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SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 2117 (2013) ON SIGNIFICANCE OF SMALL ARMS
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LIGHT WEAPONS IN CONFLICT & IMPACT ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN & GIRLS
........Recalling with grave concern that the illicit transfer, destabilizing accumulation and misuse of small arms and light weapons fuel armed conflicts and have a wide range of negative human rights, humanitarian, development and socioeconomic consequences, in particular on the security of civilians in armed conflict, including the disproportionate impact on violence perpetrated against women and girls, and exacerbating sexual and gender-based violence and the recruitment and use of children by parties to armed conflict in violation of applicable international law, ........
........12. Urges Member States,
United Nations entities, intergovernmental, regional and subregional
organizations, to take further measures to facilitate women’s full and
meaningful participation in all policymaking, planning and implementation
processes to combat and eradicate the illicit transfer, destabilizing
accumulation and misuse of small arms and light weapons in all its aspects and calls
upon, in this regard, all those involved in the planning for disarmament,
demobilization and reintegration and justice and security sector reform efforts
to take into account the particular needs of women and children associated with
armed forces and armed groups, with the participation of women, and to provide
for their full access to these programmes inter alia, through consultation with
civil society, including women’s organizations, as appropriate; ........