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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;
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- 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. 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;
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- 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),
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- 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. 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);
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- 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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Rights of the child 1998, para. 7b
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- [Noting the work carried out by:] The Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography;
- 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. 7b
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- [Calls upon all States:] To participate constructively in the negotiations on an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography with the aim of an early agreement on the text, recalling the mandate given to the working group by the Commission in its resolution 1995/78 of 8 March 1995;
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- 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. 7c
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- [Noting the work carried out by:] The recently appointed Special Representative of the SecretaryGeneral on the impact of armed conflict on children to follow up the recommendations presented in the final report of the expert appointed by the Secretary-General (see A/51/306 and Add.1);
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 1998
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Rights of the child 1998, para. 7d
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- [Calls upon all States:] To step up cooperation and concerted action, at the national and international levels, by all relevant authorities and institutions, especially those charged with law enforcement, with a view to combating the existence of a market that encourages such criminal practices against children and dismantling national and international networks trafficking in children;
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- 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. 7d
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- [Noting the work carried out by:] The working groups on draft optional protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child relating to the involvement of children in armed conflicts and to the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, respectively;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 1998
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Rights of the child 1998, para. 7e
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- [Noting the work carried out by:] The United Nations Children's Fund;
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- 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. 7f
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- [Calls upon all States:] To work towards strengthening partnerships between Governments, international organizations and all sectors of civil society, particularly non-governmental organizations, in order to achieve these objectives, and welcomes the efforts already made in this respect;
- 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. 7f
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- [Noting the work carried out by:] Other relevant bodies and organizations of the United Nations system, regional organizations, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and institutions for the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, and encouraging the establishment of bodies and institutions, both governmental and non-governmental, to monitor, carry out or support activities in favour of children,
- 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. 8a
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- [Decides, with regard to the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography:] To renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur for a further three years, to request the Secretary-General to provide the Special Rapporteur with all necessary assistance, and to urge all relevant parts of the United Nations system to provide the Special Rapporteur with comprehensive reporting to make the full discharge of her mandate possible and to enable her to submit an interim report to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session and a report to the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-fifth session;
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- 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. 8b
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- [Decides, with regard to the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography:] To invite the Special Rapporteur to continue to cooperate closely with other relevant United Nations organs and bodies and to convey to the Commission her findings on developments and her recommendations on the broad range of issues under her mandate;
- 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. 9
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- Recognizing that legislation alone is not enough to prevent violations of the rights of the child, that stronger political commitment is needed and that Governments should implement their laws and complement legislative measures with effective action, inter alia in the fields of law enforcement and in the administration of justice, and in social, educational and public health programmes,
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Children
- Year
- 1998
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