Elimination of violence against women 1998, para. 9j
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- [Stresses the conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur that States have an affirmative duty to promote and protect the human rights of women and must exercise due diligence to prevent violence against women, including violence against women in times of armed conflict, violence against women in custody and violence against refugee and internally displaced women, and calls upon States:] To examine and consider modifying existing legal definitions and standards to ensure that they fully protect the human rights of all women and girls affected by armed conflict, and to reaffirm that rape, including systematic rape, and sexual slavery in armed conflict constitute war crimes, and under certain circumstances constitute crimes against humanity and an act of genocide as defined in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide;
- Status juridique
- Negotiated soft law
- Organe
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Type de document
- Resolution
- Mode d'adoption
- Consensus
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Année
- 1998
- Type de paragraphe
- OP
- Paragraph info
- OP
- Paragraph number
- 9j
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