Statements

Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. It is a pleasure to join you today for this critical and timely conversation. Allow me to extend my gratitude to the United States Institute for Peace for organizing this event, especially to USIP President, Lise Grande, and to Kathleen Kuehnast, Director of Gender Policy and Strategy, for providing [...]

Mr. President, Distinguished Members of the Security Council, I wish to thank the Albanian Presidency for organizing this meeting and for inviting me to brief. In April, on the occasion of the annual Open Debate of the Security Council on Sexual Violence in Conflict, I posed a question: ‘What do the ten resolutions on Women, [...]

Excellencies, Distinguished conference participants, I would like to commend the PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security, the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Oslo, as well as the European Research Council for shining a spotlight on a neglected group of victims: children born of war. I would also like to extend particular [...]

Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. It is an honor to be here to deliver the 12th Evans-Sahnoun Lecture on the Responsibility to Protect. I would like to extend my sincere appreciation to Ireland for hosting this event, and in particular to Her Excellency Ambassador Byrne Nason, our “Ambassador of conscience” at the United Nations, [...]

Thank you, Madame Vice Prime Minister, for convening this inter-ministerial roundtable. I wish to express my gratitude to all the representatives of the relevant Ministries present here today for dedicating your time at this challenging moment. I am grateful for the opportunity to be in Kyiv for the signing of this Framework of Cooperation, which [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. I am pleased to participate in today’s event, hosted by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security, whose pathbreaking policy research and strategic advocacy demonstrate the importance of gender equality to conflict prevention and durable peace. I would like to thank Ambassador Verveer for her steadfast leadership and for [...]

Mr. President, Distinguished Members of the Security Council, I would like to begin my remarks today with a question that should be on the mind of every member of this Council: What do the ten resolutions on Women, Peace and Security – five of which focus squarely on preventing and addressing conflict-related sexual violence – [...]

Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, let me extend a warm welcome to our distinguished participants in today’s event, and to all of you from around the world watching and supporting our shared efforts to prevent and respond to conflict-related sexual violence.  I would like to thank the Permanent Missions of Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom, and [...]

Thank you for this opportunity to engage with your Committee to present my mandate and to explore avenues of collaboration within the framework of the Cooperation Agreement I signed with the IPU last June. My mandate is about the prevention and response to conflict-related sexual violence- the world’s least-reported and least-condemned crime. Sexual violence during [...]

It is commendable that the Standing Committee on Democracy and Human Rights is working on such an important resolution to address human trafficking. This resolution is so timely as the conflict in Ukraine is triggering a humanitarian crisis, a displacement crisis, unprecedented in speed and scale. It is a fact that conflict exacerbates vulnerability to [...]