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2021-10-05
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  1. “We call on the Security Council to advocate within the United Nations to bolster support for women’s organizations, which are on the front lines of looking after victims of sexual violence and other trauma related to violent extremism in conflict in order to effectively meet their needs restore their dignity and rights.”

    2021-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8873 (2021) · source

  2. “We also draw the Security Council’s attention to the bravery and dynamism of the women of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, who continuously contribute to the peacebuilding process through local community conflict-resolution mechanisms set up by women’s networks. They are demonstrating their resilience and are helping to combat violence. They are protecting women and girls and promoting their participation in peace processes through our partnership with the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, whose projects we have been implementing since 2017. The Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund also supports us in the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000).”

    2021-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8873 (2021) · source

  3. “In that regard, we call on the Security Council to strengthen the Force Intervention Brigade in order to enable it to restore peace to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo; to support the disarmament, demobilization and community reintegration process — a programme that will contribute to both the surrendering of armed groups and the restoration of State authority in several areas affected by insecurity; and to open an international investigation in order to establish responsibility for the crimes against humanity and genocide crimes committed against the people of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.”

    2021-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8873 (2021) · source

  4. “We also see a deterioration of the situation on the ground in those two provinces, despite the military operations carried out since the beginning of June. According to the civil society monitoring report for Beni and Ituri, 897 civilians have been killed, 580 have disappeared and 148 have been kidnapped. In addition, the report notes 128 abandoned villages, 904 cases of burglary, 40 cars and 15 motorcycles set ablaze, not to mention burned villages and displaced populations. Ms. Keita provided additional statistics today relating to sexual violence. This bleak backdrop shows the ineffectiveness of the operations carried out by the FARDC and MONUSCO.”

    2021-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8873 (2021) · source

  5. “The national army has been strengthened and the State’s authority has been restored in part of the province. The Head of State has resolutely launched a substantial campaign to combat corruption in the country. The Head of State has also sought to promote women’s political participation through the appointment of 27 per cent of women to key positions within the national Government. However, despite its ninth extension, the state of siege does not seem to be meeting the expectations of the Head of State — to eradicate all armed groups at the local and national levels that pose a serious threat to the integrity of the national territory. The people of North Kivu and Ituri have made some progress, overall, in the area of peace and security, but Irumu, Djugu and Beni have not fared well.”

    2021-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8873 (2021) · source

  6. “There has been mass recruitment of children and young people in armed groups, which is preventing women and young people from flourishing in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. We commend the efforts of the Government to ensure lasting peace and the well-being of the population. The Head of State of the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared, by order 21/015 of 3 May, a state of siege in North Kivu. That decision was welcomed by the population because it resolved the problem of peace and security, which the State and the people of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have so longed for. We have recently seen, through the Government’s efforts, that certain local groups that destabilize some parts of those two provinces have been disbanded.”

    2021-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8873 (2021) · source

  7. “Sometimes women say that members of the Forces armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC) are committing such acts of violence and sometimes they say such acts are perpetrated by local or foreign armed groups. Massacres of civilians have been committed in one part of North Kivu by the terrorist group Allied Democratic Forces — National Army for the Liberation of Uganda and in North Kivu and Ituri by the Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda. Natural resources have been looted. People have been kidnapped. There have been robberies. Villages and people’s possessions have been set on fire. There is unemployment, abject poverty and trauma. Children are not in school. There is juvenile crime.”

    2021-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8873 (2021) · source

  8. “In order to ensure peace and security in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Security Council deployed a peacekeeping mission — the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). MONUSCO has been in the Democratic Republic of Congo for more than 20 years and is the largest peacekeeping mission in Africa. Yet, despite that mission, the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is still facing several challenges with regard to the numerous wars and intercommunal conflicts, which are ongoing in North Kivu and Ituri and have led to mass displacement of people and sexual violence against women and girls by armed perpetrators.”

    2021-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8873 (2021) · source

  9. “I would like to thank the Security Council for granting me this opportunity to address it. I would also like to thank Ms. Bintou Keita, who continues to undertake many efforts for the stabilization our country. The east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has always been the epicentre of the armed conflict and has seen a lot of trouble for more than 20 years: the inter-ethnic war in 1993, the arrival of Rwandan refugees in 1994, the liberation war of the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire in 1996, the war of the Rassemblement congolais pour la démocratie in 1998, as well as the two most recent wars and the ongoing presence of national armed and foreign armed groups, which have had a very pernicious impact on the population, in particular on women and children.”

    2021-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8873 (2021) · source