A/HRC/RES/41/17
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 July 2019
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-first session
24 June–12 July 2019
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 12 July 2019
41/17.
Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women
and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and
girls in the world of work
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming the obligation of all States to respect, protect and fulfil all human rights
and fundamental freedoms, and reaffirming also that all forms of discrimination on the basis
of sex are contrary to the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,
Reaffirming also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the Declaration
on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for
Action, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and
Development, and the outcomes of their review conferences, and the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,
Recalling all relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council, the Commission on
Human Rights, the General Assembly and the Security Council and the relevant resolutions
and agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women, which, inter alia,
affirmed that all forms of violence against women and girls must be prevented, condemned
and eliminated,
Reaffirming the importance of fully implementing General Assembly resolution 70/1
of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development”, including the commitment of all States to achieve gender equality and to
empower all women and girls, to eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls
in the public and private spheres and to achieve full and productive employment and decent
work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and
equal pay for work of equal value,
Recalling the International Labour Organization Declaration on Fundamental
Principles and Rights at Work and its Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100),
Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111), Minimum Age
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