Security Council hears about rising conflict
Peace and Security
Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, briefed the Security Council’s open debate on conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) on Tuesday, presenting the Secretary-General’s annual report and stressing the need to support survivors in conflict zones where services are increasingly inaccessible.
UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict, which she chairs, has been “truly transformative” in its response through advocacy, knowledge-building and joint operations in the field and has reached thousands of survivors across 18 conflict areas.
As the demand for services outweighs the supply of resources, “any failure to sustain investment, any backtracking on established norms, or any unraveling of the existing architecture, would not only betray the survivors, but further embolden the perpetrators,” Ms. Patten concluded.
