A/HRC/RES/38/6 14. Invites the Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting of the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Children’s Fund to continue to develop the national capacities of States and local communities, including in the health sector, to ensure the effective implementation of policies, programmes and action plans with the involvement of all stakeholders, and encourages States and development cooperation agencies to consider increasing their financial support for the Joint Programme; 15. Invites the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the relevant human rights treaty bodies to continue to give special consideration to the question of the elimination of female genital mutilation; 16. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in close collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and other United Nations specialized agencies, funds and programmes, international human rights mechanisms and civil society organizations, to organize a two-day meeting in 2019, preferably in Addis Ababa, to discuss progress, gaps and challenges in the application of human rights norms, standards and principles to the measures taken by State and non-State actors to prevent and eliminate female genital mutilation in different contexts, including in the context of communities, humanitarian assistance and migration and other population movements, and to submit a report on the outcome of the above-mentioned meeting at the forty-fourth session of the Human Rights Council; 17. Decides to continue its consideration of the question of female genital mutilation in accordance with its programme of work. 37th meeting 5 July 2018 [Adopted without a vote.] GE.18-11905 5

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