Dragica Mikavica
@DragicaMikavica
Programme Officer at United Nations @childreninwar Office. Dedicated child rights advocate driven by experience of growing up in #Bosnia war. Opinions my own.
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#HappeningNow : Preventing and Responding to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence – Examining the Use of UN Sanctions twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
'The Security Council just approved a long-awaited resolution on Gaza, demanding an immediate ceasefire, and the immediate & unconditional release of all hostages.
This resolution must be implemented. Failure would be unforgivable.'
-- António Guterres
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Twelve days ago, gunmen abducted an estimated 287 students and teachers from their school in Kuriga, Kaduna State, Nigeria.
Students in Nigeria and everywhere must be safe to learn.
Read GCPEA Secretariat statement: bit.ly/4afVJA3
#protecteducation
Women and girls are disproportionately affected by the #ClimateCrisis .
Gender equality and women's and girls' empowerment must be at the heart of all responses to the climate emergency.
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📣Education Cannot Wait is the only🌍fund designed to invest in #education , at record speed, on frontlines of conflict, natural hazards & #ClimateChange -induced displacement.
🆕 #ECW Appeal calls on donors to urgently mobilize $150M to scale up #ECW 's response ⤵️
bit.ly/ECWClimate
Imagine a cyclone rips through your community - destroying your house and your school.
1 year ago, #Mozambique was caught in the #EyeOfTheStorm , experiencing how vulnerable education is to climate change: educationinthestorm.org
Shame on you U.S. Mission to the UN. 1000s of children dead but the highest levels of the #US administration still peddling half-baked lies & propaganda instead of doing everything they can to stop the atrocities.
I’m just recalling all the times you condemned Russia for doing the same in #Syria .
Tonight, Rishi Sunak and his Government chose to turn their backs on the children of #Gaza yet again. By failing to vote for a #CeasefireNOW at the UN Security Council, the UK is complicit in the horror that children will endure in the coming hours, days, and weeks.
STATEMENT: “We are appalled at the failure of the UN Security Council to authorise a resolution demanding a humanitarian ceasefire and unconditional release of hostages held in #Gaza ,' said Save the Children International and aid agencies #CeasefireNOW
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This is sickening to witness day in and day out when you are working on protecting Children and Armed Conflict 📍 #ACTtoProtect and the country that adopted me as a refugee who was a child growing up in war does this. Sickening.
“Your age does not define your intelligence or your importance” - child speaker the Special Prosector Khan invited to take his seat at the launch of an updated policy on children by the International Criminal Court
Veronique Aubert proud of you 👏🏻
The #ClimateSecurityMechanism , a joint initiative by the UN Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, @UNDP, UN Environment Programme, and UN Peacekeeping, aims to strengthen the capacity of the @UN to analyze and address the linkages between climate change, peace and security.
Learn more here 👉 tinyurl.com/2mxz4a4v
We commemorate #WorldChildrensDay , an occasion to take a step back and reflect.
Full statement of the Special Representative, Ms. Virginia Gamba here: childrenandarmedconflict.un.org/2023/11/nothin…
Stop violence
Free hostages
Allow immediate humanitarian access to Gaza
Return to the peace table with women
We are #WomenForPeace
Join us.