A/RES/67/144
United Nations
Distr.: General
27 February 2013
General Assembly
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 28 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2012
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/67/450 and Corr.1)]
67/144. Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence
against women
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 61/143 of 19 December 2006, 62/133 of 18 December
2007, 63/155 of 18 December 2008, 64/137 of 18 December 2009 and 65/187 of
21 December 2010, and all its previous resolutions on the elimination of violence
against women,
Reaffirming the obligation of all States to promote and protect all human rights
and fundamental freedoms, and reaffirming also that discrimination on the basis of
sex is contrary to the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, 1 the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,2 the Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 3 the Convention
on the Rights of the Child, 4 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities 5 and other international human rights instruments and that its
elimination is an integral part of efforts towards the elimination of all forms of
violence against women,
Recalling the rules of international humanitarian law, including the Geneva
Conventions of 1949 6 and the Additional Protocols thereto of 1977, 7
Reaffirming the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 8 the Declaration
on the Elimination of Violence against Women, 9 the Beijing Declaration and
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
4
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
5
Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910.
6
Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
7
Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513.
8
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
9
Resolution 48/104.
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