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Rights of the child: Omnibus resolution 2008, para. 21
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- Calls upon States and the international community to cooperate, support and participate in the global efforts for poverty eradication at the global, regional and country levels, to intensify efforts so that all development and poverty reduction goals, as set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, are realized within their time framework, and reaffirms that investments in children and the realization of their rights contribute to their social and economic development, and are among the most effective ways to eradicate poverty;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2008
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Child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings 2017, para. 13
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- Also urges States, with the collaboration of relevant stakeholders, to ensure that the basic humanitarian needs of affected populations and families, including clean water, sanitation, food, shelter, energy, health, including sexual and reproductive health, nutrition, education and protection, are addressed as critical components of humanitarian response, and to ensure that civil registration and vital statistics are an integral part of humanitarian assessments and that livelihoods are protected, recognizing that poverty and lack of economic opportunities for women and girls are among the drivers of child, early and forced marriage;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Poverty
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2017
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Rights of the child: Towards better investment in the rights of the child 2015, para. 33
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- Requests all States to promote innovative programmes that provide incentives to low-income families with school-age children in order to increase the enrolment and attendance of girls and boys, and to ensure that children are not obliged to work in a way that interferes with their schooling or represents a risk to their health or well-being, and that they are not taken into care because of poverty;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2015
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Rights of the child: Omnibus resolution 2012, para. 35
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- Calls upon States and the international community to support, cooperate and participate in the intensification of global efforts for poverty eradication at the global, regional and country levels by, inter alia, accelerating progress towards all development and poverty reduction goals, as set out in the Millennium Declaration and reaffirmed during its review, so as to ensure the realization of the rights of the child;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2012
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Adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living 2007, para. 4a
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- [Urges States:] To give full effect, without discrimination of any kind as to race, colour, sex, language, religion, disability, political or other opinion, national, or social origin, property, birth or other status, to the right to adequate housing, including through domestic legislation and policies and programmes based, as appropriate, on statistical data, benchmarks or housing indicators, giving particular attention to individuals, most often women and children, and members of communities living in extreme poverty, as well as to security of tenure;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2007
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Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern 2013, para. 4
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- Encourages States and other relevant stakeholders, including national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations, to take action at all levels to address the interlinked root causes of mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age, such as poverty, malnutrition, harmful practices, violence, stigma and discrimination, unsafe households and environments, lack of safe drinking water and sanitation, lack of accessible, affordable and appropriate health-care services and medicines, late detection of childhood illnesses and lack of education;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Poverty
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2013
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Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern 2016, para. 4
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- Calls upon States and other relevant stakeholders, including national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations, with due regard to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, to continue to take and intensify action at all levels to address the interlinked root causes of preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age, such as poverty, malnutrition, harmful practices, violence, stigma and discrimination, unsafe households and environments, lack of safe drinking water and sanitation, lack of accessible, affordable, quality and appropriate health care, services, medicines and vaccinations, late detection of childhood illnesses and low levels and quality of education;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Poverty
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
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Rights of the child: Towards better investment in the rights of the child 2015, para. 20
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- Deeply concerned that extreme poverty and social exclusion persist in all countries of the world, regardless of their economic, social and cultural situation, that their extent and manifestations are particularly severe in developing countries, and that children are among those in the most vulnerable situations, and noting that the girl child experiences particular vulnerabilities as a consequence of multiple forms of discrimination,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2015
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Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: protecting victims of trafficking and persons at risk of trafficking, especially women and children in conflict and post-conflict situations 2016, para. 15
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- Recognizing also that poverty, unemployment, lack of socioeconomic opportunities, gender-based violence, discrimination and marginalization are some of the contributing factors that make persons vulnerable to trafficking,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Movement
- Poverty
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2016
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 2017, para. 11
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- Deeply concerned that, globally, 18,000 children still die each day from poverty-related causes, nearly one in four children under the age of 5, out of an estimated total of 159 million, have stunted growth, particularly in developing countries, and 6.1 per cent are overweight,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2017
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Protection of the family: contribution of the family to the realization of the right to an adequate standard of living for its members, particularly through its role in poverty eradication and achieving sustainable development 2015, para. 14
