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Commission on the Status of Women

The Commission on the Status of Women has addressed violence against women in various aspects of its work. It has also several times focused specifically on the question of violence against women in the framework of its multi-year programme of work, in follow-up to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. 

The priority theme of the fifty-first session of the Commission was the elimination of all forms of violence and discrimination against the girl child. The fifty-first session also considered violence against women as an emerging issue. One of the two priority themes of the forty-seventh session of the Commission in 2003 was women’s human rights and elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls. The Commission addressed violence against women at its forty-second session in 1998, as one of four priority themes.

Agreed conclusions

Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child (2007)
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Violence against women (1998)
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Resolutions

Ending female genital mutilation (Resolution 54/7 of 2010, contained in E/CN.6/2010/11)
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Ending female genital mutilation (Resolution 52/2 of 2008, contained in E/CN.6/2008/11)
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Ending female genital mutilation (Resolution 51/2 of 2007, contained in E/CN.6/2007/9)

Forced marriage of the girl child (Resolution 51/3 of 2007, contained in E/CN.6/2007/9)
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Reports of the Secretary-General

Ending female genital mutilation (E/CN.6/2008/3)
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Forced marriage of the girl child (E/CN.6/2008/4)
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Other events


Joint dialogue between the Commission on the Status of Women and the Statistics Commission to consider the development of indicators on violence against women, 28 February 2008

Interactive expert panel: "Elimination of all forms of violence against women: follow up to the Secretary-General’s in-depth study at national and international levels", 1 March 2007