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Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts 2012, para. 15
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- 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
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 1
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- Bearing in mind that natural disasters affect human lives and living conditions thereafter, and often have a more direct and adverse impact on women, as well as vulnerable people within groups such as children, older persons and persons with disabilities, and that natural disasters often have different impacts on men and women in regard to the associated risks and vulnerabilities, due to gender inequality, gender stereotypes and discrimination against women, including the lack of equal access to adequate information and economic opportunities, poverty and social exclusion, safety and different family responsibilities,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Men
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 3
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- Recalling the agreed conclusions of the forty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women of 15 March 2002, Commission on the Status of Women resolution 49/5 of 11 March 2005, as well as Commission resolution 55/1 of 4 March 2011 entitled “Mainstreaming gender equality and promoting empowerment of women in climate change policies and strategies”, the Hyogo Declaration and the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters, adopted by the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, which was held in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, from 18 to 22 January 2005, as well as all relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, including its resolutions 66/9 of 11 November 2011 and 66/120 of 15 December 2011,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 4
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- Welcoming the response of the affected countries as well as the support and assistance given by the international community in the relief and recovery efforts for natural disasters in all parts of the world, including the devastating earthquake that struck eastern Japan on 11 March 2011, and other recent natural disasters, including those addressed in recent humanitarian appeals, while stressing the importance of further efforts in these responses, including in gender-responsive disaster management,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 5
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- Stressing the importance of taking equally into account the specific needs of women and vulnerable people within groups such as children, older persons and persons with disabilities in every phase of disaster risk reduction, response and recovery, ensuring equal opportunities for their participation in these processes, calling for a people-centred, holistic approach, in order to build an inclusive society, supported by a social bond among people through community-based approaches, which promotes gender equality and the empowerment of women, strengthens the resilience of communities and reduces social vulnerabilities to disasters,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 2e
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- [Urges Governments and, where appropriate, United Nations entities, civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, and other stakeholders to:] Make the utmost effort to secure equal access for women and men to disaster relief assistance and provide disaster response and support for recovery that is fully responsive to the needs and views of women and their enjoyment of all human rights, with special attention paid to the needs of pregnant and lactating women, families with infants, single-headed households and widows, such as in the context of the provision of food and supplies, water and sanitation, the set-up and management of shelter, safety and security, and the provision of physical, psychological and emergency health care, including for sexual and reproductive health, and counselling services, while encouraging the involvement of female professionals and gender-balance among field workers;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 2g
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- [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
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 2h
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- [Urges Governments and, where appropriate, United Nations entities, civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, and other stakeholders to:] Design, implement and evaluate gender-sensitive economic relief and recovery projects, including vocational and technical skills training measures, in order to help ensure equal economic opportunities between men and women, paying attention to eliminating obstacles to women's rapid integration or reintegration into the formal employment sector, owing to their role in the social and economic process, and taking into account the rural and urban migration that natural disasters may provoke;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 2j
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- [Urges Governments and, where appropriate, United Nations entities, civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, and other stakeholders to:] Ensure women and men's equal access to natural-hazard early warning systems and promote disaster risk reduction planning, taking into account the specific needs, views and all human rights of women and men, and raise public awareness and provide training at all levels on gender-sensitive approaches to disaster risk reduction, including in the areas of science and technology;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 2l
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- [Urges Governments and, where appropriate, United Nations entities, civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, and other stakeholders to:] Systematically collect demographic and socio-economic data and information disaggregated by sex, age and disability and continue to develop gender indicators and analyse gender differences, including through gender-sensitive needs assessment and planning processes, and integrate this information into disaster risk reduction and management policies and programmes;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 2m
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- [Urges Governments and, where appropriate, United Nations entities, civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, and other stakeholders to:] Document and assess disaster responses from a gender perspective, and widely disseminate, both nationally, regionally and internationally, information on good practices, lessons learned and tools, including technologies in support of disaster risk reduction, in order to promote and ensure their integration into disaster risk reduction planning;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 2p
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- [Urges Governments and, where appropriate, United Nations entities, civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, and other stakeholders to:] Forge constructive partnerships among all stakeholders, including Governments, United Nations entities and other relevant actors, such as civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, in order to strengthen a gender perspective in all aspects of disaster risk reduction, response and recovery;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts 2014, para. 2
