In 1981, the General Assembly issued a nonbinding international human rights instrument entitled the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief.
The United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women of 1993, defined violence against women as 'any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.'.
The UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women defines it as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life".
Actually, Aponte praised El Salvador for signing a U.N. declaration for the elimination of violence against gays and lesbians.
Such commitments include the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (pdf), adopted by the UN general assembly in 1993, and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, adopted in 1995, which called on governments to take measures to eliminate and prevent violence.
For example, signing the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women implies that a nation is committed to enacting and enforcing laws against violence toward women.
It has been 21 years since the UN adopted the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, recognizing "the urgent need for the universal application to women of the rights and principles with regard to equality, security, liberty, integrity and dignity of all human beings".
The 1993 United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women defines violence against women as encompassing, but not limited to three areas: violence occurring in the family, within the general community and violence perpetrated or condoned by the State.
Whilst recognising that the declaration on the elimination of violence against women adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1993 was an important milestone in the recognition of the problem of domestic violence against women, this report rightly stresses that, in the EU context, more can be done.
The Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (DEVAW), 1993, uses the term "forced prostitution" to refer to the "type of physical, sexual and psychological violence" that is "a violation of the rights and fundamental freedoms of women and impairs or nullifies their enjoyment of those rights and freedoms" [ 40].
The UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women defines violence against women as ".... any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life" [ 30].
