Recognizes that despite progress achieved on gender equality, enhanced effort...

PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes: 
General Women, Peace and Security
Participation
Human Rights
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Displacement and Humanitarian Response
Protection
Security Council Agenda Geographical Topic: 
Afghanistan
Extract: 

Recognizes that despite progress achieved on gender equality, enhanced efforts, including on measurable and action oriented objectives, are necessary to secure the rights of women and girls and to ensure all women and girls in Afghanistan are protected from violence and abuse, enjoy equal protection under the law and equal access to justice, strongly condemns discrimination and violence against women and girls, in particular violence aimed at preventing girls from attending schools, stresses the importance of implementing Security Council resolutions 1325 (2000), 1820 (2008), 1888 (2009), 1889 (2009) and 1960 (2010), notes the mainstreaming commitments introduced therein, and of ensuring that women fleeing domestic violence are able to find safe and secure refuge;