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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 9
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- Expressing deep concern that more than 350,000 women and adolescent girls still die every year from largely preventable complications related to pregnancy or childbirth, that adolescent girls face a higher risk of complications and death and that the average annual percentage decline in the global maternal mortality ratio still falls short of the figure of 5.5 per cent required to achieve the first target of Millennium Development Goal 5,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2012
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 12
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- Concerned also that women and adolescent girls have unequal access to health resources, including sexual and reproductive health-care services, for the prevention of HIV infection and treatment of and care and support for people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2014
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 11
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- Expressing concern that each year approximately 15 million to 20 million women of childbearing age worldwide, including adolescent girls, suffer from often preventable maternal morbidity, disabilities, injuries and illnesses connected with pregnancy and childbirth, including as a result of early pregnancy, early childbearing and other high-risk conditions, such as uterine prolapse, obstetric fistulas, stress incontinence, hypertension, haemorrhoids, perineal tears, urinary tract infections and severe anaemia, and that, as a result of these conditions, women suffer serious physical, economic, psychological and social consequences that affect their well-being,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2012
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Rights of the child 2004, para. 7
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- Taking note of the issuance by the Committee on the Rights of the Child of general comment No. 3 (2003) on HIV/AIDS and the rights of the child, general comment No. 4 (2003) on adolescent health and development in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and general comment No. 5 (2003) on general measures of implementation of the Convention (arts. 4, 42 and 44, para. 6),
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Year
- 2004
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The rights of the child 2015, para. 6
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- Reaffirming also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the outcome document of the twenty-seventh special session of the General Assembly on children, entitled “A world fit for children”, recalling the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, the Declaration on Social Progress and Development, the Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, the Declaration on the Right to Development, the Declaration of the commemorative high-level plenary meeting devoted to the follow-up to the outcome of the special session on children, held in New York from 11 to 13 December 2007, the outcome document, entitled “The future we want”, adopted at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012, and the outcome document of the third Global Conference on Child Labour, held in Brasilia from 8 to 10 October 2013, and recalling also the World Congresses against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents, the Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development and the World Education Forum 2015, held in Incheon, Republic of Korea, from 19 to 22 May 2015,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Year
- 2015
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The rights of the child 2006, para. 4
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- Reaffirming the outcome documents of the special session of the General Assembly on children, entitled “A world fit for children”, and the commitments contained therein to promote and protect the rights of each child, every human being below the age of 18 years, including adolescents, and of all major United Nations conferences, and the integration of child rights issues into the outcome documents of all major United Nations conferences, special sessions and summits,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Year
- 2006
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The rights of the child 2015, para. 2
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- Recalling its resolutions 69/158 of 18 December 2014 on protecting children from bullying and 69/187 of 18 December 2014 on migrant children and adolescents,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2015
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