Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence 2016, para. 12
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Recognizing that women's poverty and lack of empowerment, as well as their marginalization resulting from their exclusion from social and economic policies and from the benefits of education and sustainable development, can place them at increased risk of violence, and that violence against women and girls, including domestic violence, impedes the social and economic and therefore the sustainable development of communities and States, as well as the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and other internationally agreed development goals,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Poverty
Social & Cultural Rights
Violence
Person(s) affected
Girls
Women
Year
2016
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence (2016), A/RES/71/170, PP 12.