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  1. I would therefore like to conclude by saying that we, the Pacific SIDS, submit our experiences and realities to the Council in asking it to consider this non-traditional security threat of climate change as one that merits the Council's attention not just today, but in an ongoing, dedicated space in our Organization that can ensure that the threats posed by climate change to our islands, our peoples and indeed our shared world are adequately addressed so that the Council is able to carry out the task of maintaining international peace and security that we have entrusted to it.

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  2. Finally, last year the Secretary-General mentioned that the Pacific SIDS are like a microcosm of the world as a whole, in which we can see the vulnerabilities and threats that we all face from the effects of climate change. Climate change is cross-cutting, and therefore all the major organs of the United Nations have a role to play in dealing with it through their own mandates, as they have done with regard to the non-traditional security threat of HIV/AIDS in the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and in the Security Council Chamber.

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  3. Like the severity of the health crisis caused by HIV/ AIDS, especially in Africa, but with clear and direct implications on a global scale, we are able to see direct correlations between both of these non-traditional threats to the maintenance of international peace and security. Since both are threat multipliers, they are equally important as root causes of threats to international peace and security that should be on the Council's agenda. Thankfully and rightly, the health issue has been recognized. The Pacific SIDS submit that the issue of climate change should be considered in the same way. Both have global implications, both have a heavy negative impact on society and both can lead to instability and emergency situations if left unchecked.

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  4. The evidence is clear and present today in our region, and it has very real implications for the rest of the world. I would reiterate that the Pacific SIDS call for the immediate appointment of a special representative on climate and security with responsibility for analysing projected security impacts of climate change so that the Council and all Member States can prepare for the unavoidable threats to their security that lie ahead. Moreover, we are of the view that the Council should request an assessment of the capacity of the United Nations system to respond to those impacts, in order to be able to assure us that it is up to the task.

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  5. In 2007, these same walls heard another conversation on a non-traditional threat to international peace and security, namely, climate change. Unfortunately, the Council found itself unwilling or unable to take on this issue through a unanimously agreed approach. That also occurred in 2013, despite the fact that Article 2 of the Charter of the United Nations established the prime importance of respecting the territorial integrity of States by setting forth the obligation of all States to refrain from threatening another State's territorial integrity. Human-induced climate change is doing exactly that, however - undermining our territorial integrity. Pacific island leaders have been continually calling for the political will and ambitious actions necessary to address the adverse impacts of climate change.

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  6. The coincidence of this unprecedented decision with the fifty-fifth anniversary of the Council, as well as with the advent of the new millennium, may have facilitated the realization that the scourge of that health issue at the time, which had been devastating populations beyond national borders years before the adoption of the historic resolution, was in fact a threat to international peace and security even if it went beyond the traditional definitions that the Council had previously used. At that time, the spread of HIV/AIDS was having a heavy impact on society and was leading to an aggravated lack of security that could give way to instability and emergency situations if left unchecked. A very good precedent was set, and the Council followed that precedent when, last year, the Ebola crisis was addressed within these walls.

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  7. That having been said, the Pacific SIDS have observed that, over time, the Council has shown that non-traditional security dimensions beyond traditional military-type threats to peace and security do have a place in the Council. Indeed, through resolution 1308 (2000) on HIV/AIDS, the Council for the first time unanimously agreed to allow a non-traditional threat to peace and security to be part and parcel of its work.

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  8. The lines are blurred between the traditional realpolitik ofthe past and today's more complex notions of non-traditional definitions of security, all of which contributes, in a multitude of complicated ways, to making the Council's duty to the world a more difficult one. Questions of sustainable development or the lack thereof are root causes of the failure to maintain peace and security. Furthermore, the failure to maintain peace and security is a root cause for the absence of sustainable development. The Council must look at issues of international peace and security through the lens of the present tense by redefining its understanding of security to be in line with today's realities, as non-traditional causes of the difficulties in maintaining peace and security are plentiful.

