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Statements Archive - Statement by Ambassador Byrne Nason at UNSC Open Debate on Conflict Related Sexual Violence

Statement by Ambassador Byrne Nason at UNSC Open Debate on Conflict Related Sexual Violence Statement 14 April 2021 Thank you for convening today’s Open Debate and in particular for ensuring that we have had such strong representation of civil society among the briefers.   To Caroline Atim and Denis Mukwege – thank you for being truth-tellers of the reality of sexual violence that is all too often shrouded in stigma and obscured.  Your focus on empowering survivors helps them to regain the sense of agency that these violations so horribly undermine.   I also want to pay tribute to Special Representative Patten. Your work in documenting the evidence of these heinous crimes and calling to account their perpetrators makes an enormous contribution. It serves to elucidate our understanding. Importantly, evidence-based reporting reinforces our ability to address impunity. Today’s work of documenting crimes will lead to tomorrow’s convictions.  Your w

UN says Tigray women suffer rape and cruelty beyond comprehension

SHARE Women and girls in northern Ethiopia’s turbulent Tigray region face worsening sexual attacks and “cruelty beyond comprehension”, a UN official said on Wednesday . In talks on gender-based crimes in war zones, Pramila Patten, the UN envoy on sexual violence in conflict, told diplomats that violence against women in war-torn parts of Ethiopia, Syria, Yemen, Myanmar and other global hot spots had worsened during the coronavirus pandemic. She made the comments in an address to the UN Security Council on her latest report, which described dozens of armed groups using mass rape and other forms of gender-based violence as a “cruel tactic of war” and a tool of political repression.

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