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Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights “Protocol of San Salvador” 1988, para. 2
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- 2. In the case of persons who are employed, the right to social security shall cover at least medical care and an allowance or retirement benefit in the case of work accidents or occupational disease and, in the case of women, paid maternity leave before and after childbirth.
- Body
- Organization of American States
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1988
Paragraph
African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention) 2009, para. 2d
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- States Parties shall: d. Take special measures to protect and provide for the reproductive and sexual health of internally displaced women as well as appropriate psycho-social support for victims of sexual and other related abuses;
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2009
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1a
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- 1. Young people shall have the right to rest and leisure and to engage in play and recreational activities that are part of a health lifestyle as well as to participate freely in sport, physical education drama, the arts, music and other forms of cultural life. In this regard, States Parties shall: a) Make provision for equal access for young men and young women to sport, physical education, cultural, artistic, recreational and leisure activities;
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1h
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- 1. States Parties acknowledge the need to eliminate discrimination against girls and young women according to obligations stipulated in various international, regional and national human rights conventions and instruments designed to protect and promote women's rights. In this regard, they shall: h) Take steps to provide equal access to health care services and nutrition for girls and young women;
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1n
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- 1. States Parties acknowledge the need to eliminate discrimination against girls and young women according to obligations stipulated in various international, regional and national human rights conventions and instruments designed to protect and promote women's rights. In this regard, they shall: n) Secure the right for young women to maternity leave.
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 3f
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- 3. The education of young people shall be directed to: f) The development of life skills to function effectively in society and include issues such as HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, substance abuse prevention and cultural practices that are harmful to the health of young girls and women as part of the education curricula;
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. l
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- RECALLING the United Nations World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and beyond and the ten priority areas identified for youth (education, employment, hunger and poverty, health, environment, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, leisure-time activities, girls and young women and youth participating in decision-making), and the five additional areas (HIV/AIDS, ICT, Inter- generational dialogue,..) adopted at the 2005 UN General assembly;
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
American Convention on Human Rights 1969, para. 5
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- 5. Capital punishment shall not be imposed upon persons who, at the time the crime was committed, were under 18 years of age or over 70 years of age; nor shall it be applied to pregnant women.
- Body
- Organization of American States
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1969
Paragraph
Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence 2011, para. 2
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- 2 Parties shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that victims have access to health care and social services and that services are adequately resourced and professionals are trained to assist victims and refer them to the appropriate services.
- Body
- Council of Europe
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2011
Paragraph
Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence 2011, para. 2
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- 2 Adequate State compensation shall be awarded to those who have sustained serious bodily injury or impairment of health, to the extent that the damage is not covered by other sources such as the perpetrator, insurance or State-funded health and social provisions. This does not preclude Parties from claiming regress for compensation awarded from the perpetrator, as long as due regard is paid to the victim’s safety.
- Body
- Council of Europe
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2011
Paragraph
Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence 2011, para. a
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- Parties shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that the following intentional conducts are criminalised: (a) performing an abortion on a woman without her prior and informed consent;
- Body
- Council of Europe
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2011
Paragraph
Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence 2011, para. b
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- Parties shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that the following intentional conducts are criminalised: (b) performing surgery which has the purpose or effect of terminating a woman’s capacity to naturally reproduce without her prior and informed consent or understanding of the procedure.
- Body
- Council of Europe
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2011
Paragraph
European Social Charter (Revised) 1996, para. 1
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- With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right of employed women to the protection of maternity, the Parties undertake: 1. to provide either by paid leave, by adequate social security benefits or by benefits from public funds for employed women to take leave before and after childbirth up to a total of at least fourteen weeks;
- Body
- Council of Europe
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1996
Paragraph
European Social Charter (Revised) 1996, para. 3
- Paragraph text
- With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right of employed women to the protection of maternity, the Parties undertake: 3. to provide that mothers who are nursing their infants shall be entitled to sufficient time off for this purpose;
- Body
- Council of Europe
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Women
- Year
- 1996
Paragraph
European Social Charter (Revised) 1996, para. 4
- Paragraph text
- With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right of employed women to the protection of maternity, the Parties undertake: 4. to regulate the employment in night work of pregnant women, women who have recently given birth and women nursing their infants;
- Body
- Council of Europe
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Women
- Year
- 1996
Paragraph
European Social Charter (Revised) 1996, para. 8
- Paragraph text
- The Parties accept as the aim of their policy, to be pursued by all appropriate means both national and international in character, the attainment of conditions in which the following rights and principles may be effectively realised: 8. Employed women, in case of maternity, have the right to a special protection.
- Body
- Council of Europe
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1996
Paragraph
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. 1a
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- 1. States Parties shall ensure that the right to health of women, including sexual and reproductive health is respected and promoted. This includes: a) the right to control their fertility;
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2003
Paragraph
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. 1b
- Paragraph text
- 1. States Parties shall combat all forms of discrimination against women through appropriate legislative, institutional and other measures. In this regard they shall: b) enact and effectively implement appropriate legislative or regulatory measures, including those prohibiting and curbing all forms of discrimination particularly those harmful practices which endanger the health and general well-being of women;
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2003
Paragraph
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. 1b
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- 1. States Parties shall ensure that the right to health of women, including sexual and reproductive health is respected and promoted. This includes: b) the right to decide whether to have children, the number of children and the spacing of children;
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2003
Paragraph
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. 1c
- Paragraph text
- 1. States Parties shall ensure that the right to health of women, including sexual and reproductive health is respected and promoted. This includes: c) the right to choose any method of contraception;
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2003
Paragraph
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. 1d
- Paragraph text
- 1. States Parties shall ensure that the right to health of women, including sexual and reproductive health is respected and promoted. This includes: d) the right to self protection and to be protected against sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS;
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2003
Paragraph
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. 1e
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- 1. States Parties shall ensure that the right to health of women, including sexual and reproductive health is respected and promoted. This includes: e) the right to be informed on one's health status and on the health status of one's partner, particularly if affected with sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, in accordance with internationally recognised standards and best practices;
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2003
Paragraph
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. 1f
- Paragraph text
- 1. States Parties shall ensure that the right to health of women, including sexual and reproductive health is respected and promoted. This includes: f) the right to have family planning education.
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2003
Paragraph
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. 2a
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- 2. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to: a) provide adequate, affordable and accessible health services, including information, education and communication programmes to women especially those in rural areas;
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2003
Paragraph
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. 2b
- Paragraph text
- 2. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to: b) establish and strengthen existing pre-natal, delivery and post-natal health and nutritional services for women during pregnancy and while they are breast-feeding;
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2003
Paragraph
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. 2c
- Paragraph text
- 2. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to: c) protect the reproductive rights of women by authorising medical abortion in cases of sexual assault, rape, incest, and where the continued pregnancy endangers the mental and physical health of the mother or the life of the mother or the foetus.
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2003
Paragraph
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. 2h
- Paragraph text
- 2. States Parties shall take appropriate and effective measures to: h) prohibit all medical or scientific experiments on women without their informed consent;
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2003
Paragraph
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. 2j
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- 2. States Parties shall take appropriate and effective measures to: j) ensure that, in those countries where the death penalty still exists, not to carry out death sentences on pregnant or nursing women.
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2003
Paragraph
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. a
- Paragraph text
- a) provide women with access to clean drinking water, sources of domestic fuel, land, and the means of producing nutritious food;
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2003
Paragraph
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. a
- Paragraph text
- The States Parties undertake to: a) provide protection to elderly women and take specific measures commensurate with their physical, economic and social needs as well as their access to employment and professional training;
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Year
- 2003
Paragraph