A/RES/61/143. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2006

• Resolution Number: A/RES/61/143
• Year: 2006
• Session: 61st
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/61/143

General Assembly Distr.: General

30 January 2007

Sixty-first session

Agenda item 61 (a)

06-50301

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2006

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/61/438)]

61/143. Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence

against women

The General Assembly

,

Reaffirming

the obligation of all States to promote and protect all human rights

and fundamental freedoms, and reaffirming also that discrimination on the basis of

sex is contrary to the Charter of the United Nations, the Convention on the

Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

1

and other international

human rights instruments, and that its elimination is an integral part of efforts

towards the elimination of all forms of violence against women,

Reaffirming also

the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against

Wom en ,

2

the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,

3

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”,

4

and the

declaration adopted at the forty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of

Wom en ,

5

Reaffirming further

the international commitments in the field of social

development and to gender equality and the advancement of women made at the

World Conference on Human Rights, the International Conference on Population

and Development, the World Summit for Social Development and the World

Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related

Intolerance, as well as those made in the United Nations Millennium Declaration

6

and at the 2005 World Summit,

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1 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.

2 See resolution 48/104.

3 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, annexes I and II.

4 Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.

5 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum

(E/2005/27 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A; see also Economic and Social Council decision 2005/232.

6 See resolution 55/2.