A/HRC/RES/35/10
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 July 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-fifth session
6–23 June 2017
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 22 June 2017
35/10.
Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women:
engaging men and boys in preventing and responding to
violence against all women and girls
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming the obligation of all States to promote and protect all human rights and
fundamental freedoms, and reaffirming also that discrimination on the basis of sex is
contrary to the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
and the Convention on the Rights of the Child,
Reaffirming also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the Declaration
on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for
Action, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and
Development, and the outcomes of their review conferences, and the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,
Recalling all relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council, the Commission on
Human Rights, the General Assembly and the Security Council and the relevant resolutions
and agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women, which, inter alia,
affirmed that all forms of violence against women and girls must be prevented, condemned
and eliminated,
Recalling also its resolution 32/19 of 1 July 2016, entitled “Accelerating efforts to
eliminate violence against women: preventing and responding to violence against women
and girls, including indigenous women and girls”, and General Assembly resolution 71/170
of 19 December 2016, entitled “Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms
of violence against women and girls: domestic violence”,
Welcoming General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled
“Transforming our world: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, including the
commitment of all States to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women
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