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  9. Many have argued that it should not, and that is why other organs of the United Nations are looking to renew themselves so as to ensure that the whole body is fit for purpose for today's realities. In that regard, we may ponder whether the Security Council today is likewise fit for purpose, by way ofmaintaining its usage of traditional security approaches to prevent, or dare I say, cure the problems of global peace and security today. Can the traditional definition of security still suffice to answer the question of what causes war? The root causes of the difficulties in maintaining international peace and security are no longer drawn from traditional definitions of security, as those root causes have evolved over the years into what might be considered non-traditional causes.

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  10. In this day and age, with all its complicated, interrelated and enmeshed political, social, environmental and economic realities, how can we define international peace and security? Certainly today's realities are far from those that the founders of this body faced in 1945. Security issues were defined traditionally in terms of the scourge of war between States. The issue of what causes war was and still is the major question that defines the purpose of the Security Council. Seventy years later, however, we must ask whether the traditional definition of security, upon which the Council was founded, is still appropriate for application today? Should this traditional concept of security alone continue to define the present day actions of the Council?

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  11. I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the 12 members of the group of Pacific small island developing States with a presence at the United Nations, namely, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and my own country, Tonga. At the outset, allow me on behalf of our group to thank you, Mr. President, and New Zealand, for convening this very timely and important debate on issues related to peace and security in the Pacific SIDS and SIDS generally. We associate ourselves with the statement delivered by Mr. Ali Naseer Mohamed, Foreign Secretary of the Republic of Maldives and Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States.

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  12. We have outlined the difficulties faced by non-members, such as Pacific small island developing States, in having timely access to the Council's work and being able to effectively participate in its decision-making process. We hope that the Council's working methods can be improved to reflect the increasing need for efficiency, transparency and interaction. We are confident that the Council will rise to the challenge and widen its scope to consider the security implications of cross-cutting issues such as climate change. It is also our hope that the Council can address the issues of the veto and increased membership within the intergovernmental process, rather than through the open-ended working group mechanism, and, in the case of working methods, the Security Council.

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  13. Although the informal consultations are made public in the Journal of the United Nations, the summaries of the discussions are not readily available. Draft resolutions and statements are often circulated among the members of the Council. They are often trimmed and edited before reaching informal consultations. Such a practice makes it hard for non-members to be readily informed of the work of the Council. It also makes it difficult for non- members to provide meaningful input into the process, even in rare opportunities such as open debates. Finally, we have raised a number of concerns and made several observations regarding the working methods of the Council.

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  14. Issues such as the contributions of troops required for major new peacekeeping missions or the imposition of new sanctions regimes by the Council have produced impacts on United Nations Members that contribute to the its peacekeeping forces. That is particularly important for Pacific small island developing States, as a number of our countries have been involved in the peacekeeping process. As non- members of the Council, Pacific small island developing States support any efforts to increase transparency and allow greater participation by the entire membership of the United Nations. Many of the agreements reached by the Council are negotiated through experts meetings, which are not open to non-members.

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  15. Unfortunately, many of the wrap-up sessions did not take place, with the last having taken place in 2005. Such meetings would be useful for non-members, and in particular for smaller nations with limited resources, to follow the proceedings of the Council. There is also the issue of encouraging and facilitating better interaction with troop-contributing countries by conducting regular meetings to discuss substantive matters and concerns. That is particularly relevant for troop-contributing countries that are not members to the Security Council. The growing number of activities undertaken by the Council has had a great impact on the membership at large.

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  16. First, the Council has increasingly shifted from open to closed meetings when conducting its affairs. We hope the Council can take into account the impact of its decisions on non-members and increase the number of open debates and meetings. Other issues include the provision of more regular structured briefings to help address the concerns of non-members and increasing the level of input from the wider United Nations membership in the decision-making process to determine the format for a particular Council meeting. The current process lacks transparency and is not accessible to non-members. There is a need to improve the effectiveness of the wrap-up sessions. In 2001, members agreed that interactive wrap-up sessions at the end of a presidency would be a useful exercise.

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  17. The Pacific small island developing States would therefore like to reiterate their position that meaningful reform of the working methods of the Security Council should be included in the intergovernmental negotiations mandated to commence during the current session of the General Assembly. Open negotiations will give all Members of the United Nations a voice and will certainly help the Council to be more effective, efficient, transparent and democratic in the future. The concept paper (S/2008/528) identifies transparency as one of the major challenges for the Council in reforming its working methods. We share the concern about the need to strike a better balance between private consultations and the commitment to conduct more public meetings. Several issues, including the following, need to be considered by the Council.

