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2014-09-08

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2015-06-18

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1. “In conclusion, Botswana wishes to reaffirm its commitment to all the international conventions to which we are party that protect the rights of children as well as those calling for accountability for perpetrators of gross human rights violations. It is clear that in some States where major conflicts and crises continue to rage, the authorities have manifestly failed in their responsibility to protect civilian populations. It is therefore my country's view that the onus and responsibility for acting lies squarely with the Council and the global community.”

   2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source

2. “In this year of the tenth anniversary of resolution 1612 (2005), which created a platform for Council members to conduct a continuous assessment of violations against children affected by armed conflict and to ensure the full implementation of initiatives for their protection, we must be able to demonstrate notable progress in that regard and have the unwavering resolve to further consolidate our efforts. Botswana commends the efforts made by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Leila Zerrougui, together with UNICEF, in launching a year ago the "Children, Not Soldiers" campaign, which continues to raise awareness of this issue. We are also encouraged by the full Council support for resolution 2225 (2015), adopted earlier today, which we hope will also help address the issue.”

   2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source

3. “We must guarantee full protection of children's rights, including their ability to attend school without interruption and to enjoy access to all social services that contribute to their development, good health and well-being so that they can realize their full potential. Whatever means the international community finally decides on in pursuit of that noble objective must also ensure the full prosecution and accountability of the perpetrators of such heinous acts. It is also crucial that security personnel, including those in peacekeeping missions, be held accountable for the Violations that they commit against the very civilians and children they have the responsibility to protect. Confidence and trust in our troops is a fundamental prerequisite for the success of any peacekeeping mission.”

   2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source

4. “They are being robbed of their innocence and their childhood by being forcibly removed from their communities, recruited into armies to maim and kill - and often maimed and killed themselves - made into human bombs and shields, exposed to sexual violence and other traumatic forms of exploitation and unlawfully detained on suspicion of identifying with this or that group. Needless to say, such situations have devastating consequences for the health and well-being of those children and their families who survive them, as well as of society at large. We thus have a moral duty and obligation, as responsible members of the international community, to ensure that urgent and radical measures are taken to protect children from such grave violations of their rights.”

   2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source

5. “We have taken solemn note of the Secretary- General's latest report on this subject (S/2015/409), which highlights the fact that children affected by major crises are being exposed to the most shocking kinds of violations. Botswana is deeply concerned about the gravity of such evolving Violations against children, including abductions, which have been occurring recently at a startling rate. The report shows that whereas in the past mass abductions of civilians, including children in conflict situations, were largely a means to an end, today they are also an end in themselves, with the prime objective ofinflicting terror. It is altogether unacceptable that children are employed as mere tools or objects in war and terror.”

   2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source

6. “Those conflicts have also taken on an alarmingly insidious character, increasingly targeting innocent civilians and subjecting them to unspeakable acts of terror and an assortment of types of exploitation and abuse. The rise in non-State actors involved in such conflicts further complicates their already complex nature. The threat to international peace and security posed by those developments is as real today as it ever was, and it requires that the Council act urgently and decisively to address it. Chief among the Council's objectives as it does so must be ensuring the protection and promotion of the rights of children everywhere, including in armed conflict, and to enable the creation of an environment conducive to effective and timely responses to the unparalleled humanitarian crises we are seeing in many parts of the world.”

   2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source

7. “I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on Malaysia's assumption of the presidency of the Security Council, and to offer our continued support for the Council's work. Botswana aligns itself with the statement delivered a short while ago by the representative of Zimbabwe on behalf of the Southern African Development Community. My delegation is grateful to you, Mr. President, for organizing this important and highly relevant debate, which comes at a critical juncture in our history, as violent conflict continues to escalate at unprecedented speed across the regions of the world. We are also grateful for the panelists' insightful briefings today, which have given us the opportunity to more fully appreciate the risks and dangers faced by children affected by armed conflict.”

   2015-06-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7466 (2015) · source

8. “We therefore welcome the Secretary-General's high-level review thereof, which is scheduled for later this year. We also see the international community readying itself to adopt a new global agenda later this year intended to deliver the future we want. To realize this goal, it is clear that we will need to redouble our collective efforts to ensure the protection of current and future generations. In conclusion, I wish to reaffirm Botswana's support for international efforts aimed at protecting the lives ofinnocent people, women and girls in particular.”

   2015-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7374 (2015) · source

9. “As this year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, there could me no more opportune a time for the international community to reaffirm its commitment to the protection of women and girls in all situations, as well as to their advancement, to gender equality and, within the context of today's debate, to the six strategic objectives focusing on women and armed conflict. Among others, those include the need to increase the participation of women in conflict resolution at decision-making levels, to promote women's contribution to fostering a culture of peace and to provide protection, assistance and training to refugee and other displaced women. The need for a rededication to these objectives cannot be overemphasized. It is critical fully to implement resolution 1325 (2000).”

   2015-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7374 (2015) · source

10. “These evolving dynamics necessitate a comprehensive review, including the development of an all-inclusive framework that ensures the security and safety of United Nations personnel in their various assignments, as well as that of the security forces and rapid-response teams in the affected countries. These mechanisms must also elaborate methods through which women and girls in conflict situations can be protected. I shall now turn to the specific focus of today's debate. As other delegations have emphatically pointed out, it is women and girls who suffer the most insidious acts of war, including sexual violations, gender-based violence and other human rights abuses.”

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11. “We commend the Council for this work, which understandably presents its own variety of complex challenges. These include ensuring the very safety of the personnel involved in peacekeeping operations, as they themselves are increasingly becoming targets in the conflicts they are deployed to end. We have recently seen United Nations peacekeepers killed while on duty in countries in conflict. The proliferation of terrorist groups and foreign fighters also serves to increase the potential dangers and risks facing peacekeeping missions. We have also seen young school girls abducted and used as pawns by terrorists.”

