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27. Urges Member States, the international community, civil society, including
women’s and youth organizations, the private sector and other relevant actors to
strengthen partnerships and international cooperation to eliminate preventable
maternal mortality and morbidity;
28. Encourages Member States to strengthen the collection of data
disaggregated by sex, age, disability, socio-economic status, geographic location
and other factors that contribute to maternal mortality and morbidity, and data on
other categories needed for monitoring in a timely fashion progress towards the
achievement of Millennium Development Goal 5, as well as to provide appropriate
avenues for feedback from women who received health services, and to share such
data with the United Nations system for better monitoring of progress towards the
achievement of Goal 5 and its targets;
29. Urges Member States, in cooperation with the international community
and civil society, to improve systems to register pregnancies, births and deaths and
to support improved public health infrastructure for the collection, analysis and
dissemination of data on the burden of maternal morbidity and mortality and its
causes at the national and subnational level, including through the use of mobile
technologies, where appropriate;
30. Notes with appreciation the work done by the United Nations on
Millennium Development Goal indicators, in particular those for Millennium
Development Goal 5, and in this regard requests the Secretary-General to continue
to expand the knowledge base, including the United Nations website, on the
progress made towards the achievement of the Goals;
31. Requests the Secretary-General to provide a report to the Commission on
the Status of Women at its fifty-eighth session, in consultation with Member States,
international organizations and all other relevant stakeholders, taking into account
relevant United Nations resolutions, on actions to strengthen linkages among
programmes, initiatives and activities throughout the United Nations system for
gender equality, the empowerment of women and girls, protection of all of their
human rights and elimination of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity.
Resolution 56/4
Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication
The Commission on the Status of Women,
Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,21 the outcomes
of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly,5 and the declarations
adopted by the Commission on the occasion of the tenth and fifteenth anniversaries
of the Fourth World Conference on Women, 42
Reaffirming also that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women17 and the Optional Protocol thereto, 43 as well as
other relevant international human rights instruments, provide a framework for the
promotion and protection of the human rights of indigenous women,
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