A/RES/75/161
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 28
Advancement of women
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 December 2020
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/75/471, para. 80)]
75/161.
Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of
violence against women and girls
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 61/143 of 19 December 2006, 62/133 of 18 December
2007, 63/155 of 18 December 2008, 64/137 of 18 December 2009, 65/187 of
21 December 2010, 67/144 of 20 December 2012 and all its previous resolutions on the
elimination of violence against women, as well as its resolutions 69/147 of
18 December 2014, 71/170 of 19 December 2016 and 73/148 of 17 December 2018 on
the intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1 and the Vienna
Declaration and Programme of Action, 2
Reaffirming also the obligation of all States to promote and protect all human
rights and fundamental freedoms, and reaffirming further that discrimination on the
basis of sex is contrary to the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 3 the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 4 the Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 5 and the Convention
on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocols thereto, 6
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Resolution 217 A (III).
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Ibid.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vols. 1577, 2171 and 2173, No. 27531; and resolution 66/138, annex.
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