Refugee Protection and Sexual Violence 1993, para. (a)
Paragraph
Paragraph text
Strongly condemns persecution through sexual violence, which not only constitutes a gross violation of human rights, as well as, when committed in the context of armed conflict, a grave breach of humanitarian law, but is also a particularly serious offense to human dignity;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Humanitarian
Violence
Person(s) affected
Persons on the move
Year
1993
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
ExCom Conclusion No. 73, Refugee Protection and Sexual Violence (1993), OP (a).