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- Guided also by the principles and norms of international humanitarian law, in particular the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and the Additional Protocols thereto of 1977, as well as relevant international standards of human rights, in particular the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted on 25 June 1993 by the World Conference on Human Rights,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts 2014, para. 8
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- Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, as well as the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, 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, and welcoming the ten-year review and appraisal of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action at the forty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women and General Assembly decision 64/530 on the commemoration of the fifteenth anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts 2014, para. 9
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- Recalling General Assembly resolution 57/337 of 3 July 2003 on the prevention of armed conflict, and Security Council resolutions 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000, 1820 (2008) of 19 June 2008, 1888 (2009) of 30 September 2009, 1889 (2009) of 5 October 2009 and 1960 (2010) of 16 December 2010, 2106 (2013) of 24 June 2013 and 2122 (2013) of 18 October 2013 on women and peace and security, as well as its resolutions 1314 (2000) of 11 August 2000, 1379 (2001) of 20 November 2001, 1460 (2003) of 30 January 2003, 1539 (2004) of 22 April 2004, 1612 (2005) of 26 July 2005, 1882 (2009) of 4 August 2009, 1998 (2011) of 12 July 2011, 2068 (2012) of 19 September 2012 and 2143 (2014) of 7 March 2014 on children and armed conflict, and 2133 (2014) of 27 January 2014 on kidnapping for ransom and hostage-taking by terrorists,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- N.A.
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts 2014, para. 11
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- Noting that women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, including in armed conflicts, whether international or non-international, are victims of serious violations of international law, including international humanitarian law and human rights law, that continue to have a negative impact on efforts to put an end to those conflicts and cause suffering to the families of those women and children, and stressing, in this regard, the need to address the issue from a humanitarian perspective, among others,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts 2014, para. 17
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- 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)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Advancement of women and the family 1992, para. 1
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- 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
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Advancement of women and the family 1992, para. 1c
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- [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
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in decision-making bodies 1992, para. 1
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- Recalling the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, in particular paragraphs 86 to 92 thereof,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Women
- Year
- 1992
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Women in decision-making bodies 1992, para. 2
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- Recalling also the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, in particular articles 7 and 8,
- 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
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in decision-making bodies 1992, para. 4
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- Gravely concerned that women continue to be generally underrepresented in key areas of national, regional and international decision-making,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1992
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in decision-making bodies 1992, para. 5
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- Convinced that no true democracy can be achieved without the full participation and contribution of women, including their contribution to decision-making, in all spheres of life,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1992
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in decision-making bodies 1992, para. 1
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- Urges Governments to increase their efforts to appoint women to all executive decision-making bodies in political, economic and cultural life, as well as to advisory boards and councils, so as to incrementally achieve full gender equality;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1992
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in decision-making bodies 1992, para. 3
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- Requests the Secretary-General to update and disseminate, on a regular basis, information on the composition of the high-level decision-making bodies at the national, regional and international levels, disaggregated by sex;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1992
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women and the environment 1992, para. 3
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- Bearing in mind the preparations for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, to be held at Rio de Janeiro in June/1992, on the basis of General Assembly resolution 44/228 of 22 December 1989,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1992
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women and the environment 1992, para. 4
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- Taking into account all relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, in particular resolution 46/167 of 19/December 1991 on women, environment, population and sustainable development,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Women
- Year
- 1992
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Women and the environment 1992, para. 5
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- Taking note of the conclusions and recommendations of the Global Assembly of Women and the Environment: Partners in Life, held at Miami, Florida, from 4/to/8/November 1991,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Women
- Year
- 1992
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Women and the environment 1992, para. 6
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- Expressing its concern about the global environmental crisis and its conviction that women have an important role to play in the protection of the environment and natural resources and in the promotion of sustainable development,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1992
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Women and the environment 1992, para. 7
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- 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
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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