Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence 2016, para. 15e
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[Urges States to address structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent domestic violence, including by:] Adopting all appropriate measures in the field of education to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women of all ages in order to promote the development of respectful relations and to eliminate prejudices, harmful customary practices and all other practices based on the idea of the inferiority or superiority of either of the sexes and on stereotyped roles for men and women, and raising awareness of the unacceptability of violence against women and girls at all levels, in the public and private spheres;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Social & Cultural Rights
Violence
Person(s) affected
Girls
Men
Women
Year
2016
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence (2016), A/RES/71/170, OP 15e.