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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility ofIndividuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2004), para. 08
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- Concerned by the considerable number of communications received by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on human rights defenders that, together with the reports submitted by some of the special procedure mechanisms, indicate the serious nature of the risks faced by human rights defenders, in particular those active at the local and community levels, and the severe consequences for women human rights defenders and defenders of rights of persons belonging to minorities,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
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- Mar 5, 2020
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International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (2016), para. 29
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- 13. Stresses the importance of mainstreaming a gender perspective and the perspectives of persons with disabilities in disaster risk management so as to strengthen the resilience of communities and reduce social vulnerabilities to disasters, and in this regard recognizes the need for the inclusive p articipation and contribution of women, children, older persons, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and local communities, as well as the role of youth, volunteers, migrants, local communities, academia, scientific and research entities and netw orks, business, professional associations, private sector financing institutions and the media in all forums and processes related to disaster risk reduction, in accordance with the Sendai Framework;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2019), para. 51
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- 21. Invites the Commission on the Status of Women to consider indigenous women’s issues, among others, at the sixty-fourth session of the Commission, to be held in 2020, to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, and encourages Governments to cooperate with indigenous peoples at all levels on preparations for the 2020 review so as to benefit from their experience and expertise;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Human rights and indigenous peoples (2016), para. 17
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- 6. Reaffirms its decision to continue its consideration of the issue of the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, including violence against indigenous women and girls, as a matter of high priority, in conformity with its annual programme of work;
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Women in development (2009), para. 61
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- 41. Recognizes the critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women, and their traditional knowledge, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2013), para. 07
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- Reaffirming further the international commitments in the field of social development and to gender equality and the advancement of women made at the World Conference on Human Rights, the International Conference on Population and Development, the World Summit for Social Development and the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, as well as those made in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 16 at the 2005 World Summit 17 and at the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, 18 and noting the attention paid to the elimination of all forms of violence against indigenous women in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted by the Assembly in its resolution 61/295 of 13 September 2007,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028) (2018), para. 17
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- Reaffirming that the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls will make a crucial contribution to progress across all of the Sustainable Development Goals and targets, reaffirming also the critical role and contribution of rural women, including smallholders and women farmers, indigenous women and women in local communities, and their traditional knowledge in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty, and in this regard stressing the importance of reviewing agricultural policies and strategies to ensure that the critical role of women in food security and nutrition is recognized and addressed as an integral part of both short - and long-term responses to food insecurity, malnutrition, potential excessive price volatility and food crises in developing countries,
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- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Effective promotion of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (2004), para. 14
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- 5. Urges States and the international community to promote and protect the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, as set out in the Declaration, including through the provision of adequate education and the facilitation of their participation in all aspects of the political, economic, social, religious and cultural life of society and in the economic progress and development of their country, and to apply a gender perspective while doing so;
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe (2003), para. 03
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- Acknowledging the contribution of the Council of Europe to the protection and strengthening of democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the protection of national minorities, and the rule of law on the European continent, including its activities against racism and intolerance, the promotion of gender equality, social development and a common cultural heritage,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2016), para. 21
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- (l) Valuing and supporting the critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women in rural areas, in the conservation and sustainable use of traditional crops and biodiversity for present and future generations as an essential contribution to food security and nutrition;
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- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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National human rights institutions (2018), para. 16
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- Welcoming also the valuable participation and contribution of national human rights institutions and their networks, including their contribution to national mechanisms for reporting and follow-up, and with regard to follow-up to recommendations and relevant United Nations mechanisms and processes, in accordance with their respective mandates, including the Human Rights Council and its universal periodic review mechanism and the special procedures, the treaty bodies, the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Commission on the Status of Women, the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, and their continuing efforts in support of the 2030 Agenda, and encouraging further efforts in this regard,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The rights of the child (2001), para. 047
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- 16. Calls upon States to ensure that emphasis is given to the qualitative aspects of education, that the education of the child is carried out, that States parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child 2 develop and implement programmes for the education of the child, in accordance with articles 28 and 29 of the Convention, and that education is directed, inter alia, to the development of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and to the preparation of the child for a 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, and to ensure that children, from an early age, benefit from education on values, attitudes, modes of behaviour and ways of life that will enable them to resolve any dispute peacefully and in a spirit of respect for human dignity and of tolerance and non-discrimination, bearing in mind the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace; 8
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in the world of work (2019), para. 03
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- Reaffirming also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, and the outcomes of their review conferences, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2018), para. 33
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- (p) Valuing and supporting the critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women in rural areas, in the conservation and sustainable use of traditional crops and biodiversity for present and future generations as an essential contribution to food security and nutrition;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Human rights and the environment (2018), para. 08
