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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in prevention (2010), para. 18
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- 5. Urges States to adopt and implement policies and programmes that enable women to avoid and escape situations of violence and prevent its recurrence, and that provide, inter alia, financial support and affordable access to safe housing or shelters, childcare and other social supports, legal assistance, skills training and productive resources, and to make these services accessible to women and girls with disabilities;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2016), para. 16
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- Recognizing that young people play a significant role in supporting sustainable economic growth and that agricultural technology has an essential role to play in facilitating access to agricultural skills for young women and men, improving the livelihoods of youth and securing the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour,
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- Children
- Men
- Women
- Youth
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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2018), para. 18
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- Recognizing that young people play a significant role in supporting sustainable economic growth and that agricultural technology has an essential role to play in facilitating access to agricultural skills for young women and men, improving the livelihoods of youth and securing the prohibition and elimination of t he worst forms of child labour,
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- Children
- Men
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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2020), para. 21
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- Recognizing that young people play a significant role in supporting sustainable economic growth and that agricultural technology, innovation and digitalization have an essential role to play in facilitating access to agricultural skills fo r young women and men, improving the livelihoods of youth, creating quality and decent jobs and __________________ contributing to the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, strengthening progress towards achieving the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals,
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- Children
- Men
- Women
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2019), para. 62
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- 11. Underscores the need to address child stunting, which remains unacceptably high, with nearly 151 million children under 5 years of age, or over 22 per cent, affected by stunting in 2017;
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- Children
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Assistance in mine clearance (1998), para. 25
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- 3. Invites Member States to develop national programmes, in cooperation with the relevant bodies of the United Nations system where appropriate, to promote awareness of landmines, especially among children;
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- Children
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Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa (2000), para. 39
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- 25. Requests all Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to pay particular attention to meeting the special needs of refugee women and children and displaced persons, including those with special protection needs;
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- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
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Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa (2003), para. 52
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- 31. Requests all Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to pay particular attention to meeting the special needs of refugee women and children and displaced persons, including those with special protection needs;
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- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2016), para. 20
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- 4. Also expresses concern at the abuses and violations perpetrated against girls and women, including sexual and gender-based violence, child, early and forced marriage, and female genital mutilation, and abuses and violations committed against children, including the unlawful recruitment and use of child soldiers, killing and maiming, rape and other sexual and gender-based violence, and abductions, and emphasizes the need for accountability and justice for all such violations and abuses;
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- Children
- Girls
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2016), para. 44
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- (n) To treat former combatants, including children under 18 years of age, in accordance with applicable obligations under domestic and international law, in particular international human rights law and international humanitarian law, as applicable;
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- Children
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2018), para. 23
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- 4. Expresses particular concern at the abuses and violations perpetrated against girls and women, including sexual and gender-based violence, child, early and forced marriage and all forms of female genital mutilation;
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- Children
- Girls
- Women
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Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons and collecting them (2015), para. 03
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- Deeply concerned by the magnitude of human casualty and suffering, especially among children, caused by the illicit proliferation and use of small arms and light weapons,
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- Children
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Assistance to the Palestinian people (2007), para. 09
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- Emphasizing the importance of the safety and well-being of all children in the whole Middle East region,
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- Children
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Assistance to the Palestinian people (2009), para. 27
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- Expressing grave concern about the continuation of the tragic and violent events that have led to many deaths and injuries, including among children and women,
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- Children
- Women
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Assistance to the Palestinian people (2015), para. 10
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- Emphasizing the importance of the safety and well-being of all people, in particular women and children, in the whole Middle East region, the promotion of which is facilitated, inter alia, in a stable and secure environment,
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- Children
- Women
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1995), para. 04
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- Bearing in mind that unaccompanied refugee minors are among the most vulnerable refugees and require special assistance and care,
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- Adolescents
- Children
- Persons on the move
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1996), para. 02
