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163 sentences in 94 speeches for violence
Download CSVHaiti · Alix Didier Fils-Aimé · Day 4 · 8 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.
- 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.
- And here I want to pay tribute to all of the victims of this violence.
- For as long as this traffic prospers, violence will find ways to perpetuate.
Holy See · Cardinal Pietro Parolin · Day 5 · 8 sentences
- For some years now, the world has spiraled into violence that has progressively spread and intensified, continually opening up new theaters of war.
- Particular attention must to be paid to those categories of persons most at risk, those in the womb, the elderly, the disabled, the sick, refugees and migrants, the unemployed, the marginalized, the lonely, and those living under condition of extreme poverty, violence, or conflict.
- Tragically, Christians in many parts of the world continue to suffer discrimination, violence, and outright persecution.
- The Holy See reiterates its call for an end to the ongoing violence against the Palestinian civilian population in the West Bank, particularly the escalation of hostilities, home demolition and movement restriction, driving the displacement of Palestinian communities.
Slovakia · Peter Pellegrini · Day 2 · 5 sentences
- Once violence begins, every solution becomes harder, more costly, and more painful.
- If violence becomes normal for the next generation, diplomacy itself will become harder.
- That is why our most urgent task must be clear: stop the violence, keep diplomacy alive, and prevent today's conflicts from becoming tomorrow's normal.
- There can be no justification for terrorism, anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim hatred, or calls to violence.
Secretary-General of the United Nations · António Guterres · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- Meanwhile, violence, displacement, and settlement expansion by Israel in the occupied West Bank are bulldozing the path to peace and raising the specter of ethnic cleansing.
- Millions displaced, anger spreading, drone striking hospitals and homes, sexual violence and ethnically driven attacks escalating, and the country being torn apart as the world looks away.
- And in Myanmar, another crisis at risk of slipping from global attention, with escalating violence, mass displacement, and expanding transnational crime.
- Everywhere, Women and girls continue to face discrimination, violence, exclusion, and abuse.
Jordan · Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein · Day 1 · 4 sentences
Belgium · Maxime Prévot · Day 1 · 4 sentences
- In the state of Palestine, in Sudan, Myanmar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, and so many other places, scared by war or armed violence, the circumstances differ, but no human life is worth less than another.
- International law does more than contain violence.
- This ability to love the person we love without fear of prison, of violence, of persecution.
- 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.
Ireland · Micheál Martin · Day 3 · 4 sentences
- Across the world, women and girls face conflict-related sexual violence, forced displacement, trafficking and discrimination.
- Despite the extraordinary efforts of the Sudanese people, the cycle of violence has continued.
- Violations of international law, including targeting on the basis of ethnicity, deliberate destruction of the means of survival, killing, torture, and sexual violence are again being used as weapons of war.
- Entire villages have been razed, homes and vital infrastructure demolished, and thousands of Palestinian families driven from the places they have called home for generations, and exposed to intimidation and violence.
United Arab Emirates · Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar · Day 6 · 4 sentences
- We further underscore the urgent need to halt Israel's dangerous escalation in the West Bank and its settlement activities, accompanied by the rise of settler violence, terrorism, and the siege of Palestinian village, as well as the ongoing in East Jerusalem and at the holy sites, and the attempts to impose a new historical and legal status quo on the ground.
- in an environment defined by cooperation, moderation, and tolerance, not by violence, hatred, extremism, or terrorism.
- Two days ago, Abu Dhabi also hosted the opening of the 15th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, which highlights the need to keep pace with rapid technological advancement and to protect societies from the impacts of crime, violence and exploitation.
- In conclusion, Mr. President, my country will remain committed to the path of moderation, the rejection of violence and extremism, and the investment in people and in the vast potential with which our region is so richly endowed.
Finland · Alexander Stubb · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- Conflicts are spreading, bringing suffering, violence, and injustice.
- Yet, we are witnessing tyranny, disregard for the vulnerable, and violence against civilians in many parts of the world.
- For example, Haiti struggles with armed violence and extreme weather events, causing a displacement crisis, a hunger crisis, and a health crisis.
Croatia · Andrej Plenković · Day 1 · 3 sentences
- Protection of civilians, unhindered humanitarian access, respect for international law, and a credible political horizon are essential to breaking the cycle of violence.
- It returns when a child is in school, a community is protected from violence, a mine is removed from a field, or food reaches family.
- We also advance mine action in Ukraine, drawing on Croatia's own post-war experience, and protect women and girls from digital violence.
