A/HRC/RES/26/15 7. Affirms the need for States to collect thorough and accurate data and statistics on violence against women and girls, disaggregated on the basis of sex, age, disability and other relevant variables, to measure its impact on socioeconomic development and to strengthen the effectiveness of legislative and policy measures aimed at reducing barriers to women’s political and economic empowerment; 8. Welcomes the panel discussions on gender stereotyping and on women’s human rights in the context of the sustainable development agenda, held during the annual full-day discussion on women’s human rights at the twenty-sixth session of the Human Rights Council, and requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to present a report summarizing the panel recommendations to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-seventh session, and subsequently to transmit the report to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session; 9. Recalls the invitation extended to the Office of the High Commissioner by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 23/25 to include, during the annual full-day discussion on women’s human rights to be held at the twenty-ninth session of the Council, a discussion on the issue of gender-related killings; 10. Encourages Member States to include a target for ending all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls in the elaboration of a stand-alone goal on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in the emerging post2015 United Nations development agenda, and to mainstream gender equality and women’s empowerment in all sustainable development goals; 11. Welcomes the work of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, and takes note of her thematic report on developments in the United Nations regarding violence against women, its causes and consequences over the past 20 years;2 12. Takes particular note of the report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice,3 addressing discrimination against women in economic and social life, in which the aspect of violence against women is explicitly underlined, and encourages synergies between different relevant United Nations agencies and other actors in efforts to effectively eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls; 13. Decides to continue its consideration of the issue of the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, as a matter of high priority and in conformity with its annual programme of work. 38th meeting 26 June 2014 [Adopted without a vote.] 2 3 6 A/HRC/26/38. A/HRC/26/39.

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