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- Bearing in mind that unaccompanied refugee minors are among the most vulnerable refugees and require special assistance and care,
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- Adolescents
- Children
- Persons on the move
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1999), para. 03
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- Aware of the fact that the majority of refugees are children and women,
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- Children
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- Women
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2000), para. 12
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- 2. Also takes note of the report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict; 5
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- Children
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2002), para. 21
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- 11. Encourages the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict in his efforts to raise awareness worldwide and mobilize official and public opinion for the protection of children affected by armed conflict, including refugee minors;
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- Children
- Persons on the move
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Child, early and forced marriage (2015), para. 10
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- Noting with concern that the continued prevalence of child, early and forced marriage has had a negative impact on the achievement and the overarching aims of Millennium Development Goals 1 to 6, including in the areas of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, poverty reduction, education, maternal and child mortality and health, including sexual and reproductive health, and recognizing that child, early and forced marriage continues to impair sustainable development, inclusive economic growth and social cohesion,
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- Children
- Girls
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Child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings (2017), para. 10
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- Welcoming the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the expert workshop on the impact of existing strategies and initiatives to address child, early and forced marriage, 2 and taking note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on child, early and forced marriage, 3
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- Children
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Child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings (2017), para. 11
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- Noting with appreciation the ongoing United Nations Population Fund-United Nations Children’s Fund Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage, as well as regional, national and subnational instruments, mechanisms and initiatives to end child, early and forced marriage, including the African Union Campaign to End Child Marriage and the Regional Action Plan to End Child Marriage in South Asia, and ongoing United Nations activities and programmes on child, early and forced marriage, and further encouraging coordinated approaches to action at all levels,
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- Children
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Child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings (2017), para. 33
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- 13. Also urges States, with the collaboration of relevant stakeholders, to ensure that the basic humanitarian needs of affected populations and families, including clean water, sanitation, food, shelter, energy, health, including sexual and reproductive health, nutrition, education and protection, are addressed as critical components of humanitarian response, and to ensure that civil registration and vital statistics are an integral part of humanitarian assessments and that livelihoods are protected, recognizing that poverty and lack of economic opportunities for women and girls are among the drivers of child, early and forced marriage;
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- Children
- Families
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Child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings (2017), para. 38
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- 18. Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to create a web portal to bring together and collate information relating to child, early and forced marriage, including in humanitarian settings;
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- Children
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Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (2018), para. 20
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- 10. Emphasizes once more the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur that “any commemorative celebration of the Nazi regime, its allies and related organizations, whether official or unofficial, should be prohibited ” by States, 12 also emphasizes that such manifestations do injustice to the memory of the countless victims of the Second World War and negatively influence children and young people, and stresses in this regard that it is important that States take measures, in accordance with international human rights law, to counteract any celebration of the Nazi SS organization and all its integral parts, including the Waffen SS, and that failure by States to effectively address such practices is incompatible with the obligations of States Members of the United Nations under its Charter;
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Commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the operations of the United Nations Children's Fund (1997), para. 3
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- Also recalling its resolutions 33/83 of 15 December 1978 on the International Year of the Child, 44/25 of 20 November 1989 on the Convention on the Rights of the Child and 45/217 of 21 December 1990 on the World Summit for Children,
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- Children
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Commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the operations of the United Nations Children’s Fund (2006), para. 9
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- 5. Requests the President of the General Assembly to convene, in December 2006, a special commemorative meeting of the Assembly devoted to the sixtieth anniversary of the operations of the United Nations Children’s Fund.
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- Children
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Commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (2019), para. 02
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- Emphasizing that the Convention on the Rights of the Child 1 constitutes the standard in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, and, bearing in mind the importance of the Optional Protocols to the Convention, 2 calling for their universal ratification and effective implementation, as well as that of other human rights instruments,
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Commemorative high-level plenary meeting devoted to the follow-up to the outcome of the special session on children (2007), para. 05
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- Recalling its resolution 58/282 of 9 February 2004 devoted to the follow-up to the outcome of the special session on children,
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- Children
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