Poland · Karol Nawrocki · Day 2 · 3 sentences
- Violating them always leads to violence, destabilization, and conflict.
- It was an expression of the courage of people who, despite repression and the lack of freedom, refused to live under a system based on lies and violence.
- attacks on places of worship, discrimination, violence, and even loss of life.
Nigeria · Kashim Shettima · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- Development cannot take root while violence repeatedly uproots livelihoods.
- We must exchange intelligence, strengthen institutional capacity, interrupt the financing of violence, and prevent weapons from crossing borders that our responses too often fail to cross.
- Dialogue, reconciliation, and inclusive political processes must give people a stake in ending violence and preserving the agreements that follow.
Slovenia · Janez Janša · Day 3 · 3 sentences
- After 1948, more than 1 million Jews fled or were expelled from Arab countries, many amid persecution and violence.
- Civilian suffering is tragic and must be addressed, but it can never justify terrorism or the pursuit of political objectives through violence.
- For those living through war, for those displaced by violence, for states whose concerns receive little international attention, for families struggling to build a future.
Pakistan · Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- Generations have endured illegal occupation, arbitrary detention, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, sexual violence, and collective punishment.
- Excellencies, it is deeply worrying that Israeli violence has now spread to the West Bank, where the forcible eviction of Palestinians clearly reflects Israel's genocidal agenda, which continues unabated.
- As Muslims face hate speech, discrimination, attacks on mosques and desecration of the Holy Quran, just across our border, RSS-driven Hindutva ideology is fanning religious hatred, leading to lynching, communal violence, attacks on places of worship, and restrictions upon religious freedom.
Guatemala · Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado · Day 4 · 3 sentences
- When a family is protected from poverty, when a child learns in a decent school, when a woman lives free from violence, when a community is no longer isolated, and when a young person can envision a future without being forced to leave their country.
- We must not accept violence as a permanent condition of our time or allow entire generations to grow up believing that force is the only way to resolve our differences.
- After years of negotiation, we chose to replace armed violence with the pursuit of dialogue.
Burkina Faso · Karamoko Jean Marie Traoré · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- For more than a decade, this blind and sustained violence has been sustained armed, financed and instrumentalised by criminal networks and their supporters intent on subjugating the Sahel through fear, but they must understand that they will never succeed here.
- Mr. President, confidence will not be reborn in an organization that where some actors tolerate arbitrary behavior and The promotion and protection of fundamental rights for our states is an absolute responsibility, and we are engaging in this in a context of extreme violence imposed against our populations by terrorists.
- The Confederation of Sahel States calls for an immediate end to violence against civilian populations, unhindered humanitarian access and a just and lasting political solution.
El Salvador · Alexandra Hill Tinoco · Day 6 · 3 sentences
- victims of war, hunger, violence, disease and injustice.
- On the contrary, its legitimacy is achieved when the organization is really truly able to preserve and save people's lives and to ensure a decent future for all people and this is something that El Salvador has firsthand experience in Mr. president for decades my small but great country was known for a reality that it seemed impossible to change the scourge of violence was deeply entrenched in our society.
- Let us not accept that war, poverty and violence are inevitable.
President of the General Assembly (opening) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 1 · 2 sentences
Brazil · Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- People are tired of violence, but we will not We will not outsource the responsibility of defending its borders and guaranteeing our population the right to live without fear.
- We are building a Brazil where women don't need permission to occupy positions of power or enter the job market, a country free from femicide, where no woman, inside or outside their home, lives under the threat of violence, where Once again, no woman inside or outside their home lives under the threat of violence.
Morocco · Nasser Bourita · Day 1 · 2 sentences
- All these groups use violence to impose a fait accompli and to serve the agenda of those who control them.
- including the adoption of certain laws that affect the legal status of the Palestinian territory and pave the way for the seizure for the purpose of settlement expansion, as well as the systematic violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers against Palestinian citizens.
Estonia · Alar Karis · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Kenya · William Samoei Ruto · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Montenegro · Jakov Milatović · Day 2 · 2 sentences
Democratic Republic of the Congo · Judith Suminwa Tuluka · Day 2 · 2 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.
- This dialogue is open to the political and social forces that are committed to the Republic, our Constitution, our territorial integrity, and to the rejection of violence.
Israel · Benjamin Netanyahu · Day 3 · 2 sentences
South Africa · Ronald Ozzy Lamola · Day 3 · 2 sentences
- The end of apartheid also marked the end of a system that exported violence and instability across southern Africa.
