Violence Against Women (Open)

To urge NFAs to assume leadership within their own communities to recognise and address the pervasive and devastating problems of violence against women as a major obstacle to the goals of the UN Decade for Women; Equality, Development and Peace (Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies- 1985) and urge their respective governments to:

• Promote legislative and appropriate administrative, social and educational measures required to protect women from violence in all its forms;
• support the draft resolution, Violence against Women in all its Forms by the UN Commission on the Status of Women adopted by ECOSOC at its 36th session, together with the Report of the Secretary General (E/CN.6/1992/L8/Rev 1 18 March 1992); and
• participate with other Member States in the intersessional working group to further develop a draft declaration on violence against women for report to CSW at its 37th session.