United Nations
A/RES/71/168
General Assembly
Distr.: General
2 February 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 27
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2016
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/71/477)]
71/168. Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female
genital mutilation
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 53/117 of 9 December 1998, 56/128 of 19 December
2001, 67/146 of 20 December 2012, 68/146 of 18 December 2013 and 69/150 of
18 December 2014, Commission on the Status of Women resolutions 51/2 of
9 March 2007, 1 52/2 of 7 March 2008 2 and 54/7 of 12 March 2010 3 and Human
Rights Council resolutions 27/22 of 26 September 2014 4 and 32/21 of 1 July 2016, 5
and all relevant agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 6
Reaffirming also that the Convention on the Rights of the Child 7 and the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 8 and
all the relevant conventions, together with the optional protocols thereto, a s
appropriate, constitute an important contribution to the legal framework for the
protection and promotion of the human rights of women and girls,
Reaffirming further the Beijing Declaration 9 and Platform for Action, 10 the
outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled
“Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty -first
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1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2007, Supplement No. 7 (E/2007/27), chap. I,
sect. D.
2
Ibid., 2008, Supplement No. 7 (E/2008/27), chap. I, sect. D.
3
Ibid., 2010, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (E/2010/27 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. D.
4
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigenda
(A/69/53/Add.1 and Corr.1 and 2), chap. IV, sect. A.
5
Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/71/53), chap. V, sect. A.
6
Resolution 217 A (III).
7
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
8
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
9
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I.
10
Ibid., annex II.
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