United Nations
A/RES/57/179
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 January 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 102
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/57/549)]
57/179. Working towards the elimination of crimes against
women committed in the name of honour
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the obligation of all States to promote and protect human rights
and fundamental freedoms, including the right to life, liberty and security of person,
as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 and reaffirming also the
obligations of States parties under human rights instruments, in particular the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 2 the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women 3 and the Convention on the Rights of the
Child, 4
Recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action 5 and the
Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, 6 as well as the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action adopted at the Fourth World Conference on
Women, 7 and the outcome document of the special session of the General Assembly
entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first
century”, 8
Bearing in mind that crimes against women committed in the name of honour
are a human rights issue and that States have an obligation to exercise due diligence
to prevent, investigate and punish the perpetrators of such crimes and to provide
protection to the victims, and that not doing so violates and impairs or nullifies the
enjoyment of their human rights and fundamental freedoms,
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
Resolution 34/180, annex.
4
Resolution 44/25, annex.
5
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
6
See resolution 48/104.
7
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.
8
Resolution S-23/3, annex.
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