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Luqman

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2019-04-15
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2019-04-15
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  1. “The Council should demand that the negotiating parties include no less than 50 per cent of women in their delegations and that the United Nations Special Envoy and the Chair of the Redeployment Coordination Committee consult regularly with women and ensure women's meaningful inclusion in all peace processes, as well as the use of stronger language in its legally binding texts that call for an inclusive peace process, emphasizing the inclusion of women, young people, southerners and other marginalized social groups. We hope that our recommendations will inform the Council's decisions and lead to firm and decisive actions towards peace spoilers, as well as contribute to ending this unnecessary suffering of millions of Yemenis.”

    2019-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8512 (2019) · source

  2. “Starting with liberated areas, the Council should support the restoration of Government institutions to full functionality, including institutions that deliver services, such as the social welfare fund, and assist the Government in addressing core conflict issues and grievances in areas under its control. It should demand serious efforts to demilitarize liberated cities, ensuring the relocation of military depots and camps away from populated areas, and facilitate the development of professional security forces that are well trained, including in human rights. It should urge for the disbursement of civil servants' salaries in Houthi-controlled areas by ensuring the Government's commitments based on the 2014 civil servant lists.”

    2019-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8512 (2019) · source

  3. “It should establish mechanisms to implement the previous resolutions focusing on aspects related to the disarmament and demobilization of Houthis, as well as humanitarian access, starting with operationalizing medical evacuations through Sana'a airport and, ultimately, lifting the aerial, naval and land blockades. It should continue to adopt an approach to deconstruct the conflict and localize the peace process by creating local peace agreements in conflict areas, including in Taiz, which entails opening humanitarian corridors, as well as the withdrawal of fighters from the city and civilian institutions and ensuring that they are not redeployed to other fronts.”

    2019-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8512 (2019) · source

  4. “I invite Council members to take a serious stand with us and adopt a bold new approach to addressing the following. The Security Council should act to end this devastating conflict and facilitate an immediate comprehensive ceasefire that includes the Saudi- led coalition air bombardment campaign and the Houthi missile and drone attacks, both within Yemen and across our borders. The Council should enforce the Stockholm and prisoner exchange agreements, unconditionally release all arbitrarily detained civilians and hold all parties to account, especially spoilers.”

    2019-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8512 (2019) · source

  5. “Today, almost five years into the devastating war in Yemen, we members of the Women Solidarity Network have been working hard to fill the gap left by the State, providing internally displaced persons with food and life-saving necessities, diverting youth away from fighting towards peacebuilding, mediating for the release of detainees, and ending armed conflicts over water and land resources. We are disappointed that all national, regional and international parties have yet to take bold action to end the war and the suffering of the Yemeni people. We are frustrated because, despite our continuous calls for the inclusion of women, the role of women in peacebuilding continues to be ridiculed, and women - who are the real peacemakers - continue to be excluded in the ceasefire and peace process.”

    2019-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8512 (2019) · source

  6. “We have also approached Houthi women who express their readiness to participate in peace negotiations. It is not impossible to envisage including Houthi women in the peace process, because the Houthis had women representatives in the National Dialogue. There is no longer any excuse for continuing to exclude women, but that is the effective result of a poorly designed peace process. Among other groups excluded in the peace process are the southerners, who continue to demand a just solution for the southern issue. Continuing to delay addressing their demands constitutes a ticking time bomb for another layer of conflict that could be just around the corner.”

    2019-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8512 (2019) · source

  7. “Beyond physical threats against women human rights defenders to deter their activism, accusations of immoral acts and defamation are another tool used against women. Women are not passive victims of this war. With limited resources, they have been leading efforts to bring peace to Yemen and hold communities together. In tribal areas, women can contribute to mediation efforts because they are respected and trusted. The patriarchal society in Yemen had already been challenged when women went into the streets to demand change and secured their 30 per cent representation in the National Dialogue. We have consulted the only woman member in the Government delegation to the peace consultations, Ms. Rana Ghanem, who proposed increasing the number of seats for women within delegations - seats that must remain vacant if no women are selected.”