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  18. The need for the reform and the improvement of the working methods of the Council is obvious. The Council has never been static and has always responded to new challenges to international peace and security. Examples are found in the establishment of peacekeeping and post-conflict peacebuilding processes. Today, new challenges such as climate change threaten international peace and security. The working methods have to be flexible to address such challenges while taking the increasing workload of the Council into consideration. It is important that the working methods adapt to the urgent need to address the security implications of emerging cross-cutting issues such as climate change and that they take a proactive approach to the maintenance of international peace and security.

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  19. The Secretary-General encouraged the Council "to consider innovative mechanisms, such as establishing a subsidiary organ, an ad hoc informal working group or other informal technical arrangement to discuss prevention cases on a continuing basis, particularly in regard to periodic regional or sub-regional reports as well as other early warning or prevention cases brought to its attention by Member States". (para. 39, recommendation 3) Bearing in mind the Secretary-General's 2001 report, we note that the Council has a truly unique skill set that it can engage to address the security implications of climate change. That can be accomplished in ways that are outcome-oriented but which do not overburden the Council's workload and which complement existing agreements.

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  20. We emphasize that in his 2001 report entitled "Prevention of armed conflict" (S/2001/574), the Secretary-General noted that in the last century, collective security was often pursued by the Council through reactive rather than preventive means, and was defined almost exclusively in military terms. The Secretary-General pledged to move the United Nations "from a culture of reaction to a culture of prevention" (para. 4) and specifically referred to creative tools at the Security Council's disposal to increase utilization of proactive strategies.

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  21. Council output, measured by resolutions and presidential statements, increased by 36 per cent over the same period. The increase in the demand for the Council's involvement in conflict resolution is reflective of the changing times. More than ever, our collective well- being depends upon how we respond, in multiple forums, to emerging cross-cutting issues. Both the traditional and non-traditional kinds of threat deserve the attention of the Council. We must widen the scope of acceptance and address the substantial security implications of certain cross-cutting issues. In our view, we believe that we should not become so inflexible that we deny the opportunity for the Council to analyse and consider the substantial security implications of certain cross-cutting issues, such as climate change.

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  22. The Pacific small island developing States also share the concerns outlined in the presidency's concept paper (S/2008/528, annex) and the focus on improving the Council's efficiency, transparency and interaction. The efficiency of the Council is of paramount importance to the maintenance of international peace and security. New conflicts have emerged since the end of the cold war. As a result, the Council has been called upon to address these issues and to devote its resources and attention to meeting the increasing demands for peacekeeping and conflict resolution. The Council's workload grew exponentially in the early 1990s, causing the Council to evolve from a body that for decades met only sporadically into one that held 272 formal meetings and 193 informal consultation sessions in 2006, an increase of 21 per cent over 2004 levels.

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  23. I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Pacific small island developing States, comprising Fiji, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and my own country, the Kingdom of Tonga. I wish to take this opportunity to congratulate you, Mr. President, for your strong leadership in convening this open debate to discuss the working methods of the Council. We share the concerns raised in the note of the President of the Security Council (S/2006/507). We would like to acknowledge the work of the group of five small States, the S-5. We hope this debate offers constructive and practical advice for the Council in the light of the increasing workload and the competing interests that demand the Council's attention.

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  24. The preventative approach advocated to deal with the issue of children in armed conflict situations also applies to other threats to international peace and security. It is important to take active measures to address the security implications of cross-cutting issues, as those issues are not labelled as traditional security threats but, in reality, have serious security implications. For instance, climate change is a cross- cutting issue that is relevant to international peace and security, and it is our hope that the Security Council will adopt a proactive approach to addressing the security implications of climate change, as it has done with the issue of children and armed conflicts.

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  25. It is also important to stimulate economic development and growth in post- conflict settings so those children and young people will have access to education, vocational training and employment opportunities. In particular, it is important to provide our children and young people with educational and vocational opportunities to promote political and economic security within our region. We hope that the Working Group will continue to monitor the treatment of children and child soldiers in conflict situations. Greater cooperative efforts between the Working Group and relevant United Nations agencies, including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and UNICEF, are important in making provisions to promote community-based reintegration for children in post-conflict development.

