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Violence against women as a barrier to the effective realization of all human rights 2014, para. 13
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- Individuals cannot influence the decision-making processes affecting their lives, livelihoods and the life of their community without their human rights being respected, protected and fulfilled. Having a voice and stake in community action, requires active political participation and civic engagement in various areas of social, political, civil, and economic aspects of community life. Thus citizenship rights that embrace multiple sites of political participation and civic engagement, establish a relationship between individuals and the State and also among individual citizens. This implies not only rights and responsibilities, but also interaction and influence within the community. States, in turn, have an affirmative obligation to promote and protect all human rights, in order to enable the effective exercise of citizenship rights.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
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Violence against women as a barrier to the effective realization of all human rights 2014, para. 11
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- Citizenship is both about belonging to a group or community and about the rights and responsibilities associated with such membership. It is not only an identity, but also a practice whereby people are able to meaningfully participate in shaping their societies through the exercise of their citizenship rights. Citizenship rights are broad, inclusive, interdependent and indivisible and are tied to citizens' participation in the lives of their communities and the articulation of their agency, underpinned by the norms of dignity, equality and non-discrimination.
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
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Multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence against women 2011, para. 59
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- Human rights are universal in the sense that everyone is entitled to have their rights respected, protected and fulfilled no matter who they are or where they reside. Universality renders geographic location and social position impermissible bases on which to deny human rights, including the right to be free from violence. The "gendered theorization of human rights," incorporates "an intersectional approach to race, class, gender, sexuality and nation" where "no one right can be easily broken down into a singular issue, as rights are always already constituted through the social structural relations of multiple positionalities."
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
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Multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence against women 2011, para. 61
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- There is growing consensus that human rights are interdependent and indivisible and that it is necessary to embrace an indivisible rights framework to address interdependent and interlocking oppressions and discriminations. In addition, social, economic, and cultural life must be seen as the condition precedent to the meaningful exercise of civil and political life. This is possible through recognizing the connection between civil, political, economic, cultural and social rights, and also through challenging the hierarchy, which privileges civil and political rights.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
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Reparations to women who have been subjected to violence 2010, para. 58
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- Symbolic reparation measures are designed as measures offering satisfaction that, by giving victims due recognition, can also facilitate a process of moral and social rehabilitation on an individual and collective level. Official apologies, commemorative events, renaming of streets and public facilities, establishing remembrance days, building monuments, museums and memorials may all help victims feel duly recognized.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
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