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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 108
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- 61 (m). Commit to reducing the risk of HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women by providing them with quality information and education, mentoring, social protection and social services, which evidence shows reduce their risk of HIV infection, by ensuring girls’ access and transition to secondary and tertiary education and addressing barriers to retention, and by providing women with psychosocial support and vocational training to facilitate their transition from education to decent work;
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- Economic Rights
- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas (2014), para. 13
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- (g) Strengthening measures, including resource generation, to accelerate progress towards the achievement of Millennium Development Goal 5 on improving maternal health by addressing the specific health and nutrition needs of rural women and taking concrete measures to enhance and provide access to the highest attainable standards of health for women in rural areas, as well as quality, affordable and universally accessible primary health care and support services, including in such areas of sexual and reproductive health as prenatal and postnatal health care, emergency obstetric care, family planning information and increasing knowledge, awareness and support for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, and by promoting and protecting their reproductive rights in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, 12 the Beijing Platform for Action 7 and their review outcomes;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The girl child (2014), para. 30
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- Deeply concerned that, despite its widespread practice, child, early and forced marriage is still underreported, recognizing that this requires further attention and that child, early and forced marriage exposes the girl child to greater risk of HIV and sexually transmitted infections, often leads to premature sexual relations, early pregnancy and early childbearing and increases the risk of obstetric fistula and high levels of maternal mortality and morbidity, and furthermore entails complications during pregnancy and childbirth, which often lead to disability, stillbirth and maternal death, particularly for young women and girls, which require appropriate prenatal and postnatal health-care services for mothers, including in the area of skilled birth attendance and emergency obstetric care, and noting with concern that this reduces girls’ opportunities to complete their education, gain comprehensive knowledge, participate in the community or develop employable skills and is likely to have a long-term adverse impact on their employment opportunities and their and their children’s quality of life and violates and impairs the full enjoyment of their human rights,
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Towards a comprehensive and integral international legal instrument to promote and protect the rights and dignity of older persons (2013), para. 14
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- 1. Decides that the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, which shall be open to all Member States and observers of the United Nations shall, as part of its mandate and starting from its upcoming fourth session, to be held in 2013, consider proposals for an international legal instrument to promote and protect the rights and dignity of older persons, based on the holistic approach in the work carried out in the fields of social development, human rights and non-discrimination, as well as gender equality and the empowerment of women, and taking into account the inputs of the Human Rights Council, the reports of the Working Group and the recommendations of the Commission for Social Development and the Commission on the Status of Women, as well as the contributions from the second global review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, 7 to be held during the fifty-first session of the Commission for Social Development;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (2016), para. 09
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- Welcoming the annual parliamentary hearings at the United Nations, as well as other specialized parliamentary meetings organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union in cooperation with the United Nations to correspond to major United Nations conferences and events such as the annual sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women, the Conferences of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the recent special session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem and the high-level meeting of the Assembly on HIV/AIDS,
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- Environment
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation Organization (2011), para. 09
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- 4. Encourages cooperation between the Economic Cooperation Organization and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in streamlining rules and regulations and strengthening institutions of the States members of the Economic Cooperation Organization to meet the requirements pertaining to the Technical Barriers to Trade, in the adoption of appropriate sanitary and phytosanitary measures and in strengthening private sector cooperation, in line with the plans of the Economic Cooperation Organization to establish trade associations at the regional level and encouraging women entrepreneurs, professionals/resource persons/consultants, marketing advisory firms, and others;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2015), para. 22
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- 2. Stresses the need to address the social issues that contribute to the problem of obstetric fistula, such as poverty, lack of or inadequate education for women and girls, lack of access to health-care services, including sexual and reproductive health-care services, early childbearing, child, early and forced marriage and the low status of women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings (2017), para. 17
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- Recognizing that child, early and forced marriage constitutes a serious threat to the full realization of the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health of women and girls, including but not limited to their sexual and reproductive health, significantly increasing the risk of early, frequent and unwanted pregnancy, maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity, obstetric fistula and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, as well as increasing vulnerability to all forms of violence,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Consequences of child, early and forced marriage (2019), para. 38
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- 10. Calls upon Governments to respect, protect and fulfil the human rights of all women and girls, including those who have been subjected to child, early and forced marriage, to have control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters relating to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence, and to adopt and accelerate the implementation of laws, policies and programmes that protect and enable the enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including reproductive rights, in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action, and the outcome documents of their review conferences;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 37
