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Additionally, the Conference took new steps to promote and protect the rights of women: supporting the creation of a new mechanism, a Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, subsequently appointed in 1994. The purpose of the mandate is to eliminate violence against women. As the first independent human rights mechanism on the elimination of violence against women, it mark a significant achievement within the global women's rights movement. The Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women was also integrated into the United Nations human rights framework and its mechanism, showed that the women's rights are human rights.

The Special Rapporteur is requested to :


 * Gather information on violence against women from governmental or non-governmental organizations, and respond effectively to such information;
 * Provide recommended measures, ways and means at different level to eliminate all forms of violence against women, and respond to its consequence;
 * Work with other human rights mechanisms of the Humans Rights Council and with the treaty bodies, regularly and systematically integrate women's rights and gender perspective in their work, and cooperate with the Commission on the Status of Women;
 * Continue to comprehend the elimination of violence against women, including causes of violence against women related to different spheres.