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(m) Establish information-gathering mechanisms, such as databases, to
permit the gathering of verified information about attacks on and gender-based
violence against women journalists;
(n)
Reaffirming the recommendations made in the report of the Special
Rapporteur on online violence against women and girls from a human rights
perspective (A/HRC/38/47), implement the principle that the human rights and
women’s rights that are protected offline should be protected online;
(o)
Establish an effective response to online gender-based violence against
women journalists and efficient cooperation with Internet intermediaries in that
regard;
(p)
Cooperate and support the use of the communications procedure of the
special procedures of the Human Rights Council, including the mandate of the Special
Rapporteur on violence against women, to address individual and systematic
problems faced by of women journalists.
94.
The Special Rapporteur recommends that United Nations agencies:
(a)
To ensure further awareness-raising and implementation of the United
Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity,
coordinate a United Nations system-wide approach among relevant agencies, funds
and programmes, as well as among other international and regional organizations,
Member States, the mandates of the Special Rapporteurs on violence against women
and on freedom of expression, and the Platform of United Nations and regional
independent expert mechanisms on ending discrimination and violence against
women. Pay particular attention to paragraph 1.17 of the Plan, which recognizes that
women journalists face increasing dangers, highlighting the need for a gendersensitive approach when implementing human rights instruments on the elimination
of gender-based violence and discrimination against women;
(b)
Support cooperation and coordination at the international level,
including through technical assistance and capacity-building, with regard to ensuring
the safety of women journalists, and encourage national, subregional, regional and
international human rights mechanisms and bodies, including the relevant special
procedures of the Human Rights Council and in particular the mandate of the Special
Rapporteur on violence against women, treaty bodies and national human rights
institutions to continue to address the relevant aspects of the safety of women
journalists in their work;
(c)
Promote and support the use of the communications procedure of the
special procedures of the Human Rights Council, including the mandate of the Special
Rapporteur on violence against women;
(d)
Establish an information-gathering mechanism permitting the collection
and swift dissemination of information about threats and attacks against women
journalists among law enforcement agencies;
(e)
Facilitate the integration of the needs of women journalists in the private
sector news media through workers’ representatives at the national level.
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