Tag: TimeToAct

29th August 2014 London, UK

Mapping the online conversation of the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict

Maps of the online landscape can provide fascinating insights into how they are connected and how they interact. In my last blog I looked at a few of our Ambassadors’ accounts and found some of the communities that existed amongst their followers. This blog looks at the way maps of the online conversation can help […]

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20th June 2014 Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei

A Summit like no other

Last week saw an extraordinary international conference in London. British Foreign Secretary William Hague and UN Special Envoy Angelina Jolie co-hosted the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict. This brought together 128 country delegations and over 80 ministers. Minister of Foreign Affairs II Pehin Lim led the Brunei delegation. There were around 1,700 […]

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19th June 2014

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by Nigel Baker

Ambassador to the Holy See (2011-2016)

Reflections of a Catholic participant on the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in conflict

I have commented in recent weeks on the 10-13 June London Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict. This week, I give the floor to Pádraic MacOireachtaigh, Jesuit Refugee Service Regional Advocacy and Communications Officer in the Great Lakes based in Burundi, who participated in the Summit, and who contributes his own supportive but critical […]

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12th June 2014 Ottawa, Canada

by Julia Nolan

Head of the Foreign Policy Team

Ottawa does its bit to mark this week’s Global Summit!

If you’re in Ottawa and don’t know what this means, you clearly weren’t downtown last night. That’s when we lit up the façade of the High Commission on Elgin in red to show our solidarity with the work of over 1,000 people in London at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict…

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12th June 2014

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by Greg Dorey

Diplomat

Ending Sexual Violence as a Tool of War

Sexual violence committed in war zones has been not only an abomination against humanity but a growing problem. Long seen as an inevitable consequence of a breakdown of law and order and often regarded as a ‘lesser crime’, it is increasingly being used as a means of war to humiliate and devastate communities belonging to the […]

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12th June 2014

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by Paul Madden

British Ambassador to Japan

#TimeToAct – emblazoned across the Australian sky

I’m not a fan of hot air. Although when you’re floating in a balloon over Australia’s capital city Canberra, and it’s the only thing keeping you up there, you’re rather glad of it. The balloon was emblazoned with the hashtag #TimeToAct. We were drawing attention to the Global Summit on Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict, […]

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11th June 2014 Paris, France

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by Peter Ricketts

Ambassador to France from February 2012 to January 2016.

It’s #TimeToAct

End Sexual Violence in Conflict - #TimeToAct

We’ve just had an extraordinary few days here with the State Visit of Her Majesty The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh – but of course there’s a lot else happening in the world as well. I talked before about my foreign minister William Hague’s initiative on preventing sexual violence in conflict. Well, the big […]

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11th June 2014

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by Nigel Baker

Ambassador to the Holy See (2011-2016)

#TimeToAct: Catholics building a better future

As the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict unfolds, I am delighted to give voice in my blog to a story from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Last week at Vatican Radio, a panel discussion showed that religious networks have a huge role to play to end the use of rape as a […]

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4th June 2014

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by Nigel Baker

Ambassador to the Holy See (2011-2016)

Time to Act: mobilising Catholic networks against sexual violence in conflict

I often have to remind people that I am accredited not to the Vatican City State, but to the Holy See, the governance of the global Catholic Church. As such, this embassy has reach into an extraordinary worldwide network of civil society organisations, religious congregations, diplomats, universities and other components that make up the Catholic […]

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3rd June 2014

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by Paul Madden

British Ambassador to Japan

Australia sets scene for London Global Summit on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict

HE Paul Madden and The Hon Julie Bishop

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and I co-hosted a Dialogue on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict at Parliament House yesterday. It was well timed, just a week before the London summit from 10-13 June. Julie is one of 14 global champions for the PSVI initiative, including presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers from a diverse range […]

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