A/RES/68/191
Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls
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Also urges Member States, as appropriate, to consider designing,
implementing and evaluating comprehensive programmes aimed at preventing all
forms of violence against women and girls and reducing related vulnerabilities of
victims, as well as those risks unique to perpetrators of gender-related killing of
women and girls, including by conducting research focused on public education and
interventions that target those vulnerabilities and risks;
Invites Member States to strengthen the criminal justice response to
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gender-related killing of women and girls, in particular measures to support the
capacity of Member States to investigate, prosecute and punish all forms of such
crime and provide reparation and/or compensation to victims and their families or
dependents, as appropriate, in accordance with national laws;
Also invites Member States to address the existing problems of
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underreporting by enhancing data collection and analysis, as well as sharing
relevant data, in accordance with national laws, and related information on genderrelated killing of women and girls, in order to inform the formulation, monitoring
and evaluation of laws, policies and programmes;
Calls upon Member States to give due consideration to the updated
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Model Strategies and Practical Measures on the Elimination of Violence against
Women in the Field of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice7 in order to
strengthen national responses to gender-related killing of women and girls;
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Encourages relevant United Nations entities and agencies, in particular
the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Commission on the Status of
Women, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and
the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
(UN-Women), to support Member States in developing and implementing strategies
and policies, upon request, at the national, regional and international levels to
address and prevent gender-related killing of women and girls;
10. Encourages the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the
institutes of the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme
network to facilitate the gathering and dissemination of relevant and reliable data
and other related information to be provided by Member States on their efforts to
implement the present resolution;
11. Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the
institutes of the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme
network to continue conducting and coordinating relevant research on genderrelated killing of women and girls, particularly in connection with the
standardization of the collection and analysis of data;
12. Encourages relevant United Nations entities and agencies, including the
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Commission on the Status of
Women, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN-Women and
other specialized funds and programmes of the United Nations, to raise awareness
among Member States regarding gender-related killing of women and girls;
13. Invites Member States to provide the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime with information related to best practices and other relevant information
related to the investigation and prosecution of these crimes, in accordance with
national legislation, and in that regard encourages civil society organizations and
academia to share relevant information with the Office;
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