A/RES/78/288
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 June 2024
Seventy-eighth session
Agenda item 25
Advancement of women
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 7 June 2024
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/78/L.69)]
78/288.
Twenty-fifth anniversary of the International Day for the
Elimination of Violence against Women
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 54/134 of 17 December 1999, by which it designated
25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against
Women,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1 and other relevant
international human rights instruments, including the Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 2
Reaffirming also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action 3 as well as
the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 4 the Cairo Programme of Action of
the International Conference on Population and Development 5 and the outcomes of
their review conferences,
Reaffirming further the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against
Women, adopted on 20 December 1993, 6 and its provisions, including article 1, in
which violence against women was defined as any act of gender-based violence that
results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering
to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5 –13 September
1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
Resolution 48/104.
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