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Recommend that the Commission on Human Rights renew the mandate of the
Special Rapporteur on violence against women when her term ends in
1997 and, if warranted, to update and strengthen it.
125. By Governments, including local governments, community organizations,
non-governmental organizations, educational institutions, the public and private
sectors, particularly enterprises, and the mass media, as appropriate:
(a)
Provide well-funded shelters and relief support for girls and women
subjected to violence, as well as medical, psychological and other
counselling services and free or low-cost legal aid, where it is
needed, as well as appropriate assistance to enable them to find a
means of subsistence;
(b)
Establish linguistically and culturally accessible services for
migrant women and girls, including women migrant workers, who are
victims of gender-based violence;
(c)
Recognize the vulnerability to violence and other forms of abuse of
women migrants, including women migrant workers, whose legal status in
the host country depends on employers who may exploit their situation;
(d)
Support initiatives of women’s organizations and non-governmental
organizations all over the world to raise awareness on the issue of
violence against women and to contribute to its elimination;
(e)
Organize, support and fund community-based education and training
campaigns to raise awareness about violence against women as a
violation of women’s enjoyment of their human rights and mobilize
local communities to use appropriate gender-sensitive traditional and
innovative methods of conflict resolution;
(f)
Recognize, support and promote the fundamental role of intermediate
institutions, such as primary health-care centres, family-planning
centres, existing school health services, mother and baby protection
services, centres for migrant families and so forth in the field of
information and education related to abuse;
(g)
Organize and fund information campaigns and educational and training
programmes in order to sensitize girls and boys and women and men to
the personal and social detrimental effects of violence in the family,
community and society; teach them how to communicate without violence
and promote training for victims and potential victims so that they
can protect themselves and others against such violence;
(h)
Disseminate information on the assistance available to women and
families who are victims of violence;
(i)
Provide, fund and encourage counselling and rehabilitation programmes
for the perpetrators of violence and promote research to further
efforts concerning such counselling and rehabilitation so as to
prevent the recurrence of such violence;
(j)
Raise awareness of the responsibility of the media in promoting
non-stereotyped images of women and men, as well as in eliminating
patterns of media presentation that generate violence, and encourage
those responsible for media content to establish professional
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