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Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon

lines on the record: 51
first: 2020-07-02
most recent: 2021-04-19
sittings or episodes: 7
sources: un-security-council

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“Only by mobilizing all the tools at our collective disposal can we avoid the escalation of violence and secure the lasting, sustainable peace that we all desire.”
2021-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/394 (2021) · source
“The United Kingdom supports regular and coordinated early-warning capabilities, which help the Council to prevent escalation. Regional organizations can strengthen that capability by sharing early-warning assessments and bringing emerging situations to the Council’s direct attention. Accurate and timely information needs to be coupled with effective early engagement and support at the community, State, regional and continental levels. If, and when, prevention fails or there is no regional consensus, it is the Council that should lead the international community — not just to discuss and debate, but to act. The United Kingdom stands ready to support regional and subregional organizations as they continue to strengthen confidence-building and dialogue efforts.”
2021-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/394 (2021) · source
“Increasingly, we see intra-State conflicts, which have the potential to destabilize peace and security on a global level. We also see how marginalization and human rights violations can totally isolate communities and perpetrate violence. To tackle these conflicts’ driving forces, we must — and need to — combine our humanitarian, development and peacebuilding efforts. The Peacebuilding Commission is key to that endeavour, and we are grateful for the Peacebuilding Fund’s support, which builds trust among communities, because ultimately, if and when national and regional efforts fail, it is the Security Council that has the primary responsibility to ensure international peace and international security. We do that best when we have a clear view.”
2021-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/394 (2021) · source
“Regional women’s networks in particular, such as the ASEAN Women for Peace Registry and the African Union’s Network of African Women in Conflict Prevention and Mediation, also known as FemWise-Africa, are vital actors in the pursuit of a lasting and sustainable peace.S/2021/394 I assure the Council that the United Kingdom is absolutely committed to protecting and promoting women peacebuilders, and we are proud to have supported the International Civil Society Action Network’s protection framework. I urge others to support and implement its expert and effective recommendations. On our shared path to peace, we need a more open and inclusive approach for a stronger and more coherent international response. The nature of conflict has changed.”
2021-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/394 (2021) · source
“We also applaud the 2017 United Nations-African Union Joint Framework for Enhanced Partnership in Peace and Security, which was instrumental in the 2019 Political Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in the Central African Republic between the Government of the Central African Republic and 14 armed groups, and we call upon all political actors to remain committed to it. Thirdly, regional bodies need to include civil society organizations in a meaningful capacity at all levels of dialogue. If we are truly to build inclusive and enduring peace, civil society organization should be — have to be — pivotal in all aspects of conflict prevention and, importantly, conflict resolution. As others have said — including my good friend the Foreign Minister of Ireland — it is important that women play a key role in peacemaking.”
2021-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/394 (2021) · source
“Secondly, confidence-building and dialogue must be part of a broader strategy coordinated through the good offices of the United Nations. We recognize the unique role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in addressing the crisis in Myanmar. The United Kingdom further welcomes ASEAN’s readiness to support positive and constructive efforts. We therefore look forward to close cooperation between the United Nations and ASEAN in order to resolve the conflict and serve those who are suffering and those who are in need.”
2021-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/394 (2021) · source
“We hope it will serve to strengthen confidence-building measures and, indeed, dialogue mechanisms with regional, subregional and, importantly, civil society organizations, on which peace processes so heavily depend. I would like to highlight three ways that we believe we can strengthen the vital role of those organizations. First, regional and subregional organizations can restore trust between conflict-affected communities. In particular, the work of the High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has reduced tensions and prevented conflict across the OSCE region. As regional organizations develop their technical capacity, they should seek to follow this very example. And we should seek to boost their willingness to use confidence- building measures when required.”
