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America. Participants enhanced their understanding of the impact of SALW
on women’s lives and identified how their work on gender and sexual violence
could be linked to international firearms instruments and the world campaign
against armed violence.
UNLIREC also collaborated with the inter-agency Security Sector
Reform Task Force of the United Nations by providing input to the United
Nations Interim Guidance Note module on gender-responsive security sector
reform. UNLIREC recommended that legal norms and regulations on small
arms include a “do no harm approach” in order to facilitate the inclusion of
gender perspectives and responses to the different needs of men, women,
boys, and girls, and in particular, to provide effective protection from and
responses to gender-based violence, including conflict-related sexual violence.
The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia
and the Pacific contributed to the discussions of the Peace Support Working
Group on United Nations Security Council resolutions 1325 (2000) and 1820
(2008), which took place in Nepal. In February, the Government of Nepal
endorsed a National Action Plan on the implementation of those resolutions,
making Nepal the second country in Asia, and the twenty-fourth worldwide, to
adopt such a plan.
Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters
The Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters
held its fifty-fifth session in New York from 23 to 25 February and its fiftysixth
session in Geneva from 29 June to 1 July. During both its sessions, the
Secretary-General requested the Board to focus its deliberations on issues
raised at the High-level Meeting on Revitalizing the Work of the Conference
on Disarmament and Taking Forward Multilateral Disarmament Negotiations,
which had been held at United Nations Headquarters on 24 September 2010.
Consequently, the Board had an in-depth exchange of views on those issues,
including the possible establishment of a high-level panel of eminent persons
with a special focus on the functioning of the Conference on Disarmament
(CD).
In July, the Secretary-General submitted a report to the General Assembly
summarizing the Advisory Board’s deliberations and recommendations (for a
list of members of the Board, see annex I to this chapter). 68
The Board recommended that the Secretary-General continue to
encourage the CD to engage in all efforts to achieve a breakthrough in the
continuing impasse. In this regard, the Board suggested that the Secretary-
General may consider encouraging progress on a programme of work that
68 A/66/125.