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Lusenge

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2015-10-13
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2022-06-29
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  1. “Efforts must continue to be made to address the current global food insecurity caused by the war in Ukraine and its ramifications in Africa, especially its impact on women and children. In addition, there is an urgent need for the General Assembly and all allies and partners to convene a forum that will focus solely on addressing this problem of food insecurity and mitigating its impacts in Africa. More assistance is needed for orphans and widows and for internationally funded poverty-reduction-based anti-prostitution initiatives.”

    2022-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9081 (2022) · source

  2. “We must support the efforts of communities to assist the civilian population, listen to their cries of distress and support programmes that seek alternative and sustainable solutions so as to save lives. The Council should act in such a manner that Rwanda’s problems with the FDLR are dealt with in Rwanda and not in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Rwanda must therefore dialogue with the FDLR in Rwanda. We must act effectively to establish international justice for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and make significant decisions based on the mapping report. The United Nations must stop turning a blind eye to the deaths in the Democratic Republic. Greater medical and psychological assistance must be provided to survivors.”

    2022-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9081 (2022) · source

  3. “The ambiguity in the situation in eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo must be resolved. The reports of the United Nations experts are available to the Security Council and show the involvement of the neighbouring country alongside the M-23. We must stop commending this country, which thrives on the deaths of and sexual violence against women and girls, the illicit exploitation of Democratic Republic’s resources and the instrumentalization of armed groups. This is what maintains instability in the Great Lakes region. It is necessary to strengthen actions and consultation mechanisms in order to make the protection of the civilian population more effective, especially in the eastern part of the country, as the elections approach.”

    2022-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9081 (2022) · source

  4. “There are several obstacles that prevent victims from accessing justice, including a lack of judges, the absence of reparations after the perpetrators have been convicted, the long distances to the courts and difficulties in collecting and preserving evidence. We are witnessing an increase in mistrust — between the population and leaders, between different communities, towards humanitarian workers and the peacekeeping mission — because of the insecurity and suffering that is growing every day. Our efforts to strengthen social cohesion and the training we do on peaceful cohabitation to mitigate conflicts within communities are being annihilated by this extreme suffering. In the light of the foregoing, it is appropriate to make the following relevant recommendations to members of the Council.”

    2022-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9081 (2022) · source

  5. “The family member for whom the ransom was demanded had already been murdered.” Many orphaned children are without assistance in Beni territory and Ituri. Those children are taken in by widowed women or families who have nothing. Minors engage in survival sex. The women of Oicha say they have been traumatized by the cruelty of the ADF. In providing services to survivors in conflict zones, actors face various constraints and challenges, including the continued deterioration of the security situation due to the activism of armed groups, which sometimes prevents other victims from accessing care within 72 hours.”

    2022-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9081 (2022) · source

  6. ““They slit the throat of a Nande man from Beni and ripped out his entrails, which they asked me to cook. They brought me two cans of water to clean and prepare the condiments. They made all the prisoners eat the human flesh. The rest of the body was transported by the prisoners to another destination. “Late at night they arrived at another camp, raped me throughout the night and subjected me to other physical abuse. A few days later, I was released by an element of the same CODECO militia who showed me the way. Unfortunately, I was detained again by another group in another village and held as a sex slave for several days. There too I was forced to prepare and eat human flesh. I was subjected to all kinds of degrading and inhumane treatment. One day, by the grace of God, I was able to flee and return to my village.”

    2022-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9081 (2022) · source

  7. “The position of one of our neighbouring countries in support of the M-23 rebels is hindering peace in that area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where more than 5.5 million people are currently internally displaced. Host populations have also been cut off from their resources. Try to imagine mothers preparing dust and soil to feed their children instead of corn or soybean porridge. Here I would like to recount the testimony of Furaha, one of my fellow countrywomen. “A member of my family was kidnapped, and the perpetrators demanded a ransom of $700. We pawned the family plot of land to get the money. The kidnappers showed me the way to drop off the money and demanded that I show up in person. It was a trap so that they could tie me up, beat me and undress me.”

    2022-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9081 (2022) · source

  8. “That is despite the efforts of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the operations carried out by the Congolese defence and security forces, supported by the Uganda People’s Defence Forces within the framework of the state of siege decreed in May 2021 in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri. Here I would like to thank Ms. Bintou Keita and congratulate her on her efforts to support the Blue Helmets on the ground and even the local populations during the recent clashes. I welcome her presence today and I would also like to offer my condolences to the families of the Blue Helmets who have lost their lives in my country.”

    2022-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9081 (2022) · source

  9. “At a time when the eastern region of my country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is experiencing unprecedented political, security and humanitarian instability, today’s meeting provides yet another opportunity to take concrete action in order to put a definitive end to a tragedy that has lasted far too long and constitutes a disgrace to humankind. The security situation is deteriorating badly as a result of the terrorist acts committed by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), the Mouvement du 23 mars (M-23), the Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda, the Coopérative pour le développement du Congo (CODECO) and other armed groups.”

    2022-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9081 (2022) · source

  10. “My name is Julienne Lusenge, and I am the Director of the Fund for Congolese Women and the President of Female Solidarity for Integrated Peace and Development. On behalf of Congolese women, I would like to thank you, Madam President, for the opportunity to share with the Security Council some remarks on the situation of women in the context of conflicts that disrupt our lives and destroy our community values. At the outset, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the countries that have demonstrated their commitment to Ukraine and to express my solidarity and sympathy with the Ukrainian people, especially women and children.”

