Calls upon States to develop, support and implement comprehensive and integrated strategies for the prevention of female genital mutilation, including the training of social workers, medical personnel, religious and community leaders and other relevant professionals and ensuring that they provide competent, supportive services and care to girls and women who are at risk and to girls and women who have undergone female genital mutilation and compelling them to report to the appropriate authorities cases in which they believe girls or women are at risk;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
Girls
Women
Year
2010
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
CSW resolution, Ending female genital mutilation (2010), OP 18.