Deeply concerned also that female genital mutilation violates and impairs the full enjoyment of the human rights of women and girls and that it is an irreparable and irreversible harmful practice, and that the goal of ending female genital mutilation by 2010, set out in the document entitled “A world fit for children”, remains unmet,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Harmful Practices
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
Children
Girls
Women
Year
2011
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
UNGA resolution, The girl child (2011), A/RES/66/140, PP 22.