children in the former Yugoslavia, including the dispatch of a qualified team of
experts;
4.
Urges the Special Rapporteur to include in the team of experts a
representative of the Division for the Advancement of Women, the Committee on
the Elimination of Discrimination against Women or both;
5.
Welcomes Security Council resolution 808 (1993) of 22 February 1993,
establishing an international criminal tribunal to try cases involving
violations of international humanitarian law occurring within the territory of
the former Yugoslavia, and urges the Security Council to reflect gender balance
in the composition of the tribunal;
6.
Urges all States and all relevant intergovernmental and
non-governmental organizations to consider long-term action-oriented plans and
programmes and the provision of adequate financial resources for the physical,
social and psychological rehabilitation of women and children subjected to rape
and other forms of violence, utilizing where possible community self-help
groups;
7.
Also urges all States and all relevant intergovernmental and
non-governmental organizations to ensure that counselling and other support for
women subjected to rape and other types of violence form an integral part of
health and welfare services in order to encourage women to avail themselves of
such assistance;
8.
Requests the Secretary-General to make available to the Commission on
the Status of Women at its thirty-eighth session the reports of the Special
Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the former Yugoslavia.
Resolution 37/4.
World Conference on Human Rights*
The Commission on the Status of Women,
Conscious of the importance of the international instruments and standards,
particularly the specific guarantees set forth in the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 39/ and the mechanisms
established by the United Nations for the promotion, protection and
implementation of human rights and their full enjoyment by women,
Recalling the importance of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the
Advancement of Women 1/ to the enjoyment by women of their human rights,
Convinced that women’s contribution to the ways and means of promoting all
human rights for women, men and children alike is invaluable to the achievement
of a dignified life for all,
Recognizing that all civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights
and fundamental freedoms are universal, inalienable, indivisible and
interrelated and, as such, must be applied and be of benefit to all women
without discrimination and must therefore be approached from a gender
perspective,
*
For the discussion, see chap. III.
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