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Karbowska

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2022-06-06
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2022-06-06
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  1. “We just need to create new tools that will make it work properly at different levels, and, very importantly, for the women on the ground. I urge the Council to develop such instruments, maintain pressure with sanctions, continue providing military and humanitarian support and do more every day.”

    2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source

  2. “No one knows what has happened to her and if Roman will ever see her again. There are hundreds of stories like that. What do we call this — trafficking, slavery, terror or crime? Russia is using war crimes as a weapon in this war. Military experts confirm that the last time an aggressor behaved so brutally towards civilians in war was during the Second World War. This is an utter violation of international humanitarian law. Russia’s war on Ukraine has shown that customary practices and traditional international security systems no longer work. We are revising our national action plan on resolution 1325 (2000) in Ukraine because realities have changed. But we still believe that resolution 1325 (2000) is a powerful instrument.”

    2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source

  3. “I myself saw many volunteers at the border helping with registration, offering rides, providing accommodation and distributing hotline contact information. But as the war has continued, Ukrainian women refugees in Europe who had initially planned to seek only temporary shelter are finding themselves in need of more permanent housing and work. That opens up new risks of sexual and labour exploitation. We are also hearing the stories of women and children whom Russian troops forced to go to Russia through the so-called filtration camps. Two months ago I met a 16-year-old boy named Roman in western Ukraine. He is from Mariupol. A neighbour helped him escape and brought him to western Ukraine. Roman’s mother is in Russia. The last time he saw her was when she was brutally transported to a filtration camp.”

    2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source

  4. “She was dealing with a language barrier and had no savings in the bank. It was just her, her child and a suitcase. I remember another young woman from the Chernihiv region. She did not even have a suitcase. A Russian missile had destroyed everything in her house. She said that her only family member now was her cat. According to international organizations, because of the Russian aggression against Ukraine, Europe is currently experiencing its largest displacement since the Second World War. The majority of refugees are women and children, the two groups most vulnerable to falling victim to sexual and labour abuse. Civil society and Governments have made huge efforts to protect refugees in Europe and prevent trafficking at border crossings.”

    2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source

  5. “Russia is using sexual violence and rape as a means of terror to control civilians within the temporarily occupied territories. Although the full scale of conflict-related sexual violence is not yet known, human rights activists and law-enforcement agencies estimate that there are hundreds of cases, not just among women and girls, but also among men, boys and people of other gender identities and of every age. I therefore have a question. If Russia is using terror against civilians in Ukraine — and there is a lot of evidence to prove that — why is Russia still a member of the Security Council? How is it possible that it can participate in United Nations peacekeeping operations? In the past three months I spent time on the border with Poland and saw the faces of women refugees. One in particular had no relatives.”

    2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source

  6. “Together with law- enforcement agencies, they document the cases and support investigation processes. I am not going to tell the stories of those women and children. The Council has heard them. But sexual violence in this war is the least visible crime, and, for every girl or woman who is willing to tell her story, there are many others who will remain silent for years. That is because of the notion of rape as a crime of shame, because of survivors’ feelings of shame, because of the guilt felt by those who were not able to defend them and because of the fear of neighbours that they too may end up in the same situation. All of that weakens the social connections within communities, and that is because this is a strategy aimed at establishing control over those communities.”

    2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source

  7. “Ukraine had adopted a second national action plan on the implementation of the resolution, and on 23 and 24 February we were meeting in Kyiv with the representatives of 13 regional coalitions to plan our work for the year. The Russian invasion forced us to end the meeting early, but it did not change our plans. The war showed that today the women and peace and security agenda in Ukraine is more relevant than ever. It has a new, very concrete and clear meaning, which is that the security of each and every woman is inseparable from the security of the whole country. None of us can feel safe when sexual violence and rape are taking place close to where we live. Women’s organizations are usually the first to be approached by women who have experienced sexual violence. They provide psychological assistance.”

    2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source

  8. “Ms. Karbowska: I would like to thank you, Sir, for the opportunity to participate in such an important event today. My voice is the voice of my organization, which has been working to support women in Ukraine for 22 years. It is also the voice of hundreds of other women’s rights organizations that have been working 24/7 in Ukraine to support women, provide food and medicine, heal trauma and give the women whose lives have been destroyed by Russia the strength to continue — women who have been raped, whose kids have been killed and whose houses have been burned. Every Ukrainian has a story of how the war started for her or him that each of us will remember forever. For me, the war started during our meeting on the localization of our national action plan on resolution 1325 (2000).”

    2022-06-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9056 (2022) · source