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institutions have adequate human and financial resources to fulfil their mandates
and address gender perspectives, in line with international standards;
(h) To continue its efforts to re-establish the rule of law, in accordance with
international standards, inter alia, by ensuring the impartiality of the justice system
and that law enforcement agencies respect and uphold human rights and
fundamental freedoms, with particular emphasis on access to justice and redress
mechanisms for women;
(i) To continue its efforts to reflect a gender perspective in the training and
activities of the police, army, prosecutors and the judiciary and to promote the
recruitment of Afghan women in all ranks;
(j) To raise awareness of and strengthen measures to prevent and eliminate
violence, including domestic and sexual violence, against women and girls, with the
aim of changing the attitudes that allow such crimes to take place and to develop
support services for victims of such violence;
(k) To release women prisoners held in the State detention centres for actions
that do not constitute crimes under Afghan law and to provide them with adequate
support for reintegration into their communities;
(l) To raise awareness of the need to prevent and eliminate enforced
marriages, in accordance with article 16 (b) of the Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women;
(m) To support measures to ensure the full enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms by women and girls, to hold accountable those who were
responsible for gross violations of human rights in the past and to ensure that full
investigations are conducted and perpetrators brought to justice, in accordance with
international standards, in order to combat impunity;
4.
Invites the United Nations system, international and non-governmental
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 reflect the needs of women and girls and the importance of their role
in the process of peacebuilding, reconstruction and development;
(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;
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