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Video screenshot showing Caroline Atim addressing the United Nations Security Council during a virtual meeting, April 14, 2021. When Caroline Atim, founder and director of the South Sudan Women with Disabilities Network, spoke to the UN Security Council this week, I watched her hands intently and listened to her sign language interpreter, as she described the devastating impact of sexual violence in the South Sudan conflict.   Atim, who made history as the first deaf woman to brief the security council, explained that the dire situation in South Sudan is compounded for women a...

Thursday, 09:48, 15/04/2021 VOV.VN - Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnam Delegation to the United Nations, on April 14 chaired a UN Security Council (UNSC) open debate on woman, peace and security: sexual violence in conflict. Representatives of UNSC member states attend the Vietnam-initiated open debate on woman, peace and security: sexual violence in conflict. Addressing the event, Pramila Patten, United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, noted sexual violence remains complicated in the context of armed conflicts taking place here and there globa...

Vietnam calls for more support to victims of sexual violence in conflict Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công  15/04/2021    10:48 GMT+7 Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations (UN), has called on the international community to further support victims of sexual violence in conflict. Women and children are seen in the al-Hol camp in Syria's Hasakeh province on January 28, 2021. The victims should be as...

Nobel doctor calls sexual violence in conflict a `pandemic' EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press April 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege warned Wednesday that the scourge of sexual violence and rape in all conflicts is now “a real pandemic” and without sanctions and justice for the victims these horrific acts won’t stop. The Congolese doctor told the U.N. Security Council in a video briefing that “we are still far away from being able to draw a red line against the use of rape and sexual violence as a strategy of war domi...

United Nations, Apr 15:Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege warned Wednesday that the scourge of sexual violence and rape in all conflicts is now “a real pandemic” and without sanctions and justice for the victims these horrific acts won’t stop. The Congolese doctor told the U.N. Security Council in a video briefing that “we are still far away from being able to draw a red line against the use of rape and sexual violence as a strategy of war domination and terror.” Mukwege appealed to the international community “to draw a red line against the use of rape and sexual violen...