A/HRC/RES/32/19
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 July 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-second session
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 1 July 2016
32/19.
Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women:
preventing and responding to violence against women and
girls, including indigenous women and girls
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Recalling the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Racial Discrimination,
Reaffirming the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the Declaration on
the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for
Action and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and
Development, and the outcomes of their review conferences,
Welcoming the World Health Organization global plan of action to strengthen the
role of the health system within a national multisectoral response to address interpersonal
violence, in particular against women and girls, and against children, building on existing
work of the Organization, in particular its call for the prevention and elimination of all
forms of sexual and gender-based violence in public and private life,
Recalling all relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council, the Commission on
Human Rights, the General Assembly and the Security Council, including those on women,
peace and security and on children in armed conflict, and the relevant resolutions and
agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women, which affirmed that all
forms of violence against women must be condemned and eliminated,
Recalling also the adoption by the General Assembly of the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in its resolution 61/295 of 13 September
2007,
Recalling further Human Rights Council resolution 5/1, on institution-building of
the Council, and 5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate Holders of
GE.16-12410(E)
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