Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 13
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Recognizing that poverty and lack of empowerment of women, as well as their marginalization resulting from their exclusion from social policies and from the benefits of education, health and sustainable development, can place them at increased risk of violence, and that all forms of violence against women and girls, including sexual violence, are impediments to the development of their full potential as equal partners in all aspects of life, as well as obstacles to the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Equality & Inclusion
Gender
Poverty
Violence
Person(s) affected
Girls
Women
Year
2014
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
HRC resolution, Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), A/HRC/RES/26/15, PP 13.