BMS |
United Nations First Biennial Meeting of States to Consider the Implementation of the UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All its Aspects (2003) |
CEDAW |
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979) |
DPKO |
United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations |
ECOSOC |
United Nations Economic and Social Council |
Gender |
Socially constructed roles and socially learned behaviour and expectations associated with females and males. Women and men are biologically different, but all cultures interpret and elaborate these innate differences into a set of social expectations about what rights, resources and power they possess. |
Gender Equality |
Gender equality is defined in terms of equality under the law, equality of opportunity (including equality of rewards for work and equality in access to human capital and other productive resources that provide opportunity) and equality of voice (the ability to influence and contribute to the development process). |
Gender Main-streaming |
“Mainstreaming a gender perspective is the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels. It is a strategy for making women’s as well as men’s concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political, economic and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated . The ultimate goal is to achieve gender equality”. (ECOSOC, 1997/2) |
IANSA |
International Action Network on Small Arms |
NGO |
Non-governmental Organization |
PoA |
Programme of Action, established at the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (2001) |
SALW |
Small Arms and Light Weapons |
UN |
United Nations |
UNDDA |
United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs |
UNIFEM |
United Nations Fund for Women |
