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United Nations /C.3/67/L.21/Rev.1* Distr.: Limited 16 November 2012 Original: English 12-59563* (E) 201112 Sixty-seventh session Agenda item 28 (a) Advancement of women Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cameroon,Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America: revised draft resolution Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations The General Assembly its resolutions 53/117 of 9 December 1998 and 56/128 of A/C.3/67/L.21/Rev.1 and Development and the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development and their five-, ten- and fifteen-year reviews, as well as the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the commitments relevant to women and girls made at the 2005 World Summit and reiterated in Assembly resolution 65/1 of 22 September 2010, entitled “Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals”, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rightson the Rights of Women in Africa, adopted in Maputo on 11 July 2003, which contains, inter alia, undertakings and commitments on ending female genital mutilation and marks a significant milestone towards the abandonment and ending of female genital mutilation, Recalling also the decision of the African Union, adopted in Malabo on 1 July 2011, to support the adoption of the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session of a le genital mutilation,Recalling further the recommendation of the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-sixth session that the Economic and Social Council recommend to the General Assembly the adoption of a decision to consider the issue of ending female genital mutilation at its sixty-seventh session under the agenda item entitled “Advancement of women”,Recognizing that female genital mutilations are an irreparable, irreversible abuse that impacts negatively on the human rights of women and girls, affecting about one hundred to one hundred and forty million women and girls worldwide, and that each year an estimated further three million girls are at risk of being subjected to the practice throughout the world, Reaffirming that female genital mutilations are a harmful practice that lth of women and girls, including their psychological, sexual and reproductive health, which can increase their vulnerability to HIV and may have adverse obstetric and prenatal outcomes as well as fatal consequences for the mother and the newborn, and that the abandonment of this harmful practice can be achieved as a result of a comprehensive movement that involves all public and private stakeholders in society, including girls and boys, women and men, Concerned about evidence of an increase in the incidence of female genital mutilations being carried out by medical personnel in all regions in which they are __________________ Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5-13 September 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6-12 March 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8 See General Assembly resolution 55/2. See General Assembly resolution 60/1. United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1520, No. 26363. See African Union, documents Assembly/AU/12 (XVII) Add.5. See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2010, Supplement No. 7 chap. I, sect. A. See Economic and Social Council decision 2012/248.