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Power/Mr. Dunn

lines on the record: 48
first: 2014-09-08
most recent: 2014-09-18
sittings or episodes: 3
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“I thank Ms. Chan for her inspiring comments, and I think she will be pleased to learn that four additional countries have been added to the sponsorship of today's resolution (2177 (2104)), which will be reflected in the record. I now give the floor to Dr. Nabarro to make some concluding remarks.”
2014-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7268 (2014) · source
“I thank all speakers for limiting their remarks to the four minutes allotted in today's debate. I now give the floor to the representative of the Netherlands.”
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“I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Samura M.W. Kamara, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Sierra Leone.”
2014-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7268 (2014) · source
“Every country represented in this Chamber today can contribute something that will save a life: doctors, nurses, hospital beds and, as we have heard, food, soap and buckets. Models are forecasts of the future. But it is what we do - by "we" I mean all of the countries that we here represent, and those beyond - that actually determines our future. Individuals make history, not models. The United Nations was built for global challenges like this one. That is why we are here. Let us rise, together, to confront this challenge head on. I now resume my functions as President of the Council. I shall now give the floor to the other members of the Security Council.”
2014-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7268 (2014) · source
“I would urge them to look also to Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama, who visited Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone this week and warned that panicking and isolating affected countries will only make the outbreak worse. The United States also wants to express its gratitude to Senegal for allowing its main airport to serve as a regional hub for emergency personnel and supplies. We have all been alarmed by the models of the Ebola trajectory that we have seen - models in which infections rise in steep, terrifying curves. We have seen those kinds of things in Hollywood movies, but not in real life in recent history. Those models show what could happen if we continue to let fear, in action or indifference drive our response. We have to find resources that, right now, many think they cannot afford to spare.”
2014-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7268 (2014) · source
“I would ask the representatives of every country represented here, especially those that are still figuring out how they will respond, to please take this message back to their capitals. The math is simple - the sooner we act, the more of us that contribute, the more lives we will save. We can bend the curve. We must bend the curve. I would ask those who are skeptical to just look at Nigeria. Two outbreaks were detected there during the epidemic; one was in Lagos, which has a population of over 21 million. In just a few weeks, over 1,000 professionals were mobilized and conducted more than 18,000 home visits. They tracked down 20 cases of infected people, as well as 890 people with whom the infected people had come into contact. As a result of that swift, methodical effort, so far Nigeria's outbreaks seem to have been contained.”
2014-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7268 (2014) · source
“Knowing what we know now about the exponential spread of this deadly virus, we will have no excuse if we still fail to come together to do what is needed - ifwe do not dig deep. Nobody will be able to say, "We did not realize it could get so bad". The problem is solvable. We know how to give people who are infected with Ebola a fighting chance and how to care for them with dignity. We know how to prevent new outbreaks and how to prepare countries to find and stop them when cases occur. While our response will take time to ramp up, and the epidemic will get worse before it gets better, our actions can save countless lives. The math is simple; the sooner we act, the more lives we will save.”
2014-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7268 (2014) · source
“It is against everything that we believe in and stand for. It is wrong, and it is dangerous because people we turn away are all but certain, as we heard, to infect others. Today's resolution is important. It is a call to action, not just from the Security Council, but from the entire United Nations family. Today's resolution has a 130 sponsors - the most sponsors ever for any Security Council resolution in the history of the United Nations. That means that the 2,176 resolutions that came before this one had fewer sponsors. This is a degree of unanimity and unity that we rarely see. But iftoday's resolution is not followed by action on a scale and scope commensurate to the virus, it will be cited years from now as evidence that we raised hopes that we did not deliver on.”