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- Resolves to pay particular attention to family units headed by women and children, while bearing in mind that a considerable proportion of households worldwide are headed by women and many other households are dependent on female income, and that female-maintained households are very often among the poorest because of wage discrimination, occupational segregation patterns in the labour market and other gender-based barriers;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Women
- Year
- 2015
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Rights of the child: Towards better investment in the rights of the child 2015, para. 17
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- Calls upon States to encourage the private sector to play a more active, effective and responsible role in the fight against poverty and the protection and realization of the rights of the child in all areas where it is involved and as economic agent and service provider, to encourage corporate social responsibility, bearing in mind that corporations must abide by national legislation, and to promote increased corporate awareness of the interrelationship between social development and economic growth for the realization of human rights, including those of children;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2015
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Adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, in the context of mega-events 2010, para. 5
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- Concerned that any deterioration in the general housing situation disproportionally affects persons living in conditions of poverty, low-income earners, women, children, persons belonging to minorities and indigenous peoples, migrants, the elderly and persons with disabilities,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Year
- 2010
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The right to food 2017, para. 17
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- Recognizing further the need to urgently assist some African countries that are facing drought, starvation and famine threats that could affect millions of people, most of whom are women and children, who risk losing their lives,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Humanitarian
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2017
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Rights of the child: Access to justice for children 2014, para. 5a
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- [Recognizes that certain children may face additional barriers in their access to justice and reaffirms the duty of States to respect and ensure an effective remedy and access to justice for each child within their jurisdiction without discrimination of any kind, irrespective of the child’s or his or her parent’s or legal guardian’s race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, property, disability, birth or other status, and to this end calls upon States:] To address additional barriers to access to justice that may exist for children belonging to particularly vulnerable groups, including, but not limited to, children placed in institutional settings or in alternative care, children deprived of their liberty, children with disabilities, children living in poverty, children living in the streets, children belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, indigenous children, asylum-seeking, refugee and migrant children, including unaccompanied and separated migrant children, stateless children, children affected by HIV/AIDS, children involved in or affected by armed conflict or other violence, child victims of sale and sexual exploitation or child, early and forced marriage, children in the worst forms of child labour, children without parental care and children of parents alleged as, accused of or convicted of having infringed penal law;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2014
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Rights of the child: A holistic approach to the protection and promotion of the rights of children working and/or living on the street 2011, para. 19
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- Bearing in mind the diverse causes of the emergence and marginalization of children working and/or living on the street, such as poverty; migration, including rural-to-urban migration; trafficking; violence; abuse and neglect at home or in care institutions; broken families; lack of access to basic services, including free education; HIV/AIDS and child relinquishment; substance abuse; and mental health issues, intolerance, discrimination, armed conflict and displacement, and that such causes are often aggravated and their solution made more difficult by serious socio-economic and other difficulties,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Movement
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2011
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Adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living 2014, para. 10
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- Deeply concerned also that any deterioration in the general housing situation disproportionately affects persons living in conditions of poverty, low-income earners, women, children, persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities and indigenous peoples, migrants, internally displaced persons, tenants, the elderly, persons with disabilities and other persons belonging to marginalized groups or persons belonging to groups in vulnerable situations, and that tenure insecurity per se might result in discrimination and further exclusion, particularly social and economic exclusion,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2014
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Protection of the family: role of the family in supporting the protection and promotion of human rights of older persons 2017, para. 8
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- Recognizes the positive impact that policies and measures to support families and protect them from poverty, exclusion, violence and involuntary separation can have on protecting and promoting the human rights of their members, including those of older persons, and on achieving equality between women and men and girls and boys, empowering women and girls, and enhancing protection against violence, abuses, sexual exploitation, the worst forms of child labour, and harmful practices, while bearing in mind that violations and abuses of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of family members adversely affect families and have a negative impact on efforts aimed at protecting the family;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2017
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Rights of the child: A holistic approach to the protection and promotion of the rights of children working and/or living on the street 2011, para. 10
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- Calls upon all States to strengthen international commitment, cooperation and mutual assistance in preventing the phenomenon of children working and/or living on the street, in protecting such children, including against all forms of violence, and in improving their situation, including through sharing good practices, research, policies, monitoring and capacity-building;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Poverty
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2011
