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(d) Provide technical and other relevant assistance so that the judicial system
has the capacity to adhere to international standards of human rights;
(e) Develop and implement a programme of human rights education to
promote respect for and understanding of human rights, including the human rights
of women;
(f) Support measures to hold accountable those who are responsible for
gross violations of women’s human rights in the past and to ensure that full
investigations are conducted and perpetrators are brought to justice;
6.
Invites the United Nations system, international and non-governmental
organizations, and multilateral and bilateral donors, to:
(a) Ensure a human rights-based approach and gender-mainstreaming in all
programmes and operations, based on the principles of non-discrimination and
equality between women and men, and ensure that women benefit equally with men
from such programmes in all sectors;
(b) Develop comprehensive and coherent gender policy and programmes in
Afghanistan, apply good practices of gender budgeting and strengthen inter-agency
mechanisms for coordination and cooperation;
(c) Ensure the full and effective participation of Afghan women in all stages
of humanitarian assistance, recovery, reconstruction and development, including
planning, programme development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation;
(d) Employ Afghan women, inter alia, in management positions, promote
security in their employment with the assistance community and respect the right to
women’s freedom of movement;
(e) Support the elements of civil society active in the field of human rights,
in particular women’s rights;
(f) Ensure that all United Nations international and national personnel, prior
to beginning their service, receive appropriate training on the history, culture and
traditions of Afghanistan and are fully familiar with and guided by international
standards of the human rights of women and girls;
7.
Encourages the continuing efforts of the United Nations, international
and non-governmental organizations and donors to ensure that all United Nationsassisted programmes in Afghanistan are formulated and coordinated in such a way
as to promote and ensure the participation of women in those programmes and that
women benefit equally with men from such programmes;
8.
Welcomes the continuing efforts of United Nations organizations to
mainstream a gender perspective and their efforts to reappoint a senior gender
adviser in the Office of the Resident/Humanitarian Coordinator or the Office of the
Special Representative of the Secretary-General;
9.
Calls upon the international community to continue to provide financial
and technical assistance, including human rights education, to protect the human
rights of women and girls and to support initiatives to end violence against them and
to increase their economic security, as well as to strengthen the capacity of Afghan
women to fully and effectively participate in conflict resolution and peace-building
efforts and in civil, political, economic, cultural and social life;
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