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Download CSVTürkiye · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Day 1 · 10 sentences
- In Gaza alone, over the past three years, we have lost 74,000 of our brothers and sisters, most of them women and children, mind you.
- They are recovering the bodies of their spouses, their children, or parents.
- Innocent children who have lost their arms and legs in Israeli attacks are trying to return to school.
- Personally, As a father and as a grandfather who cherishes his children and grandchildren, I have to say the following from this podium with a heavy heart.
Estonia · Alar Karis · Day 2 · 7 sentences
- Sometimes we tend to forget that behind the numbers, there are always human beings, families separated, children affected, homes destroyed and lives disrupted by conflict.
- A UN member state whose armed forces have been repeatedly cited in the UN Secretary's report for grave violations against children and conflict-related sexual violence should have been no place in UN peacekeeping operations.
- Innocent civilians and children must not bear the devastating human cost of the war.
- Estonia stands firmly for ending all forms of violence against children.
Timor-Leste · José Ramos-Horta · Day 2 · 7 sentences
- You have remained humble, honest, and steadfast in your principles, never losing sight of the millions of women and children who have been abandoned and forgotten, caught in the turmoil of wars unleashed by warlords.
- They are people, they are women, they are children, youth in their best years, they are parents, they are grandparents.
- Every time we let the suffering of people become background noise, we let ourselves forget how small the distance really is, how little separates your daughter, granddaughter, niece, from the girl in the refugee camp you saw on the news last night, how many children right now are learning that a world at war is normality.
- Last but not least, in parting, I want to share selected messages from children and youth who responded to my invitation a few days ago to write a few words expressing their hopes and dreams so that they are here.
Kenya · William Samoei Ruto · Day 2 · 7 sentences
- The United Nations system helped eradicate smallpox, vaccinated generations of children, fight hunger and disease, expand access to education and bring clean water and humanitarian assistance to communities across the world.
- Since the year 2000, deaths among children under five have fallen by more than half.
- Children inherit wars they did not begin and cannot understand.
- It is measured in children driven from their classrooms, children who go to sleep hungry, children who learn the sound of gunfire before they know the safety of peace.
Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 7 sentences
- Territories have been occupied, families dispersed, women and girls have suffered sexual violence, while children are recruited by armed groups or deprived of education.
- Our hand remains outstretched toward all the children of Congo that choose peace, republican debate, and loyalty to their homeland.
- Together with the International Labor Organization, UNICEF, and our other partners, we are strengthening our identification, monitoring, and remediation mechanisms, as well as the training of our inspectors, school attendance of children, and economic solutions for their families.
- need to achieve zero children in the mines.
Latvia · Edgars Rinkēvičs · Day 2 · 6 sentences
- Borders changed by force, territory sized by force, children taken by force, Ukrainian civilians targeted by Russia, schools, hospitals, homes, markets, energy infrastructure.
- That is why Latvia will continue to do everything possible to help return Ukrainian children deported to Russia.
- Those children have been taken from their families, their communities, and their country.
- We support every genuine effort to secure the return of Ukrainian children.
Papua New Guinea · James Marape · Day 4 · 6 sentences
- If we recognize the dignity of every human being, then we must consider the conditions in which people live and the earth which we will leave behind for our children.
- And what inheritance are we leaving behind for our children if the forest disappears, our oceans become polluted, and our climate becomes increasingly unstable?
- Mr. President, think about the children of the world, a child born today did not create climate change.
- It is the inheritance we will pass on to our children.
Haiti · Alix Didier Fils-Aimé · Day 4 · 6 sentences
- And even though today criminal violence is threatening its roots and trying to strip our children of the fruits of this liberty so dearly won, Haiti will resist.
- This same requirement for dignity needs to guide our approach to migrations as well, because behind statistics and debates, there are women, children, and men who carry with them a history, talents, hopes, and sometimes the burden of exile.
- Massacres, bereaved families, women that have fallen victim to despicable violence, children deprived of their innocence, and communities chased away from their homes need to compel us to act.
- For them, for their families, for these 12 million women, men, and children, for children that are asking only to grow up, to dream, and to live in peace, we cannot resign ourselves to seeing deaths and wounded people be mere numbers in our reports.
San Marino · Luca Beccari · Day 5 · 6 sentences
- San Marino condemns Russia's ongoing aggression against Ukraine, the bombardment of cities, the killing of civilians, attacks on humanitarian workers, the unlawful deportation of children.
