Intensification of efforts to eliminate violence against women 2012, para. 18w
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- Resolution
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[Urges States to continue to develop their national strategies, translating them into concrete programmes and actions and a more systematic, comprehensive, multisectoral and sustained approach, aimed at eliminating all forms of violence against women, including by achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and by increasing the focus on prevention, protection and accountability in laws, policies and programmes and their implementation, monitoring and evaluation, so as to ensure the optimal use of available instruments, by, for example:] Strengthening national health and social infrastructure to reinforce measures to promote and protect women's equal access to public health-care services, including for sexual and reproductive health, and reproductive rights, in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, and address the health consequences of all forms of violence against women, including by providing specialized health services such as supportive counselling, post-exposure prophylaxis for exposure to HIV and other services;
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- Negotiated soft law
- Document body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Document year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- OP
- Reference
- UNGA resolution, Intensification of efforts to eliminate violence against women (2012), A/RES/67/144, OP 18w.
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- OP
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- 18w