Elimination of violence against women 2005, para. 21

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Stresses the importance of, and critical need for, concerted efforts to eliminate impunity for violence against women and girls in situations of armed conflict, including by prosecuting gender related crimes and crimes of sexual violence, by providing protective measures, counselling and other appropriate assistance to victims and witnesses, by integrating a gender perspective into all efforts to eliminate impunity, including in international, internationally supported and domestic courts and other tribunals, commissions of inquiry and commissions for achieving truth and reconciliation, and invites the Special Rapporteur to report, as appropriate, on these mechanisms;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Humanitarian
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2005
Paragraph type
OP
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OP
Paragraph number
21