- Women, children, older people, families forced from their homes, hospitals and schools destroyed, food, water and medicine denied.
- Mr. President, children everywhere deserve protection.
- Children are being killed, maimed, abducted, and recruited.
France · Emmanuel Macron · Day 1 · 5 sentences
- We must do it for them and even more so for our children.
- Therefore, I wish to emphasize a particular point, our young people and our children.
- We must act now to protect our children and our young people.
- Look at the impact chatbots have on our children.
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · Masoud Pezeshkian · Day 2 · 5 sentences
- You see these children?
- These children perished under bombs with weapons used by the United States and Israel.
- Lamerd, one of the small cities in a province in Iran, a sports hall where children were busy playing.
- They martyred, assassinated our scientists, our men, women, and children.
United States of America · Donald Trump · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- But they know that given only a short time to make this world better, safer, and more prosperous for our children, for the people on Earth, we have to take advantage of it.
- I also want to recognize the extraordinary work of our great First Lady, who has secured the safe return of many displaced Ukrainian and Russian children back home to their families.
- It is equally unacceptable that, with all the genuine atrocities in the world, The UN's top human rights officials spend their time criticizing the United States for protecting our children from transgender mutilation and transgender insanity and enforcing our immigration laws.
- It's transgender mutilation of our children.
Peru · Keiko Sofia Fujimori Higuchi · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- There need to be effective opportunities for learning for our children and young people.
- and the depth of learning enjoyed by our children and young people is a predictor of higher a higher quality of life because such education make it possible to develop higher income, better health habits and that serves the cause of social mobility.
- We will make our classrooms safe spaces in which children go to learn and teachers go to teach without fear.
- We hope to see independent, transparent action which does not make ideological calculations and without those calculations manages to respect and ensure all human rights, the rights of peasants, children, women, the rights of police forces and members of the military that are on the front line in the defence of life and freedom.
Dominican Republic · Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- Today, transnational criminal networks control territories, they traffic arms and people, and they recruit children.
- One month ago, in the Haitian community of Kenscoff, in just one night, gangs murdered no less than 47 people, including five children.
- Half of them are children.
- And the obligation of the international community is to make it possible there in their country for children to be able to go back to school and for Haitian youth to be able to have a future in their own country.
Andorra · Xavier Espot Zamora · Day 2 · 4 sentences
- of the last SG's report on children in armed conflict and conflict-related sexual violence are especially alarming.
- We have increased our contribution to the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children in Armed Conflict.
- We have strengthened our support for UNICEF programs and are taking an active part in negotiations of the future Convention on Crimes Against Humanity, with particular attention to the protection of children.
- Perhaps, she said, before teaching our children how to achieve economic or professional success, we should teach them that true success lies in humanism.
Republic of Moldova · Vasile Tofan · Day 5 · 4 sentences
- Perhaps nothing captures the normalization of this war better than the arithmetic children have learned.
- Children have become frighteningly good at this, the nightly arithmetic of war.
- But being tired of a war you can switch off is different from being tired because of an air raid wakes your children at night, and different still from the exhaustion of Ukrainian soldiers spending another cold night in the mud.
- And we finally have a realistic path to build a country our children should not need to leave in search of opportunity.
President of the General Assembly (opening) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 1 · 3 sentences
Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- Generations of Palestinians will carry the pain and trauma left by the genocide of women and children perpetrated By Netanyahu government in Gaza, Israeli civilians pay the price for radicalism and intolerance of Hamas terrorist acts.
- Workers are robbed, mothers lose their children, police officers do not make it back home.
- We passed one of the most advanced pieces of legislations in the world to protect children, adolescents, and women in the digital environment.
Luxembourg · Guillaume of Luxembourg · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- Conflicts affect all human beings, women, children, older persons, persons with disabilities, as well as people who are already vulnerable.
- Luxembourg has unstintingly worked to contribute to this effort through peacekeeping operations, humanitarian interventions, protecting children affected by armed conflict, the women, peace and security agenda, as well as the mine clearance humanitarian activities in Ukraine.
- I know which choice I want to make, because this is the world I want to leave to my children.
Belgium · Maxime Prévot · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- I'm thinking in particular of children who are growing up in a world where AI can open extraordinary possibilities but also creates new vulnerabilities.
