Further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 2000, para. 19
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In situations of armed conflict, there are continued violations of human rights of women, which are violations of fundamental principles of international human rights law and international humanitarian law. There has been an increase in all forms of violence against women, including sexual slavery, rape, systematic rape, sexual abuse and forced pregnancies, in situations of armed conflict. Displacement compounded by loss of home and property, poverty, family disintegration and separation and other consequences of armed conflict are severely affecting the populations, especially women and children. Girls are also abducted or recruited, in violation of international law, into situations of armed conflict, including as combatants, sexual slaves or providers of domestic services.
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Declaration / Confererence outcome document
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Humanitarian
Violence
Person(s) affected
Children
Girls
Women
Year
2000
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
Further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (2000), A/RES/S-23/3, para. 19.