"SEXUAL EXPLOITATION"

(Resumed) Security Council open debate in connection with "Women's participation in international peace and security: from theory to practice" under the agenda item "Women and peace and security".

Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council that “where wars rage, women suffer,” and said, “twenty-three years after this Council adopted resolution 1325, women’s participation should be a default, not an afterthought. But that is not the case.” UNIFEED

(Resumed) Women's participation in international peace and security: from theory to practice.

Security Council open debate in connection with "Women's participation in international peace and security: from theory to practice" under the agenda item "Women and peace and security".

United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told reporters in New York that a possible case of serious misconduct, including sexual exploitation and abuse as well as assault by UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been reported. UNIFEED

UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif said, “I am deeply concerned by the continued and widespread deterioration of the human rights situation in Haiti and its impact on the region.” UNTV CH

Hybrid press briefing by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of Ghana, H.E. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, along with Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Operational Support, Atul Khare, and Under-Secretary-General for Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance, Catherine Pollard to announce that Ghana will host the 2023 UN Peacekeeping Ministerial in Accra on December 5-6.

A joint statement from Albania, Brazil, Ecuador, France, Gabon, Japan, Malta, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States called for the parties to the Sudan conflict to “take full responsibility for preventing any acts of sexual and gender-based violence committed by their members and should issue command orders that prohibit sexual violence.” UNIFEED

During an event commemorating the 10th anniversary of the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, a UN top official said, "Human trafficking is a crime that hides not just in the shadows but in plain sight." UNIFEED

Noon Briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.