Human Rights Council
Resolution 6/30.
Integrating the human rights of women
throughout the United Nations system
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming the equal rights of women and men enshrined in the Charter of the
United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women and other international human rights instruments,
Reaffirming also the need to implement fully human rights law and
international humanitarian law in order to protect the human rights of women and
girls,
Reaffirming further the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the
outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled
“Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”,
and the declaration adopted at the forty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status
of Women,
Reaffirming international commitments on gender equality and the human
rights of women embodied in the outcome documents of the World Conference on
Human Rights, the International Conference on Population and Development, the
World Summit for Social Development, the World Conference against Racism, Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance; those made in their review
processes, as well as those of the outcome document of the 2005 World Summit and
the United Nations Millennium Declaration,
Recalling Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on women, peace and
security, and welcoming the report of the Secretary-General on women, peace and
security (S/2007/567),
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