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(j) To involve, among others, public opinion leaders, educators, religious leaders, chiefs, traditional
leaders, medical practitioners, women’s health and family planning organizations, the arts and the media in
publicity campaigns with a view to promoting a collective and individual awareness of the human rights of
women and girls and of how harmful traditional or customary practices violate those rights;
(k) To continue to take specific measures to increase the capacity of communities, including immigrant
and refugee communities, in which female genital mutilation is practised, to engage in activities aimed at
preventing and eliminating such practices;
(l) To explore, through consultations with communities and religious and cultural groups and their
leaders, alternatives to harmful traditional or customary practices, in particular where those practices form
part of a ritual ceremony or rite of passage;
(m) To cooperate closely with the Special Rapporteur of the Subcommission on the Promotion and
Protection of Human Rights on traditional practices affecting the health of women and the girl child and to
respond to her inquiries;
(n) To cooperate closely with relevant specialized agencies and United Nations funds and programmes,
as well as with relevant non-governmental and community organizations, in a joint effort to eradicate
traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls;
(o) To include in their reports to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women,
the Committee on the Rights of the Child and other relevant treaty bodies specific information on measures
taken to eliminate traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls, including
female genital mutilation, and to prosecute the perpetrators of such practices;
4.
Invites:
(a) Relevant specialized agencies, United Nations bodies and non-governmental organizations to
exchange information on the subject of the present resolution, and encourages the exchange of such
information between non-governmental organizations active in this field and the bodies monitoring the
implementation of relevant human rights treaties;
(b) The Commission on Human Rights to address this subject at its fifty-sixth session, thus allowing
a more comprehensive understanding of the impact of traditional or customary practices affecting the health
of women and girls on the human rights of women;
(c) Governments, organizations and individuals in a position to do so to contribute to the trust fund
that supports the work of the Special Ambassador for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation of the
United Nations Population Fund;
5.
Requests the Secretary-General:
(a) To make his report available to relevant meetings within the United Nations system;
(b) To report to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session on the implementation of the present
resolution, with a special focus on recent national and international developments, including examples of
national best practices and international cooperation.
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