- So, ladies and gentlemen, before we were presidents, ministers, ambassadors, or diplomats, we were all children.
- to come home in the evening, to watch their children grow up and send them to school without fear, to work, to love the person they love, to make plans for next year, not to live with the thought that war, hunger, disease, or violence could make everything disappear overnight.
Romania · Nicuşor-Daniel Dan · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- Within the Board of Peace Initiative, Romania has offered its support and has so far contributed to the medical evacuation of numerous patients, especially children.
- Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to conclude by welcoming the initiatives of the First Ladies and First Gentlemen concerning children and education, innovation, digital education and children's safety.
- By building accessible education and creating a more innovative and safer environment for our children, we are building a better future for our societies.
Ukraine · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- of again against us against Ukraine our people and our children more than 950 of them were ballistic missiles in eight months of this year Russia used 63,000 attack drones of different types against Ukraine our people and more than 7,700 of them were jet powered Shahids truly destructive and very dangerous weapons just think about it.
- to make life harder for the economy and to disrupt people's lives and to stop children from being able to study, just to study at school.
- And thank you to everyone who stands with us, with our people, with our children, with Ukraine.
Yemen · Abdullah Abdulkader Al Alimi-Bawzer · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- Rather, we ask how many more children must be deprived of their future before the world stands resolutely with the Yemeni people and their struggle to restore their state and their stability.
- 12 years marked by war, displacement, poverty, recruitment of children, terrorizing of women, laying of mines, confiscation of rights, freedoms, and public resources.
- We seek a safe, stable, prosperous Yemen that safeguards the dignity of its citizens, rebuilds its economy, provides education for its children, jobs for its youth, security for its families.
Slovenia · Janez Janša · Day 3 · 3 sentences
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Our people hold the same hopes as people in every land to live in peace and to raise their children in dignity.
- Vulnerable countries should not have to choose between climate action and educating our children, caring for the sick, or securing food and water.
- With more than half of our population under the age of 25, my government is prioritizing legal frameworks that empower young people, advance gender equality, and strengthen the protection of women and children against domestic violence.
Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 3 sentences
El Salvador · Alexandra Hill Tinoco · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- Right now, at this very moment, there will be mothers, fathers, children, entire families breaking up and asking themselves a question that's not an abstract one, a diplomatic one or a geopolitical one.
- They just want peace, security, jobs, freedom, and a safe future for their children.
- So in my country, we're talking about a mother who no longer has to be scared about whether her children are coming home in the evening or not, a business owner who used to face so much anxiety that knew that their basket of mangoes that they had to sell they had to sell them for more than ten dollars because if they didn't sell them for more than ten dollars they wouldn't be able to pay their protection money and they'd get shot in the head so now behind these figures we have a built business owner who's able to open their business without fear somebody who's able to breathe easily and cross the city freely and a child who's able to run around all of the streets of our country.
Grenada · Ingrid Jackson · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- Our humanitarian conscience cannot be indifferent to the circumstances of ordinary households, particularly children, the elderly, and other vulnerable persons, whose difficulty deepen with each passing day that the present impasse remains unresolved.
- Let us protect children and civilians wherever conflict threatens their lives.
- It must be the lives we improve, the children we protect, the conflict we help prevent, the opportunities we create, and the hope we restore.
South Sudan · Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng · Day 6 · 3 sentences
United Republic of Tanzania · Deogratius Ndejembi · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- Zero preventable maternal and child deaths, zero home deliveries, and zero unvaccinated children.
- Similar accolades are for Ambassador Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, who has played a pivotal role in advancing the SDGs, advocacy for women, children, and those whose voices are too often unheard.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · Andy Burnham · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- Britain will continue to lead with others to fight this threat, to protect our children and grandchildren, to protect the natural world, and also to seize the benefits for jobs, growth, and reindustrialization that the clean energy transition can bring.
- Far too many people have died, including so many children.
Argentina · Javier Gerardo Milei · Day 2 · 2 sentences
- During the pandemic, bodies under the auspices of this house put themselves before scientific evidence and the sovereignty of nations and promoted forced lockdown policies throughout the world that ruined jobs, that ruined the education of entire generation of children and cost the lives of millions of people who died alone without basic medical care.
- a land that has welcomed millions who crossed oceans in the hope that their children would live better lives than they had, and who built one of the most prosperous nations on earth.
