United Nations, Oct 26 (PTI) India slammed Pakistan’s “mischievous provocation” and “political propaganda” throughout a Safety Council assembly on girls, peace and safety, saying the situation of girls belonging to minority communities, notably Hindus, Sikhs and Christians within the nation stays deplorable.
“It’s despicable but fully predictable that one delegation has chosen to bask in mischievous provocation based mostly on their tried and examined tactic of spreading misinformation and disinformation,” India’s Everlasting Consultant to the UN Ambassador P Harish mentioned within the UNSC on Friday.
Harish delivered India’s assertion on the UNSC Open Debate on ‘Girls Constructing Peace in a Altering Surroundings’.
In a robust Proper of Reply to Pakistan, which once more raked the difficulty of Kashmir on the debate, Harish mentioned, “It is fully misplaced to bask in such political propaganda at this essential annual debate.” “We’re effectively conscious that the situation of girls belonging to minority communities, notably Hindus, Sikhs and Christians in that nation, stays deplorable,” he mentioned.
Harish added that an estimated thousand girls of those minority communities, as per information of Pakistan’s Human Rights Fee, are topic to “abduction, compelled non secular conversions and compelled marriages yearly. Anyway, I may go on, however I am going to finish right here.” On the debate, India reaffirmed its unwavering dedication to the Girls, Peace and Safety (WPS) agenda. Harish pressured that sustainable peace requires girls’s full, equal, significant, and secure participation in any respect ranges of decision-making together with politics, governance, institution-building, rule of legislation, the safety sector, and financial restoration.
Evidently that financial and social effectively being of the inhabitants typically and girls specifically are integral to sustainable peace.
Highlighting the numerous strides in implementing the WPS agenda, Harish mentioned that because the fifth-largest troop contributor, India deployed the first-ever all-female Shaped Police Unit to Liberia in 2007, setting a precedent in UN peacekeeping. “Their work garnered large appreciation inside Liberia and within the UN,” he mentioned.
He underlined that in a quickly altering world, “we should harness new applied sciences to reinforce girls’s participation whereas guarding towards on-line threats and dsinformation.
“Now we have leveraged digital applied sciences to minimise gender divide, improve monetary inclusion and empower girls, particularly in rural India. We name upon the worldwide group to develop sturdy mechanisms to handle these rising challenges.” PTI YAS NPK NPK