(e) Invites the Office of the High Commissioner to include violence against women and
girls in its reporting on integrating the human rights of women throughout the United Nations
system;
12. Requests United Nations organs and bodies, specialized agencies and
intergovernmental organizations, and encourages the human rights treaty bodies, to continue to
give consideration to violence against women and girls within their respective mandates;
13. Calls upon relevant United Nations entities within their respective mandates to
support, upon request, the follow-up by States to relevant recommendations of the special
procedures, concluding observations of treaty bodies and outcomes of the universal periodic
review to prevent violence against women and girls, protect victims of such violence and
prosecute the perpetrators;
14. Stresses that challenges and obstacles remain in the implementation of international
standards and norms to address the inequality between men and women, and violence against
women in particular, and pledges to intensify action to ensure their full and accelerated
implementation;
15. Decides to continue consideration of the issue of the elimination of all forms of
violence against women, its causes and consequences, as a matter of high priority, in conformity
with its annual programme of work.
27th meeting
17 June 2009
[Adopted without a vote.]
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