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of passage, as well as through alternative training and education possibilities for
traditional practitioners;
(n) 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, in particular by supplying all necessary
information requested by her and by giving serious consideration to inviting her to
visit their countries;
(o) To cooperate closely with relevant specialized agencies and United
Nations funds and programmes, as well as with regional intergovernmental
organizations, as appropriate, and relevant community and non-governmental
organizations, including women’s organizations, in a joint effort to eradicate
traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls;
(p) 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, regional
intergovernmental organizations 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 the Status of Women to address this subject at its
forty-seventh session under the priority theme “Women’s human rights and
elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls as defined in the
Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome document of the twenty-third special
session of the General Assembly”;
(c) Governments, organizations and individuals that are 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 continue to make his report available to relevant meetings within the
United Nations system;
(b) To report to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth 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.
88th plenary meeting
19 December 2001
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