Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 5d
Paragraph
Paragraph text
[Underscores that States have the primary responsibility for protecting women and girls facing violence and, in this regard, urges States:] To take all appropriate measures to amend or repeal existing laws or to modify legal or customary practices that sustain the persistence and tolerance of violence against women and girls;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Gender
Violence
Person(s) affected
Girls
Women
Year
2011
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
HRC resolution, Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection (2011), A/HRC/RES/17/11, OP 5d.