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A human rights-based approach to the administration of criminal justice in cases of trafficking in persons 2012, para. 90
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- In addition to criminalizing trafficking in persons in conformity with the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, States must ensure the criminalization of other crimes relating to trafficking in persons, including - but not limited to - corruption, money-laundering, debt bondage, obstruction of justice and participation in organized criminal groups.
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2012
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Access to justice for people living in poverty 2012, para. 96
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- [States should:] Make all efforts necessary to register all children immediately after birth, and identify and remove barriers that impede the access of the poor to registration, in particular groups that suffer multiple forms of discrimination; registration must be free, simple and available at the local level
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- Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Year
- 2012
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Achieving durable solutions for internally displaced persons in urban settings 2014, para. 61z
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- [Durable solutions remain available options for internally displaced persons, including those in urban settings. The very nature of urban displacement, however, tends to lend weight to local integration as the viable choice preferred by internally displaced persons in urban areas. Informed by the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and the Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons, the Special Rapporteur reiterates his recommendations made in his previous reports (A/HRC/19/54 and A/68/225) and adds the following recommendations to:] [International organizations, including humanitarian and development actors, and urban planners as relevant] Given the little knowledge on the impact of displacement on health and emotional well-being and its influence on urban dynamics, expand research on protection gaps and needs, especially those of internally displaced persons particularly at risk, including women, children and persons with disabilities.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2014
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 60s
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- [In order to provide equal access to justice for people of African descent and as a part of the duty of States to protect human rights, the Working Group calls upon States to guarantee that:] A greater knowledge of and respect for the heritage and culture of people of African descent are adopted, particularly for children and youth, through intercultural education and dialogue, awareness-raising and activities designed to protect and promote African culture and African-descent culture in its various manifestations. Specific plans must be in place for the ethnic recognition and visibility of people of African descent. Measures should be adopted to preserve, protect and restore traditional knowledge, and the intangible patrimony and spiritual memory of sites and places of the slave trade and slave resistance;
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Youth
- Year
- 2014
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 60t
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- [In order to provide equal access to justice for people of African descent and as a part of the duty of States to protect human rights, the Working Group calls upon States to guarantee that:] The rights of children and youth of African descent are specifically protected with regard to their identity, culture and language, particularly by promoting culturally and linguistically sensitive education policies and programmes. Measures should be adopted to combat the indirect discrimination faced by children in education systems by removing the negative stereotypes and imagery often used in teaching materials, ensuring the inclusion in curricula of the histories and cultures of people of African descent, and the history of the transatlantic slave trade, and ensuring the cultural or linguistic relevance of teaching for children of African descent. Formal education at the early childhood, primary, secondary, post-secondary and adult levels must incorporate knowledge about the history of transatlantic slavery, the role of people of African descent in global development, and the diversity and richness of civilizations and cultures which constitute the common heritage of humankind. Comprehensive curricula reform should also tackle all forms of stereotypes;
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Youth
- Year
- 2014
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 76
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- A greater knowledge of and respect for the heritage and culture of people of African descent should be adopted, in particular for children and young people, through intercultural education and dialogue, awareness-raising and activities designed to protect and promote African and African-descent culture in its various manifestations. Specific plans must be in place for the ethnic recognition and visibility of people of African descent. Measures shall be adopted to preserve, protect and restore traditional knowledge and the intangible patrimony and spiritual memory of sites and places of the slave trade and slave resistance.
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Youth
- Year
- 2014
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 77
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- The rights of children and young people of African descent need to be specifically protected with regard to their identity, culture and language, in particular by promoting culturally and linguistically sensitive education policies and programmes. Actions shall be adopted to combat the indirect discrimination faced by children in education systems by removing the negative stereotypes and imagery often used in teaching materials, ensuring the inclusion of the histories and cultures of people of African descent, including the transatlantic slave trade in curriculums, and ensuring the cultural or linguistic relevance of teaching for children of African descent. Formal education at the early childhood, primary, secondary, post-secondary and adult education levels must incorporate knowledge about the history of transatlantic enslavement and the role of people of African descent in global development, and the diversity and richness of civilizations and cultures that constitute the common heritage of humankind. A comprehensive curriculum reform shall also tackle all forms of stereotypes.
