Women & Peace & Security – Security Council, 9016th meeting

High-level open debate on the theme “Conflict-related sexual violence: accountability
as prevention – ending cycles of sexual violence in conflict” organized by the President of the Security Council for the month of April 2022, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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In Security Council resolution 1820 (2008), conflict-related sexual violence was first established as a self-standing security issue over a decade ago. Despite the robust resolutions, conventions and treaties that have followed, sexual violence continues to occur in many conflicts across the world, with almost total impunity. The annual open debate provides an opportunity to ask what more we can do to reduce conflict-related sexual violence and deliver justice and accountability for survivors in fragile, conflict and post-conflict settings. In particular, the debate will focus on strengthening accountability and addressing the culture of impunity around these crimes as a means of delivering justice for survivors, holding implicated individuals, States and non-State actors to account and preventing future violence. The debate will consider gaps in the delivery of justice and assistance to survivors, as well as ways to reinforce the international architecture. 

The open debate will be chaired by Lord Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict and Minister of State for the United Kingdom.

The following speakers will brief the Security Council:

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Nadia Murad
Civil society representative, to be confirmed.

Concept note (S/2022/293): https://bit.ly/3xDKL7B