Special Rapporteur on VAW: Violence against women in the community

UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences

Thematic Report

The Commission on Human Rights, at its fifty-second session, in its resolution 1996/49 of 19 April 1996, welcomed the work of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, and commended the Special Rapporteur for her analysis of violence against women in the family (E/CN.4/1996/53 and Add.2).

As already indicated in her previous report, the present report focuses on all forms of violence against women in the community.