A/RES/65/187. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2010

• Resolution Number: A/RES/65/187
• Year: 2010
• Session: 65th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/65/187

General Assembly Distr.: General

23 February 2011

Sixty-fifth session

Agenda item 28 (a)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2010

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/65/449)]

65/187. Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence

against women

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its resolutions 61/143 of 19 December 2006, 62/133 of 18 December

2007, 63/155 of 18 December 2008 and 64/137 of 18 December 2009 and all its

previous resolutions on the elimination of violence against women,

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,

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the Convention on the

Rights of the Child

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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 ,

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the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,

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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”,

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the ministerial

declaration of the high-level segment of the substantive session of 2010 of the

Economic and Social Council

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and the declarations adopted at the forty-ninth

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and

fifty-fourth

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sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women,

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

2 Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.

3 See resolution 48/104.

4 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.

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

6 See A/65/3, chap. III, sect. F, para. 125. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly,

Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 3.

7 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.

8 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2010, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum

(E/2010/27 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A; see also Economic and Social Council decision 2010/232.