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Youth
- Year
- 2014
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 82f
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- [States should also:] Make history a compulsory subject at the primary and secondary educational levels, thereby giving children of African descent a connection with their past and a sense of cultural identity;
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- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 82k
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- [States should also:] Ensure that curriculums adequately reflect the diversity and plurality of societies. Education should be culturally relevant for children and young people of African descent, including in their own language where necessary;
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Youth
- Year
- 2014
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 82l
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- [States should also:] Take measures to reduce the school dropout rate and improve the underachievement of children of African descent with greater support and attention given to families;
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Year
- 2014
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 82n
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- [States should also:] Promote access to new technologies that would offer people of African descent, particularly women, children and young people, adequate resources for education, technological development and long-distance learning in local communities;
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2014
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 82s
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- [States should also:] Institute national systematic monitoring and evaluation of the negative effects of racism and discrimination on the educational progress of children of African descent, including an analysis of the intersectional effects of social class, gender, religion and geography.
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 86
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- Schools should adopt programmes to promote empowerment and help children to develop a positive perception of themselves and reinforce self assurance and pride in their African backgrounds by demonstrating knowledge about their culture, history and contributions to society. Such measures will also improve their performance in schools.
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 90d
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- [States, through their government bodies, as well as national statistics institutes, human rights institutions and organizations for racial equality, in conformity with their mandates, should:] Produce data illustrating the situation of women and children of people of African descent;
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2014
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 97a
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- [States, United Nations entities, independent mechanisms and other stakeholders should undertake to do the following:] Establish institutional links and support cooperation on thematic issues between independent global and regional mechanisms on gender equality and violence against women, namely the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Rapporteur on the rights of women, the group of experts of the Council of Europe on action against violence against women and domestic violence, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of women in Africa, the follow-up mechanism to the implementation of the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women and the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children, through regular meetings and discussions on the implementation of the results of those meetings through the creation of a coherent and integrated approach, with a view to both ensuring that there is no fragmentation or inconsistency in recommendations and supporting effective and strong national and international mechanisms;
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- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2017
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Agenda setting of the work of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 83
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- The Special Rapporteur looks forward to fulfilling the requirements of her mandate, as outlined in Human Rights Council resolution 26/8, and to constructive and fruitful cooperation with diverse stakeholders in all regions of the world. She particularly emphasizes her desire for constructive engagement with United Nations Member States and encourages them to respond positively to her requests for information or for country visits, while emphasizing that the mandate remains available to provide assistance to States and to respond to their requests to the fullest extent possible. The Special Rapporteur reiterates the importance that she places on the role and views of non-governmental organizations, including in providing information to her and engaging with and assisting her fully as she conducts her work on combating trafficking in persons, especially women and children.
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2015
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 39
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- The Special Rapporteur intends to ensure the continuity of the work of her predecessors. She will seek to consolidate their efforts and will explore new directions in which to develop the mandate. She will continue to adopt a consultative, participatory, child-centred and holistic approach in the implementation of her mandate and will integrate a gender perspective throughout her work.
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- Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 40
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- The Special Rapporteur will strive to ensure coordination and complementarity with relevant special procedures mandates and other United Nations mechanisms and bodies. She will make every effort to mainstream the protection and promotion of children's rights within the special procedures system, and will advocate human rights-based approaches in the work of United Nations agencies, funds and programmes that address child protection issues. She will also seek to enhance cooperation with regional mechanisms on children's rights.
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- Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Approach, vision and work methods 2014, para. 41
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- The year 2015 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the mandate on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. Its continuous renewal underscores the need for the international community to step up efforts to combat the increasing phenomena of sexual abuse and exploitation of children. To properly discharge her functions and ensure the effective implementation of her mandate, stronger support, through the allocation of sufficient means and resources, will be key in the coming years, in particular to ensure appropriate follow-up to her recommendations.
