United Nations
A/RES/62/134
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 February 2008
Sixty-second session
Agenda item 63 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2007
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/62/433 (Part II))]
62/134. Eliminating rape and other forms of sexual violence in all
their manifestations, including in conflict and related
situations
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the obligation of all States to promote and protect human rights
and fundamental freedoms in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations,
and guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter,
Reaffirming also that discrimination on the basis of sex is contrary to the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1 and
other international human rights instruments and that its elimination is an integral
part of efforts towards the elimination of all forms of violence against women,
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Reaffirming further the obligations of States parties to the Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 2 the Geneva Conventions of 1949 3 and the Additional Protocols
thereto, of 1977 4 and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Racial Discrimination, 5
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Reaffirming the goals, objectives and commitments of the Beijing Declaration
and Platform for Action 6 and those contained in the outcome documents of the
twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender
equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” 7 with respect to sexual
violence and to women in armed conflict,
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Recalling all previous General Assembly resolutions on violence against
women and violence against children, including resolution 61/143 of 19 December
2006 on intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women,
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
3
Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
4
Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513.
5
Ibid., vol. 660, No. 9464.
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, annexes I and II.
7
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
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