A/HRC/RES/17/11
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 July 2011
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Seventeenth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council∗
17/11 Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against
women: ensuring due diligence in protection
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming and building upon Human Rights Council resolution 14/12 of 18 June
2010,
Reaffirming its resolutions and those of the Commission on Human Rights on the
elimination of all forms of violence against women, and recalling the relevant resolutions of
the Commission on the Status of Women, the General Assembly and the Security Council,
in particular Security Council resolutions 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000, 1820 (2008) of
19 June 2008, 1888 (2009) of 30 September 2009, 1889 (2009) of 5 October 2009) and
1960 (2010) of 16 December 2010,
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 Cairo Programme of Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session
of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace
for the twenty-first century”,
Welcoming the steps taken by the United Nations system to strengthen the physical
and legal protection of women and girls facing violence, notably by advancing the
implementation of the women, peace and security agenda, including through work on
global indicators on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) and the
ongoing efforts to develop the monitoring, analysis and reporting mechanism on conflictrelated sexual violence by consolidating and strengthening United Nations efforts to
∗
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its seventeenth session (A/HRC/17/2), chap. I.
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