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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls
transformation of discriminatory social norms and gender stereotypes, as part of an
integrated prevention strategy;
(h) Encouraging the media to examine the impact of gender role stereotypes,
including those perpetuated by commercial advertisements, which foster genderbased violence and inequalities;
(i) 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;
(j) Also ensuring the systematic collection, analysis and dissemination of
data disaggregated by sex and age to monitor all forms of violence against women
and girls, including on the effectiveness of preventive and protective measures, with
the involvement of national statistical offices and, where appropriate, in partnership
with other actors, including law enforcement agencies, in order to effectively review
and implement laws, policies, strategies and preventive and protective measures,
while ensuring and maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of the victims;
(k) 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;
(l) Providing adequate financial support and human resources for the
implementation of national strategies and action plans to promote the empowerment
of women and girls and gender equality, to end violence against women and girls, to
prevent all forms of violence against women and girls and to provide for the redress
of such violence and financial support and human resources for other related
activities;
(m) Investing in the realization of the right to education, by, inter alia,
eliminating illiteracy, in particular in rural and remote areas, and by closing the
gender gap at all levels of education, thereby contributing to the empowerment of
women and girls and to the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence
against women and girls;
(n) 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 raising
awareness of the unacceptability of violence against women and girls at all levels,
including through schools, educational programmes, teachers, parents, religious
leaders, youth organizations and teaching materials sensitized on gender equality
and human rights;
(o) Improving the safety and security of girls at and on the way to and from
school, including by establishing a safe and violence-free environment, by
improving infrastructure such as transportation, by providing separate and adequate
sanitation facilities in all relevant places and improved lighting, playgrounds and
safe environments, and by adopting national policies to prohibit, prevent and
address violence against children, especially girls, including sexual harassment and
bullying and other forms of violence, through such measures as conducting violence
prevention activities in schools and communities and establishing and enforcing
penalties for violence against girls;
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