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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2018), para. 12
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- Expressing concern that many rural women continue to be economically and socially disadvantaged because of their limited access to economic resources and opportunities and their limited access or lack of access to quality education, hea lth- care services, justice, land, sustainable and time- and labour-saving infrastructure and technology, water and sanitation and other resources, as well as to credit, extension services and agricultural inputs, and expressing concern also about their exc lusion from planning and decision-making and their disproportionate share of unpaid care and domestic work,
- Topic(s)
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Women
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2016), para. 34
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- (y) Strengthening the capacity of national statistical offices and other relevant government institutions to collect, analyse and disseminate data , disaggregated by sex and age, and gender statistics on time use, unpaid work, land tenure, energy, water and sanitation, among other things, to support policies and actions to improve the situation of rural women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Draft outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals (2010), para. 025
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- 20. We acknowledge that much more needs to be done in achieving the Millennium Development Goals as progress has been uneven among regions and between and within countries. Hunger and malnutrition rose again from 2007 through 2009, partially reversing prior gains. There has been slow progress in reaching full and productive employment and decent work for all, advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women, achieving environmental sustainability and providing basic sanitation, and new HIV infections still outpace the number of people starting treatment. In particular, we express grave concern over the slow progress being made in reducing maternal mortality and improving maternal and reproductive health. Progress on other Millennium Development Goals is fragile and must be sustained to avoid reversal.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Women in development (2009), para. 52
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- 32. Recognizes the need to empower women, particularly poor women, economically and politically, and in this regard encourages Governments, with the support of their development partners, to invest in appropriate infrastructure and other projects, including the provision of water and sanitation to rural areas and urban slums to increase health and well-being, relieve the workloads of women and girls and release their time and energy for other productive activities, including entrepreneurship;
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- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Women in development (2004), para. 08
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- Recognizing that population and development issues, education and training, health, nutrition, the environment, water supply, sanitation, housing, communications, science and technology, and employment opportunities are important elements for effective poverty eradication and the advancement and empowerment of women,
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- Poverty
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2016), para. 15
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- Deeply concerned also that women and girls are particularly at risk of and exposed to attacks, sexual and gender-based violence, harassment and other threats to their safety while collecting household water and when accessing sanitation facilities outside their homes, or practicing open defecation,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2018), para. 17
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- Deeply concerned that women and girls often face particular barriers in their enjoyment of the rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, which are exacerbated in humanitarian crises, and that they shoulder the main burden of collecting household water in many parts of the world, which constitutes a major impediment to the achievement of their economic empowerment, independence and social and economic development,
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2016), para. 17
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- (h) Promoting sustainable infrastructure, access to safe drinking water and sanitation and safe cooking and heating practices to improve the health and nutrition of rural women and girls;
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- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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New Urban Agenda (2017), para. 059
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- 34. We commit ourselves to promoting equitable and affordable access to sustainable basic physical and social infrastructure for all, without discrimination, including affordable serviced land, housing, modern and renewable energy, safe drinking water and sanitation, safe, nutritious and adequate food, waste disposal, sustainable mobility, health care and family planning, education, culture, and information and communications technologies. We further commit ourselves to ensuring that these services are responsive to the rights and needs of women, children and youth, older persons and persons with disabilities, migrants, indigenous peoples and local communities, as appropriate, and to those of others in vulnerable situations. In this regard, we encourage the elimination of legal, institutional, socioeconomic and physical barriers.
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2016), para. 16
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- Deeply concerned that women and girls are particularly at risk and exposed to attacks, sexual and gender-based violence, harassment and other threats to their safety while collecting household water and when accessing sanitation facilities outside of their homes or practising open defecation,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2018), para. 08
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- Recalling that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development covers the issue of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation and other water-related Sustainable Development Goals, including Goal 6 on ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all, which comprises important targets relating to the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, as well as health and hygiene, and acknowledges the need for an integrated approach to Goal 6 that reflects the interlinkages between achieving universal and equitable access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, while also striving to improve the quality and safety of water, reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity and ensure special attention to the needs and rights of women and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying Our Efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS (2011), para. 123
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- 98. Commit, by 2015, to working with partners to direct resources to and strengthen the advocacy, policy and programmatic links between HIV and tuberculosis responses, primary health-care services, sexual and reproductive health, maternal and child health, hepatitis B and C, drug dependence, non-communicable diseases and overall health systems, leveraging health-care services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, strengthening the interface between HIV services, related sexual and reproductive health care and services and other health services, including maternal and child health, eliminating parallel systems for HIV- related services and information where feasible and strengthening linkages among national and global efforts concerned with human and national development, including poverty eradication, preventative health care, enhanced nutrition, access to safe and clean drinking water, sanitation, education and the improvement of livelihoods;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Poverty
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2018), para. 17
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- Deeply concerned further that women and girls often face, especially in humanitarian crises, including in times of conflict or natural disaster, particular barriers in accessing water and sanitation and that they shoulder the main burden of collecting household water in many parts of the world, restricting their time for other activities, such as education and leisure, or for earning a livelihood,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (1996), para. 12
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- 3. Commends the efforts of the Institute to address all levels of poverty that hamper so dramatically the advancement of women, through the coordination of research and training activities in the areas of empowerment of women; statistics and indicators in gender issues; communications; women, natural resources and sustainable development; water, sanitation and waste management; renewable sources of energy; and issues related to different population groups, such as older and displaced women, refugee and migrant women and women in rural areas;
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- Environment
- Gender
- Poverty
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Follow-up to the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (2018), para. 19
