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2014-09-08

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1. “Those who come forward and report such crimes are often burdened with threats and stigma. We underline the need to take all necessary measures to ensure the protection of survivors, witnesses, humanitarian workers, medical staff, human rights defenders and journalists who collect information on sexual violence and actually do help survivors. Conflict-related sexual violence is prohibited under international law, under specific provisions of the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, and under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Yet too often, sexual Violence in conflicts is regarded as an unavoidable consequence of the breakdown of law and order. This culture of impunity must end.”

   2015-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7428 (2015) · source

2. “For instance, it should guarantee the deployment in peacekeeping operations of women protection advisers and gender advisers, so as to strengthen efforts to prevent and respond to sexual violence, and it should ensure that provisions on conflict-related violence are integrated into peace and ceasefire agreements. Despite the fact that women are the largest group of victims of sexual violence, they should not be viewed merely as victims. When it comes to conflict resolution and peacebuilding efforts, they represent a powerful but still largely neglected group. The increased participation and empowerment of women in these areas are crucial to sustainable peace and security, as set forth in resolution 1325 (2000) and other related resolutions. Sexual violence in conflict remains prevalent, yet it also remains widely underreported.”

   2015-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7428 (2015) · source

3. “Conflict-related sexual violence has been used as a tool of warfare in many armed conflicts around the globe, affecting women and men, girls and boys and societies as a whole. We note with concern, as the Secretary- General's report points out, that sexual Violence continues to be used by extremist groups in several countries as a tactic ofterror, forcing entire populations into submission or displacement. Moreover, conflict- related violence takes place against a backdrop of structural gender-based discrimination. To be truly effective, our fight against sexual Violence should start by promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, in order to tackle the root causes of this frightful crime. The Council should make full use of existing tools.”

   2015-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7428 (2015) · source

4. “Monitoring, analysis and reporting arrangements have been instituted in a number of conflict or post-conflict situations in order to collect more consistent information on conflict-related sexual violence. A list of parties to conflicts who are credibly suspected of committing sexual violence has been created and updated. Portugal appreciates those significant achievements. There can never be real security if women are not secure. However, while we recognize that with the adoption of various resolutions significant progress has been achieved and a strong normative framework established, enormous challenges still lie ahead, particularly owing to the changing nature of conflicts. As several of the Council's resolutions have underlined, ending conflict-related sexual Violence is crucial to improving international peace and security.”

   2015-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7428 (2015) · source

5. “I would like to thank you, Madam President, for convening this open debate, and Ms. Zainab Bangura, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, and Ms. Hamsatu Allamin of Nigeria for their very comprehensive presentations. We welcome the Secretary-General's report (S/2015/203), which provides us with important information on the implementation of Security Council resolutions on monitoring and reporting arrangements designed to collect more consistent information on conflict-related violence, and which also contains very substantive recommendations on thematic and country- specific situations. In recent years, the Council's resolutions have recognized sexual violence as a tactic of war and its potential for undermining peace and security. We know that much has been accomplished.”

   2015-04-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7428 (2015) · source

6. “United Nations peacekeepers are the face of the Organization on the ground and must reflect the values of respect and the protection of human rights. The harmful and widespread impact of armed conflict on children and its undeniable long-term consequences for durable peace, security and development are widely recognized. In 1996, Graca Machel said, "The impact of armed conflict on children must be everyone's concern and is everyone's responsibility" (A/51/306, para. 317). It still is our responsibility to take collective action to overcome this scourge and to prevent children from being affected by conflict.”

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

7. “If that is not done, the Council's credibility will be at stake. The International Criminal Court continues to play a fundamental deterrent role, one complementary to the roles of tribunals at national and international levels, by holding perpetrators accountable and by investigating and prosecuting those responsible for committing atrocities against children. With regard to peacekeeping operations, Portugal would like to emphasize the importance of including child-protection advisers in the mandates of missions. In addition to child-protection advisers, it is fundamental to ensure appropriate predeployment training in child protection for peacekeepers and to provide effective screening of peacekeepers to ensure that individuals who have committed grave violations against children do not serve the United Nations.”

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

8. “Against that backdrop, Portugal supports the development of the Lucens Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed Conflict, which we have co-sponsored, as a concrete tool to protect educational facilities and limit the impact of conflict on students' safety and their right to education. Those who abuse children in times of conflict cannot go unpunished. The need to tackle impunity regarding persistent perpetrators, already clearly identified, should certainly guide our work in the near future. We are referring to individuals or entities that have been identified as persistent perpetrators for five years or more, most of which are non-State actors. The Council needs to address those difficult cases and ensure that such individuals are accounted for and sanctioned.”

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

9. “Portugal believes that the Council should continue to address situations of concern, while striving to find the best way to promote the protection of children affected by armed conflict. We are gravely concerned about the widespread and intentional attacks against schools, teachers and students as an instrument of war. Schools and education facilities are now part of the battlefield, as they are systematically being used as bases, barracks, weapon caches, detention centres and even torture chambers by regular armed forces and by armed non-State opposition groups. Education infrastructure has become a strategic target of attack, putting children and teachers at risk and denying children their right to education. That pattern needs to be reversed.”

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

10. “The abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in Nigeria in April is an appalling incident that serves to stress the need to continue to address the issue of children and armed conflict. In recent years, the Security Council has consistently underscored the need to hold accountable persistent perpetrators of grave violations against children. We hope that, in the near future, all perpetrators of such grave violations, including the abduction of children and the denial of humanitarian access, will be listed in the annexes to the Secretary-General's reports. The normative framework for the protection of children in situations of armed conflict must continue.”

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

11. “Despite the significant progress made in advancing the agenda with the adoption of a number of resolutions and the creation of mechanisms to better address the issue, the latest report of the Secretary-General (S/2014/339), presented in the Chamber today, is blunt in describing the appalling reality of children affected by conflicts and as one of the main victims of the changing nature of warfare and related human rights violations and abuses, who hear the impact of the use of explosives, air strikes and terror tactics. It is extremely worrying that the Secretary-General notes that the situation has deteriorated in a number of countries, including in the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Syria and northern Nigeria.”

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

12. “Action plans have proved to be excellent tools to engage with armed forces and organized armed groups. However, political commitment per se is not enough. Compliance is also required. The Council adopted resolution 1261 (1999), its first resolution on children and armed conflict, 15 years ago, recognizing that this issue has serious implications for international peace and security. We are fully convinced that the issue of children and armed conflict has serious implications for international peace and security, and we believe that the protection of children in such situations requires the commitment of the international community as a whole.”

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

13. “I wish to thank the United States delegation for convening this open debate on children and armed conflict, an issue to which Portugal attaches great importance. I thank today's briefers for their presentations. I would particularly like to take this opportunity to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict for her briefing and to commend her tireless efforts in contributing to the advancement of the agenda on children and armed conflict. Portugal fully supports the Children, Not Soldiers campaign with a view to ending the scourge of the recruitment and use of children in armed conflicts by 2016, both by Governments and non-State actors. Much has been done, and we value the significant steps taken to prevent recruitment and to end the use of children by armed forces and groups.”

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