S/RES/1888 (2009)
24. Requests that the Secretary-General ensure more systematic reporting on
incidents of trends, emerging patterns of attack, and early warning indicators of the
use of sexual violence in armed conflict in all relevant reports to the Council, and
encourages the Special Representatives of the Secretary-General, the Emergency
Relief Coordinator, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Special
Rapporteur on Violence against Women, and the Chairperson(s) of UN Action to
provide, in coordination with the aforementioned Special Representative, additional
briefings and documentation on sexual violence in armed conflict to the Council;
25. Requests the Secretary-General to include, where appropriate, in his
regular reports on individual peacekeeping operations, information on steps taken to
implement measures to protect civilians, particularly women and children, against
sexual violence;
26. Requests the Secretary-General, taking into account the proposals
contained in his report as well as any other relevant elements, to devise urgently and
preferably within three months, specific proposals on ways to ensure monitoring and
reporting in a more effective and efficient way within the existing United Nations
system on the protection of women and children from rape and other sexual violence
in armed conflict and post-conflict situations, utilizing expertise from the United
Nations system and the contributions of national Governments, regional
organizations, non-governmental organizations in their advisory capacity and
various civil society actors, in order to provide timely, objective, accurate and
reliable information on gaps in United Nations entities response, for consideration
in taking appropriate action;
27. Requests that the Secretary-General continue to submit annual reports to
the Council on the implementation of Resolution 1820 (2008) and to submit his next
report by September of 2010 on the implementation of this resolution and
Resolution 1820 (2008) to include, inter alia:
(a) a detailed coordination and strategy plan on the timely and ethical
collection of information;
(b) updates on efforts by United Nations Mission focal points on sexual
violence to work closely with the Resident Coordinator/Humanitarian Coordinator
(RC/HC), the United Nations Country Team, and, where appropriate, the
aforementioned Special Representative and/or the Team of Experts, to address
sexual violence;
(c) information regarding parties to armed conflict that are credibly
suspected of committing patterns of rape or other forms of sexual violence, in
situations that are on the Council’s agenda;
28. Decides to review, taking into account the process established by General
Assembly resolution 63/311 regarding a United Nations composite gender entity, the
mandates of the Special Representative requested in operative paragraph 4 and the
Team of Experts in operative paragraph 8 within two years, and as appropriate
thereafter;
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Decides to remain actively seized of the matter.
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