A/RES/67/146
Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations
Nations Millennium Declaration 12 and the commitments relevant to women and girls
made at the 2005 World Summit 13 and reiterated in Assembly resolution 65/1 of
22 September 2010, entitled “Keeping the promise: united to achieve the
Millennium Development Goals”,
Recalling the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
on the Rights of Women in Africa, adopted in Maputo on 11 July 2003, which
contains, inter alia, undertakings and commitments on ending female genital
mutilation and marks a significant milestone towards the abandonment and ending
of female genital mutilation,
Recalling also the decision of the African Union, adopted in Malabo on 1 July
2011, to support the adoption by the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session of a
resolution banning female genital mutilation,
Recalling further the recommendation of the Commission on the Status of
Women at its fifty-sixth session that the Economic and Social Council recommend
to the General Assembly the adoption of a decision to consider the issue of ending
female genital mutilation at its sixty-seventh session under the agenda item entitled
“Advancement of women”, 14
Recognizing that female genital mutilations are an irreparable, irreversible
abuse that impacts negatively on the human rights of women and girls, affecting
about 100 million to 140 million women and girls worldwide, and that each year an
estimated further 3 million girls are at risk of being subjected to the practice
throughout the world,
Reaffirming that female genital mutilations are a harmful practice that
constitutes a serious threat to the health of women and girls, including their
psychological, sexual and reproductive health, which can increase their vulnerability
to HIV and may have adverse obstetric and prenatal outcomes as well as fatal
consequences for the mother and the newborn, and that the abandonment of this
harmful practice can be achieved as a result of a comprehensive movement that
involves all public and private stakeholders in society, including girls and boys,
women and men,
Concerned about evidence of an increase in the incidence of female genital
mutilations being carried out by medical personnel in all regions in which they
are practised,
Recognizing that negative discriminatory stereotypical attitudes and
behaviours have direct implications for the status and treatment of women and girls
and that such negative stereotypes impede the implementation of legislative and
normative frameworks that guarantee gender equality and prohibit discrimination on
the basis of sex,
Recognizing also that the campaign of the Secretary-General entitled “UNiTE
to End Violence against Women” and the database on violence against women will
contribute to addressing the elimination of female genital mutilations,
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Resolution 55/2.
See resolution 60/1.
14
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2012, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum
(E/2012/27 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A.
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