Encourages Governments and civil society to support women's groups and community organizations in changing harmful traditions and practices affecting the health of women and girls and to take steps to eliminate all forms of violence against women, including rape and sexual coercion, which aggravate the conditions fostering the spread of the epidemic;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Harmful Practices
Health
Violence
Person(s) affected
Girls
Women
Year
2000
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
CSW resolution, Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS (2000), OP 11.