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Adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living in the context of disaster settings 2012, para. 6
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- Concerned that any deterioration in the general housing situation disproportionately affects persons living in conditions of poverty, low-income earners, women, children, persons belonging to minorities and indigenous peoples, migrants, internally displaced persons, tenants, the elderly and persons with disabilities, and increases the need for them to be supported against extreme natural disasters,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2012
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Human rights and extreme poverty 2008, para. 2i
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- [Decides to extend the mandate of the independent expert on extreme poverty for a period of three years, in order to, inter alia:] Pay particular attention to children living in extreme poverty, as well as to the most vulnerable groups, including persons with disabilities who live in extreme poverty;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 2008
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Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern 2014, para. 4
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- Calls upon States and other relevant stakeholders, including national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations, to take action at all levels to address the interlinked root causes of preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age, such as poverty, malnutrition, harmful practices, violence, stigma and discrimination, unsafe households and environments, lack of safe drinking water and sanitation, lack of accessible, affordable, quality and appropriate health care, services, medicines and vaccinations, late detection of childhood illnesses and low levels and quality of education;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Poverty
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Rights of the child: Towards better investment in the rights of the child 2015, para. 31
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- Also calls upon States to recognize for every child the right to benefit from social security, including social insurance, and to take the measures necessary to achieve the full realization of this right in accordance with their national laws, including by taking into account the resources and circumstances of the child and persons having responsibility for his or her maintenance, as well as any other consideration relevant to an application for benefits made by or on behalf of the child; and encourages States to, as part of their social protection systems, establish or maintain and implement social protection floors, which comprise basic social security guarantees as nationally defined and contribute to ensuring minimum essential level of protection, to the realization of the economic, social and cultural rights of children and to preventing or alleviating poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2015
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Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage 2015, para. 16
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- Calls upon States and the international community to create an environment in which the well-being of women and girls is ensured by, inter alia, cooperating, supporting and participating in efforts for the eradication of poverty, and reaffirms that investment in women and girls and the respect, protection and fulfilment of their rights are among the most effective ways to end the harmful practice of child, early and forced marriage;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2015
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Protection of the family: contribution of the family to the realization of the right to an adequate standard of living for its members, particularly through its role in poverty eradication and achieving sustainable development 2015, para. 11
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- Conscious that the majority of the internationally agreed development goals, especially those relating to the reduction of poverty, education of children and the reduction of maternal mortality, would be difficult to attain unless the strategies to achieve them focus on the family, which can contribute positively to, inter alia, eradicating poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and empowering women, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Women
- Year
- 2015
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The right to food 2013, para. 30c
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- [Calls upon all States and, if appropriate, relevant international organizations:] To support the national plans and programmes of countries to improve nutrition in poor households, in particular plans and programmes that are aimed at combating undernutrition in mothers and children, and those targeting the irreversible effects of chronic undernutrition in early childhood, from gestation to the age of 2 years;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Year
- 2013
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 2017, para. 7
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- Recalling also General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled "Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development", in which the Assembly adopted a comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative Sustainable Development Goals and targets, and expressed its commitment to working tirelessly for the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions - economic, social and environmental - in a balanced and integrated manner, and to building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking to address their unfinished business and recognizing that achieving the Sustainable Development Goals can help ensure that children can assert and enjoy their rights,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2017
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Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: Mandate of the Special Rapporteur 2014, para. 12
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- Acknowledging that poverty is an important factor in making persons vulnerable to trafficking,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2014
Paragraph
The right to food 2015, para. 35c
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- [Calls upon all States and, where appropriate, relevant international organizations:] To support the national plans and programmes of States to improve nutrition in poor households, in particular plans and programmes that are aimed at combating undernutrition in mothers and children, and those targeting the irreversible effects of chronic undernutrition in early childhood, from gestation to the age of 2 years;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Year
- 2015
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Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage 2015, para. 12
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- Recognizing also that child, early and forced marriage is itself a barrier to sustainable development and contributes to perpetuating the cycle of poverty and that the risk of child, early and forced marriage is also highly exacerbated in conflict and humanitarian crisis situations,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Humanitarian
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2015
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