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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1820: Women, Peace and Security

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Marianne Mollmann
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International Legal Materials , Volume 47 , Issue 5 , October 2008 , pp. 824 - 828
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2008

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Endnotes

1 S.C. Res. 1820, U.N. Doc. S/RES/1820 (June 19,2008) [here in after Resolution 1820].

2 See, e.g., Global Justice Center, In the Wake of Historic Resolution 820 on Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict Women of Burma and International Lawyers Call on the Security Council to Refer the Situation in Burma to the International Criminal Court, (June 20, 2008), available at http://www.globaljusticecenter.net/media/PR%20Sexual%20Violence%20Resolution%20-%20call%20for%20action%20in%20burma.pdf.

3 See, e.g., Sam Cook, Security Council Resolution 1820: A move to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, June 2008, 1325 Peacewomen E-News, http://www.peacewomen.org/un/sc/Open_Debates/Sexual_Violence08/Peace WomenAnalysis.pdf (noting concern that the adoption of an additional resolution “would take away from the powerful breadth of SCR 1325 and reduce its importance by reducing the focus of the women, peace and security agenda to issues of sexual violence“).

4 S.C. Res. 1325, U.N. Doc. S/RES/1325 (Oct. 31, 2000).

5 S.C. Res. 1674, U.N. Doc. S/RES/1674 (April 28, 2006).

6 See, e.g., Press Release, Security Council, Security Council Deeply Concerned About ‘Pervasive’ Gander-Based Violence As It Holds Day-Long Debate on Women, Peace, Security, U.N. Doc. SC/9151 (Oct. 23, 2007), available at http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/sc9151.doc.htm.

7 Letter from 71 Congolese Organizations Appealing to the UN Security Council to Help End Sexual Violence (June 12,2008) (on file with American Society of International Law).

8 Resolution 1820, supra note 1. See, e.g., United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations, Security Council Arria Formula Meeting, Women, Peace and Security, Women Targeted or Affected by Armed Conflict: What Role for Military Peacekeepers? (June 11 2008).

9 Press Release, Security Council, Security Council Demands Immediate and Complete Halt to Acts of Sexual Violence Against Civilians in Conflict Zones, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 1820 (2008), U.N. Doc. SC/9364 (June 19, 2008), available at http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2008/sc9364.doc.htm.

10 Id.