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Levchenko

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2023-03-07
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2023-03-07
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  1. “We invite one and all to attend a side event that our delegation is holding today on the implementation of this Framework and the role of women’s civil society organizations. We call on all States to recognize that women’s voices must be heard in serious discussions and negotiations for peace and that we must eliminate all barriers that hinder their participation in politics. We emphasize the urgent need for the international community to prioritize the women and peace and security agenda and to underpin it with concrete steps.”

    2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source

  2. “One of our women activists, Oleksandra Matviichuk, leads the non-governmental organization that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022. That is the logic behind the second national action plan under resolution 1325 (2000), amended and updated in December 2022 in order to address the current needs and context of the full-scale military aggression. The current updated national action plan recognizes that women must be actors and agents in the ongoing war, as well as in the reconstruction of the country. We appreciate the Organization’s engagement, in particular within the Framework of Cooperation between the Government of Ukraine and the United Nations on the prevention and response to conflict- related sexual violence.”

    2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source

  3. “The entire free world must guarantee the most important thing — justice. That is needed by all, not only Ukrainians. It must serve as a precedent for any potential aggressor and collective rapists throughout the globe to realize that sexual violence will not go unpunished. Ukraine fully endorses the global campaign at the highest levels to ban sexual violence and to ban rape as a weapon of war. Ukrainian women, however, are not just victims, as 61,000 women are members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and approximately 5,000 of them are defending our country on the front lines. Ukrainian women are pushing the volunteer response, they are taking positions in governance, they are advancing our economy as entrepreneurs, they are taking care of their dependents, and they are engaging actively in all fields of civil life.”

    2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source

  4. “Orders for sexual violence were given from the top and pointedly applied in order to humiliate and destroy our reproductive capacity. It happened in the Kherson region, where, under threat of violence, a Russian soldier repeatedly raped a 62-year-old woman. It happened in the Kyiv region, where invaders raped a girl and her mother, beat the father and forced him to watch. It happened in Sviatohirsk, where a woman was raped by three Russian soldiers. Now she works with a psychologist and even helps other women who were similarly abused. In total, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine has recorded 171 such incidents, involving not only women, but also men and children. And we do not know how many are suffering in silence, especially in the temporarily occupied territories.”

    2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source

  5. “We are grateful to the presidency of Mozambique for convening today’s important open debate on the progress of the women and peace and security agenda. Ukraine has always been a staunch advocate for the promotion of fundamental human rights, with a particular focus on the rights of women and girls worldwide. We welcome the fact that putting women and girls at the centre has been outlined among six potential areas for the New Agenda for Peace. That is particularly important for us because, since 2014, Ukraine has been countering Russian aggression, which in 2022 turned into a full-scale invasion. Along with the temporary occupation of Ukrainian territories and the resulting numerous casualties and mass destruction, sexual violence has been a hallmark of the Russian invaders.”

    2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source