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(n) Ensuring that all relevant public officials coordinate effectively in the
prevention, investigation, prosecution and punishment of all forms of violence
against women, and provide protection and support to victims;
(o) Developing or improving and disseminating specialized training
programmes, including practical tools and good practices guidelines on how to
identify, prevent and deal with cases of violence against women and on how to
assist victims, for police officers, the judiciary, health workers, law enforcement
personnel and other relevant public authorities;
(p) Strengthening national health and social infrastructure to reinforce
measures to promote women’s equal access to public health and address the health
consequences of all forms of violence against women, including by providing
support to victims;
(q) Establishing or supporting integrated centres through which shelter,
legal, health, psychological, counselling and other services are provided to victims
of all forms of violence against women and, where such centres are not yet feasible,
promoting collaboration and coordination among agencies, in order to make
remedies more accessible and to facilitate the physical, psychological and social
recovery of victims, and ensuring that victims have access to such services;
(r) Ensuring adequate and comprehensive rehabilitation and reintegration of
victims of violence into society;
(s) Ensuring that the prison system and probation services provide
appropriate rehabilitation programmes for perpetrators, as a preventive tool to avoid
recidivism;
(t) Supporting and engaging in partnerships with non-governmental
organizations, in particular women’s organizations, and other relevant actors and the
private sector to end violence against women;
17. Calls upon the international community, including the United Nations
system and, as appropriate, regional and subregional organizations, to support
national efforts to promote the empowerment of women and gender equality in order
to enhance national efforts to eliminate violence against women and girls, including,
upon request, in the development and implementation of national action plans on the
elimination of violence against women and girls, through, inter alia, and taking into
account national priorities, official development assistance and other appropriate
assistance, such as facilitating the sharing of guidelines, methodologies and best
practices;
18. Stresses the contribution of the ad hoc international criminal tribunals in
ending impunity through ensuring accountability and punishing perpetrators of
violence against women, as well as the contribution the International Criminal Court
can make, and urges States to consider ratifying or acceding as a matter of priority
to the Rome Statute,8 which entered into force on 1 July 2002;
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19. Welcomes the steps taken by several United Nations bodies to discuss,
within their respective mandates, the question of violence against women in all its
forms and manifestations, and encourages all relevant bodies to continue to address
this issue in their future efforts and work programmes;
20. Reiterates its request to the Inter-Agency Network on Women and
Gender Equality to consider ways and means to enhance the effectiveness of the
United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against
Women as a system-wide funding mechanism for preventing and redressing all
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