Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of
violence against women and girls: sexual harassment
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sexual harassment, and calls upon the United Nations system to make the necessary
support and resources available;
22. 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;
23. 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 sexual harassment;
24. 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-fourth and seventy-fifth sessions;
25. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
seventy-fifth 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 71/170 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;
26. Also requests the Secretary-General to present an oral report to the
Commission on the Status of Women at its sixty-third and sixty-fourth sessions,
including information provided by the United Nations bodies, funds and programmes
and the specialized agencies on recent follow-up activities to implement resolutions
69/147 and 71/170 and the present resolution, and urges United Nations bodies,
entities, funds and programmes and the specialized agencies to contribute promptly
to that report;
27. Decides to continue its consideration of the elimination of all forms of
violence against women and girls at its seventy-fifth session under the item entitled
“Advancement of women”.
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