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

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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.

Meron explains these thresholds as they relate to international armed conflict, non international armed conflict and lower intensity violence not rising to the level of non international armed conflict

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.

In Afghanistan, as in Iraq, ordinary people s highest priority has been to achieve a reduction in violence.

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.

Sexual violence throughout Congo is rampant, she said, blaming rebel groups, the armed forces and national police.

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

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

To be sure, the reduction in violence is welcome, and the surge in troops may have played some role.

Violence is a phenomenon with multiple manifestations from armed clashes to verbal abuse that are influenced by culture.

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.

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.

Also important is a reduction of the level of violence that is promoted in the entertainment industry, which influences young minds.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Chapters discuss the use of firearms in intimate partner violence, the evolution of gangs in Nicaragua, organized crime groups in Italy (such as the mafia), and trends in armed violence in South Africa.

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.

It signed the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, which called for reduction of tanks, artillery, and armoured vehicles (army forces were reduced to 300,000).

As the Syrian Revolution continues, its consequences continue to affect refugees who have fled the violence in the country, especially women who are paying a double price as victims of violence in these armed conflicts.

The most critical barrier for Hamas and others should be a clear commitment to forego armed violence in the pursuit of political ends.

The United Kingdom calls on States to help those countries affected by armed violence to build their capacity to control small arms transfers.