Attachments: SR Violence Against Women Report to UN
2007.pdf
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From the Report of the United Nations Special
Rapporteur on
Violence Against Women Report to the UN 2007 -
Attached.
B.Culture and Violence Against Women in the
International Human Rights Framework
1. Universal claims for
rights
22.The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action,
which the community of States adopted by consensus, confirms: "All human
rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent and interrelated. The
international community must treat human rights globally in a fair and equal
manner, on the same footing, and with the same emphasis. While the significance
of national and regional particularities and various historical, cultural and
religious backgrounds must be borne in mind, it is the duty of States,
regardless of their political, economic and cultural systems, to promote and
protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms." This universality extends
naturally also to women's human rights, which have been solemnly recognized by
States as "an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal human
rights."
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