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  26. Efforts are needed, therefore, to work with Member States and grassroots organizations to make provisions for child soldiers. Many lack access to education, basic housing and health care. Younger children, particularly young girls, are easy targets for violence, sexual assault and human trafficking. The recent report of the Vienna Forum to Fight Human Trafficking noted that the increasing demand for forced labour and sexual exploitation leaves children vulnerable. It is important to sustain the health and well- being of children by eliminating possible security threats to their mental, physical and emotional well- being and to create an environment that promotes safety and healthy development for those children after they have been rescued.

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  27. We are aware that an estimated 1,400 children have been released as a direct result of compliance with the action plans. There is a need, however, to also focus on preventative measures with regard to that issue. Protecting the physical security of children is the first step. We must take extra steps to ensure that children are cared for in post-conflict development. Children who have experienced the trauma of war, particularly child soldiers, should receive the necessary support to help them with reintegration into their communities. Many reports have shown that it is particularly difficult for child soldiers to be accepted by their families and communities due to the atrocities they were forced to commit during times of conflict.

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  28. The Security Council's initiative on children and armed conflict has yielded positive results in extending more protection to children in conflict situations. The Working Group of the Security Council on Children and Armed Conflict has systematically reviewed 18 country reports of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict, and 13 sets of recommendations were adopted on the basis of the conclusions of the reviews. Nine peacekeeping missions involve child protection advisers, and the security of children has also been featured in peace agreements. It is important that the Security Council sustain the efforts to implement the four formal action plans listed in the annexes to the Secretary-General's annual report in order to end the recruitment of child soldiers.

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  29. We may not have the problems of child soldiers, as experienced by some United Nations Member States, but our region has experienced internal conflicts, and those conflicts have had a negative impact on our children and young people. We also face the challenge of cleaning up our environment to make sure it is free of old munitions from previous world wars. Old munitions are hazardous to our environment. They affect our waters and fishing environment. They also have a negative impact on the health of our children. Therefore, a long- term approach would be beneficial to maintaining a safe and secure environment for the next generation. The work initiated by the Security Council has made a difference in exposing the detrimental impact of armed conflict on children.

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  30. I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Pacific small island developing States, comprising Fiji, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and my own country, the Kingdom of Tonga. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this open debate on children and armed conflict. We congratulate you on your leadership in taking the initiative to highlight the impact of armed conflict on the security of children. The issue of armed conflict and its impact on children is of great importance to the world, and it is also relevant to our region. Children and young people make up a large percentage of our population, and the challenge of providing a safe and secure environment is of paramount importance to our leaders.

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  31. In a recent interview, Antonio Guterres, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, reinforced the likelihood of the situation as he explained that climate change could also uproot people by provoking armed conflicts over increasingly scarce resources. Such conflicts will have a devastating impact on developing countries, and it is very likely that women will be exposed to physical and psychological harm and sexual and gender-based violence. We therefore urge the Security Council to take a preventive approach in dealing with sexual and gender-based violence by considering climate change as a threat to women's security and to the maintenance of international peace and security.

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  32. Experts at the Forum cautioned that without proper mitigation and adaptation strategies and resources to implement such strategies, many developing countries will see their coping capacity diminish over time. The loss of arable land, the increased frequency of natural disasters, weakened infrastructure, increases in epidemic diseases, population displacements, the increase in poverty and competition for natural resources are drivers of conflict. Since nearly one third of the world's poorest population live in countries that are fragile or conflict- affected, they will also be the ones most likely to be affected by or to engage in resource wars - armed conflicts over the use of natural resources, including oil, water and arable land.

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  33. Women need to be empowered economically and must receive training and capacity-building to better adapt to the effects of climate change. It is also imperative to increase grassroots assistance to women in their efforts to preserve their livelihoods. The link between climate change, the security of women and gender-based violence in situations of armed conflict is closer than one would expect. The developing world is facing more exogenous threats and risk factors than ever before. During the Food Security Forum in April this year, the Food and Agriculture Organization warned that long-term food insecurity would lead to the chronic undernourishment of the world's poor. An estimated 850 million people worldwide suffer from hunger, and the number is likely to increase by 4 million each year.

