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African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2i
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- 2. States Parties shall undertake to pursue the full implementation of this right and in particular shall take measures to: i) Institute comprehensive programmes including legislative steps to prevent unsafe abortions;
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2e
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- 2. States Parties shall undertake to pursue the full implementation of this right and in particular shall take measures to: e) Institute comprehensive programmes to prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS by providing education, information, communication and awareness creation as well as making protective measures and reproductive health services available;
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
European Social Charter (Revised) 1996, para. 9
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- With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right of children and young persons to protection, the Parties undertake: 9. to provide that persons under 18 years of age employed in occupations prescribed by national laws or regulations shall be subject to regular medical control;
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- Council of Europe
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Youth
- Year
- 1996
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2c
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- 2. States Parties shall undertake to pursue the full implementation of this right and in particular shall take measures to: c) Provide access to youth friendly reproductive health services including contraceptives, antenatal and post natal services;
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1a
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- 1. Young people shall have the right to rest and leisure and to engage in play and recreational activities that are part of a health lifestyle as well as to participate freely in sport, physical education drama, the arts, music and other forms of cultural life. In this regard, States Parties shall: a) Make provision for equal access for young men and young women to sport, physical education, cultural, artistic, recreational and leisure activities;
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2j
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- 2. States Parties shall undertake to pursue the full implementation of this right and in particular shall take measures to: j) Take legislative steps such as banning advertising and increasing price in addition to instituting comprehensive preventative and curative programmes to control the consumption of tobacco, exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and alcohol abuse;
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2n
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- 2. States Parties shall undertake to pursue the full implementation of this right and in particular shall take measures to: n) Provide technical and financial support to build the institutional capacity of youth organisations to address public health concerns including issues concerning youth with disabilities and young people married at an early age.
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2b
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- 2. States Parties shall undertake to pursue the full implementation of this right and in particular shall take measures to: b) Secure the full involvement of youth in identifying their reproductive and health needs and designing programmes that respond to these needs with special attention to vulnerable and disadvantaged youth;
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1
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- 1. States Parties recognise the right of mentally and physically challenged youth to special care and shall ensure that they have equal and effective access to education, training, health care services, employment, sport, physical education and cultural and recreational activities.
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
European Social Charter (Revised) 1996, para. 1c
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- With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right of children and young persons to grow up in an environment which encourages the full development of their personality and of their physical and mental capacities, the Parties undertake, either directly or in co-operation with public and private organisations, to take all appropriate and necessary measures designed: 1c. to provide protection and special aid from the state for children and young persons temporarily or definitively deprived of their family's support;
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- Council of Europe
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Youth
- Year
- 1996
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2g
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- 2. States Parties shall undertake to pursue the full implementation of this right and in particular shall take measures to: g) Provide timely access to treatment for young people infected with HIV/AIDS including prevention of mother to child transmission, post rape prophylaxis, and anti-retroviral therapy and creation of health services specific for young people;
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 3f
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- 3. The education of young people shall be directed to: f) The development of life skills to function effectively in society and include issues such as HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, substance abuse prevention and cultural practices that are harmful to the health of young girls and women as part of the education curricula;
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1h
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- 1. States Parties acknowledge the need to eliminate discrimination against girls and young women according to obligations stipulated in various international, regional and national human rights conventions and instruments designed to protect and promote women's rights. In this regard, they shall: h) Take steps to provide equal access to health care services and nutrition for girls and young women;
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1
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- 1. Every young person shall have the right to enjoy the best attainable state of physical, mental and spiritual health.
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2d
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- 2. States Parties shall undertake to pursue the full implementation of this right and in particular shall take measures to: d) Institute programmes to address health pandemics in Africa such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria;
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2f
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- 2. States Parties shall undertake to pursue the full implementation of this right and in particular shall take measures to: f) Expand the availability and encourage the uptake of voluntary counselling and confidential testing for HIV/AIDS;
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2h
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- 2. States Parties shall undertake to pursue the full implementation of this right and in particular shall take measures to: h) Provide food security for people living with HIV/AIDS;
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2k
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- 2. States Parties shall undertake to pursue the full implementation of this right and in particular shall take measures to: k) Raise awareness amongst youth on the dangers of drug abuse through partnerships with youth, youth organisations and the community;
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2m
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- 2. States Parties shall undertake to pursue the full implementation of this right and in particular shall take measures to: m) Provide rehabilitation for young people abusing drugs such that they can be re-integrated into social and economic life;
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2
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- 2. State Parties shall work towards eliminating any obstacles that may have negative implications for the full integration of mentally and physically challenged youth into society including the provision of appropriate infrastructure and services to facilitate easy mobility.
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1b
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- 1. Young people shall have the right to rest and leisure and to engage in play and recreational activities that are part of a health lifestyle as well as to participate freely in sport, physical education drama, the arts, music and other forms of cultural life. In this regard, States Parties shall: b) Put in place adequate infrastructure and services in rural and urban areas for youth to participate in sport, physical education, cultural, artistic, recreational and leisure activities.
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1n
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- 1. States Parties acknowledge the need to eliminate discrimination against girls and young women according to obligations stipulated in various international, regional and national human rights conventions and instruments designed to protect and promote women's rights. In this regard, they shall: n) Secure the right for young women to maternity leave.
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2a
- Paragraph text
- 2. States Parties shall undertake to pursue the full implementation of this right and in particular shall take measures to: a) Make available equitable and ready access to medical assistance and health care especially in rural and poor urban areas with an emphasis on the development of primary health care;
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2l
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- 2. States Parties shall undertake to pursue the full implementation of this right and in particular shall take measures to: l) Strengthen local, national, regional and international partnerships to eradicate the demand, supply and trafficking of drugs including using youth to traffic drugs;
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
Paragraph
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