3. Condemns all acts of gender-based violence against women and in this regard calls, in accordance with the
Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, for the elimination of gender-based violence in the
family, within the general community and where perpetrated or condoned by the State, and emphasizes the duty
of Governments to refrain from engaging in violence against women and to exercise due diligence to prevent,
investigate and, in accordance with national legislation, punish acts of violence against women and to take
appropriate and effective action concerning acts of violence against women, whether those acts are perpetrated
by the State or by private persons, and to provide access to just and effective remedies and specialized assistance
to victims;
4. Also condemns all violations of the human rights of women in situations of armed conflict, recognizes them to
be violations of international human rights and humanitarian law and calls for a particularly effective response to
violations of this kind, including in particular murder, systematic rape, sexual slavery and forced pregnancy;
5. Encourages those States participating in the drafting of the statute of the International Criminal Court to give
full consideration to integrating a gender perspective;
6. Requests all Governments to cooperate with and assist the Special Rapporteur in the performance of the tasks
and duties mandated, to supply all information requested and to respond to the Special Rapporteur's visits and
communications;
7. Takes note of the procedures established by the Special Rapporteur to seek information from Governments
concerning specific cases of alleged violence in order to identify and investigate situations of violence against
women, its causes and its consequences, in particular standard information forms (E/CN.4/1997/47/Add.4,
annex);
8. Requests human rights treaty bodies, other special rapporteurs responsible for various human rights questions,
United Nations bodies and organs, specialized agencies and intergovernmental and non-governmental
organizations, including women's organizations, to cooperate with and assist the Special Rapporteur in the
performance of the tasks and duties mandated, and in particular to respond to requests for information on
violence against women, its causes and its consequences;
9. Stresses the conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur that States have an affirmative duty
to promote and protect the human rights of women and must exercise due diligence to prevent violence against
women, including violence against women in the family and in the community, and calls upon States:
(a) To work actively to ratify and/or implement international human rights norms and instruments as they relate
to violence against women;
(b) To include in reports submitted in accordance with the provisions of relevant United Nations human rights
instruments gender-disaggregated data, whenever possible, information pertaining to violence against women
and measures taken to implement the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women and the Beijing
Platform for Action;
(c) To cooperate with all other competent mechanisms in the United Nations system in relation to violence
against women;
(d) To condemn violence against women and not invoke custom, tradition or practices in the name of religion to
avoid their obligations to eliminate such violence;
(e) To take action to eradicate violence in the family and violence in the community, for example through
formulating national plans of action;
(f) To enact and/or reinforce penal, civil, labour and administrative sanctions in domestic legislation to punish
and redress the wrongs done to women and girls subjected to any form of violence, whether in the home, the
workplace, the community or society, bearing in mind the Special Rapporteur's recommendations;
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