A/RES/59/167
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 February 2005
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 99
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2004
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/59/497)]
59/167. Elimination of all forms of violence against women,
including crimes identified in the outcome document of
the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly,
entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and
peace for the twenty-first century”
The General Assembly,
Recalling the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
which, inter alia, calls for international cooperation in promoting and encouraging
respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to
race, sex, language or religion,
Recalling also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the Declaration on
the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 2 the Declaration on the
Elimination of Violence against Women, 3 the United Nations Declaration on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 4 the Beijing Declaration 5 and
Platform for Action 6 adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women, the
Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted on 25 June 1993 by the
World Conference on Human Rights 7 and the United Nations Millennium
Declaration, 8
Recalling further its resolution 57/181 of 18 December 2002 and the agreed
conclusions adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-eighth
session on 12 March 2004, 9
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2263 (XXII).
3
See resolution 48/104.
4
See resolution 1904 (XVIII).
5
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, annex I.
6
Ibid., annex II.
7
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
8
See resolution 55/2.
9
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2004, Supplement No. 7 (E/2004/27), chap. I,
sect. A; see also Economic and Social Council resolutions 2004/11 and 2004/12.
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