2014-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7268 (2014) · source
“Pierre had the devastating job of telling patients and their relatives that MSF could not take them in. Pierre wrote: "The first person I had to turn away was a father who had brought his sick daughter in the trunk of his car. He was an educated man and he pleaded with me to take his teenage daughter, saying that while he knew he could not save her life, at least we could save the rest of his family from her. Other families just pulled up in cars, let the sick person out, and then drove off abandoning them. One mother tried to leave her baby on a chair hoping that if she did, we would have no choice but to care for the child." That scene is playing itself out right now in clinics across the region. We do not want to live in a world where a father burying his sick daughter is turned away from treatment.”
2014-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7268 (2014) · source
“We welcome the Secretary- General's announcement of the new United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response, which will lead a historic effort to mobilize commitments and direct them where they are most needed. This challenge far surpasses the abilities of any one nation or even any region to tackle alone. This must be an all-hands-on-deck operation. The private sector, foundations and non-governmental organizations also have a crucial role to play, and some, like Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and the Gates Foundation, are already leading the charge. One MSF staff member, Pierre Trbovic, was deployed last month to Monrovia, to the biggest Ebola treatment centre ever built. But by the time he arrived, it was completely full, just like the clinics Jackson Niamah described today.”
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“We are going to build a new training site to prepare thousands of local health workers so they can effectively and safely care for more patients. We are going to stand up additional treatment units, including new isolation spaces and more than 1,000 beds. We are going to work with partners to distribute supplies and information kits to hundreds of thousands of families so they can better protect themselves. Today several other Governments ~ many other Governments, we hope - will announce commitments, joining a growing cadre of countries that have already stepped up, such as the troop- and police-contributing countries that serve commendably in the United Nations Mission in Liberia.”
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“Thus, when Governments in the region te11 over 70 disease investigators that if they travel to the affected areas to volunteer they will not be allowed back into their own countries, they put not only the currently affected countries at greater risk, but also their own countries. Today, instead of isolating the affected countries, we call for flooding them with the resources that are desperately needed to turn the tide in this fight. On Tuesday, President Obama announced that the United States was going to establish a military command centre in Liberia to support civilian efforts across the region, involving an estimated 3,000 United States forces. Supporting United Nations, regional and national efforts, we are gong to create an air bridge to get health workers and medical supplies into West Africa faster.”
2014-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7268 (2014) · source
“The virus jumped across borders and penetrated urban areas, and local burial customs aided its spread. Picking up speed, it has overwhelmed clinics and hospitals, shuttered schools and businesses and sowed fear in communities. Precisely at the moment when a robust, united intervention was needed, some countries started to seal their borders. This reaction, driven by a mix of fear and the desire to protect one's own citizens from the virus's spread, was understandable. The problem is that while isolation is effective and indeed necessary of dealing with individuals who may have been exposed to Ebola, it is utterly counterproductive when applied to entire countries. It deprives them of the very resources they need to bring the virus under control.”
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“The director of the United States-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told United Nations representatives earlier this week: "I have never seen an infectious diseases of this lethality spreading so fast". Without a dramatic shift in the scale of our response, the number of infected individuals is projected to double every three weeks. Looking away will not make this go away. One of the main reasons this outbreak has spread so dramatically is because up to now we have not come together sufficiently to confront it. Over the past 10 months as the deadly virus spread across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone we relied on tactics that worked to contain past outbreaks. But West Africa had never been hit by Ebola before, so the affected countries had no prior knowledge or experience dealing with Ebola.”
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“I would also like to recognize all the people on the front lines in this battle - people like Mr. Jackson Niamah who are risking their lives to curb this deadly virus. Their dedication and compassion humble us. Today the Security Council is holding an emergency meeting on a health crisis for the first time in the history of the United Nations. The Security Council has just issued a call to action. We have called on all nations to take swift and decisive action to contain the further spread of Ebola, and we have declared the current outbreak a threat to international peace and security. As we heard unequivocally from the experts today, the scale of this outbreak is unprecedented. By next week, more people will have died from Ebola in Liberia alone than in the 20 previous Ebola outbreaks combined.”
