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in conflict prevention,
management and conflict
resolution and in postconflict peace-building
prevention, conflict management and conflict
resolution and in post-conflict peace-building and
contributes to the promotion of sustainable and
durable peace.
6. To achieve sustainable and durable peace, the full
and equal participation of women and girls and the
integration of gender perspectives in all aspects of
conflict prevention, management and conflict resolution and in post-conflict peace-building is essential.
Yet women continue to be underrepresented in the
processes, institutions and mechanisms dealing
with these areas. Further effort is therefore needed
to promote gender equality and ensure women’s
equal participation at all levels of decision-making
in all relevant institutions. Further effort, including
consideration of adequate resourcing, is also needed
to build and consolidate the capacity of women and
women’s groups to participate fully in these processes as well as to promote understanding of the
essential role of women. In this regard, the international community should use lessons learned from
actual experience to identify and overcome barriers
for achieving women’s equal participation.
1. The Commission on the Status of Women recalls
and reiterates the strategic objectives and actions
of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,
the outcome document of the twenty-third special
session of the General Assembly entitled “Gender
equality, development and peace for the twenty-first
century”, and its agreed conclusions on women
and armed conflict adopted at its forty-second
session in 1998. It also recalls the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women, Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on
women, peace and security and all relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, including resolution
58/142 of 22 December 2003 on women and
political participation.
7. The Commission recognizes that while both men
2. The Commission calls for the full respect of inter-
and women suffer from the consequences of armed
conflict, there is a differential impact on women
and girls, who are often subject to, and affected
by, particular forms of violence and deprivation.
The Commission calls for measures to prevent
gender-based violence, including sexual violence
against women and girls, as well as trafficking in
human beings, especially trafficking in women and
girls, arising from armed conflict and in postconflict situations and to prosecute perpetrators
of such crimes.
national human rights law and international
humanitarian law, including the four Geneva
Conventions of 1949, in particular the Fourth
Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of
Civilian Persons in Time of War.
3. The Commission calls for the promotion and protec-
tion of the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by women and girls at all times,
including during conflict prevention, conflict management and conflict resolution and in post-conflict
peace-building. It further calls for the protection and
security for women and girls under threat of violence
and their freedom of movement and participation in
social, political and economic activities.
8. The Commission encourages the collection and dis-
semination of sex-disaggregated data and information for planning, evaluation and analysis in order to
promote the mainstreaming of a gender perspective
in conflict prevention, management and conflict
resolution and in post-conflict peace-building.
4. The Commission recognizes that the root causes
of armed conflict are multidimensional in nature,
and thus require a comprehensive and integrated
approach to the prevention of armed conflict.
9. Peace agreements provide a vehicle for the pro-
motion of gender equality and the participation
of women in post-conflict situations. Significant
opportunities for women’s participation arise
in the preparatory phase leading up to a peace
5. International cooperation based on the principles
of the Charter of the United Nations enhances
women’s full and equal participation in conflict
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