We subscribe to the rule of law in the promotion and maintenance of international peace and security as well as in the empowerment and advancement of women. In keeping with that approach, and in recognition of the importance of the achievement of some of the measures outlined in resolution 1325 (2000), Trinidad and Tobago, as a responsible member of the international community, has implemented in its domestic legal system not only its obligations under the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the Additional Protocols of 1977, but also its obligations under other instruments, including, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.