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  1. “I stress that point because most proposals to address gender- based violence in conflict and post-conflict situations continue to go unfunded, and women are paying the price. If we do not address the issue of gender-based violence in an effective manner, our failures in the critical areas of security and humanitarian protection will only increase in the years to come.”

    2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066 (2004) · source

  2. “HIV and AIDS threaten stability and prospects for security, damaging social systems that become overwhelmed and undermining public confidence in the future, resulting in hot spots of vulnerability and economic and social decline. Significant progress has been made in the past few years by working closely with peacekeeping missions and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations to prevent gender-based violence and HIV. But much more needs to be done. As speakers before me have stressed, this massive and systematic violation of human rights will continue so long as perpetrators remain free and have no fear of paying the consequences for the crimes they have committed. Most important of all, all of these measures require immediate and sustained funding so that they constitute a routine and systematic response.”

    2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066 (2004) · source

  3. “That is in line with the recommendation contained in the Secretary-General's report to the Council (5/2004/814). It is also in line with the Programme of Action adopted in Cairo 10 years ago at the International Conference on Population and Development. It was there that 179 world leaders urged countries to identify and condemn the systematic practice of rape and other forms of inhuman and degrading treatment of women as a deliberate instrument of war and ethnic cleansing, and to take steps to ensure that full assistance is provided to the victims of such abuse for their physical and mental rehabilitation. One of the most devastating consequences of sexual violence is the transmission of HIV/AIDS. In Rwanda two thirds of the women who were raped during the 1994 genocide were infected with HIV, and they are dying slow, painful deaths.”

    2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066 (2004) · source

  4. “We do not need a few women here and there; we need gender parity so that women in positions of power can stop abuses of power. Fourthly, we must provide effective training programmes for health personnel on how to care for victims of sexual violence, and we must ensure that local organizations and women's groups are actively involved each step of the way. Fifthly, it is urgent that survivors of sexual violence receive quality legal, psychological and reproductive health services to address the horrifying Violence they have endured. Lastly, we must take action to implement programmes aimed at public and community leaders on the importance of not stigmatizing victims of sexual violence and take action to empower women and girls to enable them to seek help and adequate support.”

    2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066 (2004) · source

  5. “There are several concrete actions that must be taken immediately to respond to the victims of gender-based violence. First, increased political will is needed to ensure that women and girls receive real protection from sexual violence and abuse in their homes and communities, in camps for refugees and internally displaced persons and in disarmament and demobilization cantonment areas. Secondly, we must take steps together to ensure that incidents of sexual violence are recorded, that evidence is gathered and preserved and that the perpetrators of gender-based violence are brought to justice. Thirdly, we must ensure that police, security, peacekeeping and humanitarian personnel and officials are trained to recognize, and respond to, gender-based violence.”

    2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066 (2004) · source

  6. “While we, the agencies of the United Nations system, have made progress during the past four years in devising standards, protocols and guidelines, including gender considerations in humanitarian and security policies and putting gender specialists in place, we have not made similar progress on the ground. The fact that we are discussing this issue in the Security Council today reflects the recognition that greater progress must be made. I thank Ambassador Sir Emyr Jones Parry, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, in his capacity as President of the Council, for opening this important debate and for inviting us to participate. It is time to establish systems of accountability within Member States and within the United Nations on the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000).”

    2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066 (2004) · source

  7. “They cut to the core of their very existence. An effective response to that violence is absolutely central to their lives and futures, and also to the future of their shattered families, communities and nations. That has been made painfully clear to us in the United Nations Population Fund as we strive to promote reproductive health and rights among conflict-affected populations. It is truly sad and terribly angering to see the tremendous needs that exist, but it is even more shocking to witness the response so far, which remains completely inadequate, even meagre.”

    2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066 (2004) · source

  8. “Ms. Obaid: I shall be reading out a short statement; copies of a longer text will be distributed. We are here today to speak about the unspeakable: the gender-based and sexual violence that is occurring on a massive scale in conflict and post- conflict situations around the world. Study after study shows that the effects of sexual violence linger long after the event and continue to fester like an open wound. The injuries and medical and psychological consequences of such violence - such as fistulas, depression, post-traumatic stress syndrome, becoming infected with sexually transmitted infections such as HIV/AIDS or becoming pregnant as the result of rape - are generally ignored by authorities or considered as marginal concerns. But to the millions of women who are affected by sexual violence, those concerns are far from marginal.”

    2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066 (2004) · source