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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/115
7 March 1997
Fifty-first session
Agenda item 110 (c)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/51/619/Add.3 and Corr.1)]
51/115.
Rape and abuse of women in the areas of
armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United
Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1 the International
Covenants on Human Rights,2 the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of
the Crime of Genocide,3 the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,4 the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,5 the Convention on
the Rights of the Child6 and other instruments of human rights and
1
Resolution 217 A (III).
2
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
Resolution 260 A (III).
4
Resolution 39/46, annex.
5
Resolution 34/180, annex.
6
Resolution 44/25, annex.
97-77161
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