UN Resolution regarding the Elimination of violence against women

The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms, and reaffirming also that discrimination on the basis of sex is contrary to the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, CEDAW and other international human rights instruments, and that its elimination is an integral part of efforts towards the elimination of violence against women and girls.

Passed March, 2008