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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 2
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- Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 11
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- Invites the Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Change of the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Children’s Fund to continue to develop the national capacities of States and local communities for the effective implementation of inclusive policies, programmes and action plans to eliminate female genital mutilation at the local, national, and regional levels, while encouraging States and development cooperation agencies to consider increasing their financial support for the Joint Programme;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 9
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- Recognizing also that efforts at the local, national, regional and international levels have led to a decline in the global prevalence of female genital mutilation,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 10
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- Recognizing further the role of regional and subregional instruments and mechanisms in the prevention and elimination of female genital mutilation,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 19
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- Calls upon the international community to strongly support, including through increased financial support, a third phase of the Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Change of the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Children's Fund, which will run until 2020, as well as national programmes focused on the elimination of female genital mutilation;
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- United Nations General Assembly
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 8
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- Calls upon States to ensure that national action plans and strategies on the elimination of female genital mutilation are comprehensive and multidisciplinary in scope and that they include projected timelines for goals and incorporate clear targets and indicators for the effective monitoring, impact assessment and coordination of programmes among all relevant stakeholders and promote their participation, including the participation of affected groups, practising communities and non-governmental organizations, in the development, implementation and evaluation of such plans and strategies;
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Gender
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 2
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- Calls upon States to continue and intensify efforts to provide information and raise awareness about the harmful effects of female genital mutilation and about the continuing increase at the national and international levels in support for the elimination of the practice, and to organize activities within this framework during the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation with the involvement of religious and traditional authorities, which make the movement to end female genital mutilation more visible;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Education
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 16
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- Welcoming the efforts of the United Nations system to end female genital mutilation, in particular the commitment of 10 United Nations entities, announced in their joint inter-agency statement of 27 February 2008 on eliminating female genital mutilation, as well as the Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Change of the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Children's Fund, to accelerate the elimination of the practice,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 2
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- Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Gender
- Harmful Practices
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- 2016
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 8
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- Encourages States to consider presenting, during the universal periodic review, relevant recommendations on measures to eliminate female genital mutilation;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- 2016
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 20
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- Stresses that some progress has been made in combating female genital mutilation in a number of countries using a common coordinated approach that promotes positive social change at the community, national, regional and international levels, and recalls the goal set out in the United Nations inter-agency statement that female genital mutilation is to be eliminated within a generation, with some of the main achievements being obtained by 2030, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals;
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Gender
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 4
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- Recalling also its resolution 27/22 of 26 September 2014 on intensifying global efforts and sharing good practices to effectively eliminate female genital mutilation,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Gender
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- 2016
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 15
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- Recalling the inter-agency global strategy initiated in 2010 by the World Health Organization to stop health-care providers from performing female genital mutilation,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula 2016, para. 7
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- Urges States to enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage, including in rural and remote areas, is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses and, in addition, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage and to raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary;
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- United Nations General Assembly
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 14
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- Deeply concerned that, despite the increase in national, regional and international efforts, the practice of female genital mutilation persists in some countries and has seen the development of new forms, such as medicalization and cross-border practice,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 19
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- Welcoming the establishment by the United Nations of the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, on 6 February, the theme of which is, in 2016, achieving the new global goals through the elimination of female genital mutilation by 2030,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 10
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- Calls upon States to continue to increase technical and financial assistance for the effective implementation of policies, programmes and action plans to eliminate female genital mutilation at the national, regional and international levels;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 17
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- Welcoming the growing global consensus regarding the need to take appropriate measures to prevent and eliminate female genital mutilation, and understanding that this practice has no relevant religious or cultural basis,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Social & Cultural Rights
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 6
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- Emphasizes the need for States to systematize, as appropriate, collection of data on female genital mutilation, to encourage and provide financial support for research, particularly at the university level, to use the results to strengthen public information and awareness-raising activities, and to measure effectively progress in eliminating female genital mutilation;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Education
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 7
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- Calls upon States to provide assistance to victims of female genital mutilation, including through support services for treatment of its physical, physiological and psychological consequences;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 3
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- Urges States to adopt national legislation prohibiting female genital mutilation, consistent with international human rights law, and to take steps to ensure its strict application, while working to harmonize their legislation in order to effectively address the cross-border practice of female genital mutilation;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 16
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- Bearing in mind that States have primary responsibility for creating favourable conditions to prevent and eliminate female genital mutilation, and for achieving zero tolerance of the practice,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 6
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- Recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
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- Gender
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 19
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- Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 17
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- Also calls upon States to support, as part of a comprehensive approach to eliminate female genital mutilation, programmes that engage local community practitioners of female genital mutilation in community-based initiatives for the elimination of the practice, including, where relevant, the identification by communities of alternative livelihoods for them;
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- United Nations General Assembly
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 15
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- Urges States to allocate sufficient resources to the implementation of policies and programmes and legislative frameworks aimed at eliminating female genital mutilation;
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Gender
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 22
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- Calls upon States, the United Nations system, civil society and all stakeholders to continue to observe 6 February as the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation and to use the day to enhance awareness-raising campaigns and to take concrete actions against female genital mutilation;
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- United Nations General Assembly
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 23
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- Calls upon States to improve the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data and, where appropriate, to collaborate with existing data collection systems, which are crucial for evidence-based legal and policy development, programme design and implementation and the monitoring of the elimination of female genital mutilation;
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Gender
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 24
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- Acknowledges that intensifying efforts is urgently needed for the elimination of female genital mutilation, and in this regard also acknowledges the importance of giving the issue due consideration in the efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030;
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- 2016
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 5
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- Recognizing the role of regional and subregional instruments and mechanisms in the prevention and elimination of female genital mutilation, where they exist,
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- United Nations General Assembly
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