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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/133
7 February 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 109
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/54/598 and Corr.1 and 2)]
54/133. Traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolution 53/117 of 9 December 1998 and its other relevant resolutions and decisions,
as well as those of the Economic and Social Council, the Commission on Human Rights and the
Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights,1
Recalling the reports of the Special Rapporteur of the Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection
of Human Rights on traditional practices affecting the health of women and children and of the Special
Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women, its causes and consequences,
Reaffirming the obligation of all States to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms
as stated in the Charter of the United Nations, and reaffirming also the obligations contained in later human
rights instruments, in particular articles 5 and 12 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
1
Formerly known as the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities; see
E/1999/INF/2/Add.2. For the final text, see Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1999,
Supplement No. 1 (E/1999/99), decision 1999/256.
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