Impact of arms transfers on human rights (2019), para. 19
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2. Notes with alarm that such diversion of arms and unregulated or illicit arms transfers can have a severely negative impact on women’s and girls’ full enjoyment of all human rights, increasing the risk of sexual and gender-based violence, and of violence against children, as they may be disproportionately affected by the widespread availability of such arms;