Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 1
Paragraphe
Paragraph text
Strongly condemns all acts of violence against women and girls, where these acts are perpetrated by the State, private persons or non-State actors, and calls for the elimination of all forms of gender-based violence in the family, within the general community and where perpetrated or condoned by the State, in accordance with the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, and stresses the need to treat all forms of violence against women and girls as a criminal offence, punishable by law, and the duty to provide victims with access to just and effective remedies and specialized assistance, including medical and psychological assistance, as well as effective counselling;
Status juridique
Negotiated soft law
Organe
United Nations Human Rights Council
Type de document
Resolution
Mode d'adoption
Consensus
Thèmes
Gender
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 1.