Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms
of violence against women and girls: domestic violence
A/RES/71/170
Reaffirming also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 6 the
Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, 7 the Beijing Declaration
and Platform for Action, 8 the Programme of Action of the International Conference
on Population and Development, 9 and the outcomes of their review conferences, and
the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 10
Welcoming the commitment to achieve gender equality and the empowerment
of all women and girls contained in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 11
and in the agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women
at its sixtieth session 12 and previous sessions, recognizing that women play a vital
role as agents of development, and acknowledging that realizing gender equality and
the empowerment of all women and girls is crucial to making progress across all
Sustainable Development Goals and targets,
Recalling the commitment to eliminate all forms of violence against all women
and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and
other types of exploitation, contained in Sustainable Development Goal 5, in
particular target 5.2, and taking into account the commitment to leave no one
behind,
Deeply concerned about violence against women and girls in all its different
forms and manifestations worldwide, which is underrecognized and underreported,
particularly at the community level, and its pervasiveness, which reflects
discriminatory norms that reinforce stereotypes and gender inequality and the
corresponding impunity and lack of accountability, reiterating the need to intensify
efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls in the
public and private spheres in all regions of the world, and re-emphasizing that
violence against women and girls violates, and impairs their full enjoyment of, all
human rights,
Recognizing that domestic violence remains widespread and affects women of
all social strata across the world, and the urgent need to prevent and eliminate such
violence, in this connection recognizing also the continuous efforts by relevant parts
of the United Nations system, such as the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality
and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), the World Health Organization, the
United Nations Population Fund, the International Labour Organization, the
International Organization for Migration and other relevant United Nations entities,
agencies and programmes, and noting the endorsement by the World Health
Assembly of the global plan of action to strengthen the role of the health system
within a national multisectoral response to address interpersonal violence, in
particular against women and girls and against children,
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A/CONF/157/24 (Part I), chap III.
Resolution 48/104.
8
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.
9
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
10
Resolution 61/295, annex.
11
Resolution 70/1.
12
Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2016, Supplement No. 7 (E/2016/27), chap I,
sect. A.
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