Intensifying global efforts and sharing good practices to effectively eliminate female genital mutilation 2014, para. 3
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Further urges States to develop and implement, at the national level, policies, programmes, action plans and national legislation for the elimination of female genital mutilation, based on integrated multisectoral, coordinated and collective approaches at all levels, taking into account the empowerment of former practitioners, the principles of human rights, equality between women and men and non-discrimination, to ensure that former practitioners abstain from resuming the exercise of this practice, and in general taking into account the issue of respect for the basic human rights of women and girls, while also working together with religious and traditional leaders;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Equality & Inclusion
Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
Girls
Men
Women
Year
2014
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
HRC resolution, Intensifying global efforts and sharing good practices to effectively eliminate female genital mutilation (2014), A/HRC/RES/27/22, OP 3.