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The Human Rights Council this morning adopted a resolution on preventing and responding to all forms of violence against women and girls in criminal justice detention.
As for accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to all forms of violence against women and girls in criminal justice detention, the Council requested the Office of the High Commissioner to submit to the Council, at its fifty-ninth session, a report on the situation of human rights of women and girls in criminal justice detention, including information on practices and measures to prevent and address violence against women and girls in the context of criminal justice detention.
In a resolution (A/HRC/53/L.5/Rev.1) on Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to all forms of violence against women and girls in criminal justice detention, adopted without a vote (as orally revised), the Council calls upon States to take immediate and effective action to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in criminal justice detention and to take immediate and effective action to respond to all forms of violence against women and girls in detention and to support and protect all victims and survivors; requests the Office of the High Commissioner to submit to the Council, at its fifty-ninth session, an accessible report in plain language and easy to read formats, on the situation of human rights of women and girls in criminal justice detention, including information on practices and measures to prevent and address violence against women and girls in the context of criminal justice detention; and decides to continue its consideration of the issue of the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls as a matter of high priority, in conformity with its programme of work, at its fifty-ninth session.
Prior to the adoption of the resolution, the Council took action on three amendments to the text
L.33 was rejected by a vote of 11 in favour, 21 against, and 13 abstentions
L.40 was rejected by a vote of 13 in favour, 22 against, and 11 abstentions
L.43 was rejected by a vote of 16 in favour, 22 against, and 8 abstentions
Speakers:
- HRC President
- Representatives:
- Canada
- Russia
- Iraq
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