A/HRC/RES/32/4
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 July 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-second session
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 30 June 2016
32/4.
Elimination of discrimination against women
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights
of the Child and all other relevant international human rights instruments,
Recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the Programme of
Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review
conferences, the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and the outcome document
of the Durban Review Conference,
Recalling also all relevant resolutions on the elimination of discrimination against
women adopted by the Human Rights Council, the General Assembly, the Security Council
and other United Nations agencies and bodies,
Welcoming the inclusion of both gender equality and the empowerment of all
women and girls as a stand-alone goal and its integration into all goals and targets of the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 1 including in its health-related provisions, and
the adoption of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda,2
Underscoring that international human rights treaties prohibit discrimination on the
basis of gender, and include guarantees to ensure the right of everyone to the enjoyment of
the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health on the basis of equality,
Stressing that health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being,
and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity,
Emphasizing that realizing the rights of women and girls that are equal to those of
men and boys in the context of health and safety requires the provision of differential
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General Assembly resolution 70/1.
General Assembly resolution 69/313, annex.
GE.16-12180(E)