Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 16
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The Commission stresses that all States have the obligation, at all levels, to use all appropriate means of a legislative, political, economic, social and administrative nature in order to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms of women and girls, and must exercise due diligence to prevent, investigate, prosecute and punish the perpetrators of violence against women and girls and end impunity, and to provide protection as well as access to appropriate remedies for victims and survivors.
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Governance & Rule of Law
Violence
Person(s) affected
Girls
Women
Year
2013
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
CSW Agreed Conclusions, Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls (2013), para. 16.