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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls
on the Rights of the Child8 and the Optional Protocols thereto,9 the Convention on
the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 10 and other international human rights
instruments, such as the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of
All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families,11 and that its elimination is a
cross-cutting issue and an integral part of efforts towards the elimination of all
forms of violence against women,
Recalling the rules of international humanitarian law, including the Geneva
Conventions of 194912 and the Additional Protocols thereto of 1977,13
Reaffirming the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 14 the
Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, 15 the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action 16 and the outcome documents of its review
conferences 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”,17
Reaffirming also the declarations adopted at the forty-ninth18 and fifty-fourth19
sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women and the agreed conclusions on
the priority theme “Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against
women and girls” adopted at its fifty-seventh session,20 and welcoming the attention
given to the elimination of violence against women and girls in the agreed
conclusions of the Commission at its fifty-eighth session on the challenges and
achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for
women and girls,21
Reaffirming further the international commitments in the field of social
development regarding gender equality and the advancement of women made at the
World Conference on Human Rights, the International Conference on Population
and Development and in the key actions for the further implementation of its
Programme of Action, at the World Summit for Social Development and the World
Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance and in the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the
General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, adopted
on 22 September 2014,22 as well as those made in the United Nations Millennium
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8
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vols. 2171 and 2173, No. 27531; and resolution 66/138, annex.
10
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
11
Resolution 45/158.
12
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
13
Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513.
14
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
15
Resolution 48/104.
16
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
17
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
18
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum
(E/2005/27 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A; see also Economic and Social Council decision 2005/232.
19
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2010, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum
(E/2010/27 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A; see also Economic and Social Council decision 2010/232.
20
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2013, Supplement No. 7 (E/2013/27), chap. I,
sect. A.
21
Ibid., 2014, Supplement No. 7 (E/2014/27), chap. I, sect. A.
22
Resolution 69/2.
9
2/14