Plan International - Girls' Rights Platform - Girls' rights are human rights: Positioning girls at the heart of the international agenda

A/HRC/RES/53/27 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 24 July 2023 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifty-third session 19 June–14 July 2023 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 on 14 July 2023 53/27. Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to all forms of violence against women and girls in criminal justice detention The Human Rights Council, Reaffirming the obligation of all States to respect, protect and fulfil all human rights and fundamental freedoms, reaffirming also 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, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and recalling the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, Reaffirming also the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, and the outcome documents of their review conferences, and its support for achieving the ends of 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, the Security Council and the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, including resolutions on accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls, and relevant resolutions and agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women, in which, inter alia, the Commission affirmed that all forms of violence against all women and girls must be prevented, condemned and eliminated and that equal access to justice for women and girls and accountability for violations of their human rights must be ensured, Recalling also the commitment to eliminate all forms of violence and discrimination against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including online, through or amplified by the use of digital technologies, and offline, including all forms of trafficking in GE.23-14407(E)