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Sultana

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2018-04-16
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  1. “My statement today is not only for Rohingya women but for my other ethnic sisters who are also facing atrocities. Women community leaders from different ethnicities across Myanmar are working together to build inter-ethnic peace and community relations. We believe in a peaceful and united Myanmar for all ethnicities.”

    2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source

  2. “In the light of that and the ongoing impunity of the army, the Security Council must refer the situation in Myanmar to the International Criminal Court without delay, for its horrific crimes against Rohingya as well as for violations against other ethnic groups in the country, including in the Shan, Karin, Kachin and other states. It is hypocritical to condemn the human rights violations and express horror at the new violence, while then also selling arms to Myanmar and seeking explorative licenses to mine its natural resources. Member States committed to conflict prevention and sustaining peace cannot turn a blind eye to State-sanctioned persecution of an ethnic minority, discrimination or other human rights violations, including sexual violence for trade. That applies to Myanmar and all crises elsewhere.”

    2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source

  3. “As the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State recommended, and many members of the Council agreed, the Government of Myanmar must address the central questions of Rohingya citizenship, rights, freedom of movement and equality before the law. My people must be guaranteed their safety upon return to Myanmar. My people are not asking for citizenship; we want our right to citizenship back. My people must be guaranteed their safety upon return to Myanmar. My people must be guaranteed their safety upon return to Burma. The Myanmar military is listed for the first time in this year's report of the Secretary-General on conflict-related sexual violence (S/2018/250).”

    2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source

  4. “They must work with the Bangladesh authorities to stop the trafficking, pressure the Myanmar Government and senior officials to cooperate with the United Nations independent international fact-finding mission on Myanmar and insist on unrestricted humanitarian access across Rakhine state. The rule of law must drive the response to the Rohingya crisis. International pressure is urgently needed to end impunity in Myanmar and to support political and legal reform that ends the oppression of all ethnic peoples in Myanmar. Any return of refugees to Myanmar must be in accordance with international standards and must be safe, dignified and voluntary.”

    2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source

  5. “Young Rohingya women have a vital role to play in such awareness-raising and in coordinating humanitarian assistance in the camps. They should be encouraged to volunteer, as they will be trusted by their community to relay Vital information and, at the same time, they will learn important leadership skills. Many young Rohingya women in the refugee camps want to help their people and to be actively involved in the future of their community. They need to be supported and provided with the necessary training to do so. It is time to empower our Rohingya women and girls with vision, respect and support in whatever way we can. Later this month, the Security Council will visit the refugee camps in Cox's Bazar and continue on to Myanmar. During that visit, its members must meet women and girl survivors. I can facilitate safe meetings.”

    2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source

  6. “There must be a faster registration process for non-governmental organizations specialized in humanitarian sexual reproductive health care and in women's empowerment and protection programming. My greatest concern is the increased incidents of young women being trafficked, some of whom are as young as 12 years old. Young women and girls either are kidnapped or are promised jobs or marriage offers and then disappear. Many see no future and are desperate to escape to a better life. They are easily trapped by false promises and then never seen again. There have also been cases of young teenage boys being abducted. I am working on an awareness campaign for parents and community leaders to provide their girls with a protected environment.”

    2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source

  7. “Rohingyas continue to flee today, and humanitarian organizations estimate that 60 per cent of the displaced Rohingya currently in Cox's Bazar, in Bangladesh, are women and girls. Had Bangladesh closed its borders, the situation would have been considerably worse. However, the international community and humanitarian agencies need to urgently scale up the health and protection services to support the Rohingya refugees. That must include unhindered access to life-saving health care services, mental and psychosocial care and improved conditions of sanitation, water and hygiene. Despite the acute need, post-rape care, including access to safe abortions and emergency contraception, is critically low in the camps. Women and girls with disabilities and the elderly face greater risks and needs, which are not being addressed.”

    2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source

  8. “The pattern of mutilation of women's private parts after rape suggests a specific directive to instil terror among the Rohingya people, as well as to destroy their very means of reproduction. With hundreds of thousands of troops deployed across Myanmar, it has horrifying implications for the safety of women and girls across the country. There are similar situations around the world, such as in Syria and Yemen. More than 3 million women and girls are at risk of sexual and gender- based violence in Yemen. In Syria, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic found that sexual violence carried out by Government forces and militias formed part of the widespread and systematic attacks directed against the civilian population.”

    2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source

  9. “My own research and interviews provide evidence that Government troops raped many more than 300 women and girls in 17 villages in Rakhine state. With more than 350 villages attacked and burned since August 2017, that number is probably only a fraction of the actual total number of women raped. Girls as young as six years of age were gang-raped. Women and girls were caught and gang-raped in their homes as they ran away or tried to cross the border into Bangladesh. Some were horribly mutilated and burned alive. The sexual violence involved hundreds of soldiers and occurred across a large part of Rakhine state. Such scale and breadth provide strong evidence that rape was systematically planned and used as a weapon against my people.”

    2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source

  10. “Many of Myanmar's other ethnic minorities - including the Karen, Kachin, Chin, Hmong and Shan peoples - have also faced decades of entrenched discrimination, rape and other human rights violations owing to the military operating with impunity. Other ethnic women's groups in Myanmar have documented such patterns for decades. In 2002, the Shan groups released a report that described the same patterns of gang-rape, killing and mutilation. In 2014, the Women's League of Burma released a report that documented the rape of more than 100 ethnic women by the Myanmar army. That demonstrated how, even after the elections in 2010, the Myanmar army was still raping ethnic women with impunity. The same is happening now, only on a much larger scale.”

    2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source

  11. “Since August last year, more than 670,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar. That is the fastest refugee movement since the Rwanda genocide. I am extremely grateful to Bangladesh for opening its borders. However, the international community, particularly the Security Council, has failed us. The most recent crisis could have been prevented if the warning signs since 2012 had not been ignored. Since that time, State security forces have committed human rights abuses against the Rohingya. Officials then placed severe restrictions on our freedom of movement, which limited access to a livelihood, health care, food and education. Discrimination against the Rohingya people dates to as far back as 1982, when we were stripped of our citizenship rights.”

    2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source

  12. “Ms. Sultana: I am a Rohingya lawyer, researcher and educator who specializes in the trauma, mass rape and trafficking of Rohingya girls and women. I have been working directly with Rohingya women and girls in the refugee camps in Bangladesh since 2014. As a senior researcher, I have worked with Kalandan Press on a few reports. I am a coordinator of the Free Rohingya Coalition, Director of the women's section of the Arakan Rohingya National Organization and the founder of Rohingya Women Welfare. Today I speak on behalf of my people, who have been driven from our motherland. Where I come from, women and girls have been gang-raped, tortured and killed by the Myanmar army for no reason other than for being Rohingya. I also speak today on behalf of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security.”

    2018-04-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8234 (2018) · source