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The right to a nationality: women’s equal nationality rights in law and in practice (2016), para. 11
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- Noting the pledge made in the political declaration of the fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women to take further concrete action to ensure the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, including through strengthened implementation of laws, policies, strategies and programme activities for all women and girls, and the agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women at its sixtieth session, in which it further urged States to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls through the removal, where they exist, of discriminatory provisions in legal frameworks, including punitive provisions, and setting up legal, policy, administrative and other comprehensive measures, including temporary special measures as appropriate, to ensure women’s and girls’ equal and effective access to justice and accountability for violations of human rights of women and girls, 1
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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The girl child (2016), para. 40
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- 18. Also calls upon States to strengthen research, data collection and analysis on the girl child, disaggregated by household structure, sex, age, disability status, economic situation, marital status and geographical location, and improve gender statistics on time use, unpaid care work and water and sanitation in order to provide a better understanding of the situations of girls, especially of the multiple forms of discrimination that they face, and to inform the development of necessary policies and programme responses, which should take a holistic age-appropriate approach to addressing the full range of the forms of discrimination that girls may face, in order to protect their rights effectively;
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Literacy for life: shaping future agendas (2017), para. 20
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- 7. Requests the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to continue its coordinating and catalysing role through the implementation of the recommendations of the Global Alliance for Literacy and by continuing to provide support to Member States, in collaboration with partners, in enhancing capacities for policy formulation, programme implementation, monitoring and evaluation, as well as sharing information and knowledge on policies, programmes and progress in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal targets connected with literacy, especially target 4.6 on youth and adult literacy, and creating synergies of action between the Alliance and other initiatives, including its Global Partnership for Girls’ and Women’s Education and Global Network of Learning Cities;
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Policies and programmes involving youth (2018), para. 32
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- 16. Further urges Member States to mainstream a gender perspective into all development efforts, recognizing that the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls is critical for achieving sustainable development and for efforts to combat hunger, poverty and disease, and to strengthen policies and programmes that seek to improve, ensure and broaden the full, effective and structured participation of young women in all spheres of political, economic, social and cultural life as equal partners, and to improve their access to all resources needed for the full exercise of all of their human rights and fundamental freedoms by removing persistent barriers, including by providing access to quality education at all levels, ensuring equal access to full and productive employment and decent work and strengthening their economic independence;
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) (2018), para. 76
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- 38. Stresses the importance of mobilizing greater domestic support towards the fulfilment of ODA commitments, including by raising public awareness, providing data on aid effectiveness and demonstrating tangible results, encourages partner countries to build on progress achieved in ensuring that ODA is used effectively to help to achieve development goals and targets, encourages the publication of forward-looking plans which increase the clarity, predictability and transparency of future development cooperation, in accordance with national budget allocation processes, and urges countries to track and report resource allocations for advancing gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Question of human rights in Afghanistan (2003), para. 44
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- 13. Urges the Transitional Authority to give high priority to the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 9 to end, without delay, all violations of the human rights of women and girls and to take urgent measures to ensure fully:
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Sustainable tourism and sustainable development in Central Asia (2020), para. 10
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- Recognizing further that sustainable tourism, including ecotourism, mountain tourism and rural tourism, is a cross-cutting activity that can contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, including by fostering economic growth, alleviating poverty, creating full and productive employment and decent work for all, advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and increasing incomes for the population, and noting in particular that tourism accounts for more than 10 per cent of global gross domestic product, the industry represents more than 6 per cent of service exports and more than 4 per cent of investments are directed at tourism development,
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- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- 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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Science, technology and innovation for development (2018), para. 15
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- Recalling the agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women on women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work, adopted at its sixty- first session, 6 which, inter alia, highlighted the need for managing technological an d digital change for women’s economic empowerment, particularly to strengthen the capacities of developing countries, so as to enable women to leverage science and technology for entrepreneurship and economic empowerment in the changing world of work and to support women’s access, throughout their life cycle, to skills development and decent work in new and emerging fields by expanding the scope of education and training opportunities in, inter alia, science, technology, engineering and mathematics, information and communications technology and digital fluency, and to enhance women’s and, as appropriate, girls’ participation as users, content creators, employees, entrepreneurs, innovators and leaders,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2018), para. 05
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- Recalling also all relevant resolutions and agreed conclusions adopted by the Human Rights Council, the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Commission on the Status of Women and other United Nations agencies and bodies that consider the issue of discrimination against women and girls,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- 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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (2013), para. 33
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- 24. Stresses the important contribution of national human rights institutions to the elimination of discrimination and violence against women and girls, as stipulated in the agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-seventh session, 6 as well as the need to endow those institutions with the necessary human and sufficient financial resources to enable them to function effectively;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The girl child (2014), para. 57
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- 23. Also calls upon States to strengthen research, data collection and analysis on the girl child, disaggregated by household structure, sex, age, disability status, economic situation, marital status and geographical location, in order to provide a better understanding of the situations of girls, especially of the multiple forms of discrimination that they face, and to inform the development of necessary policies and programme responses, which should take a holistic age-appropriate approach to addressing the full range of the forms of discrimination that girls may face, in order to protect their rights effectively;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- 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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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2018), para. 61
