Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms
of violence against women and girls: domestic violence
A/RES/71/170
19. Stresses that, within the United Nations system, adequate resources
should be assigned to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the
Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and other bodies, specialized agencies,
funds and programmes responsible for the promotion of gender equality, the
empowerment of women and the human rights of women and girls and to efforts
throughout the United Nations system to prevent and eliminate violence against
women and girls, including domestic violence, and calls upon the United Nations
system to make the necessary support and resources available;
20. Also stresses the importance of the Secretary-General’s Global Database
on Violence against Women, expresses its appreciation to all those States that have
provided the Database with information regarding, inter alia, their national policies
and legal frameworks aimed at eliminating violence against women and girls and
supporting victims of such violence, strongly encourages all States to regularly
provide updated information for the Database, and calls upon all relevant entities of
the United Nations system to continue to support States, at their request, in the
compilation and regular updating of pertinent information and to raise awareness of
the Database among all relevant stakeholders, including civil society;
21. Acknowledges the work of the Statistics Division of the Department of
Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat, as requested by the Statistical
Commission, on the development of guidelines to support the production by
Member States of statistics on violence against women and girls;
22. Calls upon all United Nations bodies, entities, funds and programmes
and the specialized agencies and invites the Bretton Woods institutions to intensify
their efforts at all levels to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls
and to better coordinate their work with a view to increasing effective support for
national efforts to prevent and eliminate domestic violence against women and girls;
23. Requests the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on
violence against women, its causes and consequences to present an annual report to
the General Assembly at its seventy-second and seventy-third sessions;
24. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
seventy-third session a report containing:
(a) Information provided by the United Nations bodies, funds and
programmes and the specialized agencies on their follow -up activities to implement
resolution 69/147 and the present resolution, including on their assistance to States
in their efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls;
(b) Information provided by States on their follow-up activities to implement
the present resolution;
25. Also requests the Secretary-General to present an oral report to the
Commission on the Status of Women at its sixty-first and sixty-second sessions
including information provided by the United Nations bodies, funds and
programmes and the specialized agencies on recent follow-up activities to
implement resolutions 67/144 and 69/147 and the present resolution, and urges
United Nations bodies, entities, funds and programmes and the specialized agencies
to contribute promptly to that report;
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