Resolution 1820 (2008) brought about a better understanding of the implicatio...

Resolution 1820 (2008) brought about a better understanding of the implications of sexual violence as a weapon of war, thus opening the way for the Council to adopt two other important resolutions: resolution 1882 (2009) and, only last week, resolution 1888 (2009). Both provide the Council with important and effective new tools to end impunity and to hold accountable the perpetrators of those heinous crimes. It is now up to the Council to use those tools and implement the resolutions in full and without delay.