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forms of violence against women and girls, and in this regard stresses the
importance of new and increased contributions from all States to the Fund in order
to achieve the target set by the United Nations Development Fund for Women;
21. 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, inter alia, through the Task Force on Violence
against Women of the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality;
22.
Requests the Secretary-General to submit:
(a) To the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session a report with
information provided by the United Nations bodies, funds and programmes and the
specialized agencies on their follow-up activities to implement Assembly
resolutions 61/143 and 62/133 and the present resolution, including on their
assistance to States in their efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women;
(b) To the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session a report with
information provided by States on their follow-up activities to implement the
present resolution;
23. Also requests the Secretary-General to present an oral report to the
Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-third session with information
provided by the United Nations bodies, funds and programmes and the specialized
agencies on recent follow-up activities to implement resolutions 61/143 and 62/133,
including on the progress made in enhancing the effectiveness of the United Nations
Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women as a
system-wide United Nations mechanism and on the progress of the
Secretary-General’s campaign to end violence against women, and urges United
Nations bodies, entities, funds and programmes and the specialized agencies to
contribute promptly to that report;
24. Decides to continue the consideration of the question at its sixty-fourth
session under the item entitled “Advancement of women”.
70th plenary meeting
18 December 2008
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