2021-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/394 (2021) · source
“I thank Secretary-General Guterres, Mr. Ban Ki-moon and all of the briefers for their poignant reminders of the challenges we collectively face. As we all recognize, conflict has a devastating impact on people. We know it hits hardest among the poorest and the most vulnerable. By the World Bank’s reckoning, by 2030, two thirds of the world’s extremely poor could be affected by fragility, conflict and violence. The Security Council’s agenda, sadly, is a tragic testimony of that. In the past two weeks alone, we have discussed conflicts in Yemen, Mali, Syria and the Great Lakes region, among other places. We therefore welcome the adoption today of a presidential statement (S/ PRST/2021/9).under Viet Nam’s leadership.”
2021-04-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/394 (2021) · source
“But, most important, we, the Security Council; we, the United Nations; we, who define the United Nations, must look forward to seeing what we can do collectively in building, sustaining and strengthening peace around the world.”
2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source
“The Charter of the United Nations, as we have already heard from other contributors, together with international treaties, places obligations on States to respect human rights and international humanitarian law. And it is the Security Council, which has an obligation to call out violations for what they are — threats to fundamental peace and security around the world. In conclusion, the need for international cooperation is arguably greater than it has been for a generation. And poignantly, the United Nations, in its seventy-fifth anniversary year, can celebrate the unique role it has played in the past in building, sustaining and strengthening peace.”
2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source
“This includes the United Nations and international financial institutions working in a more coordinated manner to support peacebuilding objectives. In New York, the Peacebuilding Commission has increasingly demonstrated its value as a forum for countries and organizations to come together in the pursuit of shared peace and development objectives. It is these approaches that are paramount to more effective conflict prevention and they must be owned by each and every one of us. The Council can, of course, play an important supporting role, but it also has a key obligation. Where threats to international peace and security emerge, we cannot simply sit back or stand back.”
2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source
“Countries that protect the rights of the most vulnerable — the rights of the socially excluded, the rights of minority communities and the rights of women — are stronger. Those are the progressive nations. It is a sign of the strength and unity of a nation when all rights are equally respected. Strong and inclusive institutions, respect for human rights, access to services, healthy democracy, the rule of law and the empowerment of women are all essential to building resilience and building sustainable peace. With regard to my third point, better analysis provides for better national and international responses. Coordinated planning among national stakeholders, the United Nations and other international partners can focus preventive efforts and ensure they are appropriately resourced.”
2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source
“We must address the man-made causes of climate change, and the upcoming twenty-sixth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to be held in Glasgow in the United Kingdom next year, I believe, presents a great opportunity for all of us to agree collective and real concerted action. With regard to my second point, I have already referenced the problem of exclusion as a key driver of conflict. Even advanced economies are susceptible to S/2020/1090 S/2020/1090 shocks. Development and peace gains can be undone if large parts of the population are marginalized or if human rights are not respected, sustained or, indeed, strengthened. And let us be absolutely clear.”
2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source
“And thirdly, we must coordinate our collective efforts to build effective partnerships in order to prevent conflict in the first place. On my first point, climate change creates structural conditions that multiply conflict risks in countries around the world. The erosion of fertile land is increasing food scarcity and intercommunal tensions. In small island developing States, hurricanes and rising sea levels threaten whole communities and the very existence of some countries. I saw this myself as Minister for the British Overseas Territories through our relationship with the Caribbean.”
2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source
“Indeed, 2020 is certainly testament to that very fact. Those strains make violent conflict more likely and threaten to roll back hard-won development and peace gains — especially, but not only, in the poorest countries and those already affected by insecurity and conflict. The sustaining peace agenda has brought home to all of us the importance of understanding that peace, security and sustainable development are not independent; they are interconnected. Based on this agenda, we have begun to refine our collective approach, while building and sustaining peace. And, if I may, I would just like to make three very brief points. First, tackling the impact of climate change is critical alongside broader efforts to sustain peace. Secondly, good governance and inclusion are fundamental.”