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  34. Women 08-3908] in developing countries are responsible for an estimated 45 to 80 per cent of household food production. Women are arguably much more dependent upon agriculture for their livelihoods and survival. Thus far, the effects of climate change are mostly likely to erode women's capacity to provide for themselves and their families, due to the loss of their livelihoods. It is important to recognize gender differences not just in terms of differential vulnerability but also as differential capacity to adapt and to mitigate the effects of climate change. Climate change is not gender- neutral; rather, gender is an important determinant in climate change mitigation and adaptation. The lack of provisions for integrating a gender perspective into adaptation and mitigation strategies will seriously threaten the security of women.

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  35. Sexual and gender-based violence does not occur in a vacuum. Unfavourable political, social, cultural, economic and environmental exerts pressure and therefore reinforce existing vulnerabilities and gender inequalities. It is important for the Security Council to address cross-cutting issues such as climate change in relation to women's security. Climate change is an emerging cross-cutting issue with serious security implications. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in its fourth assessment report, highlights the vulnerabilities of developing countries and states that poor communities are especially vulnerable due to limited adaptive capacities and are more dependent on climate- sensitive resources. Women and children account for an estimated 70 per cent of the world's poorest population.

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  36. We congratulate the sponsoring countries for taking the initiative to put forth today's draft resolution, which reaffirms the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts and peacebuilding and highlights the fact that violence, intimidation and discrimination may erode women's legitimacy and their capacity to participate in post- conflict public life, reconciliation and post-conflict peacebuilding processes. In our efforts to support the victims of sexual and gender-based violence, we must provide women with psychological care to help them achieve long-term stability. I would like to take this opportunity to highlight the importance of taking a preventive attitude towards sexual and gender-based violence and other factors that may endanger the security of women.

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  37. In the light of women caught in situations of armed conflict, we urge the Security Council to recognize gender-based violence as a threat to the maintenance of international peace and security. We recommend that, where appropriate, the Security Council systematically monitor incidents of gender- based violence in situations of armed conflict. Furthermore, we recommend that, where appropriate, the Secretary-General systematically include comprehensive information on gender-based violence in his reports on conflict-affected situations and that he prepare a special report to the Security Council with timely information on sexual and gender-based violence, thereby initiating the process of follow-up for the Security Council and United Nations agencies.

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  38. The Secretary-General emphasized that "violence constitutes a continuum across the lifespan of women, it cuts across both the public and the private sphere and one form of violence often reinforces another." (A/6l/122/Add.l, para. 365) What we are seeing in some parts of the world is the use of rape and sexual assault as systematic war tactics in destroying the cohesion of communities. In some cases, women who were raped or sexually assaulted during situations of armed conflict face rejection by their families and communities. They are often ostracized and left to fend for themselves. These women face debilitating poverty and discrimination, and many subsequently fall into the vicious cycle of further exploitation and abuse by working in the sex trade; many are exposed to the danger of human trafficking.

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  39. We commend the work that Security Council has done in addressing gender-based violence with the adoption of resolutions 1325 (2000) and with the more recent adoption of resolutions 1468 (2003), 1493 (2003) and 1590 (2005). Gender-based violence in situations of armed conflict is a violation of women's basic human rights. It is also a concern raised by the Secretary-General in his report containing an in-depth study on all forms of violence against women published in 2006 (A/61/122/Add.1). The report recognized that there are many forms and manifestations of violence against women in a wide range of settings, including the family, the community, State custody and institutions, armed conflict and refugee and internally displaced persons situations.

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  40. I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Pacific small island developing States, comprising Fiji, the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and my own country, the Kingdom of Tonga. I wish to take this opportunity to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your strong leadership in convening this open debate. We share the concerns raised in the presidential statement of October 2007 (S/PRST/2007/40), wherein the Security Council condemned all acts of gender-based violence in situations of armed conflict committed against women and girls, including killing, maiming, and sexual violence and abuse.

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