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(a)
Holding perpetrators to account and eliminating impunity for all forms of
violence against women and girls;
(b)
Ensuring that legislation allows for the timely and effective investigation,
prosecution, including ex officio prosecution, sanction and redress of violence against
women and girls;
(c)
Publicly condemning all forms of violence against women and girls, including
through media and information campaigns;
(d)
Taking measures to ensure that all workplaces are free from violence and
discrimination, including sexual and gender-based violence, harassment and discrimination,
including through regulatory and oversight frameworks and reforms, independent review
mechanisms, processes and mechanisms for victims, survivors, witnesses and whistleblowers to share information and report violence, collective agreements and codes of
conduct, including appropriate disciplinary measures, protocols and procedures, and referral
of cases of violence to health and psychosocial services for treatment and to police for
investigation, as well as through awareness-raising and capacity-building in the broader
public and in the world of work, in collaboration with employers, unions and workers;
(e)
Promoting and protecting sexual and reproductive health and reproductive
rights, including for victims and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in the world
of work, by developing and enforcing policies and legal frameworks, and strengthening
health systems that make quality comprehensive sexual and reproductive health-care
services, information and education universally accessible and available, including, inter alia,
emergency contraception and obstetric care, post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV infection and
safe abortion where not against national law;
(f)
Providing victims and survivors of violence in the world of work with effective
remedies, including relief support and legal, medical, psychological and confidential
counselling services and access to reasonable and necessary leave to participate in legal
processes, receive medical treatment or make arrangements for their safety, and relevant,
comprehensive and victim/survivor-centred legal protection in a gender-responsive manner,
including protection of victims and survivors from secondary victimization and protection of
victims, survivors, witnesses and whistle-blowers from reprisals for reporting violence in the
world of work;
(g)
Encouraging the development and establishment of counselling and
rehabilitative services to bring about changes in the attitudes and behaviours of perpetrators
of violence against women and girls, and promoting research on counselling and
rehabilitation efforts so as to prevent the recurrence of such violence;
(h)
Encouraging business enterprises, in the effective implementation of the
Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, to create gender-responsive policies and
transparent and effective processes for reporting violence in the world of work, including
protection of victims, survivors, witnesses and whistle-blowers from reprisals;
(i)
Supporting civil society initiatives aimed at promoting gender equality and the
empowerment of women and girls, and preventing, responding to and protecting all women
and girls from all forms of violence;
(j)
Strengthening or establishing systems to regularly collect, analyse and publish
statistical data disaggregated by sex, age, disability and other relevant characteristics on
complaints about all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls;
12.
Invites States Members of the International Labour Organization to ratify its
Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190);
13.
Welcomes the panel discussion on violence against women in the world of
work, held during the annual full-day discussion on women’s human rights at the forty-first
session of the Human Rights Council, and requests the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights to present a summary report on the annual discussion to the
Council at its forty-fourth session;
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