2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source
“As the United Kingdom’s Minister for the United Nations and the Commonwealth, I am deeply grateful for countries’ close partnership with us, especially in these global institutions. While power politics, aggression and oppression remain very real factors behind many of today’s conflicts, we are increasingly aware of new and emerging threats to our peace. One of the contemporary drivers of conflicts is exclusion — the exclusion of vulnerable communities, religious minorities and women from civil, political, economic and social processes and exclusion that leads directly to poverty, desperation, violence and extremism. And it takes no great leap to understand how the strains placed on societies grappling with public health emergencies or the impact of climate change can exacerbate these threats.”
2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source
“I thank you, Mr. President, and good afternoon to everyone from London. Mr. President, you are a dear friend of the United Kingdom and I thank you for convening today’s debate. It is indeed timely ahead of our adoption vote in the Council, and, indeed, in the General Assembly, of the critical twin resolutions on peacebuilding and sustaining peace — texts that Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has so expertly shepherded. I also, right from the beginning, wish to thank our three briefers, Ibrahim Mayaki, Sir Hilary Beckles and Mr. Munir Akram. And, of course, it is always very heartening to have the expert insights of the Deputy Secretary-General, my dear friend Amina Mohammed, who set an excellent scene with today’s update.”
2020-11-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/1090 (2020) · source
“We believe strongly in its principles of peaceful international cooperation and, particularly, respect for human rights. This year, as we commemorate the seventy- fifth anniversary of the United Nations, we should all reaffirm our commitment to those valuable principles and, in doing so, rebuild, equip ourselves and renew our support to ensure that we can come together to tackle challenges and seize opportunities that lie ahead.”
2020-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/953 (2020) · source
“Preventing the indirect effects of this pandemic may prove harder still, with implications for international peace and security. We know, for instance, that hundreds of millions of people around the world face food insecurity. Sadly, that will get worse. Global cooperation is therefore both critical and necessary to avoid catastrophe. That is why the United Kingdom made a call to action to prevent famine, with $150 million of new funding, on top of the $1 billion we have already contributed to the international response. We also appointed a new Special Envoy for Famine Prevention and Humanitarian Affairs, Nick Dyer. We urge all Member States to support our collective efforts.In conclusion, let me assure all colleagues, partners and Member States that the United Kingdom firmly stands by the values of the Charter of the United Nations.”
2020-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/953 (2020) · source
“It is therefore in our collective interest to ensure that the multilateral system does not just survive this crisis, but rather emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic stronger and more united in order to cope with future challenges. There will be a time to reflect on the lessons of this pandemic and how we can better prepare for the next challenge. The United Nations reforms implemented over the past two years have been shown to work, and we must continue them and strive to improve all our international organizations. But now is not the moment to reject international institutions. The principles that emerged from one of the darkest periods of human history, as the Secretary-General reminded us, are needed once again to bring us out of the lockdown and back into the light.”
2020-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/953 (2020) · source
“I also acknowledge Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to which the United Kingdom recently pledged over $2 billion — an organization that has seen nations come together in search for a solution to protect people with diseases. These examples show the international community and the global response at its best, working together and meeting our collective needs through multilateral and good faith efforts, with full cooperation among the States Members of the United Nations. Yet, as much as this crisis has brought us together, there have been times when it has driven us apart. At times, geopolitics have dampened cooperation and hindered our agility. The pandemic has tested the international system like never before.”
2020-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/953 (2020) · source
“The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have adapted their instruments to the macroeconomic challenges posed by the pandemic, and have worked diligently in partnership with the United Nations. The Group of 20 moved swiftly to suspend debt-service payments for the world’s poorest countries so that those nations are supported in their direct efforts to protect lives first and to alleviate economic and financial crises. And, as Minister for the Commonwealth, I note that the 54 Commonwealth Heads of Government issued a joint statement setting out a full range of international priorities in response to the pandemic and a commitment to work to mitigate its effects.”
