Concerned that the vulnerability of women and girls to HIV/AIDS is increased by their unequal legal, economic and social status, including poverty and other cultural and physiological factors, violence against women and girls and adolescents, early marriage, forced marriage, premature and early sexual relations, sexual exploitation, including for commercial purposes, trafficking and female genital mutilation,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Health
Violence
Person(s) affected
Girls
Women
Year
2008
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
CSW resolution, Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS (2008), PP 11.