Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 8
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Recognizing that violence against women and girls is rooted in historical and structural inequality in power relations between women and men, and that all forms of violence against women and girls seriously violate and impair or nullify their enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms and constitute a major impediment to the ability of women and girls to make use of their capabilities,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Gender
Violence
Person(s) affected
Girls
Men
Women
Year
2014
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
HRC resolution, Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), A/HRC/RES/26/15, PP 8.