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policies relating to violence against women and girls, including in the area of support
services, assistance redress and empowerment of victims;
6.
Urges States and the United Nations system to give attention to, and
encourages greater international cooperation in, systematic research and the collection,
analysis and dissemination of data, including data disaggregated by sex, age and other
relevant information, on the extent, nature and consequences of violence against women
and girls and on the impact and effectiveness of policies and programmes for combating
this violence, and, in this context, welcomes the establishment of the Secretary-General’s
coordinated database on violence against women, and urges States and the United Nations
system to regularly provide information for inclusion in the database;
7.
Encourages States to supply information on all forms of violence against
women and girls in their reports submitted to the Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women and other relevant treaty bodies;
8.
Also encourages States to implement Security Council resolutions 1325
(2000) and 1820 (2008) to contribute to their efforts to eliminate all forms of violence
against women and girls;
9.
Notes with appreciation the work of the Special Rapporteur on violence
against women, its causes and consequences, including her latest report on the political
economy of women’s human rights (A/HRC/11/6);
10.
Encourages the Special Rapporteur to consider in future reporting the needs
of women who experience multiple forms of discrimination, and to examine effective
measures to respond to those situations;
11.
Stresses the importance of accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of
violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences throughout its work, and in
this regard:
(a)
Encourages States to ensure that eliminating violence against women and
girls is given due attention in the work of the Council, including relevant Council processes
and debates, including the universal periodic review;
(b)
Requests the special procedures of the Council to ensure that due
consideration is given to violence against women and girls within their respective
mandates;
(c)
Encourages all relevant stakeholders to give due attention to all forms of
violence against women and girls in their work with the Council and its mechanisms;
(d)
Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights to convene, in 2010 within existing resources, in cooperation with other relevant
entities of the United Nations system, an expert workshop, open to the participation of
Governments, regional organizations, relevant United Nations bodies, civil society
organizations and experts from different legal systems, to discuss specific measures for
overcoming obstacles and challenges that States may face in preventing, investigating,
prosecuting and punishing the perpetrators of violence against women and girls, as well as
measures for providing protection, support, assistance and redress for victims, and requests
the Office to prepare a summary report thereon to be submitted to the Council;
(e)
Invites the Office of the High Commissioner to include violence against
women and girls in its reporting on integrating the human rights of women throughout the
United Nations system;
12.
Requests United Nations organs and bodies, specialized agencies and
intergovernmental organizations, and encourages the human rights treaty bodies, to
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