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- Recalling also the Paris Agreement, adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in which the parties acknowledged in the preamble that they should, when taking action to address climate change, respect, promote and consider their respective obligations with regard to human rights, the right to health, the rights of indigenous peoples, local communities, migrants, children, persons with disabilities and people in vulnerable situations and the right to development, as well as gender equality, the empowerment of women and intergenerational equity,
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- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Human rights and climate change (2018), para. 24
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- Recalling that the Paris Agreement adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change acknowledges that climate change is a common concern of humankind and that parties should, when taking action to address climate change, respect, promote and consider their respective obligations on human rights, the right to health, the rights of indigenous peoples, local communities, migrants, children, persons with disabilities and people in vulnerable situations and the right to development, as well as gender equality, empowerment of women and intergenerational equity,
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- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2018), para. 38
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- 13. Encourages States to consider including in their reports related to indigenous peoples and women information on the progress made and challenges in the implementation of Commission on the Status of Women resolutions 49/7 of 11 March 2005, entitled “Indigenous women: beyond the ten-year review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action”, 13 and 56/4 of 9 March 2012, entitled “Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication”; 14 14. Encourages Member States to give due consideration to all the rights of indigenous peoples in fulfilling the commitments undertaken in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 7 and in the elaboration of national programmes;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2020), para. 55
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- 22. Invites the Commission on the Status of Women to consider indigenous women’s issues, among others, at its sixty-fourth session, to be held in 2020, to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, and encourages Governments to cooperate with indigenous peoples at all levels on preparations for the 2020 review so as to benefit from their experience and expertise;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementing the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and FundamentalFreedoms through providing a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders and ensuring their protection (2020), para. 42
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- 18. Strongly encourages States to develop and put in place comprehensive, sustainable and gender-responsive public policies and programmes that support and protect human rights defenders at all stages of their work, that ensure effective coordination between relevant institutional actors, including coordination within national and local levels, and address causes of attacks against defenders and barriers against the defence of rights, and that take into account, inter alia, the diverse situations of human rights defenders and the contexts in which they operate, and the intersectional dimensions of violations and abuses against women human rights defenders, indigenous peoples, children, persons belonging to minorities and rural communities;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to a nationality: women’s equal nationality rights in law and in practice (2016), para. 19
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- Noting that, among displaced, migrant and refugee populations, gender inequality in nationality laws may leave children born in woman-headed households, including those headed by indigenous women, at risk of statelessness and may pose a barrier to children’s eventual voluntary return to the country of their parents’ residence,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: engaging men and boys in preventing and responding to violence against all women and girls (2017), para. 05
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- Recalling also its resolution 32/19 of 1 July 2016, entitled “Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls”, and General Assembly resolution 71/170 of 19 December 2016, entitled “Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence”,
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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United Nations Development Fund for Women (2008), para. 36
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- 21. Also encourages the Fund, within its mandate, to continue to assist Governments in implementing the rights of indigenous women, in accordance with international human rights obligations and taking into account, as appropriate, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; 12F 13
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Scope, modalities, format and organization of the high-level meeting on the fight against tuberculosis (2018), para. 31
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- 14. Encourages Member States to consider including in their national delegations representatives such as parliamentarians, mayors and governors of cities and states with a high burden of tuberculosis, representatives of civil society, including non-governmental organizations, indigenous leadership, community organizations and faith-based organizations, academia, philanthropic foundations, the private sector and networks representing people affected by tuberculosis, wi th due regard to gender equity;
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- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2009), para. 36
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- 23. Stresses that policies and strategies to achieve full employment and decent work for all should include specific measures to promote gender equality and foster social integration for social groups such as youth, persons with disabilities, and older persons, as well as migrants and indigenous peoples;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2020), para. 54
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- 21. Reaffirms the importance of effective accountability with regard to violence against indigenous women and girls, including sexual violence, domestic violence, abuse, exploitation and sexual harassment, as well as with regard to taking adequate measures to prevent and eliminate such violence;
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- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (2016), para. 048
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- (i) To enhance equality for all persons before the law, including gender equality, for individuals belonging to minority groups and for indigenous people, through, inter alia, a comprehensive approach with other sectors of government, relevant members of civil society and the media and the promotion of the recruitment by criminal justice institutions of individuals belonging to these groups;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2020), para. 10
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- Recognizing that violence against indigenous women and girls has a negative impact on their enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms and constitutes a major impediment to indigenous women’s full, equal, meaningful and effective participation in society, the economy and political decision-making, and in this regard recalling Human Rights Council resolution 32/19 of 1 July 2016, entitled “Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls”, 12 which brings closer attention to this issue, and recognizing also the negative effects of multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2017), para. 42
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- 18. Welcomes the decision of the Commission on the Status of Women to place the issue of empowerment of indigenous women on the agenda of its sixty - first session as a focus area, and encourages States to participate actively in discussions on this issue;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2010), para. 39
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- 25. Stresses that policies and strategies to achieve full employment and decent work for all should include appropriate specific measures to promote gender equality and foster social integration for social groups such as youth, persons with disabilities and older persons, as well as migrants and indigenous peoples, on an equal basis with others;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2017), para. 60
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- 34. Recognizes that, since the convening of the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen in 1995, advances have been made in addressing and promoting social integration, including through the adoption o f the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, 15 the World Programme of Action for Youth, 16 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 18 and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action; 19
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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