At @UN Security Council open debate on sexual violence in conflict #CRSV, Luxembourg 🔹reiterated its support for @endrapeinwar SRSG Patten 🔹called for ending impunity and increasing access to services for survivors 🔹urged parties listed in SG report to end CRSV & respect IHL

Amb Olivier Maes: “The Responsibility to Protect was intended to be a shared commitment to prevent the gravest crimes before they occur. Doing better demands consistency, political courage and sustained engagement across the international system.” ©️UN Photo / Eskinder Debebe

Today, on behalf of 55 members of the Group of Friends of the Responsibility to Protect #R2P, Luxembourg called for more consistent and principled action to prevent atrocity crimes. Protection must never be selective, and mass atrocities must never be accepted as inevitable! 🇱🇺🇺🇳