Which international legal instruments address gender-based violence?
Several international agreements and policies address GBV and can be useful for formulating national laws and policies and conducting advocacy: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (1979) Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990) The World Conference on Human Rights Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (1993) The UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (1993) International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action (1994) Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women (1994) UN Fourth World Conference on Women Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995) Organization of African Unity Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (1995) For more on international policies, see Guedes, 2004; Bott et al., 2005; Prevent GBV Africa website; and UN Division for the Advancement of Women website. Do
