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Elimination of violence against women 1995, para. 4
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- Deeply concerned at continuing and endemic violence against women, noting that the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women sets out various forms of physical, sexual and psychological violence against women, and noting that violence against women encompasses, but is not limited to battering, sexual abuse of female children in the household, dowry-related violence, marital rape, female genital mutilation and other traditional practices harmful to women, non-spousal violence, violence related to exploitation, rape, sexual abuse, sexual harassment and intimation at work, in education institutions and elsewhere, trafficking in women and forced prostitution,
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 1995
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Elimination of violence against women 1995, para. 6
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- Alarmed by the marked increase in acts of sexual violence directed notably against women and children, as expressed in the Final Declaration of the International Conference for the Protection of War Victims, held at Geneva from 30 August to 1 September 1993, and reiterating that such acts constitute grave breaches of international humanitarian law,
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 1995
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Elimination of violence against women 1996, para. 8
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- Alarmed by the marked increase in acts of sexual violence directed notably against women and children, as expressed in the Final Declaration of the International Conference for the Protection of War Victims, held in Geneva from 30 August to 1 September 1993, and reiterating that such acts constitute grave breaches of international humanitarian law,
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 1996
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Elimination of violence against women 1997, para. 6
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- Alarmed by the marked increase in acts of sexual violence directed notably against women and children, as expressed in the Final Declaration of the International Conference for the Protection of War Victims, held in Geneva from 30 August to 1 September 1993, and reiterating that such acts constitute grave breaches of international humanitarian law,
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 1997
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Elimination of violence against women 1998, para. 9g
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- [Stresses the conclusions and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur that States have an affirmative duty to promote and protect the human rights of women and must exercise due diligence to prevent violence against women, including violence against women in times of armed conflict, violence against women in custody and violence against refugee and internally displaced women, and calls upon States:] To protect children, especially the girl child, in situations of armed conflict against participation, recruitment, rape and sexual exploitation and abuse through adherence to the applicable principles of international human rights and humanitarian law;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1998
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Elimination of violence against women 1999, para. 4
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- Strongly condemns physical, sexual and psychological violence occurring in the family, which encompasses, but is not limited to, battering, sexual abuse of female children in the household, dowry-related violence, marital rape, female genital mutilation and other traditional practices harmful to women, non-spousal violence and violence related to exploitation;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Women
- Year
- 1999
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Elimination of violence against women 2000, para. 5
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- Strongly condemns physical, sexual and psychological violence occurring in the family, which encompasses, but is not limited to, battering, sexual abuse of female children in the household, dowry-related violence, marital rape, female infanticide, female genital mutilation and other traditional practices harmful to women, non-spousal violence and violence related to exploitation;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Women
- Year
- 2000
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Elimination of violence against women 2000, para. 9
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- Encourages Governments to ensure that all international and national measures to eliminate trafficking, including the draft protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, promote and protect the human rights of victims;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2000
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Elimination of violence against women 2001, para. 5
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- Strongly condemns physical, sexual and psychological violence occurring in the family, which encompasses, but is not limited to, battering, sexual abuse of female children in the household, dowry-related violence, marital rape, female infanticide, female genital mutilation and other traditional practices harmful to women, non-spousal violence and violence related to exploitation;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Women
- Year
- 2001
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Elimination of violence against women 2001, para. 6
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- Noting the Agenda for War-Affected Children adopted on 17 September 2000 at the International Conference on War-Affected Children and the Windhoek Declaration and the Namibia Plan of Action on Mainstreaming a Gender Perspective in Multidimensional Peace Support Operations (A/55/138-S/2000/693, annexes I and II),
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2001
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Elimination of violence against women 2001, para. 9
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- Welcomes the adoption by the General Assembly of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and urges Governments to consider signing and ratifying or acceding to the Protocol;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2001
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Rights of the child 1998, para. 1c
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- [Welcomes:] The publication by the United Nations Children s Fund of the Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which constitutes an important advocacy tool to promote wider understanding of the principles and provisions of the Convention;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 1998
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Rights of the child 1998, para. 2a
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- [Calls upon States parties:] To implement the Convention fully, to cooperate closely with the Committee on the Rights of the Child and to comply in a timely manner with their reporting obligations under the Convention, in accordance with the guidelines elaborated by the Committee, as well as to take into account the recommendations made by the Committee in the implementation of the provisions of the Convention;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 1998
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Rights of the child 1998, para. 2d
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- [Calls upon States parties:] To ensure that the rights set forth in the Convention are respected without discrimination of any kind based on the child's or his or her parents' or legal guardians' race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, property, disability, birth or other status;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Year
- 1998
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Rights of the child 1998, para. 2e
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- [Calls upon States parties:] To ensure that the education of the child shall be carried out in accordance with articles 28 and 29 of the Convention and that the education be directed, inter alia, to the development of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, for the Charter of the United Nations and for different cultures and to the preparation of the child for responsible life in a free society, in a spirit of understanding, peace, tolerance, gender equality and friendship among peoples, ethnic, national and religious groups, and persons of indigenous origin;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Year