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- Reaffirming that achieving food security and improving nutrition, ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all, achieving inclusive and equitable quality education, achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls, as well as ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all, are important for achieving sustainable development, in line with t he 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas (2002), para. 19
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- (d) Investing in and strengthening efforts to meet the basic needs of rural women through capacity-building and human resources development measures and the provision of a safe and reliable water supply, health services, including family planning services, and nutritional programmes as well as education and literacy programmes and social support measures;
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- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Consolidating gains and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate malaria in developing countries,particularly in Africa, by 2015 (2011), para. 09
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- Welcoming also the Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, undertaken by a broad coalition of partners, in support of national plans and strategies, in order to significantly reduce the number of maternal, newborn and under-five child deaths as a matter of immediate concern by scaling up a priority package of high-impact interventions and integrating efforts in sectors such as health, education, gender equality, water and sanitation, poverty reduction and nutrition,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Follow-up to the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (2019), para. 20
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- Reaffirming that achieving food security and improving nutrition, ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all, achieving inclusive and equitable quality education, achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls, as well as ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all, are important for achieving sustainable development, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2017), para. 23
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- 4. Calls upon States to take all measures necessary to ensure the right of women and girls to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, including sexual and reproductive health, and reproductive rights, in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, 3 the Beijing Platform for Action 14 and the outcome documents of their review conferences, and to develop sustainable health systems and social services with a view to ensuring universal access to such systems and services without discrimination, while paying special attention to adequate food and nutrition, water and sanitation, family planning information, increasing women’s empowerment, knowledge and awareness and ensuring equitable access to high-quality appropriate prenatal and delivery care for the prevention of obstetric fistula and the reduction of health inequities, as well as postnatal care for the detection and early management of fistula cases;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and the right to non-discrimination in this context (2018), para. 26
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- (f) To take steps necessary to ensure women’s equal right to adequate housing in all aspects of housing strategies by, inter alia, addressing women’s distinct housing experiences, including discrimination, violence against women and the disproportionate impact on women of forced evictions, inadequate water and sanitation services and pervasive poverty, and by undertaking legislative and other reforms to realize the equal rights of women and men, as well as girls and boys where applicable, to access economic and productive resources, including land and natural resources, and property and inheritance rights;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2018), para. 47
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- (dd) Strengthening the capacity of national statistical offices and other relevant government institutions to collect, analyse and disseminate data, disaggregated by sex and age, and gender statistics on time use, unpaid work, land tenure, energy, water and sanitation, among other things, to support policies and actions to improve the situation of rural women and girls, and to monitor and track the implementation of such policies and actions;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2018), para. 19
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- Deeply concerned further that the lack of access to adequate water and sanitation services, including for menstrual hygiene management, especially in schools, workplaces, health centres, and public facilities and buildings, negatively affects gender equality and women’s and girls’ enjoyment of human rights, including the rights to education, health, safe and healthy working conditions and to participate in public affairs,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in prevention (2010), para. 19
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- 6 Also urges States to promote, at all levels, environments and communities that are safe for women and girls, and to support the efforts of civil society and other stakeholders towards this end, including by taking measures designed to enhance personal security and reduce the risk of violence in the community, in the home and in the workplace, in particular those that eliminate barriers to safe access to schools and other educational settings, drinking water sources and sanitation facilities, workplaces and livelihoods, and participation in the life of the community;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas (1996), para. 15
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- (d) Undertaking necessary measures to give rural women full and equal access to productive resources, including the right to inheritance and to ownership of land and other property, credit/capital, natural resources, appropriate technologies, markets and information, and meeting their basic requirements in water and sanitation;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas (2010), para. 23
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- (f) Investing in and strengthening efforts to meet the basic needs of rural women through improved availability, access to and use of critical rural infrastructure, such as energy and transport, capacity-building and human resources development measures and the provision of a safe and reliable water supply and sanitation, nutritional programmes, affordable housing programmes, education and literacy programmes, and health and social support measures, including in the areas of sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support services;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2016), para. 34
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- (e) To promote both women’s leadership and their full, effective and equal participation in decision-making on water and sanitation management and to ensure that a gender-based approach is adopted in relation to water and sanitation programmes, including measures, inter alia, to reduce the time spent by women and girls in collecting household water, in order to address the negative impact of inadequate water and sanitation services on the access of girls to education and to protect women and girls from being physically threatened or assaulted, including from sexual violence, while collecting household water and when accessing sanitation facilities outside of their home or practising open defecation;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2016), para. 13
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- Deeply concerned further that women and girls often face particular barriers in their access to water and sanitation, which are exacerbated in humanitarian crises, and that they shoulder the main burden of collecting household water in many parts of the world, which restricts their time for other activities, such as education and leisure for girls or earning a livelihood for women,
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas (2000), para. 12
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- (a) Investing in and strengthening efforts to meet the basic needs of rural women through capacity- building and human resources development measures and the provision of a safe and reliable water supply, health services, including family planning services, and nutritional programmes as well as education and literacy programmes and social support measures;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Women in development (2008), para. 10
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- Recognizing that population and development issues, education and training, health, nutrition, the environment, water supply, sanitation, housing, communications, science and technology, and employment opportunities are important elements for effective poverty eradication and the advancement and empowerment of women,
- Topic(s)
- Poverty
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2018), para. 36
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- (s) Supporting women entrepreneurs and women smallholder farmers, including those in subsistence farming, by continuing to provide public investment and to encourage private investment in rural women to close the gender gap in agriculture, and facilitating their access to extension and financial services, agricultural inputs and land, water, sanitation and irrigation, markets and innovative technologies;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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