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all relevant government and military personnel, in particular military commanders,
law enforcement officials, judicial system personnel, health workers, teachers and
social workers, as well as community leaders and the news media, in all appropriate
aspects of the prevention and prosecution of rape and other forms of sexual violence
and of protection and support for victims of such violence;
(e) To promote human rights education, including on all aspects of rape and
other forms of sexual violence, ensuring factual accounts of such violence, in an
effort to encourage better understanding among all peoples, with a view to the
prevention and elimination of rape and other forms of sexual violence;
(f) To increase significantly their voluntary financial support for activities
related to preventing and eliminating all forms of violence against women, the
empowerment of women and gender equality carried out by the specialized agencies
and the United Nations funds and programmes, including the United Nations Trust
Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women;
(g) To consider ratifying or acceding to all human rights treaties, including,
as a matter of priority, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women1 and the Optional Protocol thereto; 11
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Calls upon States and the United Nations system:
(a) To support all efforts to address rape, including through the regular
collection, analysis and dissemination of data, to facilitate such efforts and, in
particular, to work towards overcoming the difficulties and challenges of capacitybuilding and collecting information on the practice;
(b) To integrate to the maximum extent possible the needs of all victims of
sexual violence into United Nations humanitarian assistance programmes;
(c) To assign adequate resources within the United Nations system to those
bodies, specialized agencies, funds and programmes responsible for the promotion
of gender equality and women’s rights and to efforts throughout the United Nations
system to eliminate violence against women and girls and design programmes to
provide assistance to victims, including children born as a result;
Urges States, in cooperation with the private sector, non-governmental
3.
organizations and other civil society actors, as appropriate:
(a) To conduct public education and awareness campaigns at the national
and grass-roots levels in order to raise awareness about the causes and consequences
of rape and other forms of sexual violence;
(b) To establish reception centres and shelters for victims, take other
appropriate measures to promote and protect women’s rights, and provide
protection, safe shelter, medical assistance, including sexual and reproductive health
care, all necessary medications, including antiretroviral drugs and antibiotics,
counselling for victims and their families, comprehensive information and
education, legal aid, rehabilitation, and reintegration of victims and their offspring
into society, in cooperation with State efforts towards protecting and supporting
victims, in particular appropriate compensation that is effective and sufficient,
maintaining due confidentiality and privacy of the victims and their families;
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Ibid., vol. 2131, No. 20378.