 My name is Margot Valstor. I'm a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden and right now I'm chairing the Oulof Palmy International Center. I'm Kolbasiya Oso and I'm the UK Preventing Sixth Service Initiative champion and also I work for an organization called Freedom from Torture in the UK. I'm Sofia Kornieva. I'm a human rights lawyer from Ukraine. I'm Sadia Issa Ismail. I'm from Sudan. I'm Secretary General for Association of Person with Disability. Hello, I'm Mozdaline Francois. I'm a global disability advocate. I'm working in Haiti. My name is Kathleen Kinest. I direct the Women's Peace and Security portfolio at the US Institute of Peace. The missing piece is a euphemism, if you will, of trying to describe one of the most horrific and criminal acts in war. And that is conflict-related sexual violence. USIP and other partners have for over a decade bring together scholars, policymakers, practitioners and survivors of conflict-related sexual violence to help understand what the impact is and what we can do to prevent the scourge of war. I was the first UN Special Representative on conflict-related sexual violence, so I started in 2010. This was really setting up an agenda for the whole issue globally and making sure that we put it on the agenda for the Security Council and to have it stay there over the years. And of course now we have seen a lot happening, but it's really about the implementation. And legislation is only as good as its implementation. We see in many of today's wars and conflicts women are still not at the negotiating table. They are still not visible and their voices are not being heard about how wars and conflicts affect them. And this problem of sexual violence is still unfortunately a prominent one. I think for me survivors have insight and expertise that can inform us to have better policies and have a better support system that meet the need. That's why it's really important that survivors are integral part of our solution finding. Since the whole-scale invasion in 2022, we joined the Coalition, 5 a.m. Coalition. It's the Coalition of Human Rights Organizations in Ukraine who are documenting the war crimes and also representing the survivors in the national and international courts. The types of conflict-related sexual violence which we're working on is the survivors of rape and also the survivors who were forced to see how their family members were raped or sexually abused by the perpetrators. I am living with the disability since I was born and being disabled in a country like Haiti faced different physical and social barriers. The fact that this issue is being openly discussed and addressed shows progress and a growing recognition of the unique challenges faced by women and girls with disabilities affected by conflict-related sexual violence. This increased awareness can lead to more attention, more success and support being directed towards finding more adaptive solutions. I want to see that, you know, moving forward, that when we are organizing important conversations such as, you know, this symposium, survivors are experts, you know, they need to be contributing to those important discussions. That's my hope, that we set a standard and how we're going to follow that standard, you know, moving forward. I hope that here that it is going to be a very high voice for different women here who are attending this symposium to tell that the situation in Sudan is bad, to show that all the world that we have to stand and to unify it and to stand up and to try that Sudan for peace. And we hope that we resist soon because we want to go back to our country. You know, I think the people give me really hope because when I'm talking and communicating with the colleagues from around the world and I see the people who are working with these issues every day behind their organizations, it really gives me hope that together we will build the system and we will find ways and solutions to help the survivors.