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Ending female genital mutilation 2007, para. 14
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- Urges States to allocate sufficient resources to the implementation of legislation and action plans aimed at abandoning female genital mutilation;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2007
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Ending female genital mutilation 2007, para. 17
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- Encourages all decision makers, at all levels, with responsibilities for policies, legislation, programmes and allocation of public resources to play leadership roles in eliminating female genital mutilation;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2007
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Ending female genital mutilation 2008, para. 18
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- Encourages all decision makers, at all levels, with responsibilities for policies, legislation, programmes and allocation of public resources to play leadership roles in eliminating female genital mutilation;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2008
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Ending female genital mutilation 2008, para. 15
- Paragraph text
- Urges States to allocate sufficient resources to the implementation of legislation and action plans aimed at abandoning female genital mutilation;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2008
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Ending female genital mutilation 2010, para. 19
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- Also calls upon States to support, as part of a comprehensive approach towards the elimination of female genital mutilation, programmes related to an alternative livelihood for traditional practitioners of female genital mutilation;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
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Mainstreaming a gender perspective into all national policies and programmes 2005, para. 3
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- Also stresses that political will and commitment at all levels are crucial to ensure the mainstreaming of a gender perspective in the adoption and implementation of comprehensive and action-oriented policies in all areas;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2005
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Preventing and eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace 2017, para. 2f
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- [Encourages Member States to:] Promote research and collect and analyse data and statistics, disaggregated by sex, age and other relevant characteristics, in order to develop, review and implement policies and programmes at all levels that contribute to preventing and eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
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Ending female genital mutilation 2010, para. 8
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- Calls upon States to ensure that national action plans and strategies on elimination of female genital mutilation are comprehensive and multidisciplinary in scope, and incorporate clear targets and indicators for effective national monitoring, impact assessment and coordination;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
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Preventing and eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace 2017, para. 2b
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- [Encourages Member States to:] Take all measures necessary to raise awareness regarding the rights of victims of sexual harassment in the workplace and the means of accessing redress and justice, and to facilitate reporting by victims and witnesses;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
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Ending female genital mutilation 2010, para. 21
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- Stresses that some progress has been made in combating female genital mutilation in a number of countries and that a common coordinated approach that promotes positive social change at the community, national, regional 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;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
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Equal pay for equal work and work of equal value 1994, para. 1a
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- [Urges Governments and international, regional and national institutions, as appropriate:] (a) To promote and pursue in greater depth research on the concept of work of equal value as a potential means for eliminating gender-based inequalities in remuneration, taking into account the particular circumstances and needs of developed and developing countries, as well as those of the economies in transition;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1994
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Ending female genital mutilation 2007, para. 15
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- 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 and other relevant professionals, as well as programmes of alternative professional training for the practitioners;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2007
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Ending female genital mutilation 2010, para. 22
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- Encourages all decision makers, at all levels, with responsibilities for policy, legislation, programmes and allocation of public resources to play leadership roles in eliminating female genital mutilation;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
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Ending female genital mutilation 2008, para. 16
- Paragraph text
- 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 and other relevant professionals, as well as programmes of alternative professional training for the practitioners;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2008
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Elimination of violence against women 2003, para. 19
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- Urges the integration of a gender perspective into all efforts to eliminate impunity;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2003
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Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 5
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- Also invites Governments, with the support of the United Nations, to formulate manuals for the training of personnel who receive and/or hold in temporary custody victims of gender-based violence, including trafficking, with a view to sensitizing them to the special needs of victims;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1997
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Elimination of violence against women 2001, para. 14
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- Urges the integration of a gender perspective in all future efforts to eliminate impunity;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2001
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Elimination of violence against women 1999, para. 6
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- Welcomes the inclusion of gender-related crimes in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (A/CONF.183/9), which affirms that rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization and any other forms of sexual violence constitute, in defined circumstances, a crime against humanity and a war crime;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1999
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Elimination of violence against women 2001, para. 17
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- Further urges all States and the relevant organs, bodies and agencies of the United Nations system, and encourages regional organizations and humanitarian organizations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross, to ensure that a gender perspective is integrated into international humanitarian law awareness programmes;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2001
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Traffic in women and girls 1999, para. 11
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- Invites Governments, with the support of the United Nations, to formulate manuals for the training of personnel who receive and/or hold in temporary custody victims of gender-based violence, including trafficking, taking into account current research and data on traumatic stress and gender-sensitive counselling techniques, with a view to sensitizing them to the special needs of the victims;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1999
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Elimination of violence against women 2002, para. 19
- Paragraph text
- Urges the integration of a gender perspective in all efforts to eliminate impunity;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2002
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Rights of the child 2000, para. 10
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- Also calls upon States to strengthen efforts to improve national systems for the collection of comprehensive and disaggregated data, including gender-specific data, for all areas covered by the Convention;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2000
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Traffic in women and girls 1998, para. 5
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- Invites Governments, with the support of the United Nations, to formulate manuals for the training of personnel who receive and/or hold in temporary custody victims of genderbased violence, including trafficking, with a view to sensitizing them to the special needs of the victims;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1998
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Right to food 2010, para. 11
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- Recognizes that 80 per cent of hungry people live in rural areas and 50 per cent are small-scale farm-holders, and that these people are especially vulnerable to food insecurity, given the increasing cost of inputs and the fall in farm incomes; that access to land, water, seeds and other natural resources is an increasing challenge for poor producers; that sustainable and gender-sensitive agricultural policies are important tools for promoting land and agrarian reform, rural credit and insurance, technical assistance and other associated measures to achieve food security and rural development; and that support by States for small farmers, fishing communities and local enterprises is a key element for food security and the provision of the right to food;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2012, para. 19
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- Stresses that some progress has been made in combating female genital mutilations 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 mutilations be eliminated within a generation, with some of the main achievements being obtained by 2015, in line with the Millennium Development Goals;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2012, para. 18
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- 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;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
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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;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
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Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2002, para. 4
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- Urges Governments to take effective measures to provide redress and to prevent torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, including their gender-based manifestations;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2002
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Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2010, para. 30
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- Takes note with appreciation of the interim report of the Special Rapporteur, and encourages the Special Rapporteur to continue to include in his recommendations proposals on the prevention and investigation of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, including its gender-based manifestations;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2012, para. 7
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- 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;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
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