Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence 2016, para. 25

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Reaffirming that female genital mutilation is a harmful practice and an act of violence against women and girls that impairs their human rights, constituting a serious threat to their health and well-being, including their psychological, sexual and reproductive health, increasing their vulnerability to HIV and possibly having adverse obstetric and prenatal outcomes, as well as fatal consequences for the mother and the newborn, and that the abandonment of this harmful practice can be achieved as a result of a comprehensive movement that involves all public and private stakeholders in society, including girls, boys, women and men,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Infants
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2016
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence (2016), A/RES/71/170, PP 25.
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PP
Paragraph number
25