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Prevention is only cure to end sexual violence in conflict, Security Council hears
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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 globally and increasingly becomes a great challenge due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. She cited the UN Secretary-General’s 12th annual report saying the UN has verified 2,500 cases of conflict-related sexual violence committed in the course of 2020.
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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.
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The victims should be assisted to access psychological, medical, training and legal services, integrate into the community and seek livelihood sources, Quy said while chairing an open debate of the UN Security Council (UNSC) on women, peace and security on April 14.
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“Prevention is the best and only cure” to stem the multiple, devastating and enduring consequences faced by survivors of sexual violence in conflict, especially as a brutal tactic of war, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Wednesday.
“We meet at a moment when this crime, which should have been consigned to a closed chapter of history, is once again in the headlines”, said Pramila Patten, Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, affirming that now was the time to “take stock of both the persistent and entrenched, as well as new and emerging, challenges…to eradicate the scourge”.
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