- In November 2025, South Africa classified gender-based violence and femicide as a national disaster, recognizing that dealing with this scourge demands exceptional measures from our population and will require international partners to continue to fight this through technology and other means that must support our measures to fight gender-based violence in our country.
North Macedonia · Hristijan Mickoski · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Saint Lucia · Philip J. Pierre · Day 4 · 2 sentences
Micronesia (Federated States of) · Aren Palik · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- Mister President and excellencies, Our actions on gender equality continues to address barriers to women's leadership, economic participation, and access to justice, digital safety, and protection from violence, particularly for women and girls in remote and outer island communities.
- We are mainstreaming gender across state and national planning, strengthening survivor centered services, expanding women's economic empowerment, and decision making and engaging in preventing gender-based violence and advancing equality.
Iceland · Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir · Day 5 · 2 sentences
San Marino · Luca Beccari · Day 5 · 2 sentences
Djibouti · Abdoulkader Houssein Omar · Day 5 · 2 sentences
- We are indeed directly experiencing its effects with the recent arrival in our territory of several thousand people fleeing the violence.
- We roundly condemn illegal settlement activity, violence committed against civilians, including by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, forced displacement, and any policy aimed at altering the demographic and territorial reality of the occupied Palestinian territory.
Sudan · Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim · Day 6 · 2 sentences
- exacerbated cycles of violence affecting the protection of civilians and vulnerable sectors, and hindered national reconciliation.
- In parallel, Sudan continues its positive cooperation with the United Nations, including the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict.
President of the General Assembly (closing) · Dr. Khalilur Rahman · Day 6 · 2 sentences
Indonesia · · Day 6 · 2 sentences
United States of America · Donald Trump · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Türkiye · Recep Tayyip Erdoğan · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Peru · Keiko Sofia Fujimori Higuchi · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Chile · José Antonio Kast · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Bosnia and Herzegovina · Denis Bećirović · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Trinidad and Tobago · Kamla Persad-Bissessar · Day 1 · 1 sentence
Latvia · Edgars Rinkēvičs · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Burundi · Évariste Ndayishimiye · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Iran (Islamic Republic of) · Masoud Pezeshkian · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Paraguay · Santiago Peña Palacios · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Argentina · Javier Gerardo Milei · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Timor-Leste · José Ramos-Horta · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Palau · Surangel Whipps · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Bulgaria · Iliana Iotova · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Central African Republic · Faustin Archange Touadera · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Panama · José Raúl Mulino Quintero · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) · Delcy Eloína Rodríguez Gómez · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Spain · Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Andorra · Xavier Espot Zamora · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Italy · Antonio Tajani · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Uzbekistan · Saida Mirziyoyeva · Day 2 · 1 sentence
Ghana · John Dramani Mahama · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Palestine (State of) · Mahmoud Abbas · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Somalia · Hassan Sheikh Mohamud · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Gambia (Republic of The) · Mohammed Jallow · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Kuwait · Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Thailand · Anutin Charnvirakul · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Greece · Kyriakos Mitsotakis · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Australia · Anthony Albanese · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Austria · Beate Meinl-Reisinger · Day 3 · 1 sentence
Kiribati · Taneti Maamau · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Maldives · Hussain Mohamed Latheef · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Lebanon · Nawaf Salam · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Monaco · Christophe Mirmand · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Malta · Robert Abela · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Lesotho · Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Tuvalu · Feleti Teo · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Solomon Islands · Matthew Cooper Wale · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Niger · Lamine Zeine Ali Mahaman · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Godwin Friday · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Tonga · Lord Fakafanua · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Samoa · Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Mauritius · Dhananjay Ramful · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Chad · Abdelmadjid Abdelrahim Mahamat · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Norway · Espen Barth Eide · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Sweden · Maria Malmer Stenergard · Day 4 · 1 sentence
India · · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Pakistan · · Day 4 · 1 sentence
Belize · John Briceño · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Philippines · Ma. Theresa Lazaro · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Brunei Darussalam · Prince 'Abdul Mateen · Day 5 · 1 sentence
India · Subrahmanyam Jaishankar · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Tunisia · Mohamed Ali Nafti · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Zambia · Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Indonesia · Sugiono · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Cameroon · Lejeune Mbella Mbella · Day 5 · 1 sentence
Sri Lanka · Vijitha Herath · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Denmark · Christina Markus Lassen · Day 6 · 1 sentence
Vanuatu · Odo Tevi · Day 6 · 1 sentence