2014-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7268 (2014) · source
“It is my understanding that Council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. A vote was taken by a Show ofhands. In favour: Argentina, Australia, Chad, Chile, China, France, Jordan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Nigeria, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Rwanda, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America The President: There were 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 2177 (2014). I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the representative of the United States. I thank Secretary-General Ban for his briefing and Dr. Nabarro and Ms. Chan for their remarks and for the essential role that the United Nations is playing in confronting the Ebola epidemic.”
2014-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7268 (2014) · source
“I thank Mr. Niamah for his briefing. Members of the Council have before them document S/2014/673, which contains the text of a draft resolution submitted by Afghanistan, Albania, Andorra, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, the Congo, Costa Rica, C6te d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Finland, France, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guinea, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malawi, Mali, Maldives, Mauritius, Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, the Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of Moldova Romania, the Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Timor- Leste, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United Republic of Tanzania, the United States of America, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Viet Nam, Yemen, and Zambia.”
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“Thomas Mayr-Harting, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, to participate in this meeting. It is so decided. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite His Excellency Mr. Tete Antonio, Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations, to participate in this meeting. It is so decided. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. I wish to warmly welcome the Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-moon, and I now give him the floor.”
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“In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the following briefers to participate inthis meeting: Dr. DavidNabarro, Senior United Nations System Senior Coordinator for Ebola; Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization; and Mr. Jackson Niamah, from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). It is so decided. On behalf of the Council, I welcome Mr. Niamah, who is joining us today via video-teleconference from Monrovia. Let me note that Mr. Niamah will be with us through part of this meeting only, so that he can return to his lifesaving work in MSF's Ebola treatment centre in Monrovia. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite His Excellency Mr.”
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“In accordance with rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representatives of Afghanistan, Albania, Andorra, Angola, Armenia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Colombia, the Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Finland, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guinea, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, the Marshall Islands, Mauritius, the Federated States of Micronesia, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, the Niger, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Saint Lucia, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Timor-Leste, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, the United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Viet Nam, Yemen and Zambia to participate in this meeting.”
2014-09-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7268 (2014) · source
“I thank Ms. Honore for her clarifications. There are no more names inscribed on the list of speakers. The Security Council has thus concluded the present stage of its consideration of the item on its agenda. The meeting rose at 1 pm.”
2014-09-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7262 (2014) · source
“We as the international community continue to experiment and to learn and to adjust around the most effective ways to help the Haitian people address those very real needs. We will continue to do so as Haiti continues to move along the path to self-sufficiency. I now resume my functions as President of the Council. I give the floor to the representative of Haiti.”
2014-09-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7262 (2014) · source
“A smaller military component must stand ready to assist on short notice anywhere that unrest overwhelms the combined capacity ofHaitian and United Nations police. With continued robust MINUSTAH support, we look to Haiti's Government to assume greater responsibility for security, including for elections. We are committed to discussing with partners how MINUSTAH should be adjusted. We belive that the Secretariat, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and the Force Commander have taken the facts on the ground into account, and they have concluded that conditions support the adjusted force levels recommended by the Secretary-General. In conclusion, Haiti has real needs. It has been through so much and it faces tremendous challenges.”
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“We have to right- size MINUSTAH to fit Haiti's evolving needs. We agree with our colleagues that decisions about the size and configuration of the force should be conditions- based. Like our friends in the region who have given so much to Haiti's recovery, we are a neighbour of Haiti's and we have a deep and demonstrated interest in Haiti's security and the growth and success of its democracy. The United States agrees with the Secretary- General's determination, based on a thorough review, that conditions support further consolidating MINUSTAH's military component in the upcoming mandate. We agree with the Special Representative that support for MINUSTAH's robust police component to Haiti's National Police is still critically necessary.”
