Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence 2016, para. 15a
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[Urges States to address structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent domestic violence, including by:] Investing in the full realization of the right to education by, inter alia, eliminating illiteracy, developing equitable, quality, inclusive and gender-sensitive educational programmes, in particular in rural and remote areas, and by closing the gender gap at all levels of education, thereby ensuring that women and men and girls and boys are portrayed in positive, non-stereotypical roles and contributing to the empowerment of women and girls and to the elimination of domestic violence and all other forms of violence against women and girls;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Education
Gender
Violence
Person(s) affected
Boys
Girls
Men
Women
Year
2016
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence (2016), A/RES/71/170, OP 15a.