A/HRC/RES/29/14
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 July 2015
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-ninth session
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 2 July 2015
29/14 .
Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against
women: eliminating domestic violence
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Reaffirming also the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and noting the relevant recommendations of the
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women,
Reaffirming further the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the
Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on
Population and Development, and the outcomes of their review conferences,
Recalling all relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council, as well as those of
the Commission on Human Rights, on the elimination of all forms of violence against
women, and recalling also relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, including its
resolution 69/147 of 18 December 2014 on the intensification of efforts to eliminate all
forms of violence against women and girls, and those of the Security Council, and relevant
resolutions and agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women,
Recalling also the political declaration adopted by the Commission on the Status of
Women at its fifty-ninth session on the twentieth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action, in which States pledged to take further concrete action to ensure the
full, effective and accelerated implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, and the
outcome document of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly,
Taking note of the resolution, adopted by the World Health Assembly at its sixtyseventh session, on strengthening the role of the health system in addressing violence, in
particular against women and girls, and against children, and noting the recent work on the
development of a global plan of action to strengthen the role of the health system within a
national multisectoral response to address interpersonal violence, in particular against
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