United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/59/165
Distr.: General
10 February 2005
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 98
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2004
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/59/496)]
59/165. Working towards the elimination of crimes against women
and girls committed in the name of honour
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the obligation of all States to promote and protect human rights
and fundamental freedoms, including the right to life, liberty and security of person,
as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 and reaffirming also the
obligations of States parties under human rights instruments, in particular the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 2 the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,2 the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women 3 and the Convention on the Rights of the
Child, 4
Reaffirming also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action 5 and the
Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, 6 as well as the goals and
commitments contained in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted
at the Fourth World Conference on Women, 7 and the outcome document of the
special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality,
development and peace for the twenty-first century”, 8
Recalling its resolutions 57/179 of 18 December 2002 and 58/147 of
22 December 2003, as well as Commission on Human Rights resolution 2004/46 of
20 April 2004, 9
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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
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
6
See resolution 48/104.
7
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.
8
Resolution S-23/3, annex.
9
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2004, Supplement No. 3 (E/2004/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
2
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