United Nations General Assembly A/RES/58/147 Distr.: General 19 February 2004 Fifty-eighth session Agenda item 110 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2003 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/58/501)] 58/147. Elimination of domestic violence against women The General Assembly, Reaffirming the obligation of all States to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms, as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1 as well as in other relevant international instruments, and reaffirming also that discrimination on the basis of sex is contrary to the Charter of the United Nations, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 2 and other international human rights instruments and that its elimination is an integral part of efforts towards the elimination of violence against women, Recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, 3 the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, 4 the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women 5 and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, 6 as well as the follow-up action by the Commission on the Status of Women on violence against women and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, 7 Recalling also all its previous resolutions on the elimination of violence against women, _______________ 1 Resolution 217 A (III). Resolution 34/180, annex. 3 A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III. 4 See resolution 48/104. 5 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. 6 Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. 7 Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex. 2 03 50340

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