Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 12
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- At her preliminary assessment to the Human Rights Council, the mandate holder presented her vision as set out in A/HRC/32/42, and highlighted that there was a lack of full acceptance and incorporation of those international and regional human rights standards on violence against women and that additional specific measures were needed to address that normative challenge and the implementation gap. She explained her view on fragmentation of the work of the United Nations and regional instruments on violence against women and called for stronger cooperation between mechanisms and the joint use of global and regional instruments to employ synergies between them. The Special Rapporteur also believed that a legally binding framework on women’s rights and violence against women was provided by the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and general recommendation No. 19 and its update, general recommendation No. 35, the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women and regional instruments on violence against women.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2017
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 12
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