Today at the United Nations Peacebuilding briefing,🇨🇭 #Switzerland stressed:
- Need for increased funding to PBF
- Importance of inclusive approach to peace
- Need to reinforce the roles of the PBF & the PBC in view of the🇺🇳Summit of the Future #SOTF

#Sudan : alarming developments with imminent offensive by RSF & allied militias on El Fasher. Consequences for civilians would be devastating & could lead to new atrocities.
 🇨🇭welcomes #UNSC Press Statement, calling for de-escalation, cessation of hostilities & IHL compliance⬇️

Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield Thank you! The people of #Sudan needs you and #Darfur need your voice more than ever !

Rape and other forms of gender-based violence are a defining feature of the current war in #Sudan .
This war has had devastating consequences for women.
Of the 25 M people facing a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, women are particularly impacted.

So proud to work with one of the bravest women I know, Niemat A to escalate the urgency of the situation in Sudan with Security Council members this week, especially given the urgent importance of protecting civilians in El Fasher. Read her call to action: wps.ngo/ahmadi

Ms. Niemat Ahmadi (Niemat A), our president and founder, briefed the UNSC.
Minute 26:00

webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1r/k… my today's briefing to the UNSC

We cannot condemn the perpetrators of sexual violence in our speeches, while continuing to fund and arm them through our supply chains.

80 cents. When was the last time you handled 80 cents?
 
It is not even enough to buy a packet of gum in this day and age. But it can buy you a child to rape at a so-called Maison de Tolerance in a camp for internally displaced people in Eastern #DRC .

At the #SecurityCouncil Open Debate on #CRSV , SRSG Patten stressed the importance to silence the guns and amplify the voices of women as a critical constituency for #peace .
 
Read her statement here: tinyurl.com/sdmuxjd9

Darfur Women Action Group's & AdNA-Ubuntu's Niemat A statement at the UN Security Council on the use of sexual violence in the war in #Sudan & more womenpeacesecurity.org/resource/state… Pauline Muchina Emira Woods Albert Gyan (Kojo Krɔm) AfricaNow! Online Africans Rising

#KeepEyesOnSudan
Please to be the voice for for the suffering women of #Sudan and the most vulnerable in #Darfur

Women and girls in #Sudan have no protection, no access to humanitarian or medical assistance, and nowhere to turn for help in response to widespread #CRSV . Yet they continue to 'draw the bold line between hope and despair,' @NiematA tells the #UNSC .

Important truths shared by Niemat A at the UN Security Council today. #AllEyesOnSudan #UnitedforSudan

Honored to meet with Niemat A from the Darfur Women Action Group. I am so inspired by her tireless advocacy for the rights and empowerment of women and girls in Darfur – and dedication to promoting peace in Sudan.

At the Open Debate on #CRSV , @NiematA calls on the Security Council to stop the war in #Sudan and end impunity for past and present crimes—including crimes against women—in order to achieve sustainable peace.

Today at the #UNSC Open debate on #CRSV , #EU called on all countries to hold perpetrators accountable, step up gender-responsive arms control efforts, take the risks of #SGBV into account, and address the root causes of impunity.

Full statement: ▶️ bit.ly/3Wdu52S

At the #UNSC , @NiematA calls on the #UNSC to condemn violation of the arms embargo in #Sudan .

Failure to do so 'signal[s] to perpetrators that they can continue to violate international law without consequences.”

Powerful words from @NiematA on the Security Council's inaction on #Sudan as the war continues to have ever more devastating consequences—particularly for women and girls.

Read her full statement from the #CRSV Open Debate: wps.ngo/ahmadi

Ahead of the #UNSC Open Debate on #CRSV , @NiematA tells the press it is notable that “without the spread of weapons, the levels of sexual violence we are currently seeing in #Sudan would never have occurred.”

Last words from @NiematA to the #UNSC : “The intl community’s failure to act in #Sudan and in all other contexts should be a stain on our collective conscience. Only you have the power to change this. Please act now.” #KeepEyesOnSudan

Read her statement: wps.ngo/ahmadi