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Elimination of violence against women
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Resolution
- Year
- 2005
- Document code
- E/CN.4/RES/2005/41
Document
Elimination of violence against women
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Resolution
- Year
- 1998
- Document code
- E/CN.4/RES/1998/52
Document
Elimination of violence against women
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Resolution
- Year
- 2001
- Document code
- E/CN.4/RES/2001/49
Document
Elimination of violence against women
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Resolution
- Year
- 2000
- Document code
- E/CN.4/RES/2000/45
Document
Elimination of violence against women
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Resolution
- Year
- 1996
- Document code
- E/CN.4/RES/1996/49
Document
Elimination of violence against women
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Resolution
- Year
- 2004
- Document code
- E/CN.4/RES/2004/46
Document
Elimination of violence against women
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Resolution
- Year
- 2002
- Document code
- E/CN.4/RES/2002/52
Document
Elimination of violence against women
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Resolution
- Year
- 1995
- Document code
- E/CN.4/RES/1995/85
Document
Elimination of violence against women
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Resolution
- Year
- 2003
- Document code
- E/CN.4/RES/2003/45
Document
Elimination of violence against women
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Resolution
- Year
- 1997
- Document code
- E/CN.4/RES/1997/44
Document
Elimination of violence against women
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Resolution
- Year
- 1999
- Document code
- E/CN.4/RES/1999/42
Document
Elimination of violence against women 1995, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- Welcomes the preliminary report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and its consequences (E/CN.4/1995/42);
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Elimination of violence against women 1995, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming that discrimination on the basis of sex is contrary to the Charter of the United Nation, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and other international human rights instruments, and that its elimination is an integral part of efforts towards the elimination of violence against women,
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Elimination of violence against women 1995, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- Recalling its resolution 1994/45 of 4 March 1994, in which it decided to appoint a special rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences,
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Elimination of violence against women 1995, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- Commends the Special Rapporteur for her analysis of the general nature of the problem and the specific causes and consequences of violence against women;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Elimination of violence against women 1995, para. 3
- Paragraph text
- Encourages the Special Rapporteur to make recommendations concerning situations in which advisory services and technical assistance might assist Governments concerned;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Elimination of violence against women 1995, para. 3
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the adoption by the General Assembly, in its resolution 48/104 of 20 December 1993, of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, which recognizes that violence against women both violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment by women of human rights and fundamental freedoms, and expresses concern about the long-standing failure to protect and promote these rights and freedoms in relation to violence against women,
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Elimination of violence against women 1995, para. 4
- Paragraph text
- Deeply concerned at continuing and endemic violence against women, noting that the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women sets out various forms of physical, sexual and psychological violence against women, and noting that violence against women encompasses, but is not limited to battering, sexual abuse of female children in the household, dowry-related violence, marital rape, female genital mutilation and other traditional practices harmful to women, non-spousal violence, violence related to exploitation, rape, sexual abuse, sexual harassment and intimation at work, in education institutions and elsewhere, trafficking in women and forced prostitution,
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Elimination of violence against women 1995, para. 4
- Paragraph text
- Condemns all acts of gender-based violence against women, and in this regard calls, in accordance with the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, for the elimination of gender-based violence in the family, within the general community and where perpetrated or condoned by the State, and emphasizes the duty of Governments to refrain from engaging in violence against women and to exercise due diligence to prevent, investigate and, in accordance with national legislation, to punish acts of violence against women and to take appropriate and effective action concerning acts of violence against women, whether those acts are perpetrated by the State or by private persons, and to provide access to just and effective remedies and specialized assistance to victims;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Elimination of violence against women 1995, para. 5
- Paragraph text
- Condemns all violations of the human rights of women in situations of armed conflict, recognizes them to be violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, and calls for a particularly effective response to violations of this kind, including in particular murder, systematic rape, sexual slavery and forced pregnancy;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Elimination of violence against women 1995, para. 5
- Paragraph text
- Mindful that the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (A/CONF.157/23), adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, affirmed that gender-based violence and all forms of sexual harassment and exploitation, including those resulting from cultural prejudice and international trafficking, are incompatible with the dignity and worth of the human person and must be eliminated,
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Elimination of violence against women 1995, para. 6
- Paragraph text
- Alarmed by the marked increase in acts of sexual violence directed notably against women and children, as expressed in the Final Declaration of the International Conference for the Protection of War Victims, held at Geneva from 30 August to 1 September 1993, and reiterating that such acts constitute grave breaches of international humanitarian law,
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Elimination of violence against women 1995, para. 6a
- Paragraph text
- [Stresses the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur that States should implement the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, and in particular calls on States to take steps at the national level to:] Consider formulating national plans of action to eliminate violence against women;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Elimination of violence against women 1995, para. 6b
- Paragraph text
- [Stresses the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur that States should implement the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, and in particular calls on States to take steps at the national level to:] Consider ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women by the year 2000 and limit the extent of any reservation they enter to the Convention, formulate any reservations as precisely and as narrowly as possible, ensure that no reservation is incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention or otherwise contrary to international law and review their reservations regularly, with a view to withdrawing them expeditiously;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Elimination of violence against women 1995, para. 6c
- Paragraph text
- [Stresses the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur that States should implement the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, and in particular calls on States to take steps at the national level to:] Develop legal and administrative mechanisms to ensure access to the mechanisms of justice and, as provided for by national legislation, to just and effective remedies for women victims of violence;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Elimination of violence against women 1995, para. 6d
- Paragraph text
- [Stresses the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur that States should implement the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, and in particular calls on States to take steps at the national level to:] Provide access to specialized assistance for women victims of violence;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Elimination of violence against women 1995, para. 6e
- Paragraph text
- [Stresses the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur that States should implement the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, and in particular calls on States to take steps at the national level to:] Educate and sensitize law enforcement officers and public officials with regard to issues concerning violence against women and develop strategies to ensure that revictimization of women victims of violence does not occur because of gender-insensitive laws, or judicial or enforcement practices;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Elimination of violence against women 1995, para. 6f
- Paragraph text
- [Stresses the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur that States should implement the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, and in particular calls on States to take steps at the national level to:] Adopt all appropriate measures, especially in the field of education curricula so as to instil values which will prevent violence against women;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Elimination of violence against women 1995, para. 6g
- Paragraph text
- [Stresses the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur that States should implement the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, and in particular calls on States to take steps at the national level to:] Condemn violence against women and not invoke custom, tradition or practices in the name of religion to avoid their obligations to eliminate such violence;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Elimination of violence against women 1995, para. 6h
- Paragraph text
- [Stresses the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur that States should implement the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, and in particular calls on States to take steps at the national level to:] Promote research with regard to the issues concerning violence against women, its causes and its consequences;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph