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Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2019), para. 032
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- (g) Gender-responsive. The Global Compact ensures that the human rights of women, men, girls and boys are respected at all stages of migration, that their specifi c needs are properly understood and addressed and that they are empowered as agents of change. It mainstreams a gender perspective and promotes gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, recognizing their independence, agency and leadership in order to move away from addressing migrant women primarily through a lens of victimhood;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Persons on the move
- Women
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Draft outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants (2016), para. 040
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- 31. We will ensure that our responses to large movements of refugees and migrants mainstream a gender perspective, promote gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and fully respect and protect the human rights of women and girls. We will combat sexual and gender-based violence to the greatest extent possible. We will provide access to sexual and reproductive health-care services. We will tackle the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination against refugee and migrant women and girls. At the same time, recognizing the significant contribution and leadership of women in refugee and migrant communities, we will work to ensure their full, equal and meaningful participation in the development of local solutions and opportunities. We will take into consideration the different needs, vulnerabilities and capacities of women, girls, boys and men.
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
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Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2019), para. 140
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- (c) Develop gender-responsive migration policies to address the particular needs and vulnerabilities of migrant women, girls and boys, which may include assistance, health care, psychological and other counselling services, as well as access to justice and effective remedies, especially in cases of sexual and gender-based violence, abuse and exploitation;
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- Gender
- Health
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
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The rights of the child (2001), para. 006
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- Profoundly concerned that the situation of girls and boys in many parts of the world remains critical as a result of the persistence of poverty, social inequality, inadequate social and economic conditions in an increasingly globalized world economy, pandemics, in particular human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, natural disasters, armed conflict, displacement, exploitation, illiteracy, hunger, intolerance, discrimination and inadequate legal protection, and convinced that urgent and effective national and international action is called for,
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- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
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New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants (2016), para. 038
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- 31. We will ensure that our responses to large movements of refugees and migrant s mainstream a gender perspective, promote gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and fully respect and protect the human rights of women and girls. We will combat sexual and gender-based violence to the greatest extent possible. We will provide access to sexual and reproductive health-care services. We will tackle the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination against refugee and migrant women and girls. At the same time, recognizing the significant contribution and leadership of women in refugee and migrant communities, we will work to ensure their full, equal and meaningful participation in the development of local solutions and opportunities. We will take into consideration the different needs, vulnerabilities and capacities of women, girls, boys and men.
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 22
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- 8. Encourages all States to address the irregular migration of children, including adolescents, as a multicausal phenomenon, giving priority at all times to the personal safety and physical, emotional and psychological integrity of migrant children, including adolescents, keeping in mind the different needs of boys and girls and adolescent women and men in these situations;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Women
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2007), para. 18
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- 14. Acknowledges that forcibly displaced women and girls can be exposed to particular protection problems related to their gender, their cultural and socio- economic position, and their legal status, that they may be less likely than men and boys to be able to exercise their rights, and that, therefore, specific action in favour of women and girls may be necessary to ensure that they can enjoy protection and assistance on an equal basis with men and boys, and notes the important guidance provided in the Executive Committee conclusion on women and girls at risk to address issues of identification of those individuals and action to be taken in prevention and response;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
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Protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons (2020), para. 13
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- Expressing particular concern also that many internally displaced persons, including women, men, girls and boys, do not receive the health care they require in all phases of displacement, including mental health care and psychosocial support,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Persons on the move
- Women
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