A/HRC/26/L.26/Rev.1 - Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment

The Human Rights Council,

Guided by the purposes and principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Charter of the United Nations,

Guided also by the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,

Reaffirming the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development,