A/RES/62/133
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Calls upon the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality to
intensify its consideration of 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
forms of violence against women and girls;
Stresses that within the United Nations system adequate resources should
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be assigned to those bodies, specialized agencies, funds and programmes
responsible for the promotion of gender equality and women’s rights and to efforts
throughout the United Nations system to eliminate violence against women and
girls, supports the commitment of the Task Force on Violence against Women to
undertake a resource flow analysis to assess the resources available for this work
and elaborate recommendations for their most effective and efficient use, and calls
upon the United Nations system to respond swiftly to those recommendations once
issued;
Requests the Secretary-General to intensify his efforts to develop and
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propose a set of possible indicators on violence against women, building on the
work undertaken by the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes
and consequences, in order to assist States in assessing the scope, prevalence and
incidence of violence against women, with a view to allowing its consideration by
the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-second session and by the
Statistical Commission at the earliest;
Also requests the Secretary-General to present an oral report to the
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Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-second session and thereafter to the
General Assembly at its sixty-third session with information provided by the United
Nations bodies, funds and programmes and the specialized agencies on recent
follow-up activities to implement resolution 61/143 and the present resolution,
including on the United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate
Violence against Women, and urges United Nations bodies, entities, funds and
programmes and the specialized agencies to contribute promptly to the report.
76th plenary meeting
18 December 2007
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