FOU, Alm.del - 2010-11 (1. samling) - Bilag 144: FN's Sikkerhedsråds resolution 1325

Resolution 1325 (2000)Adopted by the Security Council at its 4213th meeting, on31 October 2000The Security Council,Recallingits resolutions 1261 (1999) of 25 August 1999, 1265 (1999) of 17September 1999, 1296 (2000) of 19 April 2000 and 1314 (2000) of 11 August 2000,as well as relevant statements of its President, andrecalling alsothe statement of itsPresident to the press on the occasion of the United Nations Day for Women’sRights and International Peace (International Women’s Day) of 8 March 2000(SC/6816),Recalling alsothe commitments of the Beijing Declaration and Platform forAction (A/52/231) as well as those contained in the outcome document of thetwenty-third Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly entitled“Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-FirstCentury” (A/S-23/10/Rev.1), in particular those concerning women and armedconflict,Bearing in mindthe purposes and principles of the Charter of the UnitedNations and the primary responsibility of the Security Council under the Charter forthe maintenance of international peace and security,Expressingconcern that civilians, particularly women and children, accountfor the vast majority of those adversely affected by armed conflict, including asrefugees and internally displaced persons, and increasingly are targeted bycombatants and armed elements, andrecognizingthe consequent impact this has ondurable peace and reconciliation,Reaffirmingthe important role of women in the prevention and resolution ofconflicts and in peace-building, andstressingthe importance of their equalparticipation and full involvement in all efforts for the maintenance and promotionof peace and security, and the need to increase their role in decision-making withregard to conflict prevention and resolution,Reaffirming alsothe need to implement fully international humanitarian andhuman rights law that protects the rights of women and girls during and afterconflicts,

Emphasizingthe need for all parties to ensure that mine clearance and mineawareness programmes take into account the special needs of women and girls,Recognizingthe urgent need to mainstream a gender perspective intopeacekeeping operations, and in this regardnotingthe Windhoek Declaration andthe Namibia Plan of Action on Mainstreaming a Gender Perspective inMultidimensional Peace Support Operations (S/2000/693),Recognizing alsothe importance of the recommendation contained in thestatement of its President to the press of 8 March 2000 for specialized training forall peacekeeping personnel on the protection, special needs and human rights ofwomen and children in conflict situations,Recognizingthat an understanding of the impact of armed conflict on womenand girls, effective institutional arrangements to guarantee their protection and fullparticipation in the peace process can significantly contribute to the maintenanceand promotion of international peace and security,Notingthe need to consolidate data on the impact of armed conflict on womenand girls,UrgesMember States to ensure increased representation of women at all1.decision-making levels in national, regional and international institutions andmechanisms for the prevention, management, and resolution of conflict;Encouragesthe Secretary-General to implement his strategic plan of2.action (A/49/587) calling for an increase in the participation of women at decision-making levels in conflict resolution and peace processes;Urgesthe Secretary-General to appoint more women as special3.representatives and envoys to pursue good offices on his behalf, and in this regardcalls onMember States to provide candidates to the Secretary-General, for inclusionin a regularly updated centralized roster;Further urgesthe Secretary-General to seek to expand the role and4.contribution of women in United Nations field-based operations, and especiallyamong military observers, civilian police, human rights and humanitarian personnel;Expressesits willingness to incorporate a gender perspective into5.peacekeeping operations, andurgesthe Secretary-General to ensure that, whereappropriate, field operations include a gender component;Requeststhe Secretary-General to provide to Member States training6.guidelines and materials on the protection, rights and the particular needs of women,as well as on the importance of involving women in all peacekeeping and peace-building measures,invitesMember States to incorporate these elements as well asHIV/AIDS awareness training into their national training programmes for militaryand civilian police personnel in preparation for deployment, andfurther requeststheSecretary-General to ensure that civilian personnel of peacekeeping operationsreceive similar training;UrgesMember States to increase their voluntary financial, technical and7.logistical support for gender-sensitive training efforts, including those undertakenby relevant funds and programmes, inter alia, the United Nations Fund for Womenand United Nations Children’s Fund, and by the Office of the United Nations HighCommissioner for Refugees and other relevant bodies;

Calls onall actors involved, when negotiating and implementing peace8.agreements, to adopt a gender perspective, including, inter alia:(a) The special needs of women and girls during repatriation andresettlement and for rehabilitation, reintegration and post-conflict reconstruction;(b) Measures that support local women’s peace initiatives and indigenousprocesses for conflict resolution, and that involve women in all of theimplementation mechanisms of the peace agreements;(c) Measures that ensure the protection of and respect for human rights ofwomen and girls, particularly as they relate to the constitution, the electoral system,the police and the judiciary;Calls uponall parties to armed conflict to respect fully international law9.applicable to the rights and protection of women and girls, especially as civilians, inparticular the obligations applicable to them under the Geneva Conventions of 1949and the Additional Protocols thereto of 1977, the Refugee Convention of 1951 andthe Protocol thereto of 1967, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms ofDiscrimination against Women of 1979 and the Optional Protocol thereto of 1999and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989 and the twoOptional Protocols thereto of 25 May 2000, and to bear in mind the relevantprovisions of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court;10.Calls onall parties to armed conflict to take special measures to protectwomen and girls from gender-based violence, particularly rape and other forms ofsexual abuse, and all other forms of violence in situations of armed conflict;11.Emphasizesthe responsibility of all States to put an end to impunity andto prosecute those responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity, and warcrimes including those relating to sexual and other violence against women andgirls, and in this regardstressesthe need to exclude these crimes, where feasiblefrom amnesty provisions;12.Calls uponall parties to armed conflict to respect the civilian andhumanitarian character of refugee camps and settlements, and to take into accountthe particular needs of women and girls, including in their design, and recalls itsresolutions 1208 (1998) of 19 November 1998 and 1296 (2000) of 19 April 2000;13.Encouragesall those involved in the planning for disarmament,demobilization and reintegration to consider the different needs of female and maleex-combatants and to take into account the needs of their dependants;14.Reaffirmsits readiness, whenever measures are adopted under Article 41of the Charter of the United Nations, to give consideration to their potential impacton the civilian population, bearing in mind the special needs of women and girls, inorder to consider appropriate humanitarian exemptions;15.Expressesits willingness to ensure that Security Council missions takeinto account gender considerations and the rights of women, including throughconsultation with local and international women’s groups;16.Invitesthe Secretary-General to carry out a study on the impact of armedconflict on women and girls, the role of women in peace-building and the genderdimensions of peace processes and conflict resolution, andfurther inviteshim to