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prevent secondary victimization and the underlying causes and short- and long-term impact
of domestic violence;
(f)
Working to establish comprehensive, coordinated, interdisciplinary, accessible
and sustained multisectoral services, programmes and responses for all victims and survivors
of domestic violence that respect the privacy and confidentiality of the victim and survivor,
are adequately resourced, are survivor-centred and trauma-informed, include effective and
coordinated action by, as appropriate, relevant stakeholders, such as the police and the justice
sector, as well as providers of legal aid services, healthcare services, including, among others,
sexual and reproductive healthcare services, medical and psychological assistance,
counselling services, protection and childcare services, and, in cases of child victims,
ensuring that such services, programmes and responses take into account the best interests of
the child, as applicable;
(g)
Developing measures and, where they exist, expanding such measures, in order
to ensure the availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality, for victims and survivors
and their children, of services, programmes and opportunities to support them to cope and
recover, as well as full access to justice, and ensuring the provision of adequate and timely
information on available support services and legal measures, when possible in a language
that they understand and in which they can communicate;
(h)
Developing and implementing educational programmes, including those based
on scientific evidence and teaching materials in accessible, affordable and alternative formats
of communication, including easy-to-read and understand formats, that raise educators’ and
learners’ awareness of what constitutes domestic violence and how to identify abusive
behaviour, and ensuring that teaching materials are aimed at promoting zero tolerance for
domestic violence and at removing the stigma of being a victim and survivor, thus creating
an enabling and accessible environment where those subjected to domestic violence can
easily report cases of domestic violence;
5.
Welcomes major contributions made by civil society, including women’s rights
and community-based organizations, national human rights institutions and the media, in
efforts to eliminate domestic violence, notes that these efforts are complementary to those of
Governments, and in this regard urges States to support, where possible, initiatives aimed at
promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and at preventing,
responding to and protecting those subjected to domestic violence and to encourage the
efforts of the media to engage in awareness-raising campaigns;
6.
Encourages States to systematically collect, analyse and disseminate data
disaggregated by relevant parameters, including, where appropriate, administrative data from
the police, the health sector and the judiciary, to monitor domestic violence, such as data on
the relationship between the perpetrator and the victim, age and, when applicable, disabilities
of the victims, with the involvement of national statistical offices and, where appropriate, in
partnership with other actors, including law enforcement agencies, in order to effectively
review and implement laws, policies, strategies and preventive and protective measures,
while ensuring and maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of those subjected to domestic
violence;
7.
Invites the United Nations system and, as appropriate, regional and subregional
organizations, to provide technical assistance to States in their efforts to eliminate domestic
violence, including, upon request, in the development and implementation of national action
plans on the prevention and elimination of domestic violence, through, inter alia, official
development assistance and other appropriate assistance, such as facilitating the sharing of
guidelines, methodologies and best practices, taking into account national priorities;
8.
Decides to convene an intersessional panel discussion on the intensification of
efforts to prevent and eliminate domestic violence, before its sixty-first session, and requests
the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to organize the panel
discussion, inviting States, civil society organizations, including women’s rights
organizations, relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, representatives of
academia and other relevant stakeholders to address the implementation of the obligations of
States under relevant provisions of international human rights law and to discuss challenges
and best practices in this regard, and to make the panel discussion fully accessible;
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