A/RES/67/144
Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women
21. Calls upon the inter-agency Programme Advisory Committee of the
United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against
Women, in consultation with the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender
Equality, to continue to provide guidance on the implementation of the 2010–2015
strategy for the Trust Fund and to further enhance its effectiveness as a system-wide
funding mechanism for preventing and redressing all forms of violence against
women and girls and to give due consideration, inter alia, to the findings and
recommendations of the external evaluation of the Trust Fund;
22. Stresses that, within the United Nations system, adequate resources
should be assigned to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the
Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and other 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 prevent and
eliminate violence against women and girls, and calls upon the United Nations
system to make the necessary support and resources available;
23. Also stresses the importance of the Secretary-General’s database on
violence against women, expresses its appreciation to all the States that have
provided the database with information regarding, inter alia, their national policies
and legal frameworks aimed at eliminating violence against women 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;
24. Acknowledges the work of the Statistics Division of the Department of
Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat, as requested by the Statistical
Commission, on the development of guidelines to support the production by
Member States of statistics on violence against women;
25. 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 eliminate all forms of violence against women;
26. Requests the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes
and consequences to present an annual report to the General Assembly at its
sixty-eighth and sixty-ninth sessions;
27. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
sixty-ninth 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 65/187 and the present resolution, including on their assistance to States
in their efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women;
(b) Information provided by States on their follow-up activities to implement
the present resolution;
28. Also requests the Secretary-General to present an oral report to the
Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth sessions
including information provided by the United Nations bodies, funds and
programmes and the specialized agencies on recent follow-up activities to
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