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“I will have more to say about each of the departing members at the end of today's meeting, but I would like to thank Lithuania for the major contribution it has made during the past two years.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“I thank Ambassador Oyarzun for his briefing and for all of his leadership over the past year on this issue. His enthusiasm and command of the material, which makes all the difference for Chairs of these Committees, is impressive, and we have learned a lot. I shall now give the floor to the members of the Council.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. At this meeting, the Security Council will hear a briefing by Ambassador Roman Oyarzun Marchesi, Permanent Representative of Spain, in his capacity as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). I now give the floor to Ambassador Oyarzun Marchesi.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7597 (2015) · source
“At the same time, until that day comes, we must look out for the humanitarian needs of the Syrian people, who are in desperate need of our help. I now resume my functions as President of the Council. The meeting rose at 10.35 am.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7595 (2015) · source
“There are of course many other profound challenges in Syria, including terrorism, which we are working to address through various initiatives that themselves are critically urgent. Yet it is incumbent upon the Council to ensure that resolutions aimed at addressing humanitarian challenges remain focused on responsibly addressing those concerns. We all understand that the most effective way to resolve Syria's crisis, including its dire humanitarian situation, is through a political solution. The adoption in the past week of resolution 2254 (2015) provides a genuine opportunity to reach a nationwide ceasefire and foster a political process that could lead to a political transition in Syria based on the Geneva communique. As the Council, we must do all within our power to seize this opportunity.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7595 (2015) · source
“As such, the resolution recalls the obligations of all parties under international humanitarian law, including the need to cease all attacks against civilians as well as against medical facilities and medical personnel. According to Physicians for Human Rights, medical facilities have been attacked 112 times in 2015, more than during any other year of the conflict. Nearly two thirds of hospitals in Syria have been destroyed or are only partly functional as a result of attacks. The lack of health-care workers, facilities and medical supplies forces Syrians to seek lifesaving assistance elsewhere. According to credible reports, Russian air strikes have hit major supply routes, interrupting humanitarian programmes, killing civilians, including first responders, and hitting schools and markets.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7595 (2015) · source
“But even when cross-line delivery requests are approved, they are too often prevented from being acted upon. Half of the approved requests have subsequently been held up by the Syrian security forces. This record, which is worse than that for 2014, is unacceptable, and the Council, which adopts these resolutions, should not accept the denial of requests and a pattern of a failure to even respond to requests. Humanitarian access to territory held by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, where about half of the besieged and hard-to-reach population lives, is also extremely limited, thus exacerbating the suffering that the terrorist group inflicts on the Syrian people. As the resolution reiterates, medical assistance is crucial.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7595 (2015) · source
“The resolution adopted by the Council today underscores the urgent need for assistance across conflict lines and calls for Syrian authorities to "expeditiously respond to all requests for cross-line deliveries" (resolution 2258 (2015), para. 3) by the United Nations. People's lives depend on those requests being approved, yet more than half of requests made in 2015 for cross-line deliveries remain pending. Often, the Syrian Government just ignores the United Nations requests; they do not even bother to respond. Acute malnourishment and disease are prevalent, yet nothing seems to create a sense of urgency in dealing with the requests by the United Nations on the part of the Syrian Government. The International Syria Support Group, OCHA and members of the Council have repeatedly called on the Syrian authorities to approve the requests.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7595 (2015) · source
“The situation is catastrophic for the 400,000 Syrians living in besieged areas. OCHA reports that only 1 in every 100 people living in a besieged area has received food aid, and an even smaller proportion has received health assistance. As we all know, the dire humanitarian situation has not only caused immeasurable suffering for Syrian men, women and children and led to countless deaths - so many of them preventable - but the humanitarian catastrophic situation also continues to drive the displacement of Syrians inside the country, often for the second or third time, and continues to lead one wave after another of Syrians to flee their country, helping fuel the largest refugee crisis in a generation.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7595 (2015) · source
“According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), from 1 September to 30 November, the United Nations and its partners accessed just one third of the hard-to- reach locations. An estimated 4.5 million people live in those hard-to-reach locations, meaning more than 3 million people could not be reached. We know this is an enduring and serious problem, yet until now, the Council and the international community have been unable to fix it, notwithstanding our collective efforts through the Vienna process to secure a long overdue political settlement, in accordance with the Geneva communique (S/2012/522, annex). According to the United Nations, there has been no improvement in access to hard-to-reach and besieged areas. In many places, the access situation is even worse.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7595 (2015) · source
