A/RES/69/147. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2014

• Year: 2014
• Resolution Number: A/RES/69/147
• Session: 69th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/69/147

General Assembly Distr.: General

5 February 2015

Sixty-ninth session

Agenda item 27 (a)

14-67587 (E)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2014

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/69/481)]

69/147. Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence

against women and girls

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

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

2007, 63/155 of 18 December 2008, 64/137 of 18 December 2009, 65/187 of

21 December 2010 and 67/144 of 20 December 2012, and all its previous

resolutions on the elimination of violence against women,

Recalling also

Security Council resolutions 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000,

1820 (2008) of 19 June 2008, 1888 (2009) of 30 September 2009, 1889 (2009) of

5 October 2009, 1960 (2010) of 16 December 2010, 2106 (2013) of 24 June 2013

and 2122 (2013) of 18 October 2013 on women and peace and security and all

relevant Council resolutions on children and armed conflict, including resolutions

1882 (2009) of 4 August 2009, 1998 (2011) of 12 July 2011, 2068 (2012) of

19 September 2012 and 2143 (2014) of 7 March 2014,

Recalling further

Human Rights Council resolutions 17/11 of 17 June 2011,

1

20/12 of 5 July 2012

2

and 23/25 of 14 June 2013,

3

as well as Council resolutions

26/5 and 26/15 of 26 June 2014 on the elimination of discrimination against women

and on accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women,

4

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 Universal Declaration of

Human Rights,

5

the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,

6

the

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,

6

the Convention

on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,

7

the Convention

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1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/66/53), chap.

III, sect. A.

2 Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53 and corrigendum (A/67/53 and Corr.1), chap. IV, sect. A.

3 Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/68/53), chap. V, sect. A.

4 Ibid., Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/69/53), chap. V, sect. A.

5 Resolution 217 A (III).

6 See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.

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