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The armed forces implement the state monopoly on violence.

Preventing and responding to gender based violence in armed conflict

Preventing and responding to gender based violence in armed conflict

Humanitarian and development interventions are regularly impeded by armed violence.

The Armed Violence Prevention Programme of the World Health Organization (WHO) aims to strengthen national capacities and to promote coherent institutional synergies at international and regional levels on armed violence prevention.

Socio political violence, including that caused by the armed conflict, seriously affects women's human rights and exacerbates gender based violence.

At the same time, violence by illegal armed Israeli settlers had increased significantly.

Eliminating violence against women in all its insidious forms domestic violence, trafficking, and armed conflict must be a major commitment of the entire international community.

Yet, violence against women continues and often increases even as armed conflict draws to an end.

In that phase, the programme will identify and evaluate actions being undertaken to prevent armed violence.

The draft articles should likewise cover military occupation (regardless of whether it was accompanied by protracted armed violence or armed operations) and territories placed under international administration.

Establish and implement strategies and programmes on prevention and response to gender based violence in armed conflict.

Amnesty International, Colombia Scarred bodies, hidden crimes Sexual Violence against women in the armed conflict, p. 24.

Ambushes, targeted assassinations, sexual violence, looting, armed robbery and killings continue to be reported throughout the country.

Small arms and light weapons are now central to all civil wars and armed violence throughout the world.

In some situations, people in Africa also suffer from all kinds of violence during insurgencies and armed conflicts.

It was estimated that 100 million children worldwide had disabilities, often caused by armed conflicts and political violence.

(a) Developing, where appropriate, comprehensive armed violence prevention programmes integrated into national development strategies, including poverty reduction strategies

Special measures should be taken to protect indigenous communities against organized violence in the context of internal armed conflicts.

For example, high rates of violence against women afflict all parts of the world, including zones of armed conflict.

Meanwhile, extortion schemes, illegal taxation, forced recruitment and violence attributed to other armed groups still continue in some areas.

There are still 1,800 illegal armed groups operating in Afghanistan, and violence has increased over the last several months.

Conflicts involving lower intensity violence that do not reach the threshold of an armed conflict are implicitly distinguished from noninternational armed conflicts to which the provisions of that article are applicable.

The Programme represents an innovative collaboration that derives its strength from WHO experience in analysing armed violence and UNDP operational strengths in sectors relevant to violence prevention at the country level.

It is our firm belief that grave forms of gender based violence in situations of armed conflict deserve particular attention.

Armed conflict exposes girls, and women to gender based violence, torture, killing, maiming, abduction and other egregious crimes against humanity.

Violence against women in the context of the armed conflict therefore takes second place in the negotiations with paramilitary groups, notwithstanding the right of victims of violence to truth, justice and redress.

Armed conflict often involves an overall militarization of the population, resulting in generalized violence with women themselves becoming the war zone .

(a) Exert control over Palestinian armed groups in such a way that they refrain from any act of violence against civilians

Russia has consistently supported the efforts of the Transitional Government of Haiti to end the violence perpetrated by illegal armed gangs.

Women suffered from violence in private and public life, and women and children were likely to be victims of armed conflict.

Against this background of lethal violence, the independent expert is particularly appalled by the crimes committed against Congolese women and their children, who are the main victims of the armed violence and of the most atrocious and destructive forms of sexual violence.

In paragraph 2 (c), the words concerted act of violence should be added after armed conflict to ensure consistency within the article.

The definition of armed conflict should be handled with the utmost care. It should not a priori exclude internal armed conflicts, but should cover most of the situations in which armed violence was likely to affect the operation of treaties or interrupt treaty relations between States.

It is Canada's view that the international community has fallen short on commitments to make people and their communities safer from armed violence.

The safety, security and well being of civilian populations who are badly affected by terrorism, armed conflict and violence are our common interest.

Ms. Laohaphan (Thailand) said that women remained trapped in poverty and were still frequent victims of HIV AIDS, armed conflict and domestic violence.

Over the past decade, the negative impact of armed conflict on women and girls has been extensively documented.34 Women and girls have become prime targets of armed conflict and have disproportionately suffered its impact, particularly sexual violence.

h) Create an enabling environment to combat all forms of violence against women and children living in situations of armed conflict and foreign occupation

The Government has not done enough to prevent the persistent sexual violence and physical abuse by armed men against internally displaced women and girls.

They lived in tragic conditions and their basic human rights were violated as a result of armed conflicts, violence, foreign occupation and extreme poverty.

We also express dismay at the increasing number of children involved in and affected by armed conflict, as well as all other form of violence including domestic violence, sexual abuse and exploitation, trafficking in persons and organs.

Although the violence affects all Congolese, men and women alike, the phenomenon of sexual violence against women and children has reached truly genocidal proportions, and is committed by all the Congolese and foreign armed forces and groups.