Twenty-fifth anniversary of the International Day for the
Elimination of Violence against Women
A/RES/78/288
whether occurring in public or in private life, and noting the economic and social
harm caused by such violence,
Reaffirming the obligation of all States to promote and protect all human rights
and fundamental freedoms, and recognizing that violence against women and girls is
a major impediment to the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of
all women and girls and that it violates and impairs or nullifies the full enjoyment of
all their human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Recognizing the efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and
girls and the high number of activities undertaken by the United Nations bodies,
entities, funds and programmes and the specialized agencies,
Welcoming the commitment to achieve gender equality and the empowerment
of all women and girls contained in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 7
and stressing that preventing and eliminating all forms of violence against all women
and girls in the public and private spheres is essential to achieving gender equality
and empowering all women and girls and to promoting women’s full, equal and
meaningful participation and leadership in all spheres of society, including in
economic and political life,
Strongly condemning all forms of violence against women and girls, many of
which are rooted in historical and structural inequalities and unequal power relations,
and recognizing that, while progress has been made, violence against women remains
pervasive and is enabled through discriminatory norms that reinforce stereotypes and
gender inequality and the corresponding impunity and lack of accountability,
Expressing concern that current global challenges may exacerbate violence
against women and girls and therefore threaten to reverse much of the development
progress made in recent decades and pose a challenge to the implementation of the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and concerned about the challenges of
new and emerging forms of violence against women and girls that occur through or
are amplified by the use of technologies and in digital contexts, especially against
women in public and political life,
Recognizing that the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against
Women was established in the light of the killing of the three Mirabal sisters from the
Dominican Republic,
1.
Welcomes the twenty-fifth anniversary of the International Day for the
Elimination of Violence against Women, to be observed on 25 November 2024;
2.
Acknowledges the progress made towards the elimination of all forms of
violence against women and girls and the remaining challenges that need to be
addressed at all levels;
3.
Recognizes the importance of the International Day for the Elimination of
Violence against Women for raising awareness, educating and engaging communities,
advocacy and mobilization of decision makers, policymakers and the whole of society
to step up efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and
girls;
4.
Invites all Member States, the United Nations system and other global,
regional and subregional organizations, as well as other relevant stakeholders,
including civil society, the private sector, academia and individuals, to commemorate
the twenty-fifth anniversary of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence
against Women in order to increase awareness on the prevention of all forms of
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Resolution 70/1.
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