A/HRC/35/10 I. Introduction 1. In its resolution 32/17, the Human Rights Council requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to submit to the Council, before its thirty-fifth session, a report on the impact of multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence in the context of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance on the full enjoyment of all human rights by women and girls, with a view to identifying challenges and good practices. The present report was prepared pursuant to that request. 2. Accordingly, on 26 October 2016, OHCHR addressed a note verbale to Member States, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, international human rights mechanisms, national human rights institutions and academia seeking their views and information on the issue. 3. OHCHR received written submissions from Member States (Albania, Bahrain, Colombia, Cuba, Georgia, Kuwait, Mexico, Mali, Norway, Oman, Qatar, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey and the United States of America), experts of human rights treaty bodies and special procedure mandate holders; national human rights mechanisms; and nongovernmental organizations.1 II. International framework 4. Several international instruments and human rights mechanisms explicitly recognize the impact of intersecting forms of discrimination on the enjoyment of human rights by women and girls They also recognize the need for specific and targeted protection of women and girls from multiple, compounded and/or intersecting forms of discrimination based on grounds such as race, sex, ethnicity, religion, nationality and migration status. 5. In 1993, the Vienna Conference on Human Rights addressed specific human rights violations suffered by identifiable groups of individuals. Building on the Vienna Declaration and its framework, both the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing and the Third World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban addressed discrimination based on multiple grounds. 6. In the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, adopted on 19 September 2016, Member States committed to tackle the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination against refugee and migrant women and girls. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recognizes the specific needs and rights of indigenous women, and calls upon States to take measures, together with indigenous peoples, to ensure that indigenous women and children enjoy full protection and guarantees against all forms of violence and discrimination. In its resolution 69/16, the General Assembly proclaimed 2015-2024 as the International Decade for People of African Descent, requesting States to adopt and implement policies and programmes that provide effective protection for, and review and repeal all policies and laws that could discriminate against, people of African descent facing multiple, aggravated or intersecting forms of discrimination based on other related grounds, such as sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, social origin, property, birth, disability or other status. 1 2 The submissions are available on the OHCHR website at www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Women/WRGS/Pages/Report.aspx.