    2019-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8512 (2019) · source

  8. “The Association of Mothers of Abductees shared concerns that arbitrarily detained civilians are being tortured, badly treated and denied fair trials. The Stockholm Agreement converts their status to that of prisoners of war and proposes exiling released detainees to other governorates, thereby separating them from their families. In addition, women human rights defenders, journalists and religious minorities such as Baha'is are detained and have no representatives in the current peace consultations who can negotiate their release. Space for civil society organizations is becoming increasingly restricted, especially in areas under Houthi control. Women peacemakers are arbitrarily detained and forced to abandon their work in peacebuilding and promoting women's and human rights.”

    2019-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8512 (2019) · source

  9. “The parties to the conflict blame each other for that horrific crime, and the victims will see their right to justice denied if no independent investigation takes place. Humanitarian access remains restricted due to the overall blockade imposed by the Saudi-led coalition, and the Houthis have resorted to laying siege to areas where they deny delivery of humanitarian aid to areas under their control. More recently, they prevented the delivery of badly needed cholera vaccines. Hunger is still used as a weapon of war. Thousands of Yemenis cannot afford to buy food because their salaries have been suspended or diverted, cutting off people's livelihoods. Girls are married off for dowry money, and boys continue to be forced into becoming fighters. The prisoner-exchange agreement signed prior to Stockholm has yet to be implemented.”

    2019-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8512 (2019) · source

  10. “People are collectively being punished and deprived of basic necessities, including food, medicine, fuel and electricity. Roads leading to downtown Al-Hudaydah, where the main hospital is located, are blocked. Many have lost their lives trying to get there. New fronts have opened in Hajjah, leading to a catastrophic humanitarian-displacement crisis and famine. Government forces continue to liberate locations, while the Houthis attack opposing tribes, persecute tribal leaders and their families and destroy their homes. The Saudi-led coalition air strikes continue to target civilian areas, including in Saada. A week ago, a devastating explosion near a girls school in Sana'a led to the death of 14 children, mostly girls, and injured dozens of civilians.”

    2019-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8512 (2019) · source

  11. “I visited families trapped in the crossfire, brought them food and supplies and facilitated their evacuation, thereby mitigating the risks of being targeted by snipers or stepping on mines. Escaping death in Yemen is becoming increasingly difficult. The Stockholm peace consultations successfully brought parties together, but they excluded women and led to an agreement that is blind to gender. The establishment of the United Nations Mission to Support the Al-Hudaydah agreement reflected the seriousness of the Council to bring peace to Yemen. However, we have yet to see the Stockholm Agreement enforced. Four months after the Stockholm Agreement, our team members in Al-Hudaydah report to us that armed clashes continue and that more families are being displaced every day.”

    2019-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8512 (2019) · source

  12. “I also experienced the siege of Taiz. As the Houthis tightened their grip on the city, they deprived civilians of food, water and basic living necessities. The siege started three years ago and has continued to this day. The Houthis and armed-resistance groups loyal to President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi Mansour are engaged in vicious hostilities in populated areas. I mediated the evacuation of children from an orphanage that had been stormed by Houthis seeking to position snipers. After the children were successfully evacuated, a Saudi-led- coalition air strike hit a nearby building and terrified the children, many of whom sustained injuries from shattered windows.”

    2019-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8512 (2019) · source

  13. “Ms. Luqman: I thank you, Mr. President, for this opportunity to brief the Security Council on behalf of Food for Humanity and the Women Solidarity Network. I am a survivor of the devastating war in Yemen. I was in Taiz, the third-largest city, and vividly recall the terrifying air bombardment and indiscriminate shelling there, as well as the siege of the city and the horrors perpetrated by all parties in complete disregard of international humanitarian law. My own home in Taiz was partially destroyed by an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition that targeted a nearby school being used by the Houthis as a military warehouse and prison. I woke up to what seemed to be a volcanic eruption lighting up the sky, followed by what felt like an earthquake. Our neighbours - a family of five - perished under the rubble.”

    2019-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8512 (2019) · source