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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in the world of work (2019), para. 18
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- Recognizing that violence against women and girls is a global phenomenon rooted in historical and structural inequality in power relations between women and men, which further reinforce gender stereotypes and barriers to women’s and girls’ full enjoyment of all human rights, and that all forms of violence against women and girls, including harmful practices, constitute a major impediment to their full, equal, effective and meaningful participation in society, the economy, and political and individual decision-making, as well as in leadership roles, hindering them from the exercise and enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms,
- Topic(s)
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in the world of work (2019), para. 19
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- Recognizing also that violence against women and girls is a manifestation of gender inequality and discrimination against women and girls, and can violate their economic rights, impede their economic empowerment and impose direct and indirect short- and long-term costs on individuals and society, including loss of livelihood and additional expenses relating to health, legal services and social welfare,
- Topic(s)
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in the world of work (2019), para. 20
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- Reiterating the need to intensify efforts at all levels and to engage with all stakeholders, including men and boys alongside women and girls as agents of change, to prevent and eliminate all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls in the public and private spheres, including the need to address gender stereotypes, negative social norms, attitudes and behaviours and the socioeconomic drivers that underlie and perpetuate such violence,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in the world of work (2019), para. 22
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- Recognizing also that poverty, discrimination and marginalization resulting from exclusion from social policies and from the benefits of education, health, labour protection and sustainable development can place women and girls at increased risk of violence,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in the world of work (2019), para. 30
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- Reaffirming women’s and girls’ economic and social rights, and emphasizing the significant role that women play in economic and social development and in the eradication of poverty, and that sustainable development will only be achievable with women’s economic empowerment and independence, and equal access to economic and productive resources, including ownership and the control of land, natural and other productive resources, property, inheritance, financial services, including microfinance, equal opportunities for women for full and productive employment and decent work, and equal pay for work of equal value, legal advice and support, vocational training, information and communications technology and markets, and by removing barriers to their full, equal, effective and meaningful participation in local, national, regional and international economies,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in the world of work (2019), para. 39
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- 7. Stresses the need to address multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, which place women and girls at greater risk of exploitation, violence and abuse, and to implement measures to prevent and eliminate gender stereotypes, negative social norms, attitudes and behaviours that cause or perpetuate gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in the world of work (2019), para. 43
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- (a) Developing, reviewing and strengthening inclusive policies, including by allocating adequate resources to address the historical, structural and underlying causes, including unequal power relations and gender stereotypes, negative social norms, attitudes and behaviours, and risk factors of violence against women and girls, and ensuring that laws and policies are harmonized to address widespread violence against women and girls and are implemented in compliance with their international human rights obligations;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in prevention (2010), para. 10
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- Stressing that the realization of all human rights by women and girls, such as those regarding education, access to health, economic participation, access to the labour market, conditions of work, disparities in salaries and compensation, public and political participation, access to decision-making processes, inheritance, financial services, including loans, nationality and legal capacity, ownership of land, property, housing, social security and cultural life, supported by appropriate responses dealing with legal literacy, skills training and access to productive resources, is a key factor in preventing violence against women and girls, and that, in many instances, the different treatment of women before the law has resulted in the lack of equal opportunities for them in these areas,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in prevention (2010), para. 11
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- Deeply concerned that all forms of discrimination, including racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and multiple or aggravated forms of discrimination and disadvantage, can lead to the targeting or vulnerability to violence of some women and girls, including women belonging to minority groups, indigenous women, refugee and internally displaced women, stateless women, migrant women, women living in rural or remote communities, women living in slums and informal settlements, women living in conditions of poverty, women in institutions or in detention, women with disabilities, elderly women, widows and women in all situations of armed conflict, women who face trafficking, sexual or labour exploitation, and women who are otherwise discriminated against, including on the basis of their HIV/AIDS status,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in prevention (2010), para. 16
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- 3. Also calls upon States to place a high priority on strengthening and implementing legal and policy measures that promote the full enjoyment by women and girls of all human rights, particularly those aimed at eliminating discrimination against women, promoting gender equality, empowering women and promoting their autonomy, including with regard to land, property, marriage and divorce, child custody and inheritance, and to promote equal access to literacy, education, skills training and employment opportunities, land, credit, agricultural extension, adequate housing, just and favourable conditions of work, and business and leadership skills training;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in prevention (2010), para. 17
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- 4. Further calls upon States to take all measures to empower women and strengthen their economic independence, including through their full participation in the development and implementation of socio-economic policies and poverty eradication strategies, and through recognition of the value of the unremunerated work by women to better protect themselves against violence and, in this regard, to give priority to and to promote their access, without discrimination, to education, training, economic opportunity and economic advancement;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in prevention (2010), para. 20
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- 7. Further urges States to publicly condemn violence against women and provide visible and sustained leadership at the highest levels to prevent all forms of violence against women and girls, and, in particular, in efforts to confront the attitudes, customs, practices and gender stereotypes that lie at the core of discriminatory and harmful acts and practices that are violent towards women, such as female genital mutilation, forced and early marriage, femicide, crimes committed in the name of honour and crimes committed in the name of passion;
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in protection (2011), para. 16
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- 4. Emphasizes that women should be empowered to protect themselves against violence and, in this regard, stresses the need for legal and policy measures that promote the full enjoyment by women and girls of all human rights by eliminating discrimination against women, promoting gender equality, empowering women and promoting their full autonomy, including with regard to land, property, marriage and divorce, child custody and inheritance, and to promote equal access to literacy, education, skills training and employment opportunities, political participation and representation, credit, agricultural extension, adequate housing, just and favourable conditions of work, and business and leadership skills training;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: preventing and responding to rape and other forms of sexual violence (2013), para. 16