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- 48. Requests relevant entities of the United Nations system, including the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), to ensure that the situation of older women is mainstreamed and incorporated across their work and to support, in accordance with their respective mandates, the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in particular its aspects of relevance to older persons, including gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Older persons
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The girl child (2006), para. 19
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- 3. Urges all States to take all necessary measures and to institute legal reforms to ensure the full and equal enjoyment by the girl child of all human rights and fundamental freedoms and to take effective action against violations of those rights and freedoms;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Literacy for life: shaping future agendas (2014), para. 16
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- 5. Encourages Member States, their development partners and the specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system, as appropriate, to sustain and expand the gains achieved during the Decade through additional technical and financial support and to promote literacy and literate environments through multi-pronged approaches, with a focus on marginalized groups or those in vulnerable situations, in particular girls and women, people living in rural areas and persons with disabilities, including by utilizing innovative information and communications technology solutions, bearing in mind that the target date of 2015 for the achievement of the Education for All goals and the Millennium Development Goals is approaching;
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Literacy for life: shaping future agendas (2015), para. 10
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- Affirming that the realization of the right to education, especially for girls, contributes to the promotion of human rights, gender equality and the eradication of poverty, as well as to development,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Human rights and indigenous peoples (2017), para. 26
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- 16. Welcomes the agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women adopted at its sixty-first session, in which the Commission called for measures to be taken to promote the economic empowerment of indigenous women, including by ensuring access to quality and inclusive education and through meaningful participation in the economy by addressing the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and barriers they face, including violence, and to promote their participation in relevant decision-making processes at all levels and in all areas, while respecting and protecting their traditional and ancestral knowledge, and noting the importance for indigenous women and girls of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and encourages States to give serious consideration to the above-mentioned recommendations, as appropriate;
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- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Women in development (2004), para. 51
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- 27. Urges Governments to create and maintain a non-discriminatory and gender-sensitive legal environment by reviewing legislation, with a view to striving to remove discriminatory provisions as soon as possible, preferably by 2005, and eliminating legislative gaps that leave women and girls without protection of their rights and without effective recourse against gender-based discrimination, and encourages assistance to countries in achieving this aim;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Women in development (2020), para. 87
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- 57. Urges the donor community, Member States, international organizations, including the United Nations, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, trade unions and other stakeholders to strengthen the focus and impact of development assistance targeting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls through gender mainstreaming and the funding of targeted activities and enhanced dialogue between donors and partners, and also to strengthen the mechanisms needed to measure effectively the resources allocated to incorporating gender perspectives in all areas of development assistance;
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Political declaration of the high-level meeting to review progress made in addressing the priorities of small island developing States through the implementation of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway (2019), para. 19
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- 15. We recognize that gender equality and women’s empowerment and the full realization of human rights for women and girls have a transformative and multiplier effect on sustainable development and are drivers of economic growth in small island developing States. Women can be powerful agents of change. We note and support ongoing efforts in small island developing States to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment, including economic empowerment, and full and equal participation and leadership and to end gender-based violence.
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in digital contexts (2018), para. 53
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- (h) Encouraging and ensuring the participation of women and girls in the development and implementation of policies, programmes and other initiatives aimed at eliminating violence against women and girls in digital contexts;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The girl child (2010), para. 14
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- Recognizing also that girl children are often at greater risk of being exposed to and encountering various forms of discrimination and violence, which continue to hinder efforts towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, and reaffirming the need to achieve gender equality to ensure a just and equitable world for girls, including through partnering with men and boys, as an important strategy for advancing the rights of the girl child,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Men
- 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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons (2014), para. 26
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- 6. Expresses particular concern that many internally displaced children, particularly girls, lack access to education in all phases of displacement owing to attacks against schools, damaged or destroyed school buildings, insecurity, loss of documentation, language barriers and discrimination, and calls upon States, in cooperation with all other relevant actors, including humanitarian and development agencies and donors, to ensure the right to a quality education, including primary and secondary education, for internally displaced children, without discrimination of any kind, as well as to support existing schools to enable them to include internally displaced persons, and calls upon parties to armed conflict to respect the civilian character of schools and other educational institutions and to refrain from undertaking actions that could adversely affect the protection of these buildings against direct attacks;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities (2013), para. 26
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- (d) Recognizing the importance of adopting measures, policies and programmes to address discrimination against and the exclusion of women and girls belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Political Declaration of the Comprehensive High-level Midterm Review of the Implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–2020 (2016), para. 038
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- Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- 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. 040
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- (l) Enhancing opportunities for women and girls and advancing the economic, legal and political empowerment of women;
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas (2004), para. 21
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- (f) Designing and implementing policies that promote and protect the enjoyment by women of all human rights and fundamental freedoms and creating an environment that does not tolerate violations of the rights of women and girls, including domestic violence;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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