Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 19
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Recognizing that violence against women and girls is rooted in historical and structural inequality in power relations between women and men, and that all forms of violence against women and girls constitute a major impediment to their full, equal and effective participation in society, the economy and political decision-making,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Gender
Governance & Rule of Law
Violence
Person(s) affected
Ethnic minorities
Girls
Men
Women
Year
2016
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
HRC resolution, Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls (2016), A/HRC/RES/32/19, PP 19.