Remarks by Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict (SRSG-SVC) on the situation in Somalia during the 8601st meeting of the Security Council.

UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten said sexual violence in Somalia remains a matter of grave concern. She said countless women and girls are subjected to or living in fear of sexual violence, adding that victims are often invisible and inaccessible, with nowhere to report these crimes, and nowhere to turn.

SOUNDBITE (English) Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual
Violence in Conflict, United Nations:
“Though peace remains elusive, and violence and insecurity has become normalized through decades of conflict, survivors and frontline service-providers remain resilient. What they want, above all, is a response from their government and the international community that shows that they are not forgotten.”

Patten noted that, as a direct outcome of her visit to the country, the Government committed to working with the UN system to develop a new implementation plan for the Joint Communiqué, in the form of an Action Plan on Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict.

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