Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls A/RES/70/176 1. Urges Member States to take measures to prevent, investigate, prosecute and punish acts of violence against women and girls, in particular gender-related killing, in accordance with national laws, and to act at all levels to end impunity for those responsible for committing these heinous crimes against women and girls; 2. Also urges Member States to strengthen their criminal justice response to gender-related killing of women and girls, in particular by taking measures to support their capacity to investigate, prosecute and punish all forms of such crime, and to consider measures in their capacities to provide, as appropriate, reparation, compensation and/or necessary legal, medical, psychological and social support to victims and their families or dependents; 3. Encourages Member States to consider ways to enhance international cooperation and the exchange of good practices in criminal matters related to gender-based violence, including by, as appropriate, ratifying or acceding to and implementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto 11 and other relevant international legal instruments; 4. Encourages States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 12 and the Optional Protocol thereto, 13 the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocols thereto 14 and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 15 to effectively implement those instruments; 5. Invites Member States to take into consideration the existing practical tools, as recommended by the open-ended intergovernmental expert group on gender-related killing of women and girls at its meeting held in Bangkok from 11 to 13 November 2014, namely the Latin American model protocol for the investigation of gender-related killing of women and the recommendations for the effective investigation of the crime of femicide; 16 6. Encourages Member States to promote integrated and comprehensive strategies to prevent all forms of violence against women and girls, including gender-related killing of women and girls, that include early and continuous educational programmes, community mobilization and awareness-raising, in order to counter attitudes and social factors that foster, justify or tolerate any violence against women and girls; Urges Member States to adopt integrated and comprehensive responses 7. to violence against women in order to reduce risks of gender-related killing through early intervention and risk assessment, exercise due diligence to prevent, investigate, prosecute and punish gender-related killing of women and girls, ensure equal protection of women under the law and equal access to justice, consider adopting an integrated, multidisciplinary and gender-sensitive approach to the prevention, investigation, prosecution and punishment of gender-related killing of women and girls to minimize the risk of secondary victimization in the criminal justice system and develop appropriate mechanisms and enhance capacities for forensic investigations to identify human remains and missing persons; _______________ 11 United Nations, Treaty Series, vols. 2225, 2237, 2241 and 2326, No. 39574. Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378. 13 Ibid., vol. 2131, No. 20378. 14 Ibid., vols. 1577, 2171 and 2173, No. 27531; and resolution 66/138, annex. 15 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2187, No. 38544. 16 See E/CN.15/2015/16, para. 8. 12 3/5

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