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Zoghbi

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2022-04-13
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2023-07-14
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  1. “Lebanon participated in the International Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative Conference in London in November of last year, and also endorsed the political declaration on conflict- related sexual violence. One of the most powerful pieces at the Metropolitan Museum of Art here in New York is the early eighteenth-century French sculptor Philippe Bertrand’s statue of Lucretia, which portrays Lucretia as she commits suicide out of shame for her rape. No victims or survivors of sexual violence should ever have to go through that extra layer of pain and suffering. Our common duty is to understand what they have gone through, support and empower them and prevent such atrocities from ever happening again.”

    2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378Resumption1 (2023) · source

  2. “We must ask ourselves how many times we are going to keep saying that. Survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad’s words can bring some key answers to our questions. “Sometimes I feel as if I am repeating myself over and over again, but the messages remain important. I will keep saying them until we solve the issues”. The devastating use of sexual violence as a weapon of war — a humiliating and degrading one — continues unabated, with women and girls the main victims, although we are not forgetting that men and boys can also be targets of sexual violence in conflict. Human beings’ bodies are not and should never be considered a tool of combat. In that regard, we commend the United Kingdom’s leadership in preventing sexual violence in conflict.”

    2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378Resumption1 (2023) · source

  3. “At the outset, we would like to thank the United Kingdom for organizing this important debate. We also thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Pramila Patten, and the other briefers for their statements earlier today. We still remember Special Representative Patten’s words during last year’s debate on ending cycles of sexual violence in conflict, when she stated that “[w]omen’s rights are not Western rights. They are human rights” (S/PV.9016, p.6). Lebanon, a country that played a role in the drafting of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights — the seventy-fifth anniversary of which we are celebrating this year — strongly concurs with her. The latest report of the Secretary-General on conflict-related sexual violence (S/2023/413) states that impunity remains the norm.”

    2023-07-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9378Resumption1 (2023) · source

  4. “While there are far fewer of them than their male counterparts, it remains our hope that the number of women peacekeepers will increase in future. Recent official figures indicate that women soldiers constitute only 4.8 per cent of the military units that comprise nearly 95,000 peacekeepers. As we look forward to celebrating the twenty- fifth anniversary of adopting resolution 1325 (2000) in two years, Lebanon is working on implementing a second national action plan on women and peace and security, which we hope will complement the first plan by updating the means with which emerging challenges to the implementation of the women and peace and security agenda in its entirety are addressed.”

    2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source

  5. “Indeed, after adopting our first plan in 2019, we have been taking practical steps for implementing it. Despite the many unprecedented challenges facing Lebanon, we have been persistent in efforts to advance the women and peace and security agenda. We have achieved progress in terms of women’s participation in the military, both with increased numbers and in greater responsibility in the tasks assigned to them. As a case in point, Cadet Jana Sader of the Lebanese army recently graduated from a nearly two-year training course at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas. She is the first pilot in our army to fly an A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft. She is a proof that there is no limit for what a woman can do. We value the presence and efforts of women soldiers within the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.”

    2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source

  6. “According to UN-Women, from the inception of the United Nations until last year, only 26 women have occupied the position of Permanent Representative in the Security Council. That figure shows that we are still far from achieving Sustainable Development Goal 5, on gender equality. It is clear that greater efforts need to be made. Resolution 1325 (2000) was the first Council resolution to recognize the role women play in achieving international peace and security, their contribution to preventing and resolving conflicts and their importance to peacekeeping and peacebuilding — all of which fall within the purview of Sustainable Development Goal 5. Since its adoption, States Members of the United Nations, including Lebanon, have relied on resolution 1325 (2000) to establish national plans on women and peace and security.”

    2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source

  7. “Ms. Zoghbi (Lebanon) (spoke in Arabic): At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I would also like to thank you, Madam, for convening today’s important debate on women and peace and security, entitled “Towards the twenty-fifth anniversary of resolution 1325 (2000)”, which coincides with the celebration of International Women’s Day tomorrow, as well as the sixty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women. At the opening of the new session of the Commission on the Status of Women yesterday, the Secretary- General recalled that if we continue at the pace we are moving, it will take us 300 years to reach gender equality. Even with the Security Council itself, the statistics show a lack of gender equality.”

    2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source

  8. “Women’s bodies can no longer be allowed to be collateral damage. Women’s bodies can no longer be allowed to be used as weapons of war. Women’s bodies can no longer be allowed to be turned into battlefields.”

    2022-04-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9016Resumption1 (2022) · source

  9. “Particular attention should also be given to women activists, women peacebuilders, women human rights defenders and women journalists, who are often specifically targeted, including through sexual violence and harassment. In his remarks to the Peacebuilding Commission last month, Secretary-General António Guterres reaffirmed that the world is experiencing the highest number of violent conflicts since 1945, with 2 billion people, or a quarter of the world’s population, now living in conflict-affected areas. The more conflicts persist and multiply, the more sexual violence in those settings will thrive. We need to address this phenomenon and work for justice and accountability. But the most important step to take is to silence the guns, end conflicts and, above all, deploy all efforts to prevent them before they erupt.”

    2022-04-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9016Resumption1 (2022) · source

  10. “We need to ensure that survivors of sexual violence in conflicts are protected and that the perpetrators of such crimes are brought to justice. Conflict-related sexual violence can no longer go unpunished. We welcome in this regard the General Assembly initiative, led by Sierra Leone and Japan, to adopt a resolution on international cooperation for access to justice, remedies and assistance for survivors of sexual violence, and we look forward to engaging constructively in that process. We recognize that women and girls are disproportionately the victims of sexual violence in conflict. However, when addressing the issue, we should not exclude sexual violence perpetrated against men and boys. In their case, the stigma and shame are much more intense, and many victims and survivors choose to remain silent.”

    2022-04-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9016Resumption1 (2022) · source

  11. “Women continue to suffer sexual violence in conflicts all over the world, as we heard this morning from Special Representative of the Secretary-General Pramila Patten. Women cannot and should no longer bear the brunt of conflicts. We still remember all too well the unimaginable suffering of Yazidi women and girls who were subjected to all kinds of barbaric and inhumane treatment by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham, including rape, sexual violence, sexual slavery and torture, to name a few. Unfortunately, such atrocities persist unabated. The latest report of the Secretary General on the theme (S/2022/272) confirms that sexual violence continues to be employed as a tactic of war, torture and terrorism. However, those heinous crimes remain underreported, as, in most cases, survivors are afraid to come forward and share their stories.”

    2022-04-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9016Resumption1 (2022) · source

  12. “At the outset, we congratulate the United Kingdom on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for this month and commend it for organizing this timely debate. We take this opportunity to congratulate the United Arab Emirates on its successful presidency of the Council last month. We are very proud to see women Ambassadors presiding over the Council for three consecutive months. We also thank the briefers for their insightful remarks. We were delighted to listen to Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ms. Nadia Murad once again here in the Security Council. We salute her bravery and courage to continue advocating for survivors of human trafficking and sexual violence so as to ensure that she is the last girl in the world with a story like hers, as she puts it in her book, The Last Girl.”

    2022-04-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9016Resumption1 (2022) · source