Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women
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(c) Evaluating and assessing the impact of current legislation, rules and
procedures regarding violence against women and the reasons for low reporting,
reinforcing, where necessary, criminal law and procedure relating to all forms of
violence against women and, where necessary, incorporating into law measures
aimed at prevention and protecting and providing access to redress for women
facing or subjected to violence;
(d) Promoting awareness among all stakeholders of the need to combat
violence against women, and promoting gender equality and the empowerment of
women, inter alia, through regular and repeated use and funding of
awareness-raising campaigns nationwide and other ways to promote prevention and
protection, such as international, regional and national conferences, seminars,
training, publications, brochures, websites, audiovisual material, social media,
television and radio spots, and debates, as appropriate;
(e) Encouraging the media to examine the impact of gender role stereotypes,
including those perpetuated by commercial advertisements which foster
gender-based violence and inequalities;
(f) Ensuring that there is sufficient knowledge, including expertise in effective
legal approaches to eliminating violence against women and girls, awareness and
coordination in the legal system and, to that end, where appropriate, appointing a focal
point in the legal system for cases of violence against women and girls;
(g) Ensuring also the systematic collection and analysis of sex-disaggregated
data to monitor all forms of violence against women, including on the effectiveness
of preventive and protective measures, with the involvement of national statistical
offices and, where appropriate, in partnership with other actors, in order to review
and implement effectively laws, policies, strategies and preventive and protective
measures, while ensuring and maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of the
victims;
(h) Establishing appropriate national mechanisms for monitoring and
evaluating the implementation of national measures, including national action plans,
taken to eliminate violence against women, including through the use of national
indicators;
(i) Providing adequate financial support for the implementation of national
strategies and action plans to end violence against women and girls and other
relevant activities;
(j) Allocating adequate resources to promote the empowerment of women
and gender equality and to prevent and redress all forms and manifestations of
violence against women;
(k) Adopting all appropriate measures, especially in the field of education,
from the entry levels of the education system, to modify the social and cultural
patterns of conduct of men and women of all ages, in order to promote the
development of respectful relations and to eliminate prejudices, harmful customary
practices and all other practices based on the idea of the inferiority or superiority of
either of the sexes and on stereotyped roles for men and women, and by raising
awareness of the unacceptability of violence against women and girls at all levels,
including through schools, teachers, parents, religious leaders, youth organizations
and teaching materials sensitized on gender equality and human rights;
(l) Improving the safety of girls at and on the way to school, including by
improving infrastructure such as transportation, providing separate and adequate
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