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7. Reaffirms the role <strong>of</strong> the Peacebuilding Commission in promoting inclusive genderbasedapproaches to reducing instability in post-conflict situations, noting the importantrole <strong>of</strong> women in rebuilding society, and urges the Peacebuilding Commission toencourage all parties in the countries on its agenda to incorporate and implement measuresto reduce sexual violence in post-conflict strategies;8. Encourages Member States to deploy greater numbers <strong>of</strong> female military and policepersonnel to United Nations peacekeeping operations, and to provide all military andpolice personnel with adequate training to carry out their responsibilities;9. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that technical support is provided to troopand police contributing countries, in order to include guidance for military and policepersonnel on addressing sexual violence in predeployment and induction training;10. Requests the Secretary-General to continue and strengthen efforts to implement thepolicy <strong>of</strong> zero tolerance <strong>of</strong> sexual exploitation and abuse in United Nations peacekeepingoperations; and urges troop- and police-contributing countries to take appropriatepreventative action, including predeployment and in-theatre awareness training, andother action to ensure full accountability in cases <strong>of</strong> such conduct involving their personnel;11. Requests that the Secretary-General continue to direct all relevant United Nations entitiesto take specific measures to ensure systematic mainstreaming <strong>of</strong> gender issues withintheir respective institutions, including by ensuring allocation <strong>of</strong> adequate financialand human resources within all relevant <strong>of</strong>fices and departments and on the ground, aswell as to strengthen, within their respective mandates, their cooperation and coordinationwhen addressing the issue <strong>of</strong> sexual violence in armed conflict;12. Urges relevant Special Representatives and the Emergency Relief Coordinator <strong>of</strong> theSecretary-General, with strategic and technical support from the UN <strong>Action</strong> network, towork with Member States to develop joint Government-United Nations ComprehensiveStrategies to Combat Sexual Violence, in consultation with all relevant stakeholders, andto regularly provide updates on this in their standard reporting to Headquarters;13. Requests that the Secretary-General ensure more systematic reporting on incidents <strong>of</strong>trends, emerging patterns <strong>of</strong> attack, and early warning indicators <strong>of</strong> the use <strong>of</strong> sexualviolence in armed conflict in all relevant reports to the Council, and encourages theSpecial Representatives <strong>of</strong> the Secretary-General, the Emergency Relief Coordinator,the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur on Violence againstWomen, and the Chairperson(s) <strong>of</strong> UN <strong>Action</strong> to provide, in coordination with the aforementionedSpecial Representative, additional briefings and documentation on sexualviolence in armed conflict to the Council;14. Requests the Secretary-General to include, where appropriate, in his regular reports onindividual peacekeeping operations, information on steps taken to implement measuresto protect civilians, particularly women and children, against sexual violence;15. Requests the Secretary-General, taking into account the proposals contained in his reportas well as any other relevant elements, to devise urgently and preferably within40

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