UN Security Council
2021

(2000), and subsequent resolutions addressing women, peace, and security, including resolution 2242 (2015), will only be dismantled through dedicated commitment to women’s empowerment, participation, and human rights, concerted leadership, consistent information and action, and support, to build women’s full, equal, and meaningful participation in all levels of decision-making, Acknowledging the significance of the GoSS’s ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, and welcoming the signature of the Comprehensive Action Plan to End and Prevent All Grave Violations Against Children by the GoSS, Expressing ongoing concern on the severe restriction of freedoms of opinion, expression, and association, acknowledging the important role of those who protect and promote human rights, civil society organizations, journalists and other media workers in the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression and, in this context, expressing deep concern that violations and abuses of the right to freedom of opinion and expression continue to occur, and condemning the