Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women 2009, para. 3
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Stresses that States have the obligation to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms of women and girls and must exercise due diligence to prevent, investigate, prosecute and punish the perpetrators of violence against women and girls and provide protection to the victims, and that failure to do so violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment of their human rights and fundamental freedoms;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Equality & Inclusion
Gender
Governance & Rule of Law
Violence
Person(s) affected
Girls
Women
Year
2009
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
HRC resolution, Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2009), A/HRC/RES/11/2, OP 3.