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2003-06-20

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2023-06-13

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1. “That means giving local organizations more direct access to financing and decision-making processes through mechanisms such as the IFRC’s Disaster Response Emergency Fund, which provides direct funding to National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies that play a key role in protecting people from the impacts of climate change. All of us, whether from the humanitarian, development, climate or peace sectors, must work together to address immediate needs and strengthen long-term resilience to prevent and alleviate human suffering, and thereby contribute to the maintenance of human dignity and peace in the world.”

   2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345Resumption1 (2023) · source

2. “The second is filling the financing gaps. Approximately 30 of the most climate vulnerable countries — a majority of which are fragile contexts — receive only $1 per person per year in climate adaptation funding. We must change how we finance climate action. There must be a more integrated approach to humanitarian, development, climate and peace financing, while putting the needs of communities at the centre. The funding must reach the local level to build and empower local institutional and response capacities and solutions. Empowered local communities form the foundation of peaceful societies. The third is forecasting and anticipatory action. We must all scale up early-warning and early-action systems that provide communities with information and funding to act before climate events become disasters.”

   2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345Resumption1 (2023) · source

3. “Although the climate crisis affects us all, the science and data show that it does affect us all equally. Our focus must be on the communities that are most affected and at risk, especially those in fragile settings. While we know that a one-size-fits-all solution to reducing climate risks does not exist, the IFRC proposes three important shifts to address the magnitude of the climate crisis before us. The first is a focus on community leadership, ownership and reach. Investing in large-scale disaster risk reduction, climate mitigation and adaptation at the community level, where it is most needed and has the greatest potential impact, is essential. Local organizations are critical to designing and implementing climate action and channelling climate finance to the right places, to those most in need. They must drive the change.”

   2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345Resumption1 (2023) · source

4. “Ms. Olson: On behalf of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and its 191-member National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, I am pleased to address the Security Council today. Our National Society volunteers from their local communities tell us that the climate crisis is the number one humanitarian crisis that communities face around the globe, threatening human security. Currently, 90 per cent of all disasters are climate- and weather-related, resulting in the deaths of more than 410,000 people in the past decade and impacting 1.7 billion people. The impacts of the climate crisis are compounding other crises — food insecurity, disease outbreaks, water shortages and large population movements — reversing development gains and thereby impacting global peace and security.”

   2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345Resumption1 (2023) · source

5. “I will take the floor only briefly, just to welcome the Minister and to thank him for his very comprehensive briefing and assure him and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) of both my delegation and the Council's continued support in carrying out our entirely complementary agendas. I would like to ask the Minister if he could provide just a little bit more information on the role he feels the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights could play in encouraging the growth of democratic institutions both in Europe and in Eurasia.”

   2006-01-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5346 (2006) · source

6. “We reiterate our support for the Secretary-General's efforts to protect civilians in armed conflict and look forward to the next briefing in six months, as well as to the completion of the road map at that time.”

   2003-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4777 (2003) · source

7. “We are confident that the information provided to us today will prove useful to the Council in its future deliberations when considering the protection of civilians in armed conflict. The general principles of providing humanitarian access to vulnerable populations, the separation of civilians and armed elements, the restoration of the rule of law, justice and reconciliation are all fundamental to the protection of civilians and fully supported by my delegation and the others around this table. They are important issues which we hope to continue to discuss in the future. My delegation fully supports the idea of further developing the road map for the protection of civilians and the implementation of many of the objectives it calls for. We will work with other members in that process to fully develop the road map.”

   2003-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4777 (2003) · source

8. “I will be brief, because most of our remarks have been covered by other members. I would like to join other members in thanking Under-Secretary-General Oshima for his detailed and very sobering report, as well as for the hard work he has done in the area of protecting civilians in armed conflict throughout his tenure. The United States has long believed that safeguarding civilians from the devastating effects of armed conflict is at the very heart of the United Nations Charter. Indeed, the work presented here today exemplifies the spirit of the Charter and the aspirations of this Organization's founders to protect the innocent and most vulnerable from violence of any kind, whether at the hands of soldiers or terrorists.”

   2003-06-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4777 (2003) · source