A/RES/69/147
Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls
the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and
Development, 38 the Beijing Platform for Action 39 and the outcome documents of
their review conferences, including through the development and enforcement of
policies and legal frameworks and the strengthening of health systems that make
universally accessible and available quality comprehensive sexual and reproductive
health-care services, commodities, information and education, including safe and
effective methods of modern contraception, emergency contraception, prevention
programmes for adolescent pregnancy, maternal health care such as skilled birth
attendance and emergency obstetric care, which will reduce obstetric fistula and
other complications of pregnancy and delivery, safe abortion where such services
are permitted by national law and prevention and treatment of reproductive tract
infections, sexually transmitted infections, HIV and reproductive cancers,
recognizing that human rights include the right to have control over and decide
freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and
reproductive health, free from coercion, discrimination and violence;
(z) Preventing, combating and eliminating trafficking in women and girls by
criminalizing all forms of trafficking in persons, as well as by raising public
awareness of the issue of trafficking in persons, particularly women and girls,
including the factors that make women and girls vulnerable to trafficking, and
eliminating the demand that fosters all forms of exploitation and forced labour, and
encouraging, where appropriate, the media to play a role with a view to eliminating
the exploitation of women and children;
(aa) Establishing comprehensive, coordinated, interdisciplinary, accessible
and sustained multisectoral services, programmes and responses at all levels to
provide immediate protection and support, to be made available and accessible also
in rural areas, through which shelter and legal, health-care, psychological,
counselling and other services are available to all women facing or subjected to
violence, as well as their children, and, where integrated centres are not feasible,
promoting collaboration and coordination among agencies;
(bb) Encouraging the establishment or the strengthening of, or support for,
national and local helplines that provide information, counselling, support and
referral services to women facing or subjected to violence;
(cc) Ensuring that the prison system and probation services provide
appropriate rehabilitation programmes for perpetrators, as a preventive tool against
recidivism as part of an integrated response to violence against women, and that
they consider the safety of women and girls as the highest priority;
(dd) Adopting a life-cycle approach in efforts to end discrimination and
violence against women and girls and ensuring that specific issues affecting older
women are given greater visibility and attention;
21. 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 national efforts to eliminate violence against women and girls,
including, upon request, in the development and implementation of national action
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38
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
39
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.
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