Concerned further that women and girls are physiologically more vulnerable to HIV, especially at an earlier age, than men and boys, and that this is increased by violence against women, girls and adolescents, sexual exploitation, including commercial sexual exploitation, premature and coerced sexual relations, harmful practices, such as child, early and force marriage, female genital mutilation, as well as an imbalance in the power dynamic between women and men, and unequal legal, economic and social status, including poverty,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Means of adoption
Vote
Topic(s)
Harmful Practices
Health
Violence
Person(s) affected
Boys
Girls
Men
Women
Year
2014
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
CSW resolution, Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS (2014), PP 9.