A/HRC/RES/38/1
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 July 2018
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-eighth session
18 June–6 July 2018
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 5 July 2018
38/1.
Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights
of the Child and other applicable international human rights instruments, including the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Racial Discrimination, and recalling relevant conventions adopted by the International
Labour Organization on the issue of discrimination against women,
Recalling that gender equality and the condemnation of discrimination and violence
against women and girls have been recognized in the Vienna Declaration and Programme
of Action, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and
Development, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome documents
of their review conferences, the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and the
outcome document of the Durban Review Conference,
Recalling also all relevant resolutions and agreed conclusions adopted by the Human
Rights Council, the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Commission on the Status
of Women and other United Nations agencies and bodies that consider the issue of
discrimination against women and girls,
Recalling further the inclusion of both gender equality and the empowerment of all
women and girls as a stand-alone goal and its mainstreaming into all goals and targets of
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the adoption of the Addis Ababa
Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development,
Underscoring the fact that international human rights law prohibits discrimination,
inter alia on the basis of gender, and that national legislation should adhere to each State’s
international obligations,
Recalling that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and
interrelated, that gender equality must be promoted in a comprehensive and systematic
manner, and that persistent discrimination within families and societies has a debilitating
impact on the equal enjoyment of human rights by women and girls in all aspects of life,
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