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10. Encourages States and relevant civil society organizations to support
programmes that facilitate women’s participation in political and other leadership
activities, including peer support and capacity development for new office holders,
and to promote public/private civil society partnerships for women’s empowerment;
11. Invites States to exchange experience and best practices on women’s
political participation in all phases of the political process, including in times of
political change and reform;
12. Notes with interest the focus, inter alia, on the political participation of
women, including the issues raised in the present resolution, in the work of the
Human Rights Council Working Group on Discrimination against Women in Law
and in Practice;
13. Encourages States to disseminate the present resolution among all
relevant institutions, in particular national, regional and local authorities, as well as
among political parties;
14. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
sixty-eighth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, and
encourages Governments to provide precise data on the political participation of
women at all levels, including, where appropriate, information on the political
participation of women in times of political transition.
89th plenary meeting
19 December 2011
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