“The scale of the crisis makes it all the more critical that the mechanism to deliver humanitarian aid across conflict lines and through border crossings established by resolution 2165 (2014) works as it is supposed to, thereby allowing lifesaving assistance to reach those in the greatest need. The mechanism, which includes monitoring and reporting, has facilitated the delivery of humanitarian assistance more effectively and efficiently, but it continues to face significant obstacles that prevent critical assistance from reaching people who desperately need it. As yesterday's briefings underscored, humanitarian access to millions of people inside Syria is still either restricted or denied.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7595 (2015) · source
“I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the representative of the United States. The briefing in the Security Council yesterday by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres and Ms. Kyung-wha Kang, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator (see S/PV.7592) was clear. The humanitarian situation in Syria is dire and it is getting worse. Thirteen and a half million people in Syria - more than half of the pre-war population - are currently in need of humanitarian assistance. That is 1.2 million more people than required humanitarian assistance last year.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7595 (2015) · source
“In favour: Angola, Chad, Chile, China, France, Jordan, Lithuania, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Russian Federation, Spain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) The President: The draft resolution received 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 2258 (2015). I now give the floor to those members ofthe Council who wish to make statements after the vote.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7595 (2015) · source
“The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. Members of the Council have before them document S/2015/1001, which contains the text ofa draft resolution submitted by Angola, Chile, France, Jordan, Lithuania, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Spain, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America. I wish to draw the attention of Council members to document S/2015/962, which contains the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of Security Council resolutions 2139 (2014), 2165 (2014) and 2191 (2014). The 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 show ofhands.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7595 (2015) · source
“The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. Members of the Council have before them document S/2015/1004, which contains the text of a draft resolution submitted by the Russian Federation and the United States of America. The 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 Show ofhands. In favour: Angola, Chad, Chile, China, France, Jordan, Lithuania, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Russian Federation, Spain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) The President: The draft resolution received 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 2257 (2015). The meeting rose at10.20 am.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7594 (2015) · source
“The 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 show ofhands. In favour: Angola, Chad, Chile, China, France, Jordan, Lithuania, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Spain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Abstaining: Russian Federation The President: There were 14 votes in favour, none against and l abstention. The draft resolution has been adopted as resolution 2256 (2015). I shall now give the floor to those members of the Council who wish to make statements following the voting.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7593 (2015) · source
“I further wish to draw the attention of Council members to documents 8/2015/883 and 8/2015/896, which contain, respectively, a letter dated 17 November 2015 and a letter dated 20 November 2015 from the President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals addressed to the President of the Security Council. I shall now give the floor to those members of the Council who Wish to make statements before the voting.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7593 (2015) · source
“The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. Members of the Council have before them document 8/2015/1005, which contains the text of a draft resolution submitted by Chile. I wish to draw the attention of Council members to documents S/2015/577 and 8/2015/585, which contain, respectively, the report of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the report of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. I also wish to draw the attention of members to documents S/2015/874 and 8/2015/884, which contain, respectively, a letter dated 16 November 2015 from the President of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and a letter dated 17 November 2015 from the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda addressed to the President of the Security Council.”
2015-12-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7593 (2015) · source
“I thank the High Commissioner for Human Rights for his statement and for his tremendous years of service. We are grateful to him. I now invite Council members to informal consultations to continue our discussion on the subject. The meeting rose at 3.30pm.”