2020-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/953 (2020) · source
“I thank President Issoufou and the Nigerien presidency for convening this very important meeting. May I first join others in thanking the Secretary-General for his valuable insights and commending his efforts at leading us through this global pandemic. I also wish to thank Mr. Moussa Faki Mahamat for his contribution and the specific focus and insight he brings from Africa, as well as for the response of the African Union. If I may, I want to start with positives. As we face challenges, we often forget what has truly been achieved. The United Nations system, particularly the World Health Organization, has responded quickly to health, humanitarian and socioeconomic needs and has deployed around the globe in places that are home to some of the world’s most vulnerable communities.”
2020-09-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/953 (2020) · source
“In thanking you once again, Sir, for convening today’s important debate, I would conclude by saying that the regions of the Sahel and the Lake Chad basin provide us all with hard and harrowing evidence that climate-related security threats are real. They exist. They are immediate and profoundly undemocratic, and we must address them in a collective and holistic way. The Security Council presents to us the best vehicle we have for doing just that. Now is the time to act.”
2020-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/929 (2020) · source
“We need to routinely factor climate risks into United Nations conflict prevention and resolution strategies and into peacebuilding plans. We need to strengthen the ability of our United Nations system to analyse and act upon climate risk as a fundamental way of working. We know from our work together that insecurity hits the most marginalized and the most disadvantaged groups the hardest. The same is true of climate-driven insecurity. And as we all know, tragically and sadly, it is girls and women who are routinely more exposed to disaster-induced poverty and indeed exploitation. Our approach to climate security must absolutely address the needs and priorities of women and girls and draw on their potential to lead our collective response from their key positions within their own communities.”
2020-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/929 (2020) · source
“This challenge is enormous and that is why we have committed to leveraging our co-chairmanship of COP26 to drive the expansion of climate financing, to improve early warning systems and the capacity of countries to act on the risks and to strengthen inclusive social protections, especially for women and the most vulnerable across societies.Climate change and conflict dynamics interact in a vicious circle. Of course, we must tackle the governance challenges that are the root causes of conflict. But if the Security Council is to support peace and security in regions on the front line in the battle against climate change, we must also make climate risk assessment and climate resilience an integral part of the Council’s work.”
2020-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/929 (2020) · source
“In the Sahel, we have given $64 million to the World Bank Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Program over the past six years to help Governments of the region improve weather data and adapt to climate shocks. Over the same period, we spent $179 million in the region on pilot projects to build resilience and adaptation measures. Overall, the United Kingdom has pledged to provide over $14 billion of international climate finance over the next five years. A significant proportion of that will go towards building resilience. The cliché that we can only overcome this problem by working together has rarely been so true.”
2020-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/929 (2020) · source
“The most recent United Kingdom National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review, published in 2015, identified climate change as one of the biggest global long-term challenges to our country’s security. And this year, for the first time in the history of the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risks Report, the top five global risks were all environmental. With temperatures warming at one and a half times the global average, the Sahel knows all too well the urgency of that threat. The warnings grow louder and louder and come from further and further afield. Now is the time to act. For our part, the United Kingdom has sought to lead by example.”
2020-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/929 (2020) · source
“As we work towards the twenty-sixth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) in Glasgow next year and seek to turn the commitments made in the Paris Agreement on Climate Change into specific deliverable actions, there are 200,000 people who are victims of floods across Chad and the Niger telling us that now — not tomorrow — is the time to act. Climate change exacerbates food insecurity and, indeed, the causes of conflict. This year, there are 20 million people in need of humanitarian assistance across the Sahel, alerting us again that now is the time to act.”
2020-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/929 (2020) · source
“I thank you, Sir, for keeping the linked challenges of environment and security on the Council’s agenda, and for shining a light on how the changing climate is eroding human security across both the Sahel and the Lake Chad basin. I also thank our expert briefers — Peter Maurer, Ibrahim Thiaw and Inna Modja — for their very valuable insights. It is great to see Mr. Maurer again. It is important to continue to bring expert insights to our debates in the Security Council. We note that it was 13 years ago that the United Kingdom convened the first open Security Council debate on the importance of climate security (see S/PV.5663). Indeed, this is the second time in the past three months that I have joined a Security Council debate, which underlines the importance that we collectively attach to this important agenda item.”
