We support the Secretary-General's impressive recommendations on specific ste...

We support the Secretary-General's impressive recommendations on specific steps that need to be taken to address the remaining challenges in this field. The proposal for the United Nations system to set up a mechanism, on which agreement has now been achieved, to better monitor, report and analyse data on sexual violence and to ensure that information flows effectively to the Security Council is particularly important. We urge the Council's sanctions committees to give due regard to relevant information they receive through this mechanism. We recently witnessed the first listing of an individual by the Council's Democratic Republic of the Congo Sanctions Committee on children-and-armed-conflict grounds.Similar listings of individuals on sexual-violence grounds would be an important deterrent to others.