2015-12-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7592 (2015) · source
“We will not be sorry not to hear more bad news from him, but no one has been more creative and agile in mobilizing resources around the world to care for these people, and we could not be more grateful for how much he has put into his tenure at UNHCR, body and soul. We want to wish him every success in the future and hope he will stay involved in caring for the people who have benefited so much from his leadership. 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 S/2015/962, which contains the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of Security Council resolutions 2139 (2014), 2165 (2014) and 2191 (2014). I now give the floor to Ms. Kang.”
2015-12-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7592 (2015) · source
“In accordance with rule 39 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the following briefers to participate in this meeting: Ms. Kyung-wha Kang, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, and Mr. Antonio Guterres, former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. On behalf of the Security Council, I would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to Mr. Guterres. He presided over the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) during a very difficult period and made heroic efforts on behalf of people who often cannot speak for themselves but have had in him a tremendous spokesperson. This is his last briefing in that capacity to the Council.”
2015-12-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7592 (2015) · source
“The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. Members of the Council have before them document S/2015/995, which contains the text ofa draft resolution submitted by Angola, Lithuania, New Zealand, Spain and the United States of America. The 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 Show ofhands. In favour: Angola, Chad, Chile, China, France, Jordan, Lithuania, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Russian Federation, Spain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) The President: The draft resolution received 15 votes in favour. The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 2255 (2015). The meeting rose at 10.10 am.”
2015-12-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7590 (2015) · source
“The Security Council is built on the premise that the peace and security of our nations is bound up in one anothers'. But as Lincoln understood, so are human rights. Everyone of us here knows in our core that human trafficking is wrong. We know that modern slavery is inhuman. We know that no one should ever have to endure what Nadia and so many women and girls and others are enduring right here as we sit and as we discuss. If we know that, then what Lincoln told Americans so many years ago also holds true for us here on this day: our freedom and our dignity are bound up with the fates of millions of victims of trafficking, such as Nadia, victims who possess tremendous dignity and courage. We ensure our freedom by fighting to give them their freedom. The meeting rose at 5.35 pm.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“Even after the war ended and the Amendment was adopted, the practice of forced labour endured in other forms, as we know, and the legacy of slavery is still acutely felt in our nation to this day. Speaking on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Amendment's adoption, President Obama appropriately quoted President Abraham Lincoln: "In giving freedom to the slave we ensure freedom to the free - honourable alike in what we give, and what we preserve." Lincoln was referring to efforts to emancipate slaves in this country, but his words can just as easily be applied to the Security Council today. Right now we find victims of human trafficking in every one of our countries. We eat food that they harvest. We speak on telephones built from minerals that they mine. We wear clothes that they make.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“To that end, the United States Government will soon be launching the first-ever United States advisory council on human trafficking, made up exclusively of survivors, to help inform and guide our federal policies and programmes to combat trafficking and empower victims. On 6 December 1865, the United States adopted the Thirteenth Amendment to our Constitution, which abolished slavery. Before it was adopted, generations of men, women and children were enslaved in this country in the most deplorable conditions. People were born, lived and died in chains. It took fighting a brutal civil war in which more than 600,000 lost their lives - one out of every 50 Americans - for this practice to be abolished.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“Thirdly, we need to spur more robust and innovative solutions. Others have rightly highlighted the enormous disparity between the $150 billion in profits estimated to be generated annually by forced labour and the amount spent by countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development annually on anti-trafficking development assistance, which is less than one tenth of a 1 per cent of the amount the traffickers are taking in. But we do not just need more resources; we need resources to be more victim- and survivor-centred. Time and again, we have seen that incorporating victims and survivors into the policymaking process yields better solutions, and they can offer the kind of perspective that Nadia offered us here today.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“Yet aid workers, peacekeepers and other groups that come into close contact with these vulnerable individuals often lack the training to spot the signs of trafficking, and even those with the training often have extremely limited resources to assist the victims who are identified. This is a massive gap, and we must all work to fill it. I credit Jordan, which has taken in more than 628,000 Syrian refugees, as we all know, but Jordan also recently built its first shelter dedicated exclusively to housing and assisting trafficking victims. To give another example, in the United States, the Department of Transportation and Homeland Security have teamed up to train some 50,000 airline employees in how to safely identify suspected instances of human trafficking and alert law-enforcement authorities in real time.