reports, in particular the recommendation for the provision for the continuation
of necessary medical and psychological care to victims of rape within the
framework of programmes to rehabilitate women and children traumatized by war;
13. Calls upon all States to cooperate with the International Tribunal and
the Office of the Prosecutor in the investigation and prosecution of persons
accused of using rape as a weapon of war and in the provision of protection,
counselling and support to victims and witnesses;
14. Recognizes the extraordinary suffering of the victims of rape and
sexual violence and the need for an appropriate response to provide assistance
to those victims, and expresses its concern in particular for the welfare of
those victims who are at present among the internally displaced or otherwise
affected by the war, and who have experienced severe trauma and require
psychosocial and other assistance;
15. Urges all States and all relevant intergovernmental and
non-governmental organizations, including the United Nations Children’s Fund,
the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the World
Health Organization, to continue to provide to the victims of such rape and
abuse appropriate assistance for their physical and mental rehabilitation and to
extend their support to the community-based assistance programmes;
16. Requests the Secretary-General to provide such necessary means as are
available to him in the area to enable any future missions to have free and
secure access to places of detention;
17.
session.
Decides to continue the consideration of this question at its fortieth
Resolution 39/5.
Mainstreaming the human rights of women*
The Commission on the Status of Women,
Recalling all relevant resolutions, in particular General Assembly
resolution 44/77 of 8 December 1989, in which, inter alia, the Assembly endorsed
and reaffirmed the importance of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the
Advancement of Women 23/ for the period up to the year 2000 and set out
measures for their immediate implementation and for the overall achievement of
the interrelated guidelines and objectives of the United Nations Decade for
Women: Equality, Development and Peace,
Welcoming the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 24/ adopted by
the World Conference on Human Rights, which emphasized that the human rights of
women and the girl child are an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of
universal human rights and stressed that these rights should be integrated into
*
For the discussion, see chap. IV.
23/ Report of the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements
of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace,
Nairobi, 15-26 July 1985 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.85.IV.10),
chap. I, sect. A.
24/ Report of the World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna,
14-25 June 1993 (A/CONF.157/24) (Part I)), chap. III.
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