Elimination of violence against women 2008, para. 8

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Deeply concerned that all forms of discrimination, including racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and multiple or aggravated forms of discrimination and disadvantage can lead to the particular targeting or vulnerability to violence of girls and some groups of women, such as women belonging to minority groups, indigenous women, refugee and internally displaced women, migrant women, women living in rural or remote communities, destitute women, women in institutions or in detention, women with disabilities, elderly women, widows and women in situations of armed conflict, women who are otherwise discriminated against, including on the basis of HIV status, and victims of commercial sexual exploitation,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Humanitarian
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2008
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
HRC resolution, Elimination of violence against women (2008), A/HRC/RES/7/24, PP 8.
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PP
Paragraph number
8