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(i) To facilitate the work at lower levels of government, including among
city and local community authorities, to promote an integrated approach that makes
use of the range of local services provided by institutions and civil society for the
development of preventive strategies and programmes.
23. Member States and the media, media associations, media self-regulatory
bodies, schools and other relevant partners, while respecting the freedom of the
media, are urged, as appropriate, to develop public awareness campaigns and
appropriate measures and mechanisms, such as codes of ethics and self-regulatory
measures on media violence, aimed at enhancing respect for the rights and dignity
of women, while discouraging both discrimination and gender stereotyping.
24. Member States and the private sector, relevant non-governmental
organizations and professional associations are urged to develop and improve,
where appropriate, crime prevention and criminal justice responses to the
production, possession and dissemination of games, images and all other materials
that depict or glorify acts of violence against women and children, and their impact
on the general public’s attitude towards women and children, as well as the mental
and emotional development of children, particularly through new information
technologies, including the Internet.
XI. International cooperation
25. Member States, in cooperation with United Nations bodies and institutes and
other relevant organizations, are urged, as appropriate:
(a) To continue exchanging information concerning successful intervention
models and preventive programmes on eliminating all forms of violence against
women and to update the resource manual and the compendium on the Model
Strategies and Practical Measures, as well as to provide information for inclusion in
the Secretary-General’s database on violence against women;16
(b) To cooperate and collaborate at the bilateral, regional and international
levels with relevant entities to prevent violence against women; to provide safety,
assistance and protection for the victims and witnesses of violence and their family
members, as appropriate; and to promote measures to effectively bring perpetrators
to justice, through strengthened mechanisms of international cooperation and mutual
legal assistance;
(c) To develop provisions providing for the safe and, to the extent possible,
voluntary repatriation and reintegration of women victims of violence who have
been trafficked or kidnapped across borders;
(d) To contribute and provide support to the United Nations system in its
efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women;
(e) To take appropriate preventive action and to ensure full accountability in
cases of sexual exploitation and abuse involving troops and police in United Nations
peacekeeping operations.
26.
Member States are also urged:
(a) To condemn all acts of violence against women in situations of armed
conflict, to recognize them as violations of international human rights, humanitarian
law and international criminal law, to call for a particularly effective response to
such violations, in particular when they involve murder, systematic rape, sexual
slavery and forced pregnancy, and to implement Security Council resolutions
1325 (2000) and 1820 (2008) on women and peace and security;
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