2020-09-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/929 (2020) · source
“Thirdly, we will support strengthening the ability of the United Nations to enable analysis and action on climate risk as a fundamental way of working. Finally, we will integrate climate forecasting with broader conflict-prevention measures to keep our efforts on target. In conclusion, there is no doubt that climate-related security threats, as the President himself articulated, are real. They are immediate, and they are here to stay. We must therefore work together so that the United Nations system can consider climate risks and threats holistically when we make decisions and implement them into United Nations mission planning.”
2020-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/751 (2020) · source
“To do that effectively, we need to understand the drivers of conflict and the implications for long-term stability. I would like to echo calls for a comprehensive report of the Secretary-General to the Council on climate-related security risks. Secondly, we would also welcome climate-risk assessment and climate resilience as an integral part of the Council’s work. This will correctly factor climate risks into United Nations operations, conflict prevention and resolution strategies and peacebuilding funds. Through the Risk-Informed Early Action Partnership, we will expand early-action financing, improve early-warning systems and build national capacity to respond early to risks. We are supporting the development of a reimplementation plan that will make some 1 billion people safer from disaster by 2025.”
2020-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/751 (2020) · source
“This includes continuing to advocate on behalf of small and vulnerable States, recognizing that the pandemic has exacerbated many of the inherent challenges that these States already face. Working together benefits each and every one of us. But above all, we need an evidence-based approach to climate-security threats. With such an approach, we can tailor solutions to the fragile and conflict- affected States on our agenda. We have already done this in several resolutions of the Security Council, in particular recent resolutions on Mali, Darfur, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and Somalia. We now need to push for the effective implementation of those resolutions. We need to integrate climate resilience into our development, peacebuilding and humanitarian work. We need to use data, evidence and best practices.”
2020-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/751 (2020) · source
“At the heart of its priorities for the twenty-sixth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) next year, the United Kingdom wants to bring countries together to urgently increase climate action in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the objectives of the Framework Convention. At COP26, we will prioritize action that builds adaptation and resilience, particularly in climate-vulnerable regions, including through better coordination and increased finance. By building resilience, we can reduce risk, including climate-related security risks. Furthermore, as the leaders of all 54 Commonwealth countries emphasized in their recent statement on the COVID-19 pandemic, we must come together and work collaboratively and collectively to build back better.”
2020-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/751 (2020) · source
“Our approach to climate security must be sensitive to these inequalities and deep concerns. Women’s full, effective, pivotal and meaningful participation is key for sustainable peace. The evidence proves it. We must be led by the needs and priorities of women and girls, and we must draw on their potential, their insights, their expertise and their experiences in crafting our response. The Security Council must take this opportunity to address this imbalance. Of course, no nation is unscathed. Every country needs to decide how to adapt to climate impacts, and how to build resilience.”
2020-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/751 (2020) · source
“Gender inequalities can limit access to education, decision-making, food and adequate housing. Girls and women can be more exposed to disaster-induced poverty or exploitation. Women are significantly more likely than men to die during a climate- related disaster. And we know that it is tragic but true that gender-based violence and exploitation increase during crises. In their aftermath, women and girls are often subject to sexual violence and exploitation as they attempt to gain access to food and other basic needs. I joined the President last week in focusing on these specific concerns. Let me once again emphasize and reiterate that the United Kingdom is dedicated to tackling all forms of gender-based violence globally, including through the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict initiative.”
2020-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/751 (2020) · source
“This year, for the first time in its history, the top five global risks in the World Economic Forum’s annual report were all environmental. It is clear that climate change is a multiplier of stress and hardship. It hits hardest in the most vulnerable communities in the most vulnerable countries and regions across the world. As we have heard, scarce resources, economic shocks, displacement and sea-level rise lead to significantly higher chances of violent conflict. With the added multiplier of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as we have all experienced in the course of this year, the threat to peace has become extreme. We all feel the impacts of climate change, but they do not affect us equally. We know, for example, that women and girls suffer disproportionately.”
