Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls
A/RES/70/176
1.
Urges Member States to take measures to prevent, investigate, prosecute
and punish acts of violence against women and girls, in particular gender-related
killing, in accordance with national laws, and to act at all levels to end impunity for
those responsible for committing these heinous crimes against women and girls;
2.
Also urges Member States to strengthen their criminal justice response to
gender-related killing of women and girls, in particular by taking measures to
support their capacity to investigate, prosecute and punish all forms of such crime,
and to consider measures in their capacities to provide, as appropriate, reparation,
compensation and/or necessary legal, medical, psychological and social support to
victims and their families or dependents;
3.
Encourages Member States to consider ways to enhance international
cooperation and the exchange of good practices in criminal matters related to
gender-based violence, including by, as appropriate, ratifying or acceding to and
implementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime and the Protocols thereto 11 and other relevant international legal instruments;
4.
Encourages States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women 12 and the Optional Protocol thereto, 13 the
Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocols thereto 14 and the
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 15 to effectively implement those
instruments;
5.
Invites Member States to take into consideration the existing practical
tools, as recommended by the open-ended intergovernmental expert group on
gender-related killing of women and girls at its meeting held in Bangkok from 11 to
13 November 2014, namely the Latin American model protocol for the investigation
of gender-related killing of women and the recommendations for the effective
investigation of the crime of femicide; 16
6.
Encourages Member States to promote integrated and comprehensive
strategies to prevent all forms of violence against women and girls, including
gender-related killing of women and girls, that include early and continuous
educational programmes, community mobilization and awareness-raising, in order
to counter attitudes and social factors that foster, justify or tolerate any violence
against women and girls;
Urges Member States to adopt integrated and comprehensive responses
7.
to violence against women in order to reduce risks of gender-related killing through
early intervention and risk assessment, exercise due diligence to prevent,
investigate, prosecute and punish gender-related killing of women and girls, ensure
equal protection of women under the law and equal access to justice, consider
adopting an integrated, multidisciplinary and gender-sensitive approach to the
prevention, investigation, prosecution and punishment of gender-related killing of
women and girls to minimize the risk of secondary victimization in the criminal
justice system and develop appropriate mechanisms and enhance capacities for
forensic investigations to identify human remains and missing persons;
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11
United Nations, Treaty Series, vols. 2225, 2237, 2241 and 2326, No. 39574.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
13
Ibid., vol. 2131, No. 20378.
14
Ibid., vols. 1577, 2171 and 2173, No. 27531; and resolution 66/138, annex.
15
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2187, No. 38544.
16
See E/CN.15/2015/16, para. 8.
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