A/HRC/25/21 H. Gender perspective 52. In its resolution 1325 (2000), the Security Council called upon all actors involved, when negotiating and implementing peace agreements, to adopt a gender perspective, including, inter alia (a) the special needs of women and girls during repatriation and resettlement and for rehabilitation, reintegration and post-conflict reconstruction; (b) measures that support local women’s peace initiatives and indigenous processes for conflict resolution, and that involve women in all of the implementation mechanisms of the peace agreements; and (c) measures that ensure the protection of and respect for human rights of women and girls, particularly as they relate to the constitution, the electoral system, the police and the judiciary. In addition, in its resolution 2122 (2013), the Council focused specifically on increasing women’s participation and the consideration of gender-related issues in all discussions pertinent to the prevention and resolution of armed conflict, the maintenance of peace and security, and post-conflict peacebuilding, 53. With regard to Cyprus, the Security Council reiterated in its resolutions 2089 (2013) and 2114 (2013) that the active participation of civil society groups, including women’s groups, is essential to the political process and can contribute to making any future settlement sustainable, recalled that women play an important role in peace processes, and welcomed all efforts to promote bicommunal contacts and events, including by all United Nations bodies on the island. 54. In February 2013, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, while noting that women were actively involved in the promotion of reconciliation and peace through bicommunal activities, also observed with concern the insufficient information provided by Cyprus on the participation of women in the peace process, including at the decision-making levels, and expressed its concern that the peace process currently under way could lack a gender perspective as called for by the Gender Advisory Team in its recommendations. The Committee called on Cyprus (a) to strengthen its dialogue with non-governmental and women’s organizations to promote and encourage civil society and community-level participation in the peace process; (b) to increase its efforts to incorporate a gender perspective into the peace process by ensuring the protection of and respect for women’s and girls’ human rights, and by addressing their specific needs; and (c) to involve women fully in all stages of the peace process, including in decisionmaking, in accordance with Security Council resolution 1325 (2000).59 55. In its general recommendation No. 30, adopted on 18 October 2013, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women noted that women’s rights in conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict processes are affected by various actors, including States (such as the State within whose borders the conflict arises or neighbouring States involved in the regional dimensions of the conflict) and non-State actors. Given that State institutions in conflict and post-conflict contexts are often weakened, or that certain government functions may be performed by other Governments, intergovernmental organizations or even non-State groups, the Committee stressed that, in such cases, there could be simultaneous and complementary sets of obligations for a range of the actors involved. Thus, under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, State responsibility also arises if a non-State actor’s acts or omission may be attributed to the State under international law. Furthermore, although non-State actors cannot become parties to the Convention, the Committee noted that, under certain circumstances, in particular where an armed group with an identifiable political structure 59 CEDAW/C/CYP/CO/6-7, paras. 23 and 24. 15