Elimination of violence against women 2002, para. 14e

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[Stresses that States have an affirmative duty to promote and protect the human rights of women and must exercise due diligence to prevent, investigate and punish acts of all forms of violence against women, and calls upon States:] To enact and, where necessary, reinforce or amend domestic legislation, including measures to enhance the protection of victims, to investigate, prosecute, punish and redress the wrongs done to women and girls subjected to any form of violence, whether in the home, the workplace, the community or society, in custody or in situations of armed conflict, to ensure that they conform with relevant international human rights instruments and humanitarian law, and to take action to investigate and punish persons who perpetrate acts of violence against women;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Humanitarian
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2002
Paragraph type
OP
Paragraph info
OP
Paragraph number
14e