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Elimination of discrimination against women and girls in sport (2019), para. 15
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- 4. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a report on the intersection of race and gender discrimination in sports, including in policies, regulations and practices of sporting bodies, and elaborating on relevant international human rights norms and standards, and to present the report to the Human Rights Council at its forty-fourth session;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
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- All
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Twentieth anniversary and promotion of the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2018), para. 08
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- Stressing, in this regard, that all human rights and fundamental freedoms apply to all persons equally, including human rights defenders in the context of the Declaration, 6 and that these rights and freedoms must be respected, protected and fulfilled without discrimination,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
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- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Assistance to survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, particularly orphans, widows and victims of sexual violence (2006), para. 03
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- Recalling the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 2 particularly its recognition that all individuals, in particular vulnerable people, are entitled to freedom from fear and freedom from want, with an equal opportunity to enjoy all their rights and fully develop their human potential,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
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- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Equal participation in political and public affairs (2016), para. 13
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- 1. Expresses concern that, despite progress made towards the full implementation of the right to participate in public affairs worldwide, many people continue to face obstacles, such as discrimination, including multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, in the enjoyment of their right to participate in the public affairs of their countries as well as in the enjoyment of other human rights that enable it;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
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- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies (2009), para. 08
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- Reaffirming also that, while democracies share common features, there is no single model of democracy and that democracy does not belong to any country or region, and reaffirming further the necessity of due respect for sovereignty, the right to self-determination and territorial integrity,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Promoting the Culture of Peace with Love and Conscience (2019), para. 12
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- 3. Invites all Member States, organizations of the United Nations system and other international and regional organizations, as well as the private sector and civil society, including non-governmental organizations and individuals, to build the Culture of Peace with Love and Conscience in accordance with the culture and other appropriate circumstances or customs of their local, national and regional communities, including through quality education and public awareness -raising activities, thereby fostering sustainable development;
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
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- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all (2019), para. 27
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- 3. Strongly encourages Governments and other relevant stakeholders to take actions to achieve universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy, increase the global share of new and renewable energy, improve the inclusion of developing countries in energy sector cooperation, where relevant, and increase the rate of improvement in energy efficiency for a clean, low-emission, low-carbon, climate-resilient, safe, efficient, modern, affordable and sustainable energy system, given the systemic sustainable development benefits, while taking into consideration the diversity of national situations, priorities, policies, specific needs and challenges and capacities of developing countries, including their energy mix and energy systems;
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- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
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- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Nuclear disarmament (2006), para. 37
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- 14. Calls for the immediate commencement of negotiations in the Conference on Disarmament on a non-discriminatory, multilateral and internationally and effectively verifiable treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices on the basis of the report of the Special Coordinator 16 and the mandate contained therein;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to food (2020), para. 85
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- 44. Welcomes the work already done by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in promoting the right to adequate food, in particular its general comment No. 12 (1999) on the right to adequate food (article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), 22 in which the Committee affirmed, inter alia, that the right to adequate food is indivisibly linked to the inherent dignity of the human person, indispensable for the fulfilment of other human rights enshrined in the International Bill of Human Rights and inseparable from social justice, requiring the adoption of appropriate economic, environmental and social policies, at both the national and the international levels, oriented to the eradication of poverty and the fulfilment of all human rights for all;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity (2001), para. 26
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- 10. Calls upon the international community to support and enhance the capacity of African countries to take advantage of the opportunities offered by globalization and to overcome the challenges it poses, as a means of ensuring sustained economic growth and sustainable development;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments (2014), para. 33
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- 9. Stresses the fundamental role of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in achieving nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation, and calls upon all States parties to spare no effort to achieve the universality of the Treaty, and in this regard urges India, Israel and Pakistan to accede to the Treaty as non-nuclear-weapon States promptly and without conditions, and to place all of their nuclear facilities under International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Information and communications technologies for sustainable development (2020), para. 57
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- 15. Further welcomes the work of the Information for All Programme of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which aims to assist Member States in formulating policies to bridge digital divides and ensure equitable knowledge societies, and also welcomes the holding of Global Media and Information Literacy Week from 24 to 31 October 2019;
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
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- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997–2006) (2003), para. 13
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- 1. Stresses that eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge facing the world today and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, in particular for developing countries, and that, although each country has the primary responsibility for its own sustainable development and poverty eradication and that the role of national policies and development strategies cannot be overemphasized, concerted and concrete measures are required at all levels to enable developing countries to achieve their sustainable development goals as related to the internationally agreed poverty-related targets and goals;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
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- All
- N.A.