2020-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/751 (2020) · source
“It is always a pleasure seeing Foreign Minister Maas and joining him at the Security Council. We thank our expert briefers — Mr. Magagi, Assistant Secretary- General Jenča and Ms. Pasisi — for their insights and expertise in briefing the Security Council today. With regard to today’s threats to prosperity are tomorrow’s geopolitical problems, the briefers have clearly set out the impacts of climate change on international peace and security. We, the United Kingdom, have kept this issue high on the Security Council’s agenda since we first brought it to the Council, in 2007 (see S/PV.5663 and resumption). Unfortunately, what we said then, and what many others have emphasized since, has been proven right.”
2020-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/751 (2020) · source
“To conclude, human rights are all about safeguarding the dignity of each and every person around the globe and unleashing their true potential. That is why States that fail to protect and promote human rights are less prosperous, less stable and less able to meet the demands of their people, and more likely to remain on the agenda of the Security Council. Human rights are intertwined with all aspects of United Nations peace operations. The Council’s focus must therefore be unflinching. We must promote, protect, strengthen and realize human rights wherever we work. It is in our interests. Indeed, it is in all our interests and in the interests of all people across the globe.”
2020-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/674 (2020) · source
“Reports from the field tells us that survivors continue to struggle, particularly in terms of access to medical and mental-health care. That having been said, I am encouraged that the Government of South Sudan has acknowledged these concerns and expressed a willingness to work together with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan to combat sexual and gender-based violence. Let me assure everyone that the United Kingdom is absolutely committed to supporting survivors, including children born of conflict-related sexual violence, and to holding all perpetrators to account. We call upon all Council members to support the inclusion of vital human rights experts in our missions, including more gender and child protection experts, and, importantly, more women’s protection advisers.”
2020-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/674 (2020) · source
“The Policy also gives an incentive to those security forces to deploy and strengthen their own safeguards. I encourage our missions to show more clearly how they are applying it. Every member of a mission’s personnel, from the special representatives and force commanders to contingent troops, should understand their role and responsibilities both to protect and to promote human rights. We must ensure that missions have the specialist capabilities they need to respond effectively to specific human rights challenges in the field. The devastating impact of conflict-related sexual violence in South Sudan, where nearly a quarter of the reported cases involve children, is an unwelcome reminder of the abuses that take place and why we must do better and do more.”
2020-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/674 (2020) · source
“When national Governments are unwilling to act, and where the international community is able, we should always be prepared to deploy the full range of tools at our disposal and hold perpetrators to account, including through the use of sanctions. Strong coordination and collaboration among all relevant parts of the United Nations machinery and the Malian Government should enable the Malians to strengthen their capacity both to protect and to promote human rights, as well, importantly, as the rule of law. United Nations peace operations have an obligation not only to monitor human rights violations and abuses, but also to ensure that their support for other security forces is human rights compliant. The Human Rights Due Diligence Policy on United Nations support to non-United Nations security forces sets this out very clearly.”
2020-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/674 (2020) · source
“The integrated response at the heart of the Mission’s adaptation plan, with better coordination between military, police and civilian components, should enable MINUSMA to respond more effectively to reported abuses. It is needed. Despite our best efforts, reports from High Commissioner Bachelet’s Office and the Mission continue to highlight persistent human rights abuses and violations in Mali and indeed across the Sahel. MINUSMA, like any peace operation around the world, can only ever be a part of the solution. It is incumbent on all national Governments to protect and promote human rights, investigate allegations of violations and abuses openly and transparently, and hold those responsible to account.”
2020-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/674 (2020) · source
“Through the Security Council, we have mandated the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) to complete three vital human rights functions: first, to act to prevent serious human rights violations and attacks on civilians, in line with the United Nations protection-of-civilians policy; secondly, to monitor, investigate and report abuses or violations; and thirdly — and importantly — to support Malian efforts aimed at, on the one hand, protecting and promoting human rights, and, on the other hand, also importantly, fighting impunity. This multipronged role is fundamental to preventing a further erosion of trust between States and their peoples and thereby to ultimately helping to stabilize the country.”
