A/RES/73/148
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 29
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2018
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/582)]
73/148.
Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms
of violence against women and girls: sexual harassment
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 61/143 of 19 December 2006, 62/133 of 18 December
2007, 63/155 of 18 December 2008, 64/137 of 18 December 2009, 65/187 of
21 December 2010, 67/144 of 20 December 2012, 69/147 of 18 December 2014 and
all its previous resolutions on the elimination of violence against women, as well as
its resolution 71/170 of 19 December 2016 on the intensification of efforts to
eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 and noting that 2018
marks its seventieth anniversary,
Reaffirming also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 2 and noting
that 2018 marks its twenty-fifth anniversary,
Recalling Human Rights Council resolution 38/5 of 5 July 2018, entitled
“Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women and girls: preventing and
responding to violence against women and girls in digital contexts”, 3
Taking note of the agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of
Women at its sixty-first session 4 and Commission resolution 61/1 of 24 March 2017
on preventing and eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace, 5
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Resolution 217 A (III).
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/73/53), chap. VI, sect. A.
Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2017, Supplement No. 7 (E/2017/27),
chap. I, sect. A.
Ibid., sect. D.
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