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“(c) To support capacity-building for Afghan women to enable them to
participate fully in all sectors, with special emphasis on ensuring women’s
participation and representation in all aspects of the electoral process leading
to elections later this year;
“(d) To provide technical and other relevant assistance so that the
judicial system has the capacity to adhere to international standards of human
rights;
“5. Invites the United Nations system, international and nongovernmental organizations, and donors:
“(a) To ensure a human rights-based approach and coherent policy and
resources for gender mainstreaming in all programmes and operations, based
on the principles of non-discrimination and equality between women and men,
and to ensure that women benefit equally with men from such programmes in
all sectors;
“(b) To ensure the full and effective participation of Afghan women in
all stages of humanitarian assistance, recovery, reconstruction and
development, including planning, programme development, implementation,
monitoring and evaluation;
“(c) To support the elements of civil society active in the field of human
rights and encourage the involvement of women therein;
“(d) To ensure that all their international and national personnel, prior to
beginning their service, receive training in gender equality as well as
appropriate training in the history, culture and traditions of Afghanistan and
are fully familiar with and guided by international standards of human rights;
“(e) To integrate efforts to improve the health status of women within all
reconstruction efforts, especially through access to skilled prenatal care,
increasing access to skilled birth attendance, education programmes on basic
health issues, community information activities and emergency obstetric care;
“(f) To continue to support measures for the employment of women and
the integration of a gender perspective into all social, development and
reconstruction programmes, taking into account the special needs of widows
and returning refugee and displaced women and girls as well as those living in
rural areas;
“6. Strongly urges the Secretary-General to ensure that the important
post of Senior Gender Adviser in the United Nations Assistance Mission in
Afghanistan is filled immediately and with due regard to the need for
continuity in this task;
“7. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to review the situation
of women and girls in Afghanistan and to submit to the Commission on the
Status of Women at its forty-ninth session a report on progress made in the
implementation of the present resolution.”
44. At the 14th meeting, on 11 March, the Commission had before it a revised
draft resolution (E/CN.6/2004/L.1/Rev.1), submitted by Andorra,1 Austria,1
Belgium,1 Bosnia and Herzegovina,1 Bulgaria,1 Canada, Chile, Cyprus,1 Czech
Republic,1 Denmark, Estonia,1 Finland,1 France,1 Germany, Greece,1 Guatemala,1
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