E/2010/27
E/CN.6/2010/11
rights and fundamental freedoms of girls and women, as well as their translation and
wide distribution to the population and the judiciary;
13. Also urges States to review and, where appropriate, revise, amend or
abolish all laws, regulations, policies, practices and customs, in particular female
genital mutilation, that discriminate against women and girls or have a
discriminatory impact on women and girls and to ensure that provisions of multiple
legal systems, where they exist, comply with international human rights obligations,
commitments and principles, including the principle of non-discrimination;
14. Further urges States to develop social and psychological support services
and care and to take measures to improve health, including sexual and reproductive
health, in order to assist women and girls who are subjected to female genital
mutilation;
15. Calls upon States to develop policies, protocols and rules to ensure the
effective implementation of national legislative frameworks on eliminating
discrimination and violence against women and girls, in particular female genital
mutilation, and to put in place adequate accountability mechanisms at the national
and local levels to monitor adherence to and implementation of these legislative
frameworks;
16. Also calls upon States to develop unified methods and standards for the
collection of age-disaggregated data on all forms of discrimination and violence
against women and girls, including on female genital mutilation, and to develop
additional indicators to effectively measure progress towards its elimination;
17. Urges States to allocate sufficient resources to the implementation of
legislation and action plans aimed at abandoning female genital mutilation;
18. Calls upon States to develop, support and implement comprehensive and
integrated strategies for the prevention of female genital mutilation, including the
training of social workers, medical personnel, religious and community leaders and
other relevant professionals and ensuring that they provide competent, supportive
services and care to girls and women who are at risk and to girls and women who
have undergone female genital mutilation and compelling them to report to the
appropriate authorities cases in which they believe girls or women are at risk;
19. Also calls upon States to support, as part of a comprehensive approach
towards the elimination of female genital mutilation, programmes related to an
alternative livelihood for traditional practitioners of female genital mutilation;
20. Calls upon the international community, the relevant United Nations
entities and civil society and international financial institutions to continue to
actively support, through the allocation of increased financial resources, targeted,
innovative programmes and to disseminate best practices that address the needs and
priorities of girls in vulnerable situations, such as that of female genital mutilation,
who have difficulty accessing services and programmes and, in this regard,
welcomes the commitment of ten United Nations agencies in their joint statement of
27 February 2008 to continue working towards the elimination of female genital
mutilation by, inter alia, providing technical and financial assistance to achieve this
goal and further welcomes the establishment of the United Nations Population
Fund-United Nations Children’s Fund joint programme to accelerate the
abandonment of female genital mutilation;
36
10-30576
Select target paragraph3
Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents