A/RES/73/148
Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of
violence against women and girls: sexual harassment
violence, and to combat impunity by ensuring that those responsible for violations
and abuses, including sexual and gender-based violence and threats, including in
digital contexts, are promptly brought to justice and held accountable through
impartial investigations;
14. Further calls upon States to encourage digital technology companies,
including Internet service providers and digital platforms, to strengthen or adopt
positive measures with a view to eliminating violence and sexual harassment,
including sexual harassment in digital contexts;
15. Encourages States to systematically collect, analyse and disseminate data
disaggregated by sex, age and other relevant parameters, including, where
appropriate, administrative data from the police, the health sector, the judiciary and
other relevant sectors, to consider developing methodologies to collect data on all
forms of violence against women and girls, including sexual harassment, in, inter alia,
digital contexts, in order to monitor all forms of such violence, such as data on the
relationship between the perpetrator and the victim and geographical location, 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 the confidentiality of the victims;
16. Urges the international community to fulfil its commitment to supporting
developing countries, particularly African countries, the least developed countries,
small island developing States and landlocked developing countries, in strengthening
the capacity of national statistical offices and data systems to ensure access to high quality, timely, reliable and disaggregated data, while ensuring national ownership in
supporting and tracking progress on, inter alia, efforts to address violence against
women and girls, including sexual harassment;
17. Also urges the international community, including the United Nations
system and, as appropriate, regional and subregional organizations, to support
national efforts to promote the empowerment of women and girls and gender equality
in order to enhance international efforts to eliminate violence against women and
girls, through, inter alia, official development assistance and other appropriate
assistance, such as facilitating the sharing of guidelines, methodologies and best
practices, taking into account national priorities;
18. Calls upon States to promote the full and effective participation of women
and, as appropriate, girls in the development, implementation and monitoring of
policies, programmes and other initiatives aimed at preventing and responding to
violence against women and girls, including sexual harassment;
19. Stresses the need to take necessary measures to ensure that no individual
working within the United Nations system, including its agencies, funds, programmes
and entities, should be involved in sexual harassment, too often perpetrated against
those affected by humanitarian crises, and recognizes the efforts of the United Nations
system in this regard;
20. Encourages humanitarian assistance agencies and non-governmental
organizations to adopt and implement policies to prevent, address and prohibit sexual
harassment within their organizations;
21. Stresses that, within the United Nations system, adequate resources should
be assigned to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerme nt
of Women (UN-Women) and other bodies, specialized agencies, funds and
programmes responsible for the promotion of gender equality, the empowerment of
women and the human rights of women and girls and to efforts throughout the United
Nations system to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls, including
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