    2015-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7374 (2015) · source

12. “We therefore support the clarion call for the Security Council to fully exercise its Charter mandate and ensure the maintenance of international peace and security, as that would represent a significant step towards the compliance we seek. In that regard, it would also be important for the relationship between the Security Council and the International Criminal Court (ICC) to be strengthened, and for the work of the Court to be facilitated so that it may hold perpetrators of human rights violations and other mass atrocities accountable. The concerns I have just raised notwithstanding, it is only fair that the Council be credited for its notable efforts in this regard. We are informed that at present the Security Council has 16 peacekeeping operations deployed around the world.”

    2015-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7374 (2015) · source

13. “It is true that States have the primary responsibility to protect their citizens, be it in armed conflict situations or wherever human rights abuses occur. It is, however, also true that all responsible members of the international community have a critical role to play in the construction of societies that are strong enough to prevent and address atrocities. Given the enormity of populations at risk, it can therefore be argued that we, the members of the international community, have not been proactive enough in upholding the second pillar of the responsibility to protect and building that required capacity that would assist States in shielding their populations from harm. What remains an unequivocal fact is that more needs to be done to ensure accountability and compliance with international law.”

    2015-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7374 (2015) · source

14. “We also take this opportunity to thank the Secretary-General for his reports on the subject matter, which we found informative, even though some aspects therein, pertaining in particular to the risks faced by populations in armed conflict as well as to peacekeeping mission operations, were cause for some concern. Botswana joins the international community in deploring the attacks claiming innocent lives as well as the gross human rights violations occurring in the increasing number of war zones and areas of violent conflict across the world. We find it tragic indeed that the lives of the innocent, including women and children, continue to be lost due to indiscriminate killings by those who apparently have a complete disregard for international humanitarian law and human rights law.”

    2015-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7374 (2015) · source

15. “I would like to start by congratulating you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of January. We wish you every success in the continued discharge of your duties. We would like to echo the appreciation the delegations that spoke before us have expressed to you for organizing this very important meeting and for the opportunity to be briefed by the personalities you succeeded in assembling for that purpose. The information they shared with us earlier has been extremely insightful and helps to broaden our understanding of the issue we are discussing today.”

    2015-01-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7374 (2015) · source

16. “However, action has to be timely and effected in a peaceful manner and should conform to the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, as well as to established international humanitarian law. I wish to conclude by reaffirming Botswana's commitment to the promotion and protection of the rights of children and to ensuring the full implementation of our national obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child.”

    2014-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7259 (2014) · source

17. “To that end, the Office of the Special Representative, together with UNICEF, launched the Children, Not Soldiers campaign, which aims to end and prevent the recruitment of children by Government armed forces. Botswana fully supports those initiatives and it hopes to see some results in the near future. Botswana welcomed the Security Council endorsement of those intentions in its resolution 2143 (2014), and we wish to add our voice to the Council's support for the initiative and all the other work that the United Nations carries out in that regard. We believe that the international community as a whole has the wherewithal to successfully end and prevent grave violations against children in armed conflict.”

    2014-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7259 (2014) · source

18. “The Secretary-General's report clearly illustrates the negative and disproportionate impact of armed conflict on children, and calls on all of us to play our part to prevent grave violations against children and to make violators accountable in order to expedite the promotion and protection of the rights of children. In that regard, we also wish to commend the work of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Leila Zerrougui, who earlier this year delivered a statement (see S/PV.7129 ) to the Council detailing the efforts her Office has embarked upon to better protect children in conflict situations. The Special Representative reiterated her intention to work towards child-free Government armed forces by the end of 2016.”

    2014-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7259 (2014) · source

19. “We wish to acknowledge the support of the relevant United Nations agencies, in particular UNICEF and other partners, including civil society organizations and the private sector, in their facilitation of our national efforts to uphold both our international and domestic responsibilities to advance, as well as defend, the safety, security and general well-being of the world's children. Botswana welcomed the Secretary-General's report in May (S/2014/339) on children and armed conflict, which highlights global trends on the impact of armed conflict on children, as well as the main activities and initiatives regarding the implementation of the relevant Security Council resolutions, and other work on children and armed conflict.”

    2014-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7259 (2014) · source

20. “As found in most parts of the developing world, there are still significant challenges to those efforts, mainly due to resource and capacity constraints. While we continue to address the challenges with the means currently available to us, we also look to the elaboration and adoption of the post-2015 development agenda to provide clear direction on the means of implementation on issues relating to the protection of children. We believe that those should also be mainstreamed into international security operations.”

    2014-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7259 (2014) · source

21. “We take those obligations very seriously and continue to establish national strategies and mechanisms aimed at the promotion and protection of the rights of children. As we have on previous occasions shared with the Council, Botswana has and continues to prioritize education, which we deem a fundamental constituent in the promotion and protection of the rights of children. In that regard, we have succeeded in achieving universal access to education, and now strive to ensure its quality and relevance. We also continue to strive to implement other programmes intended to safeguard the rights of children in early childhood, including access to health- care services and child-health interventions. However, such interventions are still far from being enough.”

    2014-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7259 (2014) · source

22. “As this is the first time Botswana addresses the Security Council since your assumption of the presidency for the month of September, Mr. President, allow me to join other delegations in congratulating you on that and to reiterate our standing pledge to constructively engage with the Council on the work before it. We also wish to thank the United States delegation for organizing this important thematic debate. Botswana attaches great importance to the promotion and protection of the rights of children. We therefore take this opportunity to reaffirm our strong commitment to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as to the full implementation of our obligations under the Convention.”

    2014-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7259 (2014) · source