Geneva, 25 June 2025
Mr. President,
The Nordic-Baltic countries take note of the Special Rapporteur’s latest report.
In this regard, we would like to highlight the importance of building on the well-established international legal framework that recognizes gender-based violence. We believe that retaining this gender-based framework is key to addressing all forms of violence and to ensuring inclusive and effective responses.
We share the concern about surge in evolving forms of gender-based violence, including technology-facilitated gender-based violence, affecting millions of women and girls around the world, exacerbating offline violence and posing serious threats to their safety and wellbeing.
It is of utmost importance that all relevant stakeholders take the responsibility to effectively prevent and eradicate all forms of gender-based violence, and to ensure justice for women and girls and accountability for violations of their human rights.
The Nordic-Baltic countries remain fully committed to preventing, combating and eliminating all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls.
Ms. Alsalem, could you share good practices of legal and other measures on national or international level addressing new and evolving forms of gender-based violence against women and girls?
Thank you!