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involving them in the design and management of humanitarian activities so that they
benefit from these activities on an equal basis with men;
(h) Invite the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,
other relevant United Nations agencies, within their respective mandates, and other
relevant humanitarian organizations as well as Governments to continue to provide
adequate support to countries hosting large numbers of refugees and those with
displaced persons, in their efforts to provide protection and assistance, paying
particular attention to the needs of refugees and other displaced women and
children;
(i) Seek to ensure the full and equal participation of women in the promotion
of peace, in particular through the full implementation of the Declaration and
Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace; 16
(j) Provide support to and empower women who play an important role
within their families as stabilizing factors in conflict and post-conflict situations;
(k) Strengthen efforts towards general and complete disarmament under
strict and effective international control, based on the priorities established by the
United Nations in the field of disarmament, so that released resources could be used
for, inter alia, social and economic programmes which benefit women and girls;
(l) Explore new ways of generating new public and private financial
resources, inter alia, through the appropriate reduction of excessive military
expenditures and the arms trade and investment for arms production and acquisition,
including global military expenditures, taking into consideration national security
requirements, so as to permit the possible allocation of additional funds for social
and economic development, inter alia, for the advancement of women;
(m) Take measures to ensure the protection of refugees, especially women
and girls, and their access to and the provision of gender-sensitive appropriate basic
social services, including education and health.
100. (a) Cooperate and work with private sector partners and media networks at
the national and international levels to promote equal access for women and men as
producers and consumers, particularly in the area of information and
communications technologies, including through encouraging the media and the
information industry consistent with freedom of expression to adopt, or develop
further codes of conduct, professional guidelines and other self-regulatory
guidelines to remove gender stereotypes and promote balanced portrayals of women
and men;
(b) Develop programmes that support women’s ability to create, access and
promote networking, in particular through the use of new information and
communications technology, including through the establishment and support of
programmes to build the capacity of women’s non-governmental organizations in
this regard;
(c) Capitalize on the new information technologies, including the Internet, to
improve the global sharing of information, research, strengths, lessons learned from
women’s experiences, including “Herstories” 17 related to achieving gender equality,
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Resolutions 53/243 A and B.
“Herstories” is a widely used term denoting the recounting of events, both historical and contemporary,
from a woman’s point of view.
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