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“We welcome the onging expansion and professionalization of the Haitian National Police. Police have shown an increased capacity to maintain public order while respecting people's rights. We also recognize MINUSTAH's efforts to strengthen Haiti's justice sector, such as seeking to imporve the capacity of judges and prosecutors and increasing access to legal aid. Haiti's prison system needs urgent fixing. Haiti's prisons, which have a capacity of approximately 6,000 people, currently house more than 10,000, and nearly 80 per cent of those people are awaiting trial. Let us be clear: our work in Haiti is not finished. But just because significant development and political challenges persist does not make MINUSTAH the solution to all of them. Nor does it mean that the Mission should be kept just as it is.”
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“Massive progress has been made to find homes for the 1.5 million people displaced by the 2010 earthquake, but 70,000 people are still displaced and much work remains to be done to provide for citizens' basic needs, such as electricity, quality schools and access to doctors. Haitians expect their Government to provide for those needs, and are understandibly frustrated when they are not met. Therefore, our message to all of Haiti's politicians is clear: come together to pass an electoral law and hold free, fair and inclusive elections in respect of constitutional deadlines. Every United Nations State Member shouldjoin that call, and we are heartened that so many have done so. Despite the political deadlock in Haiti, there has been encouraging progress on other fronts.”
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“Many of Haiti's elected leaders have worked tirelessly to seek a political compromise and have offered meaningful concessions to that end, including with regard to the composition of the Electoral Council and the Cabinet. But a group of six Seantors seems intent on holding elections hostage to partisan concerns, even going so far as to prevent a debate on the electoral law. Legislators in a democracy have a responsibility to defend their constituents' rights. But when elected officials take advantage of democracy's checks and balances to cynically block debates and elections altogether, they stand in the way of addressing citizens' real needs. And, as we all know, the needs of Haiti's citizens are very real.”
2014-09-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7262 (2014) · source
“When the Security Council met to discuss Haiti in March (see S/PV.7147), there was cautious optimism that the signing of the El Rancho Accord and the dialogue mediated by the Episcopal Conference would help break the country's political stalemate and lead to long-overdue elections. It is therefore deeply disappointing, as other Council members have pointed out, that five months later so little progress has been made towards that goal. Haiti still does not even have an electoral law, which led the country's provisional Electoral Council to declare recently that Haiti would not be able to hold elections on 26 October, the date the Government had set.”
2014-09-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7262 (2014) · source
“I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the representative of the United States. I thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Honore for her briefing and for her leadership. I also thank all the dedicated women and men serving in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), who are working with her to build a more secure and stable Haiti. The troop and police contributors to Haiti, many of whom we have heard from and several of whom we will soon hear from, have made a world of difference in the lives of the Haitian people. The whole international community is grateful.”
2014-09-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7262 (2014) · source
“I wish to draw the attention of Council members to document 8/2014/617, which contains the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti. I now give the floor to Ms. Honore.”
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“In accordance with rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representatives of Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Peru, Spain and Uruguay to participate in this meeting. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite Ms. Sandra Honore, Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, to participate in this meeting. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite His Excellency Mr. Thomas Mayr-Harting, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, to participate in this meeting. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda.”
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“There are no more names inscribed on the list of speakers. The Security Council has thus concluded the present stage of its consideration of the item on its agenda. The meeting rose at 5.40 pm.”
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“I would like to thank the representative of Italy and the previous speakers for sticking to the allotted five-minute time period for their statements. I now give the floor to the representative of Azerbaijan.”
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“A young woman who has already done so much to assist children recovering from experiences like hers and dedicated herself to changing the world so fewer children endure such horrors. To see Sandra today is to see the potential of all the children out there whose destinies hang in the balance in today's conflicts. There are so many ofthem - Sandras held captive in Nigeria, Sandras suffering through humanitarian blockades in Syria and Sandras fleeing massacres in the Central African Republic. They are children who, like Sandra, have a world to change. We must do more to ensure that they can. I now resume my functions as President of the Council. I give the floor to the representative of Pakistan.”