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Promotion of interreligious and intercultural dialogue, understanding and cooperation for peace (2017), para. 29
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- Recognizing the contributions of the media and of new information and communications technology to promoting peoples’ understanding of different cultures and religions, including through the promotion of dialogue,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Enhancement of international cooperation in the field of human rights (2019), para. 42
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- 13. Reaffirms that each State has the inalienable right to choose freely and develop, in accordance with the sovereign will of its people, its own political, social, economic and cultural systems, without interference from any other State or non-State actor, in strict conformity with the Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other relevant international instruments;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to development (2019), para. 30
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- Emphasizing that all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to development, are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Towards a stable international financial system, respons ive to the challenges of development, especially in the developing countries (2000), para. 17
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- 3. Stresses the importance of having an enabling international environment through strong cooperative efforts by all countries and institutions to promote global economic development, and to this end calls upon all countries, in particular major industrialized countries, which have significant weight in influencing world economic growth, to adopt and pursue coordinated policies conducive to world economic growth and international financial stability and the promotion of an external economic environment favourable to a widespread economic recovery, including the full recovery of crisis-affected countries;
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Regional conference on assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in the Great Lakes region (1994), para. 08
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- Noting with satisfaction that Burundi’s registered political parties have resolved to have recourse to dialogue and negotiation in the search for lasting solutions to the institutional problems, based on equity, justice and law and an unshakable will to live in peace,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the rule of law at the national and international levels (2012), para. 14
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- 11. We recognize the importance of national ownership in rule of law activities, strengthening justice and security institutions that are accessible and responsive to the needs and rights of all individuals and which build trust and promote social cohesion and economic prosperity.
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Political declaration of the third high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (2018), para. 54
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- (d) Further producing and promoting food products consistent with a healthy diet, making further efforts to reformulate them in order to provide healthy and nutritious options, reducing the excessive use of salt, sugars and fats, in particular saturated fats and trans-fats, as well as providing appropriate content information of those nutrients, bearing in mind international guidelines on nutrition labelling;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (2001), para. 04
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- Recalling further the Articles of the Charter of the United Nations that encourage activities through regional cooperation for the promotion of the purposes and principles of the United Nations,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Human rights in cities and other human settlements (2017), para. 07
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- Welcoming the adoption of the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), entitled “New Urban Agenda”, which is grounded in the vision that aims to achieve cities and human settlements where all persons are able to enjoy equal rights and opportunities, as well as their fundamental freedoms, guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, including full respect for international law,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (2020), para. 52
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- 32. Expresses deep concern about the increased number of seats occupied by representatives of extremist parties of a racist or xenophobic character in a number of national and local parliaments, and emphasizes in this regard the need for all democratic political parties to base their programmes and activities on respect for human rights and freedoms, democracy, the rule of law and good governance and to condemn all messages disseminating ideas that are based on racial superiority or hatred and that have the objective of fuelling contemporary for ms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (1997), para. 03
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- Recalling that the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 3 adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, held at Vienna from 14 to 25 June 1993, reaffirmed that human rights and fundamental freedoms were the birthright of all human beings and that their protection and promotion was the first responsibility of Governments,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- 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 (2013), para. 52
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- 31. Recognizes that the social integration of people living in poverty should encompass addressing and meeting their basic human needs, including nutrition, health, water, sanitation, housing and access to education and employment, through integrated development strategies;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
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- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Review of the implementation of the Declaration on the Strengthening of International Security (1994), para. 22
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- 10. Also stresses the urgent need for more equitable development of the world economy and for redressing the current asymmetry and inequality in economic and technological development between the developed and developing countries, which are basic prerequisites for the strengthening of international peace and security;
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (2003), para. 02
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- Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 1 in which heads of State and Government resolved to strengthen further cooperation between the United Nations and national parliaments through their world organization, the Inter- Parliamentary Union,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2018), para. 04
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- Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2 the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 3 the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 3 the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 4 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 5 the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 7
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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International Labour Organization Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization (2009), para. 07
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- Recognizing that full and productive employment and decent work for all is one of the key elements of poverty reduction strategies that facilitate the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, and that it requires a multidimensional focus that incorporates Governments, the private sector, civil society, non-governmental organizations, representatives of employers and workers, international organizations and, in particular, the agencies of the United Nations system and the international financial institutions,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
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- All
- N.A.
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights (2011), para. 13
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- 1. Takes note of the report of the independent expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights; 1
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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