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

The UN Resolution 63/155 on the ‘Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women’ was adopted by the General Assembly on 30 January 2009.

It “urges states to continue to develop their national strategy and a more systematic, comprehensive, multisectoral and sustained approach aimed at eliminating all forms of violence against women, including by achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women, and by using best practices to end impunity and a culture of tolerance towards violence against women, inter alia, in the fields of legislation, prevention, law enforcement, victim assistance and rehabilitation”.