Statement

Excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, It is my pleasure to participate in this panel as indeed addressing impunity and its linkages with peace and security are among the most pressing challenges faced by the region. A decade ago, the Security Council adopted the ground-breaking resolution 1820 (2008), which elevated the issue of conflict-related sexual [...]

Distinguished speakers, panelists and guests, I would like to thank Dr. Kanem for the invitation to this event and to commend this initiative of UNFPA in bringing the spotlight on the rights, safety and dignity of women in South Sudan. As a painful backdrop to this event, last week’s incident in Bentiu is a stark reminder of [...]

Your Royal Highness, Excellencies, Distinguished guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, good evening. Last year in September, I co-hosted with Lord Ahmad the launch of the Principles for Global Action to tackle the stigma of sexual violence. I would like to sincerely commend this new initiative of addressing stigma through the medium of film-making. Stigma is a [...]

I would like to start by congratulating Hannah Rose for this exhibition and for her activism through art. In addition to be a powerful tool of social change, the healing power of art cannot be underestimated. Thank you for sharing with all of us these portraits of Yezidi, Rohingya and Nigerian women. I had the [...]

I wish to thank the Government of Liechtenstein for organizing this event and inviting me to participate in in this discussion on accountability options for Myanmar. I also wish to thank the Government of Liechtenstein for its steadfast commitment of strengthening the rule of law and human rights through its foreign policy and the emphasis [...]

Distinguished participants, ladies and gentlemen, warm greetings. I sincerely wish I could have attended your seminar in person, but I am nevertheless delighted to be able to contribute through this video message. I would like to start by commending Deutscher Frauenring for hosting this seminar at a time when we are striving to bridge the [...]

I would like to thank Ambassador Van Osterom from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, as well as the Ambassadors of Côte d’Ivoire, France and Peru for organizing this event. My gratitude also to you, Ms. Rita Lopidia, for your compelling testimony on the situation in South Sudan. Excellencies, distinguished panelists and guests, The unacceptable reality [...]

• I would like to thank Ambassador Velázquez and the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate for the invitation. • The developments over the past few years have demonstrated that the targeting of women, girls and boys with sexual violence that accompanies the rise of violent extremism is not ancillary or incidental, but widespread, systematic and integrally [...]

Excellencies, fellow panelists, distinguished delegates, honorable guests, I would like to thank the United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect and the Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers for organizing this event and inviting me to speak. 3 August 2018 marked the four-year anniversary of the launch by Islamic State of [...]

Thank you, Lord Ahmad; it is my great pleasure to co-host this roundtable, and I would like to start by commending and congratulating the UK-PSVI, under your leadership, for its historic efforts to bring sexual violence in conflict out of the shadows and onto the agenda of the top tables of diplomacy and foreign policy. I would also like [...]