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- Stressing that women’s empowerment, including women’s economic empowerment and full and equal access to resources, women’s full integration into the formal economy, in particular in economic decision-making, and their full and equal participation at all levels of public, political and cultural life are essential for addressing the underlying causes of violence against women, including sexual violence,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: preventing and responding to rape and other forms of sexual violence (2013), para. 26
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- 5. Also urges States to increase measures to protect women and girls from all forms of violence, including sexual violence, by addressing their security and safety, including through, inter alia, awareness-raising, involvement of local communities, crime prevention laws, infrastructures, public transportation, sanitation facilities, street lighting and improved urban planning;
- Topic(s)
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), para. 10
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- Recalling that the threat of violence, including all forms of harassment, is a permanent constraint on the mobility of women and girls, limits their access to resources, services and basic activities, and impedes their economic and political empowerment,
- Topic(s)
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), para. 14
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- Recognizing that poverty and lack of empowerment of women, as well as their marginalization resulting from their exclusion from social policies and from the benefits of education, health and sustainable development, can place them at increased risk of violence, and that all forms of violence against women and girls, including sexual violence, are impediments to the development of their full potential as equal partners in all aspects of life, as well as obstacles to the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), para. 16
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- Recognizing further that child, early and forced marriage continues to be an impediment to not only the economic, legal, health and social status of women and girls but also to the development of the community as a whole, and that the empowerment of and investment in women and girls, as well as their meaningful participation in decisions that affect them, are a key factor in breaking the cycle of gender inequality and discrimination, violence and poverty and is critical for sustainable development and economic growth,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), para. 17
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- Expressing concern about institutional and structural discrimination against women and girls, such as laws, policies, regulations, programmes, administrative procedures or structures and services that directly or indirectly regulate access to institutions, property and land ownership, health, education, employment and access to credit, which negatively affect women’s empowerment and increase their vulnerability to violence,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), para. 18
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- Recognizing that indigenous women and girls, women and girls with disabilities, older women, women migrants and minorities often experience multiple forms of discrimination, which may increase their vulnerability to all forms of violence and limit their ability to participate in, contribute to and enjoy economic, social, cultural and political autonomy,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), para. 19
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- Expressing concern that social norms and legal constraints that restrict women’s agency in the public and private sphere and their economic independence can constrain a woman’s ability to leave an abusive or violent situation and reduce her ability to access protection and to secure an adequate standard of living,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), para. 26
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- 2. Urges States and all segments of society, including all levels of government, civil society organizations, the private sector and the media, as well as community and religious leaders, to take meaningful steps to address the harmful attitudes, customs, practices, stereotypes and unequal power relations that underlie and perpetuate violence against women and girls, including by designing, implementing and evaluating national policies, programmes and strategies aimed at transforming social norms that condone violence against women and girls, and to counteract attitudes by which women and girls are regarded as subordinate to men and boys or as having stereotyped roles that perpetuate practices involving violence or coercion;
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), para. 27
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- 3. Calls upon States to develop or strengthen comprehensive national women- centred multisectoral responses involving relevant authorities in sectors such as justice, health, social services, education and child protection services, as well as relevant non-State actors, that focus on the prevention of violence, the provision of support services for victims and survivors of violence and the punishment of perpetrators to enable accountability and to promote the empowerment of women and girls by changing harmful attitudes, practices and stereotypes;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
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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. 12
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- Recognizing that digital technologies can play an important role in empowering women and girls to exercise all human rights, including the right to freedom of opinion and expression, and in their full, equal and effective participation in political, economic, cultural and social life,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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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. 17
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- Recognizing also that violence against women and girls, including in digital contexts, is a global phenomenon rooted in historical and structural inequalities in power relations between women and men, which further reinforce gender stereotypes and barriers to women’s and girls’ full enjoyment of all human rights, and that all forms of violence against women and girls constitute a major impediment to their full, equal and effective participation in society, the economy, and political and individual decision-making, as well as in leadership roles, hindering them from the exercise and enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
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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. 18
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- Recognizing further that violence against women and girls is a manifestation of gender inequality and discrimination against women and girls, and can impede their economic empowerment and impose direct and indirect short- and long-term costs on individuals and society, including loss of livelihood and lack of access to digital financial services and the psychological and physical impact thereof, as well as additional expenses relating to health-care services, the legal sector, social welfare and specialized services,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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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. 22
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- Expressing concern at the institutional and structural discrimination against women and girls, such as laws, policies, regulations, programmes, administrative procedures or structures, services and practices that directly or indirectly restrict equal access to digital technologies, health-care services, education and employment, thus hindering their empowerment, increasing their vulnerability to violence and compounding the violence experienced,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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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. 28
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- 3. Expresses deep concern that all forms of discrimination, intimidation, harassment and violence in digital contexts prevent women and girls from fully enjoying their human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, and the right to privacy, in accordance with obligations under international law, which hinders their full, equal and effective participation in economic, social, cultural and political affairs and is an impediment to achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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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. 56
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- (a) To collect, share, positively recognize and widely publicize good practices to counter gender stereotyping, negative portrayals and the exploitation of women and girls in all forms of media and digital technologies as part of their efforts to eliminate violence and discrimination against women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: engaging men and boys in preventing and responding to violence against all women and girls (2017), para. 12
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- Reiterating the need to intensify efforts at all levels to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls in the public and private spheres, including the need to challenge gender stereotypes and the negative social norms, attitudes and behaviours that underlie and perpetuate such violence,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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