United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/55/66
Distr.: General
31 January 2001
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 107
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/55/595 and Corr.1 and 2)]
55/66.
Working towards the elimination of crimes against
women committed in the name of honour
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the obligation of all States to promote and protect human rights
and fundamental freedoms, as stated in the Charter of the United Nations, and
reaffirming also their obligations under human rights instruments, in particular the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, 2 the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, 2 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women 3 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 4
Bearing in mind the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against
Women, 5 as well as the Beijing Declaration 6 and Platform for Action 7 adopted at the
Fourth World Conference on Women, and recalling the outcome document of the
twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000:
gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, 8
Bearing in mind also that crimes against women committed in the name of
honour are a human rights issue and that States have an obligation to exercise due
diligence to prevent, investigate and punish the perpetrators of such crimes and to
provide protection to the victims, and that the failure to do so constitutes a human
rights violation,
Aware that inadequate understanding of the root causes of all violence against
women, including crimes committed in the name of honour, and inadequate data on
such violence hinder informed policy analysis, at both the domestic and the
international levels, and efforts to eliminate such violence,
1
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
Resolution 34/180, annex.
4
Resolution 44/25, annex.
5
See resolution 48/104.
6
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I.
7
Ibid., annex II.
8
Resolution S-23/3, annex.
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