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“Learning to see trafficking victims demands sensitizing people at all levels of Government and across the spectrum of agencies, and it demands engaging partners outside of Governments such as faith-based organizations, business owners, teachers, health-care providers - those that are most likely to come into contact with victims. Consider one of the populations at highest risk of trafficking: internationally displaced persons, namely, refugees fleeing conflict areas. As we all know, nearly 60 million people are currently displaced by conflicts, more than at any other time since the Second World War.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“By putting in place such requirements and protections, Governments can show that they are practicing What they preach when it comes to cutting modern slavery out of supply chains, and we can each model best practices for the private sector. Secondly, we have to teach people how to actually see the victims of trafficking. This can be extremely challenging. Some victims of trafficking go out of their way to avoid being identified, out of fear for their safety or that of their loved ones, out of fear of being deported or otherwise criminalized. And when the victims of trafficking are seen, they are seen too often as criminals. People see only the crime that these individuals have committed and not the force, fraud, coercion and terror that led them to do so.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“Beyond these efforts to end conflicts, in which human trafficking thrives, and to go after the worst perpetrators, we must also ask what each of our Governments can do to ensure that we are not ourselves helping to fuel the crime of human trafficking. First, we must work to ensure that our own practices, from procurement to distribution, do not themselves contribute to human trafficking. This means taking steps to require Government contractors and subcontractors to prohibit activities known to contribute to trafficking, such as making it illegal to charge workers recruitment fees that can lead to debt bondage.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“Similarly, we continue to provide security and counter-terrorism assistance to the Governments of Chad, Nigeria, the Niger, Cameroon and Benin to aid their fight against Boko Haram. We are also continuing to partner with African countries to take on the Lord's Resistance Army and Joseph Kony, who remains at large. The Lord's resistance Army has been decimated in recent years, but every day it exists and Joseph Kony is at large is a day in which children, women and civilian communities everywhere are at risk of abduction, and the abductees, as all here know, are then forced themselves into abducting others. In some cases you have children being asked to abduct and kill other children. It is monstrous. So that effort, too, is essential.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“We must also commit ourselves to ending the conflicts that provide an ideal climate for human traffickers, and of course we must commit ourselves to eradicating the groups that use human trafficking as a weapon of war. To that end, under President Obama's leadership, the United States has organized a coalition of 65 countries to degrade and destroy ISIL and spurred efforts in the Security Council to curb the flows of foreign terrorist fighters and the illicit funds that extremist groups use to fuel their terror. The session that United States Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew will chair tomorrow, when many other Council finance ministers willjoin him, will aim to strengthen Member States' efforts to cut off ISIL's financing.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“"I am still struggling with the memories", she said. For groups such as ISIL and Boko Haram, slavery has become one of their most versatile weapons of war, used to instil fear, to inflict suffering, to recruit followers, reward fighters, convert people of other faiths, reward combatants and generate revenue, and they are learning from one another's worst practices. It is a grotesque race to the bottom. So what can we, and by we I mean all States Members of the United Nations, all civilized communities, what can we do to root out this scourge? Of course, we must condemn these file crimes and those who commit them, and we must continue to document the horrors, so that one day those responsible can be held accountable.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“Martha, age 14, was abducted by Boko Haram along with her two sisters in September 2014. She was taken to one of the group's camps, and she later told a reporter, "They told me not to walk around outside, and when I did they would beat me. They told me not to talk, and I would talk, so they would beat me. They told me not to sing, I would sing, and they would beat me". She was forced to convert to Islam, assigned a new name and married against her will to a fighter. Martha said she was forced to carry extra ammunition for Boko Haram fighters on two of their operations. "They wanted me to kill people," she said, "but I could never bring myself to kill anyone". She said, "Boko Haram members tried to force my sister to kill an old man. When she refused, they shot her instead." One night, Martha and two of the girls escaped into the bush.