(d) To support initiatives undertaken by women’s organizations and non-governmental organizations on the elimination of violence against women, including awareness-raising campaigns, to establish and/or strengthen, at the national level, collaborative relationships with relevant non-governmental and community-based organizations, and with public and private sector institutions, aimed at the development and effective implementation of provisions and policies relating to violence against women, including in the area of support services to respond to the needs of women and girl survivors of violence and to assist them in their full recovery and reintegration into society; (e) To consider undertaking comprehensive, objective and easily accessible information campaigns about violence against women; (f) To create, improve or develop, as appropriate, and fund training programmes, taking into account, inter alia, sex-disaggregated data on the causes and effects of violence against women, for judicial, legal, medical, social, educational, police, correctional service, military, peacekeeping, humanitarian relief and immigration personnel, in order to avoid the abuse of power leading to violence against women and to sensitize such personnel to the nature of gender-based acts and threats of violence so that fair treatment of female victims can be ensured; (g) To sensitize all persons, men and women, to the causes and effects of violence against women and to highlight men’s role in its prevention and elimination, to encourage and support men’s initiatives to complement the efforts of women’s organizations in this regard, and to encourage behavioural change by perpetrators of violence against women; 11. Condemns violence against women committed in situations of armed conflict, such as murder, rape, including systematic rape, sexual slavery and forced pregnancy, and calls for effective responses to these violations of international human rights and humanitarian law; 12. Welcomes efforts to eliminate impunity for violence against women in situations of armed conflict including by prosecuting gender-related crimes and crimes of sexual violence in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; 13. Also welcomes the inclusion of gender-related crimes in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the finalized draft text of the Elements of Crimes, and urges States to consider ratifying or acceding to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; 14. Urges the integration of a gender perspective in all future efforts to eliminate impunity; 15. Urges States to integrate a gender perspective into commissions of inquiry and commissions for achieving truth and reconciliation, and invites the Special Rapporteur to report, as appropriate, on these mechanisms; 16. Also urges States to provide gender-sensitive training to all actors, as appropriate, in peacekeeping missions in dealing with victims, particularly women and girls, of violence, including sexual violence, and in this regard acknowledges the important role of peace support operations personnel in eliminating violence against women, and calls upon States to promote, and relevant agencies of the United Nations system and regional organizations to ensure, implementation of the Ten Rules Code of Personal Conduct for Blue Helmets; 17. Further urges all States and the relevant organs, bodies and agencies of the United Nations system, and encourages regional organizations and humanitarian organizations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross, to ensure that a gender perspective is integrated into international humanitarian law awareness programmes; 18. Calls upon all parties to armed conflict to respect the civilian and humanitarian character of camps and settlements for refugees and internally displaced persons and to improve and strengthen the capacity of women affected by situations of armed conflict, including women refugees and displaced women, by, inter alia, involving them in the design and management of humanitarian activities so that they benefit from these activities on an equal basis with men; page 3

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