A/RES/77/195
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 December 2022
Seventy-seventh session
Agenda item 26
Advancement of women
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 15 December 2022
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/77/456, para. 61)]
77/195.
Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female
genital mutilation
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 53/117 of 9 December 1998, 56/128 of 19 December
2001, 67/146 of 20 December 2012, 68/146 of 18 December 2013, 69/150 of
18 December 2014, 71/168 of 19 December 2016, 73/149 of 17 December 2018 and
75/160 of 16 December 2020, Commission on the Status of Women resolutions 51/2
of 9 March 2007, 1 52/2 of 7 March 2008 2 and 54/7 of 12 March 2010 3 and Human
Rights Council resolutions 27/22 of 26 September 2014,4 32/21 of 1 July 2016, 5 38/6
of 2 July 2018, 6 44/16 of 17 July 2020 7 and 50/16 of 8 July 2022 8 and all relevant
agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 9
Reaffirming also that the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 10 the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 11 and
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See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2007, Supplement No. 7 (E/2007/27),
chap. I, sect. D.
Ibid., 2008, Supplement No. 7 (E/2008/27), chap. I, sect. D.
Ibid., 2010, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (E/2010/27 and E/2010/27/Corr.1), chap. I,
sect. D.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and
corrigenda (A/69/53/Add.1, A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.1 and A/69/53/Add.1/Corr.2), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/71/53), chap. V, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/73/53), chap. VI, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/75/53), chap. V, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/77/53), chap. VIII, sect. A.
Resolution 217 A (III).
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
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