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“And they tell followers, "It is permissible to have intercourse with a female slave who has not reached puberty". In other words, raping female slaves is authorized; it is acceptable; it is encouraged. When we try to describe evil like this, we find ourselves groping for language; words fail us. We are amazed that Nadia was able to speak about the unspeakable and find words, and we thank her for that. The stories of Boko Haram's depravity are also shocking. On 2 October, the group reportedly forced four girls and a boy to blow themselves up in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri. Three of them attacked a mosque during evening prayers. Fifteen people, including these kids, were killed, and more than 35 were injured. Witnesses estimated that the bombers were as young as 9 years old.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“Grono observed, the taboo against slavery is being actively and willfully challenged by ISIL and Boko Haram, which do not just carry out widespread human trafficking; they brag about it on social media and in propaganda materials. ISIL distributes women and girls to fighters as spoils of war, systematically rapes them and sells them in markets like cattle. Boys as young as 4 years old are forced into cub training camps, where they are reportedly given dolls on which to practice beheadings. It is barbaric. ISIL has even gone so far as to issue guidelines to its followers on how to treat their slaves, providing a twisted justification for the most depraved acts. The guidelines state: "It is permissible to buy, sell or give as a gift female captives and slaves, for they are merely property which can be disposed of".”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“We have seen how the Governments, armed groups and terrorists that treat people as property often show similar disdain for the rules and norms that ensure our shared security. Yet, despite persistent efforts to eradicate trafficking in persons by the United Nations and other international bodies, Governments and civil- society groups, this crime persists. The statistics, as others have noted, are staggering. According to the International Labour Organization, at least 20 million people worldwide are victims of forced labour. An estimated 5.5 million ofthem are children - 5.5 million children. Making matters worse, as Mr.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“Almost everywhere we see conflict in the world, as others have said, we see human trafficking. Human trafficking thrives in conflict, and conflict is exacerbated by human trafficking. It is no coincidence that the illicit trade in weapons, drugs, stolen antiquities and other illegal goods tend to follow routes similar to those used by human traffickers and be carried out by the same criminal networks. These illicit activities sustain armed groups, terrorists and criminal networks and threaten international peace and security. In addition, traffickers often force their own victims to commit crimes, such as participating in terrorist acts, transporting illegal weapons and producing illegal drugs, and these crimes themselves, of course, further undermine our shared security.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“I also agree with the comment that was just made that, at a time when refugee admissions and the flight of individuals is being politicized and refugees are being caricatured in different ways, your experience and your testimony is a powerful rebuke to those who would caricature this whole population, when people are fleeing for their lives, fleeing terror and conflict and sexual violence. We should never forget that. Today we as a Council are meeting for the first time on the issue of human trafficking in conflict. Historic as this is, it is a bit baffling that the Council has not taken on this issue before. We have up to now met on trafficking in arms, oil, antiquities, natural resources and Wildlife, but this was our first meeting on the trafficking in human beings.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“It is worth remembering that, in that time, women and kids and others are living in circumstances just like those that Nadia have described. As we sit here, they are being terrorized. And they are dreaming of their escape, desperate to get out but trapped by brute force and nothing more. We have been talking about ISIL in the Security Council since at least early 2014. But Nadia, you have humanized the stakes in a way that I think has been extremely important for people to hear. I do not think that anyone who was able to hear you will ever forget what they heard and what you have been through. We are truly in awe of your courage.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“I shall now make a statement in my national capacity as the representative of the United States. Let me join others in thanking our guest briefers - Deputy Secretary-General Eliasson, Executive Director Fedotov and Mr. Grono - both for their briefings and for their efforts in the real world to combat human trafficking. Nadia, I cannot imagine how painful it must be every time you are asked to recount your experience. No human being should be forced to endure what you and your family have gone through - ever. Your being here and speaking so bravely to all of us is a testament to your resilience and your dignity, and is of course the most powerful rejection of what the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stands for. We have been here now for two hours and 15 minutes.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“I thank the representative of Spain for his leadership in pulling that Arria Formula meeting together, allowing the voices of the victims ofterrorism to be heard. We need to do more of that type of work in the Security Council.