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This unjust economic and political system produces armed violence.

Indeed, there have been new outbreaks of armed violence.

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 patterns show that this violence began with the armed conflict.

Other questions had concerned whether the definition of armed conflict should include blockades or military occupation not accompanied by protracted armed violence or armed operations.

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.

This abuse includes domestic violence, violence in armed conflict, trafficking and forced prostitution, female genital mutilation, and unregulated domestic labor.

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

Gender based violence in armed conflict is another key target of resolution 1325 (2000).

However, evidence on the wider impact of armed violence and criminality was more limited.

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.

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.

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.

The dialogue has been disrupted by violence, and some armed groups have still not demobilized as agreed.

120. There is evidence that violence against women increases in times of social unrest and armed conflict.

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.

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.

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

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

The cultural breakdown and the disintegration of the line of command in the armed forces has resulted in a culture of violence in which sexual violence has become endemic.

These are classified as violence by agents of the State massacres of peasants by the Armed Forces assassinations by death squads violence by the FMLN and assassinations of judges.

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.

Refugees fleeing situations of armed conflict are raped in and around camps meant to protect them from further violence.

The PAC made a distinction between legitimate armed struggle and random senseless violence, which came primarily from the regime.

Further aggravating the situation is an escalation of clashes and violence unleashed by Israeli forces and by armed settlers.

36. In recent years, Africa has been affected by situations of political instability almost always accompanied by armed violence.

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.

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.