A/RES/69/293
United Nations
Distr.: General
13 July 2015
General Assembly
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 32
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 June 2015
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/69/L.75 and Add.1)]
69/293. International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence
in Conflict
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 61/143 of 19 December 2006, 62/133 of 18 December
2007, 63/155 of 18 December 2008, 64/137 of 18 December 2009, 65/187 of
21 December 2010, 67/144 of 20 December 2012 and 69/147 of 18 December 2014,
and all its previous resolutions on the elimination of violence against women,
Recalling also 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, 1960 (2010) of 16 December 2010, 2106 (2013) of 24 June 2013
and 2122 (2013) of 18 October 2013 on women and peace and security and all
relevant Council resolutions on children and armed conflict, including resolutions
1882 (2009) of 4 August 2009, 1998 (2011) of 12 July 2011, 2068 (2012) of
19 September 2012 and 2143 (2014) of 7 March 2014,
Noting that civilians account for the vast majority of those adversely affected
by armed conflict, that women and girls are particularly targeted by the use of
sexual violence, inter alia by terrorist and extremist groups, including as a tactic of
war to humiliate, dominate, instil fear in, disperse and/or forcibly relocate civilian
members of a community or ethnic or religious group, and that sexual violence
perpetrated in this manner may in some instances persist after the cessation of
hostilities, and recognizing that men and boys are also victims of sexual violence in
conflict,
Condemning in the strongest terms all sexual and other forms of violence
committed against civilians in armed conflict and post-conflict situations, inter alia,
rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization
or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity,
Recognizing the importance of providing timely assistance and increasing
access to health care and other multisectoral services for survivors of sexual
violence and of promoting their rehabilitation and non-stigmatization,
Emphasizing the importance of effective accountability with regard to all
forms of sexual violence and of strengthening efforts to put an end to the impunity
of the perpetrators of such crimes by holding these perpetrators accountable under
national justice systems or, where applicable, international justice,
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