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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. 32
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- Recognizing also the critical contribution of families in eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, including sexual harassment and domestic violence, by, inter alia, providing for a supportive environment for the empowerment of all women and girls, including by raising awareness about the human rights of women and girls, and that family-oriented policies can play an important role in preventing and responding to all forms of violence,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in protection (2011), para. 24
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- (h) To adopt measures to enhance the awareness of women, and in particular women at known risk of gender-based violence, of their rights, the law and the protection and legal remedies it offers, including by disseminating information on the assistance available to women and families who have experienced violence, and ensuring that timely and appropriate information is available to all women who have been subjected to violence, at all stages of the justice system;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- 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. 18
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- 1. Strongly condemns all acts of violence against women and girls, whether these acts are perpetrated by the State, private persons or non-State actors, and calls for the elimination of all forms of gender-based violence in the family, within the general community and where perpetrated or condoned by the State, in accordance with the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: remedies for women who have been subjected to violence (2012), para. 07
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- Recalling also the inclusion of gender-related crimes and crimes of sexual violence in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the establishment of a trust fund for victims of crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court and the families of such victims, and noting the mandate of the Court to permit the participation of victims at all stages of the proceedings determined to be appropriate by the Court and to protect their safety, physical and psychological well-being, dignity and privacy, 1
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: remedies for women who have been subjected to violence (2012), para. 18
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- 3. Urges States to encourage the removal of all barriers to women’s access to justice and to ensure access to effective legal assistance for all female victims of violence so that they can make informed decisions regarding, inter alia, legal proceedings and issues relating to family law, and also ensure that victims have access to just and effective remedies for the harm that they have suffered, including through the adoption of national legislation, where necessary;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: remedies for women who have been subjected to violence (2012), para. 21
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- 7. Urges States to adopt measures to enhance the awareness of women, and in particular women at known risk of gender-based violence, of their rights, the law and the protection and legal remedies it offers, including by disseminating information on the assistance available to women and families who have experienced violence, and ensuring that timely and appropriate information is available to all women who have been subjected to violence, at all stages of the justice system;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- 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. 25
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- 1. Strongly condemns all acts of violence against women and girls, whether these acts are perpetrated by the State, private persons or non-State actors, and calls for the prevention and elimination of all forms of gender-based violence in the family, within the general community and where perpetrated or condoned by the State;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- 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. 43
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- (m) Adopting measures to enhance the awareness of women, and in particular women at known risk of gender-based violence, of their rights and the law, and the protection and legal remedies it offers, including by disseminating information on the assistance available to women and families who have experienced violence, and ensuring that timely and appropriate information is available to all women who have been subjected to lence at all stages of the justice system, and to address social stigma and legal discrimination faced by victims of violence;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
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Agriculture development and food security (2013), para. 38
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- 16. Calls for closing the gender gap in access to productive resources in agriculture, noting with concern that the gender gap persists for many assets, inputs and services, and stresses the need to invest in and strengthen efforts to meet the basic needs of rural women, including needs relating to their food and nutritional security and that of their families, and to promote adequate standards of living for them as well as decent conditions for work and access to local, regional and global markets;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2019), para. 23
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- (j) The Government’s recent launch of a social work programme with human rights as a key curriculum learning area at several Somali universities, which seeks to build a social welfare workforce that is capable of enhancing the resilience of communities and of ensuring enjoyment of human rights, and to promote gender equality-based responses to individuals and families who have experienced violence and abuse;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Consequences of child, early and forced marriage (2019), para. 40
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- 12. Calls upon States to strengthen laws and regulatory frameworks that promote the reconciliation and sharing of work and family responsibilities for women and men, including by designing, implementing and promoting family-responsive legislation, policies and services, such as parental and other leave schemes, increased flexibility in working arrangements, support for breastfeeding mothers, the development of infrastructure and technology, and the provision of services, including affordable, accessible and quality childcare and care facilities for children and other dependents, and promoting men’s equitable responsibilities with respect to household work as fathers and caregivers, which create an enabling environment for women’s economic empowerment;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Men
- Women
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (2013), para. 21
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- Noting also the adoption by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation of its Plan of Action for the Advancement of Women and the establishment of the Department of Family Affairs at its General Secretariat to deal specifically with issues concerning women and children, and underscoring cooperation between the Department and relevant United Nations agencies, including the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women),
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Women
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (2015), para. 22
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- Noting also the adoption by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation of its Plan of Action for the Advancement of Women and the establishment of the Department of Family Affairs at its general secretariat to deal specifically with issues concerning women and children, and underscoring cooperation between the Department and relevant United Nations agencies, including the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women),
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Women
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights andFundamental Freedoms (2010), para. 22
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- 7. Also urges States to take appropriate measures to address the question of impunity for attacks, threats and acts of intimidation, including cases of gender-based violence, against human rights defenders and their relatives, including by ensuring that complaints from human rights defenders are promptly investigated and addressed in a transparent, independent and accountable manner;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Families
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibilityof Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2008), para. 23
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- 7. Also urges States to take appropriate measures to address the question of impunity for attacks, threats and acts of intimidation, including cases of gender- based violence, against human rights defenders and their relatives, including by ensuring that complaints from human rights defenders are promptly investigated and addressed in a transparent, independent and accountable manner;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Families
