United Nations General Assembly A/RES/65/228 Distr.: General 31 March 2011 Sixty-fifth session Agenda item 105 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2010 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/65/457)] 65/228. Strengthening crime prevention and criminal justice responses to violence against women The General Assembly, Reaffirming the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women 1 and the Beijing Declaration 2 and Platform for Action 3 adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women, and, in particular, the determination of Governments to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women, Reaffirming also the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, 4 as well as the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” 5 and the declarations adopted at the forty-ninth 6 and fifty-fourth 7 sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women, Recognizing that the term “women”, except where otherwise specified, encompasses “girl children”, Reaffirming the obligation of all States to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms, and reaffirming that discrimination on the basis of sex is contrary to the Charter of the United Nations, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 8 and other international human rights instruments and that its elimination is an integral part of efforts towards the elimination of all forms of violence against women, _______________ 1 See resolution 48/104. Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I. 3 Ibid., annex II. 4 Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. 5 Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex. 6 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (E/2005/27 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A; see also Economic and Social Council decision 2005/232. 7 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2010, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (E/2010/27 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A; see also Economic and Social Council decision 2010/232. 8 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378. 2 10-52622 *1052622* Please rec cle ♲