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  1. “Ijust want to thank you, Mr. President. I hope to have the opportunity to meet with some of the delegations in order to pursue the recommendations made.”

    2019-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8502 (2019) · source

  2. “As author Rebecca Solnit said, "Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency". The emergency is now.”

    2019-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8502 (2019) · source

  3. “That should include supporting the adoption of a comprehensive law on gender-based violence and sections of the 2017 criminal code reform proposal that seek to fill some of the protection gaps for survivors of sexual and gender- based violence. In any transition or drawdown, the Council should ensure that any positive gains made on gender equality are preserved and properly resourced. In its consideration of the forthcoming report on MINUJUSTH and in any briefings, senior United Nations officials should include information on efforts to ensure women's full and meaningful participation in all aspects of parliamentary elections, including as candidates and voters and as part of formal electoral mechanisms. Women and girls in Haiti want to stay hopeful.”

    2019-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8502 (2019) · source

  4. “The Council should call on MINUJUSTH to build the capacity of local organizations to provide the Government with high-quality gender-sensitive services for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. Such work must continue through the upcoming transitional period and United Nations mission reconfiguration. The Council should ensure sustainable and continued funding and mission support in addressing the urgent humanitarian needs of women and girls, including sexual and reproductive health services for gender-based violence survivors, and services in the wake of natural disasters. The Council should also call on Haiti to take the important step of creating greater legal protections for women and girls.”

    2019-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8502 (2019) · source

  5. “Haiti is a small country full of larger-than-life women. Those women have helped their communities and families flourish despite the most dire and tragic of conditions. Those communities and families sacrifice everything for their children's education and survival. Yet girls have limited role models or advocates in Haiti's halls of power. For a better future for our mothers, sisters, cousins and daughters, we must support women's participation in public and political life at all levels and advocate for better laws, affordable health care, education andjustice. The women of Haiti have so much to offer their country and the world. However, we need the Council's help to make that happen.”

    2019-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8502 (2019) · source

  6. “The Security Council and the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH) should work with the Haitian Government to advance the adoption of the draft penal code and ensure that the definition of sexual assault under the code is based on consent. That would bring the penal code further in line with international legal standards and ensure access to justice for survivors. As service providers, we know the critical importance of medical care for survivors. We also know that throughout the country such services are insufficient. Survivors of gender-based Violence need timely and comprehensive care to address the risks of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, as well as unwanted pregnancies. That means psychosocial support, medical intervention and fair and safe access to the justice system.”

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  7. “The difficult work to end sexual and gender-based Violence in Haiti remains a silent fight. It is a topic no one wants to discuss, yet it can change a young woman's life forever. More than 40 per cent of all sexual assault victims in Haiti are under the age of 25, with many whom we serve being below the age of 15. I speak on behalf of all survivors of sexual and gender-based violence when I say that impunity for violence against women and girls in Haiti must end. We need not only a comprehensive law on gender- based violence, we must also educate Haitians to respect women and girls and shift the harmful social norms that cause the violence in the first place.”

    2019-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8502 (2019) · source

  8. “Cancer is another issue that primarily affects women in Haiti; 75 per cent of our patients are women. In partnership with the Haitian Ministry of Health, Zanmi Lasante has provided free cancer care to patients across the country for almost 20 years. Today I am friends with Roselene Jean, our first cancer patient. Without the care we provided, she would no longer be with us. No woman should die in Haiti because of a lack of access to obstetric care or cancer. The lack of access to women's health care poses one of the greatest challenges to development in Haiti. Reinforcing the relationship between sustainable development and peace and security should therefore be central to the way the Council addresses the situation in Haiti and is fundamental to placing my country on the path to peace and stability.”

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  9. “Addressing the root causes of conflict has been increasingly highlighted by this body and the broader United Nations system as an important priority. Years after the United Nations first deployed a peace operation in Haiti, my country serves as an example of how failure to do so can contribute to instability. Today women in Haiti face barriers to achieving basic access to services, education and health care. For example, Haiti has one ofthe highest maternal mortality rates in the world: 359 women die for every 100,000 live births in Haiti. Watching a woman die because she reached us too late, or seeing families devastated after losing a mother, a wife or a daughter in childbirth, are images one cannot forget. They haunt me, and they should haunt all of us. Childbirth should not be a death sentence in Haiti.”

    2019-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8502 (2019) · source

  10. “Over the past 30 years, Haiti has been through significant challenges, including the devastating 2010 earthquake and cholera outbreak, from which we continue to recover. We have also seen a number of positive changes in my country: roads exist where they never did before, access to health services has increased, and we are seeing better partnerships between local organizations and their foreign counterparts on health and education. Yet much more remains to be completed. The United Nations promised to right Haiti's wrongs in 2014, four years after the cholera outbreak began, and we hold it to this promise. My briefing today will focus on three specific areas: addressing inequality, sexual and gender-based violence and women's political participation.”

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  11. “Ms. Viaud: First, I would like to thank the Council for the invitation to provide an update on the situation in Haiti. Haiti is not only the country I was born in, but also the country I have dedicated my life to serving. My name is Loune Viaud, and I am the Executive Director of Zanmi Lasante, one of Haiti's largest non-governmental health-care providers and sister organization to Partners in Health, based in Boston. Partners in Health is a social justice organization providing access to education and health care to communities across four continents. I am honoured to have the opportunity to brief the Security Council today on the situation of women and girls in Haiti. I would like to thank MADRE and the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security for their efforts to ensure that the voices of women in civil society are heard.”

    2019-04-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8502 (2019) · source