Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Eliminating domestic violence 2015, para. 10c
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[Urges States to take effective action to protect victims of domestic violence, including by:] Fulfilling their obligations at all levels to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including those of women and girls, and exercising due diligence to prevent, investigate, prosecute and hold to account perpetrators, and to eliminate impunity and provide for access to appropriate remedies for victims and survivors, and should ensure the protection and empowerment of women and girls, including through adequate enforcement by police and the judiciary of civil remedies, orders of protection and criminal sanctions;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Governance & Rule of Law
Violence
Person(s) affected
Girls
Women
Year
2015
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
HRC resolution, Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Eliminating domestic violence (2015), A/HRC/RES/29/14, OP 10c.