A/RES/70/176
United Nations
Distr.: General
8 January 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 106
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/70/490)]
70/176. Taking action against gender-related killing of women
and girls
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 68/191 of 18 December 2013 on taking action against
gender-related killing of women and girls, in particular the obligation to promote
and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, including women
and girls,
Deeply concerned that the global prevalence of different manifestations of the
gender-related killing of women and girls is reaching alarming proportions, and
noting especially that one of every two women victims of homicide is killed by her
intimate partner or a family member, 1
Deeply concerned also at the scourge of sexual violence in all situations,
including those of conflict, and targeted mass kidnapping, rape and killing of
women and girls,
Recalling the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council
on violence against women, its causes and consequences 2 and Council resolution
20/12 of 5 July 2012 on accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence
against women: remedies for women who have been subjected to violence, 3
Recalling also the report of the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights on creating and/or strengthening synergies and
linkages on violence against women and girls 4 and Human Rights Council resolution
23/25 of 14 June 2013 on accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence
against women: preventing and responding to rape and other forms of sexual
violence, 5
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1
See the Global Study on Homicide 2013 prepared by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
A/HRC/20/16.
3
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53 and
corrigendum (A/67/53 and Corr.1), chap. IV, sect. A.
4
A/HRC/23/25.
5
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/68/53),
chap. V, sect. A.
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