Working Towards the Elimination of Crimes Against Women Committed in the Name of Honour

A/RES/57/179View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 102 Advancement of women, published in 2003.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2001–2003

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2003	A/RES/57/179	Working towards the elimination of crimes against women committed in the name of honour	1,335	42%Compare
2001	A/RES/55/66	Working towards the elimination of crimes against women committed in the name of honour	1,069	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2004

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2004	A/59/281	Violence against women report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/57/179

What’s in this document?

24 operative paragraphs

Welcomes:

The activities and initiatives of States aimed at the elimination of crimes against women committed in the name of honour, including the adoption of amendments to relevant national laws relating to such crimes, the effective implementation of such laws and educational, social and other measures, including national information and awareness-raising campaigns, as well as activities and initiatives of States aimed at the elimination of all other forms of violence against women;

The efforts, such as projects, undertaken by United Nations bodies, funds and programmes, including the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the United Nations Development Fund for Women, to address the issue of crimes against women committed in the name of honour, and encourages them to coordinate their efforts;

The work carried out by civil society, including non-governmental organizations, such as women’s organizations, grass-roots movements and individuals, in raising awareness of such crimes and their harmful effects;

Expresses its concern that women continue to be victims of crimes committed in the name of honour, and at the continuing occurrence in all regions of the world of such violence, which takes many different forms, and at failures to prosecute and punish perpetrators;

Calls upon all States:

To fulfil their obligations under the relevant international human rights instruments and to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action7 and the outcome document of the special session of the General Assembly;8

To continue to intensify efforts to prevent and eliminate crimes against women committed in the name of honour, which take many different forms, by using legislative, administrative and programmatic measures;

To investigate promptly and thoroughly, prosecute effectively and document cases of crimes against women committed in the name of honour and punish the perpetrators;

To take all necessary measures to ensure that such crimes are not tolerated;

To intensify efforts to raise awareness of the need to prevent and eliminate crimes against women committed in the name of honour, with the aim of changing the attitudes and behaviour that allow such crimes to be committed by involving, inter alia, community leaders;

To encourage the efforts of the media to engage in awareness-raising campaigns;

To encourage, support and implement measures and programmes aimed at increasing the knowledge and understanding of the causes and consequences of crimes against women committed in the name of honour, including the provision of training for those responsible for enforcing the law, such as police personnel and judicial and legal personnel, and to strengthen their capacity to respond to complaints of such crimes in an impartial and effective manner and take necessary measures to ensure the protection of actual and potential victims;

To continue to support the work of civil society, including non-governmental organizations, in addressing this issue and to strengthen cooperation with intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations;

To establish, strengthen or facilitate, where possible, support services to respond to the needs of actual and potential victims by, inter alia, providing for them the appropriate protection, safe shelter, counselling, legal aid, health-care services, rehabilitation and reintegration into society;

To address effectively complaints of crimes against women committed in the name of honour, inter alia, by creating, strengthening or facilitating institutional mechanisms so that victims and others can report such crimes in a safe and confidential environment;

To gather and disseminate statistical information on the occurrence of such crimes, including information disaggregated by age;

To include, if within their reporting obligations, information on legal and policy measures adopted and implemented in their efforts to prevent and eliminate crimes against women committed in the name of honour, where appropriate, in their reports to the human rights treaty bodies, including the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women;

Invites:

The international community, including relevant United Nations bodies, funds and programmes, inter alia, through technical assistance and advisory services programmes, to support the efforts of all countries, at their request, aimed at strengthening institutional capacity for preventing crimes against women committed in the name of honour and at addressing the root causes of such crimes;

The relevant human rights treaty bodies to continue to address this issue, where appropriate;

The Commission on the Status of Women to address this subject at its forty-seventh session under the priority theme “Women’s human rights and the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls, as defined in the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the special session of the General Assembly entitled ‘Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century’ ”;

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;¹²

¹²A/57/169.

Requests the Secretary-General to include in his report on the issue of elimination of violence against women to be submitted to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session a substantive report on the subject of the present resolution, based on all available data, containing an analysis of the root causes of these crimes, supportive statistical data, where available, and information on initiatives taken by States.

Working Towards the Elimination of Crimes Against Women Committed in the Name of Honour

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