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2.
Requests the Fund, as one of the operational bodies of the United
Nations, to take into account the need to strengthen its activities to
eliminate violence against women as part of system-wide efforts of the United
Nations towards this goal, in accordance with the measures set out in the
Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action and the Declaration on the
Elimination of Violence against Women and focusing on activities, particularly
at the national and community levels, and calls upon Member States to promote
cooperation with the Fund to these ends;
3.
Also requests the Fund, in undertaking any relevant activities, to
cooperate closely with the relevant United Nations organs and bodies, in
particular the Division for the Advancement of Women of the Secretariat, the
Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against
women, the Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat, the Crime Prevention
and Criminal Justice Branch of the Secretariat and the United Nations
Children’s Fund, in order to ensure that its activities form part of the
system-wide efforts of the United Nations to eliminate violence against women;
4.
Further requests the Fund to include in its regular reports
information regarding its activities to eliminate violence against women and
girls and to provide such information to the Commission on the Status of Women
and the Commission on Human Rights;
5.
Requests the Administrator of the United Nations Development
Programme, in consultation with the Secretary-General, as well as with the
relevant United Nations organs and bodies, in particular the Division for the
Advancement of Women, the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights
on violence against women, the Centre for Human Rights and the Crime
Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch, to consider the possibility of
establishing a trust fund, within the existing mandate, structure and
management of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, in support of
national, regional and international actions, including those taken by
Governments and non-governmental organizations, to eliminate violence against
women;
6.
Requests the Fund to include in its regular reports information on
the implementation of the present resolution and also to provide such
information to the Commission on the Status of Women and the Commission on
Human Rights.
99th plenary meeting
22 December 1995