Promotion and Protection of the Human Rights of Women and Children in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations Ensuring Justice, Remedies and Reparation for Victims

A/HRC/RES/60/19View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A document of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2025.

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What subjects does this mandate have?

8 topics

Accountability Administration of Justice Children in Armed Conflicts Legal Remedies Reparation Rights of the Child Women in Armed Conflicts Women's Rights

What does this mandate say?

20 operative paragraphs

Strongly condemns all violations and abuses of international law committed against women and children in conflict and post-conflict situations, including under occupation;

Reaffirms the international legal principles of accountability, justice, reparation and the rule of law;

Condemns all violations of children’s rights, including the recruitment and use of children by parties to armed conflict, as well as their re-recruitment, killing and maiming, rape and other types of sexual violence, abductions and attacks on schools and hospitals, as well as denial of humanitarian access, arbitrary detention and family separation by parties to armed conflict, and demands that all parties to armed conflict immediately put an end to such violations and abuses and take special measures to protect children and ensure respect for their rights;

Recognizes that all forms of repression and cruel and inhuman treatment of women and children, including unlawful imprisonment, torture, murder, summary executions, mass arrests, collective punishment, intentional starvation, destruction of dwellings and forced displacement, committed by belligerents in the course of an armed conflict, including in occupied territories, constitute international crimes;

Affirms the right of the victims of violations of international human rights law and violations of international humanitarian law to effective remedies and reparation in a systematic and thorough way at the national and international levels;

Reaffirms the obligations, under international humanitarian law, of all parties to armed conflict to allow, facilitate and enable the immediate, safe and unimpeded delivery of humanitarian assistance, in particular food and medicine, for all civilians in need, taking into account the particular needs of women and children;

Calls upon States:

To respect, protect, fulfil and promote the human rights of women and children in conflict and post-conflict situations, including the rights to life, health, food, liberty and security of person;

To adopt and implement legislation that criminalizes violations of relevant rules of international law, including gross violations of international human rights law and serious violations of international humanitarian law pertaining to the protection of women and children in armed conflict, in accordance with their international obligations;

To bring to justice those responsible for such violations through national justice systems and, where applicable, transitional justice systems and international justice mechanisms, and recalls the need for child-friendly justice systems;

To adopt appropriate and effective legislative and administrative procedures and other appropriate measures that provide fair, effective and prompt access to justice;

To make available adequate, effective, prompt and appropriate remedies and reparation for the victims of gross violations and abuses of international human rights law and serious violations of international humanitarian law and to ensure approaches that translate into restitution, rehabilitation and guarantees of non-repetition, and recalls in this regard the Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 60/147;

To ensure that children associated or allegedly associated with armed forces or groups are treated primarily as victims, with the best interests of the child as the primary consideration;

To allow and facilitate the immediate, safe and unimpeded passage and delivery of humanitarian aid, as well as access by women and children to services, assistance and protection;

To take all measures necessary to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure, including humanitarian premises and assets, hospitals, schools and places of worship, and their personnel, and to end and prevent the use of schools and hospitals for military purposes;

To take all measures necessary to ensure the full, equal, safe and meaningful participation of women in decision-making at all levels of peace and security processes, including conflict prevention and resolution, humanitarian relief, mediation, peace operations, peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction and development;

To provide funding to strengthen capacity to protect women and children on the ground;

Invites the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the relevant special procedure mandate holders, commissions of inquiry and treaty bodies to mainstream, within their respective mandates, the promotion and protection of the human rights of women and children in conflict and post-conflict situations when considering the situation of human rights in armed conflicts;

Requests the High Commissioner to prepare an analytical report based on the contributions of States, relevant United Nations agencies and other relevant stakeholders on best practices and main challenges in the promotion and protection of the human rights of women and children in conflict and post-conflict situations, with a focus on ending impunity and ensuring accountability for gross violations of international human rights law and serious violations of international humanitarian law and on the provision of effective remedies and reparation for the victims, and to present the report to the Human Rights Council, at its sixty-third session, to be followed by an interactive dialogue with the participation of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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