Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34pp
Paragraph- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Paragraph text
- [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Engage, educate, encourage and support men and boys to take responsibility for their behaviour, to ensure that men and adolescent boys take responsibility for their sexual and reproductive behaviour, and to refrain from all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls; develop, invest in and implement policies, strategies and programmes, including comprehensive education programmes to increase their understanding of the harmful effects of violence and how it undermines gender equality and human dignity, promote respectful relationships, provide positive role models for gender equality and encourage men and boys to take an active part and become strategic partners and allies in the prevention and elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- CSW Agreed Conclusions, Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls (2013), para. 34pp.
- Paragraph number
- 34pp
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