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“"The Security Council requests that the Secretary-General report back to the Council on progress made in 12 months to implement better existing mechanisms countering trafficking in persons and to carry out steps requested in this presidential statement." This statement will be issued as a document of the Security Council under the symbol S/PRST/2015/25. Although that may sound a little bureaucratic for our guests here today, that is how we get the United Nations system to work and get things done. I would add that it is very important that the Security Council has spoken on these issues for the first time. I shall now give the floor to the members of the Security Council.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“"The Security Council requests the Secretary- General to take all appropriate steps to reduce to the greatest extent possible the risk that the United Nations's procurement and supply chains may contribute to the trafficking in persons in situations of armed conflict. "The Security Council urges relevant United Nations agencies operating in armed conflict and post-conflict situations to build their technical capacity to assess conflict situations for instances of trafficking in persons, proactively screen for potential victims oftrafficking and facilitate access to needed services for identified victims. "The Security Council expresses its intent to continue to address trafficking in persons with respect to the situations on its seizure list.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“"The Security Council calls upon Member States to hold accountable those who engage in trafficking in persons in situations of armed conflict, especially their Government employees and officials, as well as any contractors and subcontractors, and urges Member States to take all appropriate steps to mitigate the risk that their public procurement and supply chains may contribute to trafficking in persons in situations of armed conflict. "The Security Council welcomes existing efforts to address sexual exploitation and abuse in the context of United Nations peacekeeping missions, and requests the Secretary-General to identify and take additional steps to prevent and respond robustly to reports of trafficking in persons in United Nations peacekeeping operations, with the objective of ensuring accountability for exploitation.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“"The Security Council expresses solidarity with and compassion for victims of trafficking, including victims of trafficking related to armed conflicts worldwide, and underscores the need for Member States and the United Nations system to proactively identify trafficking victims amongst vulnerable populations, including refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), and address comprehensively victims' needs, including proactive victim identification and, as appropriate, the provision of or access to medical and psycho- social assistance, in the context of the United Nations peacekeeping and peacebuilding efforts, as well as ensure that victims of trafficking in persons are treated as victims of crime and, in line with domestic legislation, not penalized or stigmatized for their involvement in any unlawful activities in which they have been compelled to engage.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“"The Security Council notes the particular impact that trafficking in persons in situations of armed conflict has on women and children, including increasing their vulnerability to sexual and gender-based violence. The Security Council expresses its intention to continue to address this impact, including, as appropriate, in the context of its Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict, within its mandate, and in the framework of its agenda to prevent and address sexual violence in armed conflict.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“"The Security Council calls upon Member States to consider ratifying or acceding to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children. The Security Council further calls upon States parties to this Convention and to the Protocol to redouble their efforts to implement them effectively. "The Security Council takes note of the recommendations made by the Working Group on Trafficking in Persons, established by the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, since its inception, and calls upon States to strengthen their efforts in building the necessary political, economic and social conditions to tackle this crime.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“"The Security Council calls upon Member States to reinforce their political commitment to and improve their implementation of applicable legal obligations to criminalize, prevent and otherwise combat trafficking in persons, and to strengthen efforts to detect and disrupt trafficking in persons, including implementing robust victim identification mechanisms and providing access to protection and assistance for identified victims, particularly in relation to conflict. The Security Council underscores in this regard the importance of international law enforcement cooperation, including with respect to investigation and prosecution of trafficking cases, and in this regard calls for the continued support of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in providing technical assistance upon request.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source
“"The Security Council reiterates the critical importance ofall Member States fully implementing relevant resolutions with respect to ISIL, including resolutions 2161 (2014), 2170 (2014), 2178 (2014), 2199 (2015) and 2249 (2015). The Security Council further reiterates the critical importance of all Member States fully implementing relevant resolutions, including resolution 2195 (2014), which expresses concern that terrorists benefit from transnational organized crime in some regions, including from the trafficking of persons, as well as resolution 2242 (2015), which expresses concern that acts of sexual and gender-based violence are known to be part of the strategic objectives and ideology of certain terrorist groups.”
2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source