Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women 2008, para. 16i

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[Urges States to continue to develop their national strategy and a more systematic, comprehensive, multisectoral and sustained approach aimed at eliminating all forms of violence against women, including by achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women, and by using best practices to end impunity and a culture of tolerance towards violence against women, inter alia, in the fields of legislation, prevention, law enforcement, victim assistance and rehabilitation, such as:] Adopting all appropriate measures, especially in the field of education, to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women and to eliminate prejudices, customary practices and all other practices based on the idea of the inferiority or superiority of either of the sexes and on stereotyped roles for men and women;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Social & Cultural Rights
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2008
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2008), A/RES/63/155, OP 16i.
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OP
Paragraph number
16i