- 1998
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Rights of the child 1998, para. 2f
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- [Calls upon States parties:] To ensure that every child alleged or recognized as having infringed the penal law is treated with dignity in accordance with the principles and relevant provisions of the Convention;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 1998
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Rights of the child 1998, para. 2g
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- [Calls upon States parties:] And organs and bodies of the United Nations, within the scope of their respective mandates, as well as intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, the media and the community at large, to make the principles and provisions of the Convention widely known to adults and children alike in accordance with article 42 of the Convention and to encourage training on the rights of the child for those involved in activities concerning children, for example through the programme of advisory services and technical cooperation in the field of human rights;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 1998
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Rights of the child 1998, para. 3
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- Recalling also the adoption of the Programme of Action for the Prevention of the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, annexed to its resolution 1992/74 of 5 March 1992, the Programme of Action for the Elimination of the Exploitation of Child Labour, annexed to its resolution 1993/79 of 10 March 1993, and the Programme of Action for the Prevention of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (see E/CN.4/Sub.2/1995/28/Add.1),
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 1998
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Rights of the child 1998, para. 3b
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- [Decides, with regard to the Committee on the Rights of the Child:] To encourage the Committee, in monitoring the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to continue to pay attention to the needs of children requiring special protection;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 1998
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Rights of the child 1998, para. 4
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- Reaffirms the fundamental principle set forth in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (A/CONF.177/20, chap. I) that the human rights of women and girls are an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal human rights;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1998
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Rights of the child 1998, para. 5
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- Reaffirming the Declaration and Plan of Action adopted by the World Summit for Children in 1990 (A/45/625, annex) and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (A/CONF.157/23), which, inter alia, states that national and international mechanisms and programmes for the defence and protection of children, in particular those in especially difficult circumstances, should be strengthened, including through effective measures to combat exploitation and abuse of children such as female infanticide, harmful child labour, sale of children and their organs, child prostitution and child pornography as well as other forms of sexual abuse, and which reaffirms that all human rights and fundamental freedoms are universal,
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 1998
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Rights of the child 1998, para. 5a
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- [Calls upon all States:] To take all necessary measures and to institute legal reforms to ensure the full and equal enjoyment by girls of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, and to take effective action against violations of those rights and freedoms;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1998
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Rights of the child 1998, para. 5b
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- [Calls upon all States:] And international and non-governmental organizations, individually and collectively, to set goals and to develop and effectively implement gender-sensitive strategies to address the rights and needs of children, in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, especially the rights and particular needs of girls in education, health and nutrition, and to eliminate harmful cultural attitudes and practices against girls;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1998
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Rights of the child 1998, para. 5c
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- [Calls upon all States:] To eliminate all forms of discrimination against girls and the root causes of son preference, which result in harmful and unethical practices, inter alia by enacting and enforcing legislation protecting girls from violence, including female infanticide and prenatal sex selection, genital mutilation, incest, sexual abuse and exploitation, and by developing age-appropriate, safe and confidential programmes and medical, social and psychological support services to assist girls who are subjected to violence;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 1998
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Rights of the child 1998, para. 6
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- Expressing its support for the ongoing negotiations on the creation of a permanent international criminal court, and inviting those involved to be guided by the principles and provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as appropriate,
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Children
- Year
- 1998
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Rights of the child 1998, para. 6a
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- [Welcomes:] The report of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (E/CN.4/1998/101 and Add.1 and 2), which contains a general overview of the latest developments at the national and international levels on the themes under her mandate, and focuses this year on the role of the media and of education in the prevention of the problem of commercial sexual exploitation of children and in assistance to and rehabilitation and reintegration of child victims;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 1998
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Rights of the child 1998, para. 6b
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- [Welcomes:] The report of the working group on the question of a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography on its fourth session (E/CN.4/1998/103);
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 1998
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Rights of the child 1998, para. 6c
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- [Welcomes:] The measures taken by Governments to implement the Programme of Action for the Prevention of the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, taking note of the biennial report of the Secretary-General thereon (E/CN.4/Sub.2/1997/11);
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 1998
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Rights of the child 1998, para. 7a
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- [Calls upon all States:] To develop urgently, implement and enforce measures to eliminate the sale, trafficking, abduction and sexual exploitation or abuse of children, including through child sex tourism, keeping in mind especially the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the concrete measures outlined in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and in the Programmes of Action adopted by the Commission in 1992 and 1993, as well as in the Declaration and Agenda for Action of the World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, held in Stockholm in August 1996 at the initiative of the Government of Sweden (A/51/385, annex);
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 1998
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Rights of the child 1998, para. 7a
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- [Noting the work carried out by:] The Committee on the Rights of the Child;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- N.A.
- Year
- 1998
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