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“Now, that does not mean that our work is finished, but real progress has been made. Governments can change, and when they do, so do the lives of kids. We were all so moved today by Sandra's story. She is a child, as she described it, born into war. She is a girl driven from her school and her home, who witnessed her relatives gunned down in cold blood in a refuge that they thought was safe. But the most defining part of Sandra's story is not the trembling, lO-year-old girl who said that what she feared was her last prayer at the barrel ofa gun. The defining feature is the young woman who, with tremendous strength and determination, addressed the United Nations today. A young woman who spoke not of revenge, but ofjustice.”
2014-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7259 (2014) · source
“In 2008, the United States passed the Child Soldier Prevention Act, which limits United States military assistance to Governments that recruit or use child soldiers. Chad provides an example of how multilateral pressure can bring about real change. Last year, a chorus ofactors pressed Chad to address its child soldier problem in the run-up to re-hatting its peacekeepers for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali. Chad responded by setting up child-protection units in its military, conducting age verification reviews of its troops with the United Nations and signing a presidential decree making 18 the minimum recruitment age, among other steps. As a result, Chad was taken off the list of abusive parties in the Secretary-General's annual report.”
2014-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7259 (2014) · source
“We also need to try to work with all groups i State and non-State * to set concrete, time-bound action plans to root out those practices. That can be especially challenging with non-State groups, but in 2013, nine non-State groups issued public statements or command orders prohibiting the use of child soldiers. Last month, the Free Syrian Army sent a letter to the Council announcing it had banned the use of child soldiers and pledging to punish child recruiters. As the persistent perpetrator problem makes clear, global campaigns, action plans and trainings will not do it alone. As Sandra told us today so movingly, perpetrators have to be held accountable. Groups that fail to change their behaviour must be hit where it hurts. The United Nations can apply that pressure, of course. So can individual countries.”
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“Girls captured by groups like Boko Haram and ISIL are being sold into markets, given to fighters as so-called brides or kept as sex slaves. Secondly, as others have noted, we have a repeat offender problem. Thirty-one of the 59 armed groups listed in the report have been named in the report for the past five years and 11 of those persistent perpetrators have been named in every single report issued by the Secretary-General since the Office of the Special Representative began issuing reports in 2002. We have to do better in protecting kids. One key step is condemning in a single, unified voice those abuses. Resolution 7129 (2014), which was adopted by the Council in March and condemns military use of schools, is one example. The only battles fought in schools should be battles over ideas.”
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“In January, he finally made it to Amman, where his son was treated. When I met Abu Ibrahim in a refugee camp in June, his son's physical wounds were healing, but the boy was still deeply traumatized. He had not been to school in over a year. These are just three of the 23 places covered by the report on children and armed conflict (S/2014/339), where children have been the victims of violence. There are many places - Pakistan, Palestine and Israel, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Afghanistan and so many other countries. What is happening to the 18-year-old girl and other Yazidi captives in Iraq, to Matthew in South Sudan and to Abu Ibrahim's children is part of a disturbing pattern. First, we are seeing the continuing rise of extremist groups that are openly hostile to children's rights, and particularly the rights of girls.”
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“Matthew did not want to fight, but he was told that his family would be killed if he refused. He gave in, and was taken for military training. He learned how to march, find cover and shoot. One night when he was sent to gather firewood, he fled and eventually reached a United Nations camp, where he told his story to Al-Jazeera. He is afraid that fighters will catch him if he leaves the United Nations site. "If they find me, they will kill me", he says. Abu Ibrahim lost his wife and four of his children when the Syrian regime struck his home in Ghouta with a barrel bomb in April 2013. His only surviving child - a 10-year-old boy - nearly died from shrapnel wounds in his leg, head and chest. For eight months, a desperate Abu Ibrahim carried his son from city to city in Syria seeking medical help.”
