terrorist?" On my last visit, in February, anger had subsided into resignation, misery and the bitter question, "Why are we, the Syrian people, not worth saving?" To be a Syrian caught up in this conflict is to be cut off from every law and principle designed to protect innocent life. International humanitarian law prohibits torture, starvation and the targeting of schools and hospitals, but those crimes are happening in Syria every day. The Security Council has powers to address those threats to international peace and security, but those powers go unused. The United Nations has adopted the concept of the responsibility to protect, which says that when a State cannot protect its people the international community will not stand by. But in Syria we are standing by. The problem is not a lack of information.”

    2015-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7433 (2015) · source

  7. “Here, all countries and all people are equal, from the smallest and most broken Member States to the free and powerful. The purpose of the United Nations is to prevent and end conflict, to bring countries together, find diplomatic solutions and save lives. We are failing to do that in Syria. Responsibility for the conflict lies with the warring parties inside Syria, but the crisis is made worse by the division and indecision within the international community that prevents the Security Council from fulfilling its responsibilities. In 2011, the Syrian refugees I met were full of hope. They asked me to tell people what was happening to them, trusting that the truth alone would guarantee international action. When I returned, hope was turning into anger, the anger of the man who held up his little baby, asking me, "Is this a terrorist?”

    2015-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7433 (2015) · source

  8. “She could tell us what it is like to share the responsibility for feeding your family at the age of 11, because your mother died in an air strike and your father is missing. And I think of Mr. Ayman, a doctor from Aleppo, who watched his wife and three-year-old daughter drown in the Mediterranean when a smugglers' boat, packed with hundreds of people, collapsed. He could tell us what it is like to try to keep your loved ones safe in a war zone, only to lose them in a desperate bid for safety after all other options have failed. Any one of the Syrians I have met would speak more eloquently about the conflict than I ever could. Nearly 4 million Syrian refugees are victims of a conflict they have no part in. Yet they are stigmatized, unwanted and regarded as a burden. So I am here for them, because this is their United Nations.”

    2015-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7433 (2015) · source

  9. “Ms. Jolie Pitt: It is an honour for me to brief the Council today. I would like to thank His Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Jordan, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and my colleagues from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the World Food Programme. Since the Syria conflict began in 2011, I have made 11 visits to Syrian refugees in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Malta. I wish that some of the Syrians I have met could be here today. I think of the mother I met recently in a camp in Iraq, who could tell the Council what it is like to try to live after your young daughter is ripped from your family by armed men and taken as a sex slave. I think of Hala, one of six orphaned children living in a tent in Lebanon.”

    2015-04-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7433 (2015) · source