E/2007/27 E/CN.6/2007/9 appropriate responses to rights violations, with regard to female genital mutilation; “6. Urges Governments to ensure the national implementation of international and regional commitments undertaken as States Parties or as signatories to various international instruments protecting the fundamental right and freedoms of girls and women and also to ensure that they are translated into local languages that are widely distributed to the population and the judiciary; “7. Urges States to review and, where appropriate, revise, amend or abolish all laws, regulations, policies, practices and customs that discriminate against women or have a discriminatory impact on women 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; “8. Also urges States to enact and enforce legislation to protect girls from all forms of violence, particularly female genital mutilation, and to develop social and psychological support services to assist girls who are subjected to this violence; “9. Calls upon States to develop policies, protocols and rules to ensure the effective implementation of national legislative frameworks on eliminating discrimination and violence against girls, in particular female genital mutilation, and to put in place adequate accountability mechanisms at national and local levels to monitor adherence to, and implementation of, these mechanisms; “10. Also calls upon States to develop unified methods and standards for data collection on all forms of discrimination and violence against girls, especially forms that are under-documented such as female genital mutilation, and to develop additional indicators to effectively measure progress in eliminating female genital mutilation; “11. Calls upon Governments to allocate sufficient resources to the implementation of legislation and action plans aimed at bringing about the abandonment of female genital mutilation; “12. Calls upon the international community, the relevant United Nations entities and civil society to actively support, through the allocation of increased financial resources, targeted, innovative programmes that address the needs and priorities of girls in vulnerable situations, such as that of female genital mutilation, who have difficulties accessing services and programmes; “13. Encourages all decision makers at all levels with responsibilities for policies, legislation, programmes and allocation of public resources to play leadership roles in eliminating female genital mutilation; “14. Encourages men and boys to continue to take positive initiatives to combat violence against women and girls, in particular female genital mutilation, through networks, peer programmes, information campaigns and training programmes; 07-28248 43