Law-ref.org Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women
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... Concerned that some groups of women, such as women belonging to minority groups, indigenous women, refugee women, migrant women, women living in rural or remote communities, destitute women, women in institutions or in detention, female children, women with disabilities, elderly women and women in situations of armed conflict, are especially vulnerable to violence, ...


... (l) Adopt measures directed towards the elimination of violence against women who are especially vulnerable to violence; ...


... (e) Encourage coordination between organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to incorporate the issue of violence against women into ongoing programmers, especially with reference to groups of women particularly vulnerable to violence; ...