    2022-06-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9081 (2022) · source

  11. “After 15 years of good intentions, it is high time to give women the authority and the tools with which they can build a better world for everyone. In conclusion, sanctions must be put in place against leaders who carry out acts of terror and violence during elections. For there can be no democracy and lasting peace without fair elections under safe conditions.”

    2015-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7533 (2015) · source

  12. “The international community must continue to support the peace efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to root out armed groups and secure the places were women live. The leadership of peacekeeping missions should meet regularly with women's organizations and community leaders. They must listen to and quickly investigate allegations made by the local population, and not just dismiss them as rumors. The voices and needs of local people must drive the missions. The Security Council and the United Nations should continue to support local efforts towards stability. A peacekeeping mission cannot become a career; it must be focused and produce concrete results. The destruction of the Congo has lasted for over 20 years. That is enough now.”

    2015-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7533 (2015) · source

  13. “And we have won judgements, always in the quest for fair justice. For us, therefore, justice reform boils down to the effective training, equipping and staffing of judicial actors, as well as improving their working conditions and rebuilding prisons. A victim reparations programme should urgently be developed. All perpetrators of crimes of sexual Violence, including United Nations peacekeeping soldiers, must be brought to justice. We urgently need specialized mixed chambers such as those set up for Sierra Leone and Timor-Leste, so as to address the serious international crimes that have not been addressed by the International Criminal Court. Beyond that, however, we also need a comprehensive reform of our national justice system.”

    2015-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7533 (2015) · source

  14. “That has enabled us to bring together the women of Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo around the Addis Ababa framework agreement. The United Nations and the international community must demand the presence and participation of women in the peace talks. We must provide women with the means to enable them to attend formal negotiations, and not only at the junior level of the talks. Justice consolidates peace, and peace is nourished byjustice. My colleagues and I contribute to the training of police and magistrates so that they understand the law and the participation of women, so that women can bring complaints to the police and the latter can carry out fair investigations. Police commissioners and certain magistrates and judges now call on us and work with us when there are new cases of sexual violence.”

    2015-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7533 (2015) · source

  15. “Those efforts must be supported, not only with words and applause but with concrete actions and means. The United Nations must identify various approaches to ensure that women have official positions in the building of peace. In that regard, I welcome the Secretary-General's briefing today. I also welcome the appointment of a woman to lead the peacekeeping mission in my country. The platform for women with regard to the Addis Ababa Accord, initiated by Ms. Mary Robinson as Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region, is a mechanism that can involve women in the peace process. Unfortunately, the Members of the United Nations are not supporting that innovative mechanism. In the end, three countries have indeed supported it.”

    2015-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7533 (2015) · source

  16. “On the ground, we are ensuring that Victims become survivors by providing a holistic approach. We help women acquire skills for economic empowerment and to know their rights. We facilitate their reintegration into their communities so that they can participate in development as agents of change. In that way they regain their dignity. The Council must therefore support women's grass-roots groups and the environment for peace they create at all levels. Women are actively working to build peace. Armed groups attack us and threaten us. They injure us. They try to rape our colleagues. But despite all that, we continue to work. Unprotected, we sensitize young people to dissociate themselves from armed groups and create a welcoming environment for dialogue that can build lasting peace in villages, the country and the region.”

    2015-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7533 (2015) · source

  17. “Women are the first victims of the war, but they are the key to peace. At the moment, women in Rutshuru, Beni and my own region in North Kivu are being murdered, massacred, slaughtered and eviscerated. They suffer rape and sexual violence, abduction and sexual slavery. They are us: my nephew was killed by rebels of the Ugandan Allied Democratic Forces. I could even provide the number and names of the women killed in the course of a year. In Beni, more than 234 were either killed, strangled or eviscerated. That is why I and all women ask the Council to implement resolution 1325 (2000) via concrete actions. The Council has heard the desperate cries of women many times, without really hearing them. Do not let them go ignored today. I hope today will finally be the day to put an end to this cycle of violence.”

    2015-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7533 (2015) · source

  18. “Coming from the Violence in our daily lives, we Congolese women force the door to participate and thus take our place in peace processes, in accordance with resolution 1325 (2000). In 2013, during the talks with the Mouvement du 23 mars (M-23) armed group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as that group was decimating the population and women were suffering violence and unimaginable atrocities, women in North Kivu asked to participate in the process. Does the Council know the answer? There are only two sides in the conflict: either you are with the Government or you are with the M-23. Therefore, what is the message to our brothers, our sisters and our young people? We must take up arms to be able to come to the table for peace talks. There will never be lasting peace without the participation of women.”

    2015-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7533 (2015) · source

  19. “I thought long and hard before deciding to come back here, and wondered whether or not it was worth the effort. Resolution 1325 (2000) was replete with hope. But what change has it brought about in women's lives - we women in conflict situations? Yanar, Alaa and I come from different regions and situations, but we share common experiences: the exclusion of women in the political, social and economic spheres. That is precisely why nothing has changed. Women should be actively included at all levels of decision-making and peace processes. If we want - and if the Council wants - genuine security and world peace, the Council should at last seriously and definitively include women in all stages of the peace process, whether at the level of women in villages or at the Government level.”

    2015-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7533 (2015) · source

  20. “I am the Director of the Congolese Women's Fund and the President of Solidarite feminine pour la paix et le developpement integral. I am also here on behalf of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security. Seven years ago, in 2008, I came to New York to speak in the Security Council. I described the conflict in my country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I set out in detail the sexual violence, murders and massacres. I came to ask for concrete action for the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000) and the integration of the fight against sexual violence in peacekeeping missions. Today, 15 years after the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000) and seven years after my first briefing to the Council, I am once again addressing this body.”

    2015-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7533 (2015) · source