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“Then her captors took her back to Mosul, where she said she was held with more than 300 Yazidi girls and women. They were locked up, two or three to a room. Every day, the routine was the same; they were told to shower, and then the men came to rape them. The young woman had managed to hide a cell phone before the fighters abducted her, and she called a family member from captivity to tell her story. That was on 20 August, just a few weeks ago. It is the last news we have of this young woman. Matthew, aged 16, was in math class in January in Bentiu, South Sudan, when rebel fighters raided his school. Matthew is an ethnic Nuer, as are most inhabitants of his village. The armed men told Matthew, one of some 300 students there, that the students were being taken away to fight against the Government, led by the rival Dinka group.”
2014-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7259 (2014) · source
“Amid so many numbers and issues, it is easy to forget that we are talking about a lot of individual children - boys, girls and infants who suffer these deplorable injustices. As the last speaker among the Council members, I should like to tell three stories in the hope of reminding us that, no matter how hard we are working to protect children, we have to work harder. An 18-year old woman from Mosul, in northern Iraq, relayed in a whisper what happened after she was abducted by armed men from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The fighters took her to a village called Kocho, where they separated the men and boys over 12 from the women, girls and younger boys. This young woman, just 18, was forced to watch as the fighters massacred the men and older boys.”
2014-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7259 (2014) · source
“I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the representative of the United States. I thank Special Representative of the Secretary- General Zerrougui, Special Envoy Whitaker, Deputy Executive Director Brandt, Under-Secretary-General Ladsous, Foreign Minister Asselborn and Sandra Uwiringiyimana for speaking with us today and for their tireless efforts on behalf of the world's children. We have heard a lot of statistics measuring the massive scale of this problem. They include 3 million kids out of school in Syria and 9,000 children recruited to fight in South Sudan. Many of my colleagues have rightly spoken to the enduring big-picture problems we have to address, such as sexual violence and attacks on schools.”
2014-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7259 (2014) · source
“I would like to thank Sandra for a briefing that none of us will forget. Before we proceed to statements, I would like to point out that we intend to continue the practice started last month during the United Kingdom presidency of using the flashing light on the collar of the speaker's microphone to signal when five minutes have elapsed. I strongly encourage both members and non-members of the Council to conclude their remarks as soon as possible after that light starts flashing. We will carry on this open debate right through lunch, as we have a very large number of speakers, again testifying to the interest and concern of all States Members of the United Nations. I shall now give the floor to the members of the Security Council.”
2014-09-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7259 (2014) · source
“Ahmed Fathalla, Permanent Observer ofthe League of Arab States, to participate in this meeting. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. I wish to draw the attention of Council members to document 8/2014/339, which contains the report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict. I now give the floor to Ms. Zerrougui.”
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“In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the following briefers to participate in this meeting: Ms. Leila Zerrougui, Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Children and Armed Conflict; Mr. Herve Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations; Ms. Yoka Brandt, Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF; Mr. Forest Whitaker, Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation of UNESCO; and Ms. Sandra Uwiringiyimana. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite His Excellency Mr. Thomas Mayr-Harting, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, to participate in this meeting. In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite His Excellency Mr.”
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“Adoption of the agenda The agenda was adopted. Children and armed conflict Report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict (S/2014/339) The President: In accordance with rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representatives of Afghanistan, Algeria, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Estonia, Germany, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Iraq, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Somalia, Spain, the Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, the Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay and Yemen to participate in this meeting.”
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“As this is the first public meeting of the Security Council for the month of September 2014, I would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute, on behalf of the Council, to His Excellency Sir Mark Lyall Grant, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, for his service as President of the Council for the month of August. I know that I speak for all members of the Council in expressing deep appreciation to Ambassador Lyall Grant and his great team for the terrific diplomatic skill with which they conducted the Council's business last month. I should also like to extend, on behalf of the Council, a warm welcome to the new Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations, His Excellency Mr. Francois Delattre. We look forward to collaborating closely with him.”
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