2020-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/674 (2020) · source
“I thank the German presidency of the Security Council for convening today’s important debate. I am also grateful to High Commissioner Bachelet, Special Representative Shearer, and Mr. Dismas Kitenge Senga for their insightful briefings. Their insights from the ground remind us that there can be no lasting peace or any sustainable development without respect for human rights and the rule of law. This oft-repeated refrain in the Security Council is a concept each of us endorsed in the Declaration of Shared Commitments on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, but it is a vision that we all too often fail to realize. I would like to turn to the situation in Mali as an example.”
2020-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/674 (2020) · source
“Secondly, there needs to be joint risk assessment and planning with the international financial institutions to combine macroeconomic, social and political considerations. And, thirdly, we need to focus on what works to build a country’s resilience to shocks. Strong, inclusive and accountable institutions, the rule of law, good governance and human rights are the fundamental basis of that very resilience. We need to see this in our coordinated response and in our planning to build back better. This pandemic has brought into sharp focus the urgent need for efforts towards the development objective. Sustainable peace and security cannot be solved as separate issues, and they cannot be solved alone. Together, we have this expertise. Together, we have the resources. We must use them and respond to this challenge.”
2020-07-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/663 (2020) · source
“Importantly, everyone must come together to support peace. We need to also act smartly to prevent new peace and security crises from emerging. The pandemic has clearly demonstrated the importance of the coordinated and multidimensional international responses for which the United Kingdom has long argued. The United Nations must work smarter across its pillars and with partners. We commend the United Nations system for delivering under immense pressure. I think that we all acknowledge that more is needed to deliver a holistic response that limits instability in the face of complex challenges. We therefore recommend three actions. First, United Nations responses must be more sensitive to conflict risk and build this into strategic planning, prioritization and financing.”
2020-07-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/663 (2020) · source
“In that regard, the United Kingdom has already pledged more than £300 million in funding for research into vaccines, tests and treatment. And as many present know, last month we hosted a very successful global vaccine summit that raised more than $8.8 billion to support the immunization of 300 million children against coronavirus and, indeed, other vaccine-preventable diseases. At the same time, we must, of course, redouble our efforts on peace and security. The Security Council has a key role to play. We welcome the Secretary- General’s call for a global ceasefire, and we should all stand firm on our peacekeeping troop contributions and, importantly, the resources they need. The devastating impact of COVID-19 on fragile societies underlines the moral duty of outside parties that influence conflicts in Syria, and indeed elsewhere.”
2020-07-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/663 (2020) · source
“As the impact becomes clearer, so we see evidence of COVID-19 compounding existing problems, such as in the Lake Chad basin and in the Sahel. Our efforts to prevent or resolve conflict are complicated by COVID-19. Peacekeepers themselves are quarantined, humanitarian access is restricted and impeded, and peace processes have been paused. So it is important that we act both to tackle the pandemic and to give an effective response to prevent or resolve conflict. We must ensure a strong international health response led by the World Health Organization. In that regard, the United Kingdom has already committed £764 million to support humanitarian and public-health needs. We must ensure the development and equitable distribution of a vaccine.”
2020-07-02 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2020/663 (2020) · source
“Those challenges are interwoven and require a coordinated, collaborative response. Therefore, may I first welcome the unanimous adoption of resolution 2532 (2020) yesterday, and in doing so wish to thank both France and Tunisia for their efforts in that respect. The full extent of this pandemic is still unfolding before our eyes. I know that we all fear its impact as it spreads in States that are vulnerable or affected by conflict. As we see around the world, in places such as Yemen, Libya and the Central African Republic, contested or fragmented Government authority severely restricts local capacity to respond effectively to the spread of the pandemic. Health systems are overstretched and underresourced and cannot detect, or indeed monitor, the spread of the disease.”
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