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Intensification of Efforts to Eliminate all Forms of Violence against Women

Document number
1396
Date
2007
Title
Intensification of Efforts to Eliminate all Forms of Violence against Women
Author/publisher
United Nations (UN)
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Document type(s)
International Law, Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports,
Keywords
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Third Committee (A/61/438)] 61/143. Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women
Summary
Urges States to take action to eliminate all forms of violence againstwomen by means of a more systematic, comprehensive, multisectoral and sustainedapproach, adequately supported and facilitated by strong institutional mechanismsand financing, and to this end:(a) To ensure that all human rights and fundamental freedoms are respectedand protected;(b) To consider ratifying or acceding to all human rights treaties, including,as a particular matter of priority, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms ofDiscrimination against Women and the Optional Protocol thereto, (c) To review and, where appropriate, revise, amend or abolish all laws,regulations, policies, practices and customs that discriminate against women or havea discriminatory impact on women, (d) To exercise leadership to end all forms of violence against women andsupport advocacy in this regard at all levels, including at the local, national, regionaland international levels, and by all sectors, especially by political and communityleaders, as well as the public and private sectors, the media and civil society;(e) To empower women, particularly poor women, through, inter alia, socialand economic policies that guarantee them full and equal access to all levels ofquality education and training and to affordable and adequate public and socialservices, (f) To take positive measures to address structural causes of violence againstwomen and to strengthen prevention efforts that address discriminatory practices andsocial norms, including with regard to women who need special attention in thedevelopment of policies to address violence, such as women belonging to minoritygroups, (...) (n) To promote awareness and information campaigns on women’s rights andthe responsibility to respect them, including in rural areas, and encourage men andboys to speak out strongly against violence against women;(o) To protect women and girls in situations of armed conflict, post-conflictsettings and refugee and internally displaced persons settings, where women are atgreater risk of being targeted for violence and where their ability to seek and receiveredress is often restricted, bearing in mind that peace is inextricably linked withequality between women and men and development, that armed and other types ofconflicts and terrorism and hostage-taking still persist in many parts of the worldand that aggression, foreign occupation and ethnic and other types of conflicts arean ongoing reality affecting women and men in nearly every region, undertakeefforts to eliminate impunity for all gender-based violence in situations of armedconflict, (p) To integrate a gender perspective into national plans of action andestablish or strengthen specific national plans of action on the elimination ofviolence against women,
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