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Eliminating rape and other forms of sexual violence in all their manifestations, including in conflict and related situations (2008), para. 16
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- Strongly condemning all acts of violence against women and girls, whether these acts are perpetrated by the State, by private persons or by non-State actors, calling for the elimination of all forms of gender-based violence in the family, within the general community, and where perpetrated or condoned by the State, and stressing the need to treat all forms of violence against women and girls as a criminal offence, punishable by law,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2018), para. 08
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- Recalling that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, that gender equality must be promoted in a comprehensive and systematic manner, and that persistent discrimination within families and societies has a debilitating impact on the equal enjoyment of human rights by women and girls in all aspects of life, and affirming that no State can be indifferent to the violations of human rights anywhere in the world,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2018), para. 16
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- Recognizing that the right to work and just and favourable working conditions, and the right to non-discrimination and gender equality, combined with the right to sexual and reproductive health, also requires States to ensure employment with maternity protection and parental leave for workers, including workers in vulnerable situations, as well as protection from sexual harassment in the workplace and the prohibition of discrimination based on pregnancy, childbirth or parenthood,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2018), para. 40
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- (d) To support gender equality and women’s and girls’ rights, including within families, through long-term awareness-raising initiatives, especially education and public awareness-raising, including through the media and online, the incorporation of curricula on all women’s rights into teacher training courses, including the prevention of sexual and gender-based violence, and ensuring universal access to evidence-based comprehensive sexuality education;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2019), para. 33
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- (e) To support substantive gender equality and women’s and girls’ rights, including within families, through long-term awareness-raising initiatives, including for men and boys, especially education and public awareness-raising, including in the media and online, through the incorporation of curricula on all women’s and girls’ rights into teacher training courses, including on the prevention of sexual and gender-based violence, and by ensuring universal access to evidence-based comprehensive sexuality education;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Families
- Girls
- Men
- Women
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Elimination of discrimination against women (2013), para. 25
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- 8. Calls upon States to promote the rights of women and girls and to support their empowerment by adopting, as appropriate, a coherent set of gender-responsive social and economic policies directed at the family, the workplace and the marketplace, and by addressing poverty and social exclusion in order to overcome the structural barriers and inequalities they face and to thereby ensure their long-term and sustainable participation in political and public life;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
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Elimination of discrimination against women (2014), para. 19
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- 4. Also calls upon States to promote the rights of women and girls and to support their empowerment by adopting, as appropriate, a coherent set of gender-responsive social and economic policies directed at the family, the workplace and the marketplace, and by addressing poverty and social exclusion in order to overcome the structural barriers and inequalities they face and thereby to ensure their long-term and sustainable participation in economic and social life;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
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Elimination of discrimination against women (2014), para. 22
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- 7. Requests States to take measures to overcome the barriers to women’s economic opportunities resulting from maternity and the disproportionate burden of unpaid care work in order to permit choice by women and men as to how they allocate work and family duties and in order to enable the complementarity of work and family between women and men;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Men
- Women
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Elimination of discrimination against women and girls (2017), para. 38
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- (c) To consider adopting good practices to support substantive equality within families through long-term awareness-raising initiatives, especially education and public awareness, including through the media and online, and the incorporation of curricula on women’s rights into teacher training courses, including evidence-based, comprehensive sexuality education and gender-based violence prevention;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
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Elimination of discrimination against women and girls (2017), para. 40
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- (b) To be agents and positive role models for addressing discrimination and gender inequality and to promote respectful relationships and equal sharing of work and family responsibilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Elimination of domestic violence against women (2004), para. 22
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- 3. Strongly condemns all forms of domestic violence against women and girls, and in this regard, calls for the elimination of all forms of gender-based violence in the family, including where condoned by the State;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
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Enhancement of international cooperation to assist victims of terrorism (2019), para. 20
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- 1. Calls upon all Member States to develop comprehensive assistance plans for victims of terrorism, consistent with domestic law, taking into account a gender perspective, to address the immediate, short-term and long-term needs of victims of terrorism and their families with regard to their relief and rehabilitation, ensuring that they are provided with proper support and assistance, both immediately after an attack and in the long term, including through the sharing of best practices and lessons learned related to the protection of and assistance to victims of terrorism;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (2017), para. 20
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- 3. Reiterates that all States must conduct prompt, exhaustive and impartial investigations into all suspected cases of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, identify and bring to justice those responsible, while ensuring the right of every person to a fair hearing by a competent, independent and impartial tribunal established by law, grant adequate compensation within a reasonable time to the victims or their families and adopt all necessary measures, including legal and judicial measures, also bearing in mind gender equality in access to justice, to put an end to impunity and prevent the further occurrence of such executions, as recommended in the Principles on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extralegal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions, 10 fully consistent with their obligations under international law;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2007), para. 33
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- (n) Removing structural and legal barriers, as well as eliminating stereotypic attitudes, to gender equality at work, promoting equal pay for equal work, and promoting the recognition of the value of women’s unremunerated work, as well as developing and promoting policies that facilitate the reconciliation of employment and family responsibilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
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Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2008), para. 35
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- (p) Removing structural and legal barriers, as well as eliminating stereotypic attitudes, to gender equality at work, promoting equal pay for equal work, and promoting the recognition of the value of women’s unremunerated work, as well as developing and promoting policies that facilitate the reconciliation of employment and family responsibilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
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