UN Resolution on the Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women

The UN Resolution 61/143 on the ‘Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women’ was adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2006.

It “strongly condemns all acts of violence against women and girls, whether these acts are perpetrated by the State, by private persons or by non-State actors, calls for the elimination of all forms of gender-based violence in the family, within the general community and where perpetrated or condoned by the State, and stresses the need to treat all forms of violence against women and girls as a criminal offence, punishable by law”. Further suggested measures include the adequate funding of trainings and programmes that counteract violence against women, equal access to education, literacy programmes, and social services as well as special support of women and girls in armed conflicts and post-conflict situations.