• Promote the responsible use of new information
• Encourage and support men's own initiatives to com-
technologies, in particular the Internet, including
the encouraging of steps to prevent the use of
these technologies for discrimination and violence
against women, and for trafficking in women for
the purposes of sexual exploitation, including the
exploitation of prostitution of women and girls;
plement efforts of women's organizations to prevent
and eliminate violence against women and girls;
• Conduct research on, and create policies and pro-
grammes to change, the attitudes and behaviour
of perpetrators of violence against women within
family and society;
• Create policies and programmes to encourage
• Actively encourage, support and implement
behavioural change in perpetrators of violence
against women, including rape, and monitor and
assess the impact and effect of such programmes;
measures aimed at increasing the knowledge and
understanding of violence against women, through
gender analysis capacity-building and gender-sensitive training for law enforcement officers, police
personnel, the judiciary, medical and social workers,
and teachers. ■
• Establish legal literacy programmes to make
women aware of their rights and the methods of
seeking protection under the law;
• Recognize that women and girls with disabilities,
women migrants and refugee women and girls could
be particularly affected by violence, and encourage
the development of programmes for their support;
• Encourage campaigns aimed at clarifying opportunities, limitations and rights in the event of migration so as to enable women to make informed
decisions and to prevent them from becoming
victims of trafficking;
Source: United Nations document E/1998/27
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