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Situation of human rights in Iraq (1998), para. 12
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- (d) Widespread, systematic torture in its most cruel forms, the enactment and implementation of decrees prescribing cruel and inhuman punishment, namely mutilation, as a penalty for offences and the diversion of medical care services for such mutilations;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2013), para. 35
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- 18. Calls upon the international community to strongly support, including through increased financial support, a second phase of the United Nations Population Fund-United Nations Children’s Fund Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Change, which is currently due to end in December 2013, as well as national programmes focused on the elimination of female genital mutilations;
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- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
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- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The girl child (2010), para. 68
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- 40. Welcomes the commitment of ten United Nations agencies, in their joint statement of 27 February 2008, to continue working towards the elimination of female genital mutilation, by, inter alia, providing technical and financial assistance, and stresses that a common coordinated approach that promotes positive social change at the community, national and international levels could lead to female genital mutilation being abandoned within a generation, with some of the main achievements being obtained by 2015, in line with the Millennium Development Goals;
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
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- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019), para. 06
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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,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
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- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Eritrea (2013), para. 13
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- Noting also the efforts of Eritrea to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and to promote gender equality and progress on female genital mutilation, while stressing that sustainable social changes are linked with the establishment of a conducive political and legal environment,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2015), para. 41
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- 22. 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 mutilations;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
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- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 45
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- 14. Invites the Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting 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, including in the health sector, to ensure the effective implementation of policies, programmes and action plans with the involvement of all stakeholders, and encourages States and development cooperation agencies to consider increasing their financial support for the Joint Programme;
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Children
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019), para. 08
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- Recalling also the decision of the African Union, adopted in Malabo on 1 July 2011, to support the adoption by the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session of a resolution banning female genital mutilation,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
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- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 18
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- Welcoming the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and underscoring the importance of its implementation with a view to eliminating female genital mutilation,
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- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019), para. 34
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- 13. Further urges States to identify and allocate sufficient resources to the implementation of policies and programmes and legislative frameworks aimed at eliminating female genital mutilation, in particular measures involving information and communications technologies to facilitate learning and knowledge -sharing;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
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- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2015), para. 27
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- 8. Calls upon States to ensure that national action plans and strategies on the elimination of female genital mutilations 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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 07
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- Recalling also the decision of the African Union, adopted in Malabo on 1 July 2011, to support the adoption by the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session of a resolution banning female genital mutilation,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 41
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- 20. 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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- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
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- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2013), para. 16
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- Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on ending female genital mutilation, 16
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- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
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- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 43
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- 22. 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;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 34
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- (a) Address the root causes of gender inequality, including gender stereotypes and negative social norms, attitudes and behaviours, the socioeconomic drivers of violence and unequal power relations such as patriarchal norms that perpetuate female genital mutilation;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2013), para. 38
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- 21. 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 mutilations;
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- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
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- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2015), para. 38
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- 19. Calls upon the international community to strongly support, including through increased financial support, a second 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 2017, as well as national programmes focused on the elimination of female genital mutilations;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2013), para. 33
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- 16. Also calls upon States to support, as part of a comprehensive approach to eliminate female genital mutilations, programmes that engage local community practitioners of female genital mutilations in community-based initiatives for the abandonment of the practice, including, where relevant, the identification by communities of alternative livelihoods for them;
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- Gender
- Harmful Practices
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- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2013), para. 24
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- 7. Calls upon States to ensure that national action plans and strategies on the elimination of female genital mutilations are comprehensive and multidisciplinary in scope and incorporate clear targets and indicators for the effective monitoring, impact assessment and coordination of programmes among all stakeholders;
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2013), para. 15
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- Deeply concerned also that a tremendous gap in resources continues to exist and that the shortfall in funding has severely limited the scope and pace of programmes and activities for the elimination of female genital mutilations,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 05
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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,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 40
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- (g) Assist professional associations and trade unions of health service providers in adopting internal disciplinary rules prohibiting their members from engaging in the harmful practice of female genital mutilation;
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- Harmful Practices
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- Mar 4, 2020
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 48
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- 17. Decides to continue its consideration of the question of female genital mutilation in accordance with its programme of work.
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
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- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Iraq (1997), para. 14
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- (c) The enactment and implementation of decrees prescribing cruel and unusual punishment, namely mutilation, as a penalty for certain offences and the abuse and diversion of medical-care services for the purpose of such mutilations;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2015), para. 18
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- Deeply concerned also that a tremendous gap in resources continues to exist and that the shortfall in funding has severely limited the scope and pace of programmes and activities for the elimination of female genital mutilations,
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- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019), para. 17
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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, 18 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,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
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- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Iraq (1999), para. 17
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- 9. Calls upon the Government of Iraq to abrogate all decrees that prescribe cruel and inhuman punishment or treatment, including mutilations, and to ensure that torture and cruel punishment and treatment no longer occur, and also to abrogate all laws and procedures, including Revolution Command Council Decree No. 840 of 4 November 1986, that penalize free expression and to ensure that the genuine will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of the State;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
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- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Human rights situation in Iraq (2000), para. 27
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- (e) To abrogate all decrees that prescribe cruel and inhuman punishment or treatment, including mutilation, and to ensure that torture and cruel punishment and treatment no longer occur;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
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- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 16
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- Recognizing that the practice constitutes torture or ill-treatment and must be prohibited, in accordance with regional and international human rights standards, and that the trend towards the medicalization of female genital mutilation does not make it any more acceptable,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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