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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women
Platform for Action, 10 the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General
Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the
twenty-first century” 11 and the ministerial declaration of the high-level segment of
the substantive session of 2010 of the Economic and Social Council, 12
Reaffirming also the declarations adopted at the forty-ninth 13 and fifty-fourth 14
sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women, and welcoming in that regard
that the priority theme of the fifty-seventh session of the Commission will be
“Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls”, 15
Reaffirming further the international commitments in the field of social
development and to gender equality and the advancement of women made at the
World Conference on Human Rights, the International Conference on Population
and Development, the World Summit for Social Development and the World
Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance, as well as those made in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 16
at the 2005 World Summit 17 and at the high-level plenary meeting of the General
Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, 18 and noting the attention paid to
the elimination of all forms of violence against indigenous women in the United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted by the Assembly
in its resolution 61/295 of 13 September 2007,
Recalling the inclusion of gender-related crimes and crimes of sexual violence
in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 19 as well as the recognition
by the ad hoc international criminal tribunals that rape and other forms of sexual
violence can constitute a war crime, a crime against humanity or a constitutive act
with respect to genocide or torture,
Recalling also Security Council resolutions 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000,
1820 (2008) of 19 June 2008, 1888 (2009) of 30 September 2009, 1889 (2009) of
5 October 2009 and 1960 (2010) of 16 December 2010 on women and peace and
security and all relevant Council resolutions on children and armed conflict,
including resolutions 1882 (2009) of 4 August 2009 and 1998 (2011) of 12 July
2011,
Recalling further Human Rights Council resolutions 17/11 of 17 June 2011 on
accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due
diligence in protection, 20 20/6 of 5 July 2012 on the elimination of discrimination
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10
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.
11
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
12
Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/65/3/Rev.1),
chap. III, sect. F, para. 125.
13
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum
(E/2005/27 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A; see also Economic and Social Council decision 2005/232.
14
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2010, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum
(E/2010/27 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A; see also Economic and Social Council decision 2010/232.
15
See Economic and Social Council resolution 2009/15, para. 2 (d).
16
Resolution 55/2.
17
See resolution 60/1.
18
See resolution 65/1.
19
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2187, No. 38544.
20
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/66/53), chap. III,
sect. A.
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