Palau · Surangel Whipps · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Spain · Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Uzbekistan · Saida Mirziyoyeva · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- Mr. President, for centuries, this tragedy was rendered in the passive voice as though the millions of African men, women, and children just vanished into the shadows of time.
- The blood of five-year-old Hind Rajab and the more than 20,000 children that have been killed in this brutal conflict cries out to the conscience of the world.
Palestine (State of) · Mahmoud Abbas · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Uruguay · Yamandú Orsi · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Israel · Benjamin Netanyahu · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Austria · Beate Meinl-Reisinger · Day 3 · 2 sentences
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- Today, the regime's Prime Minister told this Assembly that he has brutally killed nearly 75,000 Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children, and injured around 157,000 others, simply because he had no other choice.
- Exactly with the intent and purpose, they deliberately killed our 168 innocent children aged between 7 and 12 in a primary school in Minaw, and recently targeted a wedding ceremony in Sauer, Iran.
Pakistan · Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Niger · Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Bahamas (the) · Philip Edward Davis · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Saint Kitts and Nevis · Geoffrey Hanley · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Holy See · Cardinal Pietro Parolin · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- The Holy See renews its heartfelt appeal for an immediate end to the conflict in Sudan, a land that has for too long been ravaged by indiscriminate violence affecting the most defenseless, starting with children and women.
- The Holy See urges the international community to generously commit to meeting the immediate needs of the most at risk, especially women and children.
Brunei Darussalam · Prince 'Abdul Mateen · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Malaysia · Mohamad Haji Hasan · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Indonesia · Sugiono · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- A nation is resilient when families can provide for their households, when farmers can produce when workers can find decent jobs, and when children can learn, grow, and dream about their future.
- Most importantly, this also means investing in the future of our people, ensuring our children receive quality education and ensuring our people have access to essential healthcare.
Algeria · Ahmed Attaf · Day 6 · 2 sentences
Secretary-General of the United Nations · António Guterres · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Jordan · Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Kyrgyzstan · Sadyr Zhaparov · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Lithuania · Gitanas Nausėda · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Chile · José Antonio Kast · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Angola · João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Mongolia · Khurelsukh Ukhnaa · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Republic of Korea · Lee Jae Myung · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Suriname · Jennifer Geerlings-Simons · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Bosnia and Herzegovina · Denis Bećirović · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Switzerland · Guy Parmelin · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Bhutan · Tshering Tobgay · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Trinidad and Tobago · Kamla Persad-Bissessar · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Croatia · Andrej Plenković · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Burundi · Évariste Ndayishimiye · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Paraguay · Santiago Peña Palacios · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Ecuador · Daniel Roy-Gilchrist Noboa Azin · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Panama · José Raúl Mulino Quintero · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Poland · Karol Nawrocki · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Slovakia · Peter Pellegrini · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Uganda · Jessica Rose Epel Alupo · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Madagascar · Michaël Randrianirina · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Guyana · Mohamed Irfaan Ali · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Comoros · Azali Assoumani · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Hungary · András Bálint Baka · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Colombia · José Manuel Restrepo · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Fiji · Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Nigeria · Kashim Shettima · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Thailand · Anutin Charnvirakul · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Georgia · Irakli Kobakhidzhe · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Ireland · Micheál Martin · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Iraq · Ali Falih Al-Zaidi · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Lebanon · Nawaf Salam · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Malta · Robert Abela · Day 4 · 1 sentence
North Macedonia · Hristijan Mickoski · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Albania · Edi Rama · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Liechtenstein · Sabine Monauni · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Tonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Samoa · Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Azerbaijan · Jeyhun Aziz oglu Bayramov · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Mexico · Roberto Velasco Álvarez · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Sweden · Maria Malmer Stenergard · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Togo · Robert Komlan Edo Dussey · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Philippines · Ma. Theresa Lazaro · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Russian Federation · Sergey Lavrov · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Belarus · Maxim Ryzhenkov · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Canada · Anita Anand · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Zambia · Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Burkina Faso · Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Sri Lanka · Vijitha Herath · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Congo · Constant Serge Bounda · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Sudan · Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Thailand · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Indonesia · · Day 6 · 1 sentence