Integrating the rights of women into the human rights mechanisms of the United Nations.

1993/46. Integrating the rights of women into the human rights mechanisms of the United Nations

The Commission on Human Rights, Conscious of the importance of the mechanisms established by the United Nations for the promotion, protection and implementation of the human rights of women and men, Concerned that women are susceptible to particular sorts of human rights abuse, Mindful of the need for the Commission to be aware of any such abuses at an early stage wherever they may occur, Noting the particular role of the Commission on the Status of Women in promoting equality between women and men, Commending the report submitted by the Secretary-General (E/CN.6/1993/12) containing a draft declaration on the elimination of violence against women to be submitted to the Commission on the Status of Women at its thirty-seventh session, Bearing in mind the desirability of closer communication between the Commission on the Status of Women and other United Nations human rights bodies and between the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and other treaty bodies, Welcoming the reaffirmation of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, in its resolution 1992/4 of 14 August 1992, that the rights of women are recognized as inalienable human rights and that they should be treated as such in all United Nations bodies, including the Commission on Human Rights, Wishing to ensure that information concerning violations of the rights of women is integrated regularly and systematically into all United Nations mechanisms for the promotion, protection and implementation of human rights, Recalling that the Centre for Human Rights was requested to utilize gender-disaggregated data in the preparation of studies for the World Conference on Human Rights,

1. Condemns all acts of violence and violations of human rights directed specifically against women including those in situations of armed conflict;

2. Requests all special rapporteurs and working groups of the Commission on Human Rights and the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, in the discharge of their mandates, regularly and systematically to include in their reports available information on human rights violations affecting women;

3. Requests the secretariat to ensure that special rapporteurs, experts and working groups are fully apprised of the particular ways in which the rights of women are violated;

4. Invites Governments to include gender-disaggregated data in the information that they provide;

5. Encourages closer cooperation between the Commission on Human Rights and the commission on the Status of Women and their respective secretariats in the promotion, protection and implementation of the rights of women, as well as between the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and other treaty bodies;

6. Decides to consider the appointment of a special rapporteur on violence against women at its fiftieth session, taking into account the work of the Commission on the Status of Women on, inter alia, the issue of violence against women, the results of the World Conference on Human Rights and the results of the work undertaken pursuant to the present resolution;

7. Requests the Secretary-General to consult with all United Nations human rights bodies, including the treaty bodies, on the implementation of the present resolution, and invites him to report thereon to the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session and to the Commission at its fiftieth session.

60th meeting
8 March 1993
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. XI.]