Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 5a
Paragraphe
Paragraph text
[Underscores that States have the primary responsibility for protecting women and girls facing violence and, in this regard, urges States:] To enact and, where necessary, reinforce or amend domestic legislation and other measures to enhance the protection of victims, including, where appropriate, by providing for the use of testimonial aids in criminal proceedings to avoid re-victimization and access to legal representation, and to ensure that such legislation or measures conform with relevant international human rights instruments and international humanitarian law;
Status juridique
Negotiated soft law
Organe
United Nations Human Rights Council
Type de document
Resolution
Mode d'adoption
Consensus
Thèmes
Governance & Rule of Law
Violence
Personnes concernées
Girls
Women
Année
2011
Type de paragraphe
OP
Reference
HRC resolution, Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection (2011), A/HRC/RES/17/11, OP 5a.