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- Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Article 1, paragraph 1, of the Convention (Descent) 2002, para. (pp)
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- [Recommends that the States parties, as appropriate for their particular circumstances, adopt some or all of the following measures:] Take measures to address the special vulnerability of children of descent-based communities to exploitative child labour;
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- Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- Document type
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2002
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Article 1, paragraph 1, of the Convention (Descent) 2002, para. (rr)
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- [Recommends that the States parties, as appropriate for their particular circumstances, adopt some or all of the following measures:] Ensure that public and private education systems include children of all communities and do not exclude any children on the basis of descent;
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- Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- Document type
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2002
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Article 1, paragraph 1, of the Convention (Descent) 2002, para. (ss)
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- [Recommends that the States parties, as appropriate for their particular circumstances, adopt some or all of the following measures:] Reduce school drop-out rates for children of all communities, in particular for children of affected communities, with special attention to the situation of girls;
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- Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- Document type
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2002
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Assessment of the educational attainment of students 2014, para. 79
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- Commitments made by the international community to the realization of the right to basic education are well known. A major constraint emanates from the non-fulfilment by States of their obligations. Whether States have fulfilled their obligations for the right to education is dependent not just upon how many years of schooling children have attended, but also upon whether what they have learned has empowered them in their lives. That is shown by assessing the educational achievements of students against a national curriculum which is consistent with the objectives of the right to education. Comprehensive national assessment mechanisms must be recognized as valuable tools for students, schools as well as for States. Those assessments ensure that the achievements of each student are tracked and, where necessary, improved. Nationally, they enable States to adjust their curriculum, teacher training and education systems more broadly to ensure that the right to education is achieved in the fullest sense.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Assessment of the educational attainment of students 2014, para. 81
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- In that spirit, the national assessment systems of the educational attainments of students in basic education need to be revamped and developed so as to demonstrate that every child completes at least a primary education of good quality, in line with the core obligation of States, and is given access to good quality secondary education, with technical and vocational education and training (TVET) as an integral component. Assessment mechanisms for TVET-led skills development deserve greater consideration in evaluating how TVET programmes empower their beneficiaries to acquire the necessary competencies and skills which respond to a the development requirements of a country, while also recognizing the importance of a human rights perspective.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Assessment of the educational attainment of students 2014, para. 83
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- It is also important to initiate a public debate on the educational attainments of students and to foster education systems which embody the spirit of human values and human dignity. Education must not lead students merely to be immersed in materialistic values and pursuits in life, devoid of the values of human rights and of solidarity and mutual understanding and respect for each other's culture. It must also prepare children for the responsibilities of freedom in keeping with the institutional mandates of UNESCO and UNICEF. The intellectual community, civil society organizations and particularly parliamentarians, as lawmakers and public figures, can make a significant contribution in this respect.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Assessment of the educational attainment of students 2014, para. 90
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- In relation to assessing progression from primary to secondary education, the Special Rapporteur recommends that: States comply fully with their core obligation of providing free, compulsory primary education of good quality to every child, boys and girls alike. Completion of good quality primary education should be a predominant concern in the national assessment of basic education, with no automatic progression from primary to secondary education. This can only be verified through assessments prior to progression to secondary education, with recognized qualification" at the end of primary education cycle. Public authorities should ensure the maintenance of quality standards throughout the cycle of basic education in a sustained manner.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2014
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Assessment of the educational attainment of students 2014, para. 97
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- The Special Rapporteur would like to make the following recommendations to United Nations and intergovernmental bodies: Within their respective institutional missions, UNESCO and UNICEF should accord the foremost importance to a human rights-based approach to national student assessments in order to prepare children for the responsibilities of freedom". They should accordingly encourage and support Governments in their endeavours to that effect, providing the necessary technical assistance and advisory services;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Avoidance of discrimination against women in national strategies for the prevention and control of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) 1990, para. (a)
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- [Recommends:] That States parties intensify efforts in disseminating information to increase public awareness of the risk of HIV infection and AIDS, especially in women and children, and of its effect on them;
- Body
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document type
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 1990
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Avoidance of discrimination against women in national strategies for the prevention and control of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) 1990, para. (b)
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- [Recommends:] That programmes to combat AIDS should give special attention to the rights and needs of women and children, and to the factors relating to the reproductive role of women and their subordinate position in some societies which make them especially vulnerable to HIV infection;
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- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document type
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 1990
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Banking on mobility over a generation: follow-up to the regional study on the management of the external borders of the European Union and its impact on the human rights of migrants 2015, para. 88
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- Claiming this leadership role involves the development of coherent and holistic human rights-based approaches that require short-, medium- and long-term interventions. It is vital that, in the short term, the European Union step up search and rescue operations, further explore alternatives to detention, particularly for children, start providing more resettlement opportunities for people from the Syrian Arab Republic and other countries, in line with its share of global resources, and take stock of the failing Dublin logic and the systemic pressures it is creating.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2015
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