A/HRC/RES/35/18
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 July 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-fifth session
6–23 June 2017
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 22 June 2017
35/18.
Elimination 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 all other relevant international human rights instruments,
Recalling 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,
Welcoming the inclusion of both gender equality and the empowerment of all
women and girls as a stand-alone goal and its integration into all goals and targets of the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 1 and the adoption of the Addis Ababa Action
Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development,2
Deeply concerned that no country in the world has yet fully eliminated gender-based
discrimination3 and at the fact that many women and girls everywhere, particularly those
who are marginalized or in a vulnerable situation, face multiple and intersecting forms of
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General Assembly resolution 70/1.
General Assembly resolution 69/313, annex.
See World Health Organization, “Leading the realization of human rights to health and through
health: report of the High-level Working Group on the Health and Human Rights of Women, Children
and Adolescents”.
GE.17-11415(E)