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S/PV.8234 Security Council United Nations S/PV.8234 Security Council Provisional Seventy-third year 8234th meeting Monday, 16 April 2018, 10 a.m. New York President: Mr. Meza-Cuadra ............................... (Peru) Members: Bolivia (Plurinational State of) ..................... Ms. Cardona Moscoso China ......................................... Mr. Wu Haitao Côte d’Ivoire ................................... Mr. Tanoh-Boutchoue Equatorial Guinea ............................... Mr. Ndong Mba Ethiopia ....................................... Ms. Guadey France ........................................ Mr. Delattre Kazakhstan .................................... Mr. Umarov Kuwait ........................................ Mr. Alotaibi Netherlands .................................... Mrs. Gregoire Van Haaren Poland ........................................ Mr. Radomski Russian Federation ............................... Mr. Polyanskiy Sweden ....................................... Ms. Bah Kuhnke United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland .. Ms. Pierce United States of America .......................... Ms. Eckels-Currie Agenda Women and peace and security Preventing sexual violence in conflict through empowerment, gender equality and access to justice Report of the Secretary-General on conflictrelated sexual violence (S/2018/250) Letter dated 2 April 2018 from the Permanent Representative of Peru to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General (S/2018/311) This record contains the text of speeches delivered in English and of the translation of speeches delivered in other languages. The final text will be printed in the Official Records of the Security Council. Corrections should be submitted to the original languages only. They should be incorporated in a copy of the record and sent under the signature of a member of the delegation concerned to the Chief of the Verbatim Reporting Service, room U-0506 ([email protected]). Corrected records will be reissued electronically on the Official Document System of the United Nations (http://documents.un.org). 18-10885 (E) *1810885* S/PV.8234 Women and peace and security 16/04/2018 The meeting was called to order at 10.10 a.m. accordance with the provisional rules of procedure and the previous practice in this regard. Adoption of the agenda There being no objection, it is so decided. The agenda was adopted. The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda. Women and peace and security I wish to draw the attention of Council members to Preventing sexual violence in conflict through document S/2018/250, which contains the report of the empowerment, gender equality and access Secretary-General on conflict-related sexual violence. to justice I also wish to also draw the attention of Council Report of the Secretary-General on members to document S/2018/311, which contains the conflict-related sexual violence (S/2018/250) text of a letter dated 2 April 2018 from the Permanent Letter dated 2 April 2018 from the Permanent Representative of Peru to the United Nations addressed Representative of Peru to the United Nations to the Secretary-General, transmitting a concept note addressed to the Secretary-General (S/2018/311) on the item under consideration. The President (spoke in Spanish): In accordance I wish to warmly welcome Her Excellency Deputy with rule 37 of the Council’s provisional rules of Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, to whom I now procedure, I invite the representatives of Argentina, give the floor. Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Botswana, The Deputy Secretary-General: Let me begin Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, the by commanding Peru and His Excellency Ambassador Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Germany, Indonesia, Gustavo Meza-Cuadra for convening this important the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, open debate on sexual violence and conflict. I also Italy, Japan, Jordan, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Mexico, very warmly welcome Ms. Razia Sultana here today Montenegro, Myanmar, Namibia, Nigeria, Norway, to amplify the voices of the Rohingya community and Pakistan, Paraguay, Portugal, Qatar, Slovakia, Slovenia, to offer an account to the plight of women and girls South Africa, Spain, the Sudan, Switzerland, the Syrian systematically targeted due to their religion or ethnicity. Arab Republic, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates and Uruguay to participate in this meeting. This year in Myanmar, and in many other conflict situations, the widespread threat and use the sexual In accordance with rule 39 of the Council’s violence is once again being used as a tactic to advance provisional rules of procedure, I invite the following military, economic and ideological objectives. Once briefers to participate in this meeting: Ms. Pramila again it has been a driver of massive forced displacement. Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary-General Let me be clear: both genders endure the horrific on Sexual Violence in Conflict, and Ms. Razia Sultana, brutality of sexual violence in conflict. Sexual violence Senior Researcher of Kaladan Press. is also a very common method of torture of detainees, In accordance with rule 39 of the Council’s and in many conflicts most detainees are men and boys. provisional rules of procedure, I also invite the But overall women and girls are disproportionately following to participate in this meeting: Mr. Gerton affected. Gender-based discrimination is the invisible van den Akker, Chargé d’affaires ad interim of the driver of most crimes of sexual violence. The lower Delegation of the European Union to the United one’s status in terms of wealth, health and education, Nations; Ms. Fatima Kyari Mohammed, Permanent the greater her vulnerability and exposure to harm. Observer of the African Union to the United Nations; Last year, I travelled with Special Representative and Ms. Clare Hutchinson, Special Representative for of the Secretary-General Pramila Patten to Nigeria Women, Peace and Security of the Secretary-General and to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. both nations, the consequences of sexual violence are I propose that the Council invite the Permanent profound and enduring for survivors, their families and Observer of the Observer State of the Holy See to their communities. Survivors are forced to live with the the United Nations to participate in the meeting, in untreated physical and psychological trauma, the social 2/80 18-10885 16/04/2018 Women and peace and security S/PV.8234 stigma and unwanted pregnancies. The children born of to combat impunity for those crimes. Let us intensify rape are often ostracized and relegated to the margins our efforts to end the horrific litany of sexual violence of society. That serves yet again to highlight the fact in conflict so that our women, girls, men and boys have that, in the end, sexual violence has consequences no less burden to bear as they work to rebuild their for all affected women, girls, men and boys. It is a shattered lives. deliberate tactic to humiliate and disempower and The President (spoke in Spanish): I thank the Deputy undermine social cohesion. Our responsibility must Secretary-General for her very informative briefing. be to bring justice, recognition and reparations to the survivors of those horrendous crimes — not only I now give the floor to Ms. Patten. justice in the courtroom but also social justice and Ms. Patten: I am delighted to join the Council economic empowerment. today for the first open debate on sexual violence in We should recognize and support the resilience conflict during my tenure as Special Representative of of the many survivors who are working as agents of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict. change. If we are to prevent these crimes being repeated, Allow me to start by expressing my appreciation to Peru we must ensure accountability and deterrence. In that for presiding over this meeting and for its leadership on context, I welcome the continued engagement by those the women and peace and security agenda. parties listed by the Secretary-General in his reports The focus of this debate, on preventing sexual on conflict-related sexual violence. For example, the violence in conflict through empowerment, gender signing of a unilateral communiqué by a coalition of equality and access to justice, could not be more timely armed groups in Mali in July 2017 and the development or more in line with my own vision for advancing this of a joint communiqué implementation plan by the Iraq mandate. When I took up office last June, I outlined Government last month are both very encouraging. a three-pillar priority agenda, namely, converting Let me also highlight the increased vigilance being cultures of impunity into cultures of deterrence through shown by peacekeepers in protecting women, girls, consistent and effective prosecution; addressing men and boys from sexual violence as part of their structural, gender-based inequality as the root cause protection-of-civilians mandate. Last month in the and invisible driver of sexual violence in times of eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a war and peace; and fostering national ownership female engagement team of 16 soldiers from the United and leadership for a sustainable, survivor-centered Kingdom, South Africa and Nepal supported a civilian response that empowers civil society and local women’s mission to one of the country’s most remote areas in rights defenders. response to reports of abductions
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