The manifold crisis situations in which women suffer require that they be add...

The manifold crisis situations in which women suffer require that they be addressed not only by the Security Council, but also by the General Assembly, the Peacebuilding Commission, the Human Rights Council and the Commission on the Status of Women, within their respective mandates. We believe in this context that it is important to avoid duplication and to seek complementarity among the relevant functions of those bodies. Given their range, limiting gender issues exclusively to the Security Council would create imbalances from the standpoint of system-wide coherence and would undermine the effective implementation of resolution 1325 (2000).