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- 16. Calls upon States to develop, support and implement comprehensive and integrated strategies for the prevention of female genital mutilation, including the training of social workers, medical personnel, community and religious leaders and relevant professionals, and to ensure that they provide competent, supportive services and care to women and girls who are at risk of or who have undergone female genital mutilation and encourage them to report to the appropriate authorities cases in which they believe women or girls are at risk;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The protection of human rights in the context of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquiredimmunodeficiencysyndrome (AIDS) (2011), para. 46
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- 12. Requests States to develop further and, where necessary, to establish coordinated, participatory, gender-sensitive, transparent, evidence-informed and accountable national HIV/AIDS policies and programmes, and to implement them at all levels, including in prisons or other detention facilities, in cooperation with civil society, including faith- and community-based organizations, women’s organizations, advocacy groups and representatives of people living with HIV and other key populations;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Follow-up to the outcome of the twenty-sixth special session: implementation of the Declaration ofCommitment on HIV/AIDS (2004), para. 06
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- Noting that the unequal legal and social status of women heightens their vulnerability to HIV,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2013), para. 06
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- Stressing the interlinkages between poverty, malnutrition, lack of or inadequate or inaccessible health-care services, early childbearing, child marriage, violence against young women and girls and gender discrimination as root causes of obstetric fistula, and that poverty remains the main social risk factor,
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- Gender
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2017), para. 35
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- (b) Making greater investments in strengthening health systems, ensuring adequately trained and skilled human resources, especially midwives, obstetricians, gynaecologists and doctors, and providing support for the development and maintenance of infrastructure, as well as investments in referral mechanisms, equipment and supply chains, to improve maternal and newborn health -care services and ensure that women and girls have access to the full continuum of care, with functional quality control and monitoring mechanisms in place for all areas of service delivery;
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- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Infants
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2002), para. 14
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- 3. Rejects unilateral coercive measures with all their extraterritorial effects as tools for political or economic pressure against any country, in particular against developing countries, because of their negative effects on the realization of all the human rights of vast sectors of their populations, in particular children, women and the elderly;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Draft outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals (2010), para. 025
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- 20. We acknowledge that much more needs to be done in achieving the Millennium Development Goals as progress has been uneven among regions and between and within countries. Hunger and malnutrition rose again from 2007 through 2009, partially reversing prior gains. There has been slow progress in reaching full and productive employment and decent work for all, advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women, achieving environmental sustainability and providing basic sanitation, and new HIV infections still outpace the number of people starting treatment. In particular, we express grave concern over the slow progress being made in reducing maternal mortality and improving maternal and reproductive health. Progress on other Millennium Development Goals is fragile and must be sustained to avoid reversal.
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights (2012), para. 12
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- 6. Encourages the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to bring the technical guidance to the attention of the Secretary-General and all United Nations entities with mandates relevant to maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights, and to continue dialogue on the issue of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity with all relevant actors in order to accelerate the realization of the rights of women and girls and the achievement of Millennium Development Goal 5 by 2015;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to food (2016), para. 34
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- 7. Encourages all States to take action to address gender inequality and discrimination against women, in particular when they contribute to the malnutriti on of women and girls, including measures to ensure the full and equal realization of the right to food and that women have equal access to resources, including income, land and water and their ownership and agricultural inputs, as well as full and equal access to health care, education, science and technology, to enable them to feed themselves and their families, and in this regard stresses the need to empower women and strengthen their role in decision-making;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Women in development (2020), para. 23
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- Reaffirming that in nutrition and other related policies, special attention should be paid to the empowerment of women and girls, thereby contributing to women ’s full and equal access to social protection and resources, including income, agricultural inputs, land, water, finance, education, training, science and technology and health care, thus promoting food security and health,
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Situation of older women in society (2003), para. 10
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- Affirming the dual challenges of ageing and disability, and affirming also that older persons have specific health needs and that, owing to the increase in life expectancy and the growing number of older women, their health concerns require particular attention and further research,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules) (2011), para. 051
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- 12. Some of these rules address issues applicable to both men and women prisoners, including those relating to parental responsibilities, some medical services, searching procedures and the like, although the rules are mainly concerned with the needs of women and their children. However, as the focus includes the children of imprisoned mothers, there is a need to recognize the central role of both parents in the lives of children. Accordingly, some of these rules would apply equally to male prisoners and offenders who are fathers.
