The Due Diligence Standard as a Tool for the Elimination of Violence Against Women Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Its Causes and Consequences (Delivered at the 62nd Session of the Commission on Human Rights)

This report discusses the due diligence standard and how it can be applied to a State's obligation to eliminate violence against women. It also identifies another fundamental principle connected to the application of the due diligence standard, that of non-discrimination, which implies that states are required to use the same level of commitment in relation to prevention, investigation, punishment and provision of remedies for violence against women as they do with regards to other forms of violence.