Search Tips
sorted by
30 shown of 2071 entities
Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 2g
- Paragraph text
- [Urges Governments and, where appropriate, United Nations entities, civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, and other stakeholders to:] Also ensure, in post-disaster environments, protection and care of and support to the victims of violence and, as appropriate, the provision of legal and other relevant services for victims of violence to aid, inter alia, in the investigation and prosecution of sexual and gender-based violence, taking into account women's needs in order to avoid the revictimization of women;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2012
Paragraph
Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts 2012, para. 15
- Paragraph text
- Expressing its strong belief that the rapid and unconditional release of women and children taken hostage in areas of armed conflict will promote the implementation of the noble goals enshrined in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, as well as the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly and the outcome document of the special session of the General Assembly on children, entitled “A world fit for children”, including the provisions therein regarding violence against women and children,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2012
Paragraph
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2012, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- Recalling all previous resolutions on women, the girl child and HIV and AIDS,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2012
Paragraph
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 13
- Paragraph text
- Noting with concern that regulations, policies and practices, including those that limit legitimate trade of generic medicines, may seriously limit access to affordable HIV treatment and other pharmaceutical products in low- and middle-income countries, and recognizing that improvements can be made, inter alia, through national legislation, regulatory policy and supply chain management, and noting that reductions in barriers to affordable products could be explored in order to expand access to affordable and good-quality HIV prevention products, diagnostics, medicine and treatment commodities for HIV, including opportunistic infections and co-infections,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2014
Paragraph
Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 1c
- Paragraph text
- [Urges States to:] Ensure the realization of the right of indigenous women and girls to education, and promote a multicultural approach to education that is responsive to the needs, aspirations and cultures of indigenous women, including by developing appropriate education programmes, curricula and teaching aids, to the extent possible in the languages of indigenous peoples, by promoting their access to information and communications technologies and by providing for the participation of indigenous women in these processes, and take measures to ensure that indigenous women and girls have the right to equal access to all levels and forms of education without discrimination;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2012
Paragraph
Women and the environment 1992, para. 7
- Paragraph text
- Gravely concerned that major causes of the continuing deterioration of the global environment are the unsustainable pattern of production and consumption, particularly in developed countries, and increasing poverty in many developing countries,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1992
Paragraph
Women in development 1992, para. 9
- Paragraph text
- Deeply concerned about the worsening situation of women in developing countries, particularly in the least developed countries,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1992
Paragraph
Women in development 1992, para. 3
- Paragraph text
- Also urges Governments to adopt policies to promote economic development that will ensure the full and explicit integration of women's needs and concerns;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1992
Paragraph
Advancement of women and the family 1992, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- Recalling its resolution 34/7 of 8 March 1990, in which the Commission decided to give further consideration to the question of the International Year of the Family at subsequent sessions,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
- Year
- 1992
Paragraph
Advancement of women and the family 1992, para. 1c
- Paragraph text
- [Recommends to the Commission on Social Development that the following elements be taken into account at its thirty-third session when preparing for the 1994 International Year of the Family:] (c) That, as regards equality of women and men, the concept of equality must be understood as expressed in the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women and in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and must be taken into account in all policies and programmes for the International Year of the Family;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1992
Paragraph
Women in development 1993, para. 8
- Paragraph text
- Further convinced that international cooperation for development has a fundamental role in the creation of proper conditions that allow women to achieve full integration in development,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1993
Paragraph
Women in extreme poverty 1993, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 1990/15 of 24 May 1990,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Women
- Year
- 1993
Paragraph
Women in extreme poverty 1993, para. 4
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming with satisfaction General Assembly resolution 47/92 of 16 December 1992, in which the Assembly decided to convene a World Summit for Social Development in Denmark early in 1995,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Women
- Year
- 1993
Paragraph
Women in extreme poverty 1993, para. 6
- Paragraph text
- Convinced of the essential role of international cooperation for development in efforts at all levels aimed at eradicating poverty,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1993
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1994, para. 10
- Paragraph text
- Requests the Secretary-General to see to the development of concrete indicators to determine the situation of women migrant workers in sending and receiving countries as a basis for future action;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1994
Paragraph
Women in extreme poverty 1993, para. 8
- Paragraph text
- Noting with concern that rural women, who are the backbone of the rural economy, are most vulnerable to situations of extreme poverty,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Women
- Year
- 1993
Paragraph
Women in development 1994, para. 3
- Paragraph text
- Further urges Governments to include gender perspectives in all the guidelines for economic and social policies and to increase their capacities and capabilities in gender-responsive and gender-sensitive planning of development programmes;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1994
Paragraph
Women in extreme poverty 1993, para. 10
- Paragraph text
- Conscious that the circumstances imposed upon women living in extreme poverty constitute one of the fundamental means by which poverty is transmitted from one generation to another,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1993
Paragraph
Traffic in women and girls 1995, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming its faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women, enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1995, para. 14
- Paragraph text
- Stressing that acts of violence directed against women impair or nullify women's enjoyment of their human rights and fundamental freedoms,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Integration of displaced rural women into development processes 1995, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- Urges Governments to promote, as a matter of priority, rural development projects with a gender perspective;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Integration of displaced rural women into development processes 1995, para. 6
- Paragraph text
- Decides to consider the question of the integration of displaced rural women into development processes at its fortieth session.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Women in agriculture and rural development 1995, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- Urges Governments to take action in support of rural women's full participation in the economy and in the political system by developing specific plans to meet the above-mentioned needs;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 5
- Paragraph text
- Notes the need to raise awareness of the important role of the media, including new forms of information technology, in informing and educating people about the causes and effects of violence against women and in stimulating public debate on the topic;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1997
Paragraph
Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 7
- Paragraph text
- Encourages the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women and the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, as well as the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery of the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, to continue to pay special attention to the problem of trafficking in women and girl children, and to make available their reports thereon to the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-second session;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1997
Paragraph
Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 8
- Paragraph text
- Encourages the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to continue to consider the problem of trafficking in human persons in the context of its discussions on the question of organized transnational crime;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1997
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1997, para. 9
- Paragraph text
- Noting the measures adopted by some receiving States to alleviate the plight of women migrant workers residing within their areas of jurisdiction,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1997
Paragraph
Women in agriculture and rural development 1995, para. 16
- Paragraph text
- Concerned about the worsening of the socio-economic status of rural women and of their life and working conditions, thereby hindering their full integration in development,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1995
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers 1998, para. 6
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the importance of continued cooperation at the bilateral, regional and international levels in protecting and promoting the rights and welfare of women migrant workers,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1998
Paragraph
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2002, para. 1
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming General Assembly resolution S-26/2 of 27 June 2001, entitled “Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS”, adopted at its twenty-sixth special session, held in New York from 25 to 27 June 2001,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2002
Paragraph