Security Council Resolution 2338

Thursday, January 26, 2017
Countries: 
Cyprus
Resolution Reference PDF: 

Security Council Resolution 2338 (2017)

Resolution Extracts: 

2337 Participation

PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes: 
Participation
Security Council Agenda Geographical Topic: 
Cyprus
Extract: 

Agreeing that active participation of civil society groups, including women’s groups, is essential to the political process and can contribute to making any future settlement sustainable, recalling that women play a critically important role in peace processes, welcoming all efforts to promote bicommunal contacts and events including, inter alia, on the part of all United Nations bodies on the island, and urging the two sides to promote the active engagement of civil society and the encouragement of cooperation between economic and commercial bodies and to remove all obstacles to such contacts,

2337 SGBV

PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes: 
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Peacekeeping
Security Council Agenda Geographical Topic: 
Cyprus
Extract: 

Welcomes the efforts being undertaken by UNFICYP to implement the Secretary-General’s zero tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse and to ensure full compliance of its personnel with the United Nations code of conduct, requests the Secretary-General to continue to take all necessary action in this regard and to keep the Security Council informed, and urges troop-contributing countries to take appropriate preventive action including the conduct of pre -deployment awareness training, and to take disciplinary action and other action to ensure full accountability in cases of such conduct involving their personnel;