Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 6l
Paragraph
Original document
Document type
Resolution
Paragraph text
[Urges States to demonstrate their commitment to preventing and eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, thereby reducing barriers to women’s social, economic and political empowerment, including by:] Improving the safety of girls at, and on the way to and from, school, including by establishing a safe and violence-free environment by improving infrastructure, such as transportation, and providing separate and adequate sanitation facilities, improved lighting, playgrounds and safe environments, and adopting national policies to prohibit, prevent and address violence against children, especially girls, including sexual harassment and bullying and other forms of violence, through measures such as conducting violence prevention activities in schools and communities and establishing and enforcing penalties for violence against girls;
Document legal status
Negotiated soft law
Document body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Education
Violence
Person(s) affected
Girls
Women
Document year
2014
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
HRC resolution, Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), A/HRC/RES/26/15, OP 6l.