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Tsolakis

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2020-09-10
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  1. “The Council can make tangible improvements to the safety and security of schools and universities in the Sahel and around the world.”

    2020-09-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8756 (2020) · source

  2. “We urge the Council to take the following steps: endorse and implement the Safe Schools Declaration in a gender-responsive manner and refrain from using schools and universities for military purposes; support United Nations country teams to safely engage with parties to conflict, including signing action plans to end and prevent attacks on schools; ensure that United Nations peace operations and special political missions have a child-protection mandate and the backing necessary to effectively monitor and report on attacks on education and the military use of schools, including through more consistent disaggregation of data related to attacks on education; and address the protection of students, teachers, schools and universities through the Council’s protection-of-civilians and youth, peace and security agendas, and more systematically address sexual violence at, or on the way to or from, school through its sexual violence in conflict agenda.”

    2020-09-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8756 (2020) · source

  3. “In the 12 countries that endorsed the Declaration in 2015 and had experienced military use, incidents of use by armed forces and groups have declined. The Security Council should continue to lead the agenda on ending attacks on education and holding the perpetrators of such violations accountable.”

    2020-09-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8756 (2020) · source

  4. “In Mali, the United Nations verified 55 attacks on schools in 2019, yet only a small number of those could be attributed to a particular perpetrator. We also know that women and girls are often deliberately targeted in attacks on education and suffer distinct and lasting consequences; however, limited gender-disaggregated data hinders effective gender- sensitive prevention and response. Many States that have endorsed the Safe Schools Declaration are finding ways to prevent and respond to attacks on education and reduce the use of schools for military purposes, as are some non-State armed groups. For example, working with the national Government and using the Declaration, the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali secured the evacuation of two primary schools occupied by armed groups in 2019.”

    2020-09-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8756 (2020) · source

  5. “A teacher in Burkina Faso whose home was burned down after he was assaulted by an armed group stated, “I teach, but I cannot forget”. Victims suffer lasting psychological and economic impacts yet seldom receive the vital support that they need. When schools in the region shut due to the coronavirus disease, armed groups used force to keep them closed. In Mali, 27 attacks on schools and nearly 500 threats against schools or teachers were reported in June 2020 alone, when classes resumed. In Burkina Faso, 13 schools were attacked in the last weeks of July in a single district. However, the monitoring and reporting of such attacks, and accountability for them, remain challenging in the Sahel. United Nations staff and other partners face security and physical barriers to documenting violations.”

    2020-09-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8756 (2020) · source

  6. “Research by our coalition identified at least 11,000 incidents of attacks on education globally over the past five years. In at least 34 countries around the world, schools have been used for military purposes by both State forces and non-State armed groups. The Sahel region is an area of critical concern. In Burkina Faso, Mali and the Niger, armed groups increasingly threaten, abduct and kill teachers, and burn or bomb schools. Both military and armed groups have used dozens of schools as execution sites or bases. In 2020, we have already documented nearly 100 incidents of attacks in the region. Those attacks have ripple effects. Teachers flee or stop working. Classes are suspended. And, fearing that they may be next, schools in surrounding areas also shutter, affecting the learning of hundreds of thousands of students.”

    2020-09-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8756 (2020) · source

  7. “Ms. Tsolakis: I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Gamba de Potgieter, Executive Director Fore, the civil-society briefers and Council members. I am honoured to address the Council today on behalf of the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack. We commend the adoption of presidential statement S/PRST/2020/8 and the other actions that Member States have taken to protect schools and universities in armed conflict. Just yesterday, the United Nations observed the first International Day to Protect Education from Attack, and 105 States, including the majority of the members of the Council, have now endorsed the Safe Schools Declaration. But despite those advances, violent attacks on education are occurring at an alarming rate in conflicts around the world.”

    2020-09-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8756 (2020) · source