United Nations General Assembly A/RES/55/68 Distr.: General 31 January 2001 Fifty-fifth session Agenda item 107 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Third Committee (A/55/595 and Corr.1 and 2)] 55/68. Elimination of all forms of violence against women, including crimes identified in the outcome document of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” The General Assembly, Recalling the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, which, inter alia, calls for international cooperation in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion, Recalling also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 2 the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, 3 the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 4 the Beijing Declaration 5 and Platform for Action 6 adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted on 25 June 1993 by the World Conference on Human Rights, 7 and the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 8 Reaffirming the obligations of all States to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms, as enunciated in the Charter, and reaffirming also the obligations of States parties under international human rights instruments, in particular the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 9 the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,9 the Convention on the 1 Resolution 217 A (III). See resolution 2263 (XXII). 3 See resolution 48/104. 4 See resolution 1904 (XVIII). 5 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I. 6 Ibid., annex II. 7 A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III. 8 See resolution 55/2. 9 See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. 2 00 56347