Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women 2009, para. 4
Paragraphe- Original document
- Document type
- Résolution
- Paragraph text
Calls upon States to enact and, where necessary, reinforce or amend domestic legislation, including measures to enhance the protection of victims, to investigate, prosecute, punish and redress the wrongs done to women and girls subjected to any form of violence, whether in the home, the workplace, the community or society, in custody or in situations of armed conflict, to ensure that such legislation conforms with relevant international human rights instruments and international humanitarian law, to abolish existing laws, regulations, customs and practices which constitute discrimination against women, to remove gender bias in the administration of justice, and to take action to investigate and punish persons who perpetrate acts of violence against women and girls;
- Document legal status
- Droit souple négocié
- Document body
- Conseil des droits de l'homme des Nations Unies
- Document means of adoption
- Consensus
- Thèmes
- Humanitaire
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Femmes
- Filles
- Document year
- 2009
- Type de paragraphe
- Paragraphe
- Reference
- HRC resolution, Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2009), A/HRC/RES/11/2, OP 4.
- Paragraph info
- OP
- Paragraph number
- 4