S/RES/1820 (2008)
United Nations
Security Council
Distr.: General
19 June 2008
Resolution 1820 (2008)
Adopted by the Security Council at its 5916th meeting, on
19 June 2008
The Security Council,
Reaffirming its commitment to the continuing and full implementation of
resolution 1325 (2000), 1612 (2005) and 1674 (2006) and recalling the Statements
of its president of 31 October 2001 (Security Council/PRST/2001/31), 31 October
2002
(Security
Council/PRST/2002/32),
28
October
2004
(Security
Council/PRST/2004/40), 27 October 2005 (Security Council/PRST/2005/52),
8 November 2006 (Security Council/PRST/2006/42), 7 March 2007 (Security
Council/PRST/2007/5), and 24 October 2007 (Security Council/PRST/2007/40);
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming also the resolve expressed in the 2005 World Summit Outcome
Document to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, including by
ending impunity and by ensuring the protection of civilians, in particular women
and girls, during and after armed conflicts, in accordance with the obligations States
have undertaken under international humanitarian law and international human
rights law;
Recalling the commitments of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
(A/52/231) as well as those contained in the outcome document of the twenty-third
Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly entitled “Women 2000:
Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-first Century”
(A/S-23/10/Rev.1), in particular those concerning sexual violence and women in
situations of armed conflict;
Reaffirming also the obligations of States Parties to the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Optional Protocol
thereto, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocols
thereto, and urging states that have not yet done so to consider ratifying or acceding
to them,
Noting that civilians account for the vast majority of those adversely affected
by armed conflict; that women and girls are particularly targeted by the use of
sexual violence, including as a tactic of war to humiliate, dominate, instil fear in,
disperse and/or forcibly relocate civilian members of a community or ethnic group;
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