A/HRC/10/43 E/CN.6/2009/10 establishment of a gender-based violence committee that has trained and sensitized residents in the Rutsiro District on the prevention of sexual violence against women and children. 44. UNIFEM facilitates a number of opportunities for information-sharing, exchange of knowledge and learning to bolster the advocacy and implementation efforts of partners. A UNIFEM-supported regional workshop convened by the Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation brought together United Nations Trust Fund grantees, local authorities and service delivery organizations from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Montenegro, Serbia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Ukraine and Uzbekistan to impart their experiences and knowledge in implementing coordinated community responses to domestic violence. At the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, UNIFEM organized, in collaboration with UNFPA and UNDP, a satellite session on the intersections between violence against women and HIV and AIDS, which highlighted programmatic learning for evidence-based advocacy and strategic policy interventions towards improved implementation and scale-up. In the Caribbean, UNIFEM supported the development of a violence against women and HIV training course addressing prevention, treatment and care, as well as responses to emerging policy issues. As part of the UNIFEM and Red Mŭjer y Hábitat Safe Cities Programme, supported by the Government of Spain, an online learning course was created on urban violence, insecurity and discrimination. At the global level, UNIFEM is developing an online site that will provide country-level implementers with step-by-step programming guidance, promising practices and lead tools on ending violence against women and girls. 45. UNIFEM plays a key role in promoting the implementation of Security Council resolutions 1325 (2000) and 1820 (2008) in partnership with various stakeholders. These efforts include the UNIFEM-facilitated Wilton Park conference, undertaken in collaboration with United Nations Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict, the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and troop-contributing Governments, including Canada and the United Kingdom, on the role of military peacekeepers in addressing sexual violence during armed conflict; the Arria Formula, hosted by the United Kingdom, which fed into background discussion material for the Security Council debate on the theme “Women, peace and security: sexual violence in situations of armed conflict”; and the UNIFEM and Joan B. Kroc Center for Peace and Justice co-sponsored conference on crafting human security in an insecure world, where the policy and operational aspects of implementing Security Council resolution 1820 (2008) were addressed. UNIFEM also collaborated with the French Presidency of the European Union to hold a conference on the implementation of Security Council resolutions 1325 (2000) and 1820 (2008), aiming to ensure that European Union security, police and justice missions are equipped to respond to women’s security and justice needs. 46. UNIFEM sustains awareness-raising initiatives and campaigns of its own and through support to its partners to build public consciousness on violence against women and girls. Every year across the globe, UNIFEM avidly participates in the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign. In collaboration with UNFPA and other partners, UNIFEM supported a BBC seven-part series entitled Women on the Frontline, which profiled issues of rape, femicide and trafficking in various countries. In one of the largest and most renowned campaigns of UNIFEM, Say NO to Violence against Women, over 5 million signatures, including from 08-66140 17

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