United Nations Radio

There's progress in making the U.N.'s overall peace and security architecture more sensitive to women's needs.

According to a new report by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on women and peace and security, there remains a noticeable gap between policies and their effective implementation.

The Secretary-General says that more needs to be done at the country level to mainstream gender perspectives at every stage of conflict prevention, resolution and management, as well as in peacebuilding.

He also recommends that efforts to prevent and halt sexual and gender-based violence be intensified, including through more systematic responses by UN peacekeeping missions and humanitarian assistance programmes, the protection of women in situations of displacement, and more comprehensive strategies to address impunity for perpetrators of sexual abuse.

This is Donn Bobb for United Nations Radio.

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