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(b) To implement the international commitments made at relevant major
United Nations conferences and special sessions and summit meetings of the
General Assembly held since 1990 and their follow-up processes;
(c) To collect and disseminate basic data about the occurrence of traditional
or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls, including female
genital mutilation;
(d) To develop, adopt and implement national legislation, policies, plans and
programmes that prohibit traditional or customary practices affecting the health of
women and girls, including female genital mutilation, and to prosecute the
perpetrators of such practices;
(e) To establish, if they have not done so, a concrete national mechanism for
the implementation and monitoring of relevant legislation, law enforcement and
national policies;
(f) To establish or strengthen support services to respond to the needs of
victims by, inter alia, developing comprehensive and accessible sexual and
reproductive health services and by providing training to health-care providers at all
levels on the harmful health consequences of such practices;
(g) To address specifically in the training of health and other relevant
personnel traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls,
also addressing the increased vulnerability of women and girls to HIV/AIDS and
other sexually transmitted infections due to such practices;
(h) To take all necessary measures to empower women and strengthen their
economic independence and protect and promote the full enjoyment of all human
rights and fundamental freedoms in order to allow women and girls better to protect
themselves from, inter alia, traditional or customary practices affecting the health of
women and girls;
(i) To intensify efforts to raise awareness of and to mobilize international
and national public opinion concerning the harmful effects of traditional or
customary practices affecting the health of women and girls, including female
genital mutilation, inter alia, by involving public opinion leaders, educators,
religious leaders, chiefs, traditional leaders, medical practitioners, teachers,
women’s health and family planning organizations, social workers, childcare
agencies, relevant non-governmental organizations, the arts and the media in
awareness-raising campaigns, in order to achieve the total elimination of those
practices;
(j) To address traditional or customary practices affecting the health of
women and girls in education curricula, as appropriate;
(k) To promote men’s understanding of their roles and responsibilities with
regard to promoting the elimination of harmful practices, such as female genital
mutilation;
(l) To continue to take specific measures to increase the capacity of
communities, including immigrant and refugee communities, in which female
genital mutilation is practised, to engage in activities aimed at preventing and
eliminating such practices;
(m) To explore, through consultations with communities and religious and
cultural groups and their leaders, alternatives to harmful traditional or customary
practices, in particular where those practices form part of a ritual ceremony or rite
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