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- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (2007), para. 22
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- 10. Requests relevant international organizations, in particular the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund, to assist efforts of national Governments to establish universal protection of young children and pregnant women in malaria-endemic countries, particularly in Africa, with insecticide-treated nets as rapidly as possible, with due regard to ensuring sustainability through full community participation and implementation through the health system;
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- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in prevention (2010), para. 22
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- 9. Urges States to devote the resources necessary to ensure effective and ongoing outreach, awareness-raising, education, training and engagement with relevant stakeholders who have an important role in the prevention and early response to warning signs of violence against women and girls, including government officials, community and religious leaders, and health, education, justice and law enforcement personnel, including prison personnel;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 32
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- 11. Urges States to pursue a comprehensive, culturally sensitive, systematic approach that incorporates a social perspective and is based on human rights and gender-equality principles in providing education and training to families, local community leaders and members of all professions relevant to the protection and empowerment of women and girls in order to increase awareness of and commitment to the elimination of female genital mutilation;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 097
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- 61 (a). Recognize that the unequal socioeconomic status of women compromises their ability to prevent HIV or mitigate the impact of AIDS, acknowledge the mutually reinforcing links between the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and the eradication of poverty, and reaffirm that the promotion and protection of, and respect for, the human rights and fundamental freedoms of women should be mainstreamed into all policie s and programmes aimed at the eradication of poverty;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Persons with albinism (2018), para. 26
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- 10. Requests the Secretary-General to present a report to the General Assembly at the main part of its seventy-fourth session, under the item entitled “Social development”, on the various social development challenges faced by persons with albinism, taking into consideration the specific needs of women and children, including those related to social inclusion, health, education and employment, and measures taken, with recommendations for further action to be taken by Member States and other relevant stakeholders to address identified challenges, and encourages the Secretary-General to collect information from Member States and all relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations system in the preparation of the report;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2008), para. 18
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- 2. Also urges all States not to adopt any unilateral measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that impede the full achievement of economic and social development by the population of the affected countries, in particular children and women, that hinder their well-being and that create obstacles to the full enjoyment of their human rights, including the right of everyone to a standard of living adequate for his or her health and well-being and his or her right to food, medical care and the necessary social services, as well as to ensure that food and medicine are not used as tools for political pressure;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Policies and programmes involving youth (2020), para. 37
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- 12. Calls upon Member States to accelerate efforts to scale up scientifically accurate age-appropriate comprehensive education, relevant to cultural contexts, that provides adolescent girls and boys and young women and men, in and out of school, consistent with their evolving capacities, with information on sexual and reproductive health, gender equality and the empowerment of women, human rights, physical, psychological and pubertal development, and power in relationships between women and men, to enable them to build self-esteem and informed decision-making, communication and risk reduction skills and to develop respectful relationships, in full partnership with young persons, parents, legal guardians, caregivers, educators and health-care providers;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) (2017), para. 23
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- 9. Reaffirms that, by readdressing the way cities and human settlements are planned, designed, financed, developed, governed and managed, the New Urban Agenda will help to end poverty and hunger in all its forms and dimensions, reduce inequalities, promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, in order to fully harness their vital contribution to sustainable development, i mprove human health and well-being, foster resilience and protect the environment;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2018), para. 33
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- 7. Remains concerned that agricultural innovations and technologies often bypass ageing famers, and in particularly ageing women farmers, as many do not possess the financial resources or the skills to adopt new practices, and in this regard stresses the need to strengthen the capacity of ageing farmers through continued access to financial and infrastructure services and training for improved farming techniques and technologies;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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