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Trafficking in women and girls (2015), para. 80
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- 46. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-first session a report that compiles information on successful interventions and strategies, as well as the gaps, in addressing the gender dimensions of the problem of trafficking in persons and provides recommendations on the strengthening of human rights-based, gender- and age-sensitive approaches within comprehensive and balanced efforts to address trafficking in persons.
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- Gender
- Movement
- Violence
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- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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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. 57
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- (f) Providing victims and survivors of violence in the world of work with effective remedies, including relief support and legal, medical, psychological and confidential counselling services and access to reasonable and necessary leave to participate in legal processes, receive medical treatment or make arrangements for their safety, and relevant, comprehensive and victim/survivor-centred legal protection in a gender-responsive manner, including protection of victims and survivors from secondary victimization and protection of victims, survivors, witnesses and whistle-blowers from reprisals for reporting violence in the world of work;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Gender
- Health
- Violence
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- Sep 22, 2021
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United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons (2010), para. 94
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- 56. Strengthen and support the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons in order to improve coordination and cooperation among relevant United Nations bodies, including the human rights treaty bodies and mechanisms, and other international organizations;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (2005), para. 14
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- Reaffirming that all States have the right and the duty to take actions in conformity with international law and international humanitarian law to counter deadly acts of violence against their civilian population in order to protect the lives of their citizens,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
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- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Report of the International Criminal Court (2018), para. 07
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- Convinced that ending impunity is essential for coming to terms with any past crimes committed and preventing such crimes in the future,
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Violence
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2017), para. 53
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- 37. Recalls that the International Criminal Court was established to help to end impunity for applicable crimes where the State is unwilling or unable to genuinely carry out investigations or prosecutions;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Questions of American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guam,Montserrat, Pitcairn, Saint Helena, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands (2003), para. 036
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- 9. Calls upon the administering Powers, in cooperation with the respective territorial Governments, to continue to take all necessary measures to counter problems related to drug trafficking, money-laundering and other offences;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Consideration of effective measures to enhance theprotection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives (2003), para. 17
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- 6. Urges States to take all appropriate measures, in accordance with international law, at the national and international levels, to prevent any abuse of diplomatic or consular privileges and immunities, in particular serious abuses, including those involving acts of violence;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Mar 5, 2020
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The situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2012), para. 31
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- 8. Stresses again the importance of ensuring accountability and the need to end impunity and hold to account those responsible for human rights violations, including those violations that may amount to crimes against humanity;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Violence
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Combating defamation of religions (2007), para. 19
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- 2. Strongly deplores physical attacks and assaults on businesses, cultural centres and places of worship of all religions as well as targeting of religious symbols;
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- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Measures to combat contemporary forms of racism and racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (2002), para. 32
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- 9. Reaffirms that acts of violence against others stemming from racism do not constitute expressions of opinion but rather offences;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Preventing, combating and punishing trafficking in human organs (2005), para. 04
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- Recalling further its resolution 55/255 of 31 May 2001, by which it adopted the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (2011), para. 16
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- 7. Recalls, in this respect, the Principles on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the Istanbul Principles) 6 as a useful tool in efforts to prevent and combat torture and the updated set of principles for the protection and promotion of human rights through action to combat impunity; 7
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Mar 5, 2020
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International cooperation against the world drug problem (2004), para. 37
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- 10. Calls upon States to consider including provisions in their national drug control plans for the establishment of national networks to enhance their respective capabilities to prevent, monitor, control and suppress serious offences connected with money-laundering and the financing of terrorist acts, and in general to counter all acts of transnational organized crime, and to supplement existing regional and international networks dealing with money-laundering;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations (2003), para. 31
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- (c) Ways and means to assist the Territories to fight drug trafficking, money- laundering and other illegal and criminal activities;
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- Violence
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Trafficking in women and girls (2017), para. 17
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- Bearing in mind the obligations of States to exercise due diligence to prevent trafficking in persons, to investigate and punish perpetrators of trafficking in persons and to protect and empower victims, and that not doing so violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the victims,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Tackling illicit trafficking in wildlife (2015), para. 33
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- 14. Calls upon, in this regard, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, within its mandate and resources, in line with Economic and Social Council resolution 2013/40 and in close cooperation and collaboration with Member States, to continue to collect information on patterns and flows of illicit trafficking in wildlife and to report thereon;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- All
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Promotion and protection of human rights in the Philippines (2019), para. 06
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- Bearing in mind that, since the campaign against illegal drugs was announced in the Philippines in mid-2016, there have been allegations of the killing of thousands of people allegedly involved in the drug trade and drug use,
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- Health
- Violence
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- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons (2007), para. 10
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- Welcoming also the efforts of Member States and intergovernmental and non- governmental organizations in preventing and combating trafficking in persons and other contemporary forms of slavery and enhancing the protection of and assistance to victims of trafficking in persons and other contemporary forms of slavery,
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- Violence
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of the child (2005), para. 050
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- Freedom from violence
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- Gender
- Violence
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- Mar 5, 2020
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International cooperation against the world drug problem (2008), para. 40
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- 29. Urges States to strengthen action, in particular international cooperation and technical assistance aimed at preventing and combating the laundering of proceeds derived from drug trafficking and related criminal activities, with the support of the United Nations system, international institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, as well as regional development banks and, where appropriate, the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering and similarly styled regional bodies, to develop and strengthen comprehensive international regimes to combat money-laundering and its possible links with organized crime and the financing of terrorism, and to improve information-sharing among financial institutions and agencies in charge of preventing and detecting the laundering of those proceeds;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2018), para. 082
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- 21. Urges the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to increase collaboration with intergovernmental, international and regional organizations that have transnational organized crime mandates, as appropriate, in order to share best practices, foster cooperation and take advantage of their unique and comparative advantage;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Violence
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- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Violence against women migrant workers (1994), para. 04
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- Welcoming the reaffirmation made in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 1/ adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, that gender- based violence and all forms of sexual harassment and exploitation are incompatible with the dignity and worth of the human person and must be eliminated by legal measures and through national and international cooperation, 2/
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- Gender
- Violence
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- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Combating intolerance, negative stereotyping,stigmatization, discrimination, incitement to violence and violence against persons, based on religion or belief (2013), para. 26
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- 3. Expresses concern that the number of incidents of religious intolerance, discrimination and related violence, as well as of negative stereotyping of individuals on the basis of religion or belief, continues to rise around the world, which may have serious implications at the national, regional and international levels, condemns, in this context, any advocacy of religious hatred against individuals that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence, and urges States to take effective measures, as set forth in the present resolution and consistent with their obligations under international human rights law, to address and combat such incidents;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2013), para. 08
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- Recalling the inclusion of gender-related crimes and crimes of sexual violence in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 19 as well as the recognition by the ad hoc international criminal tribunals that rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute a war crime, a crime against humanity or a constitutive act with respect to genocide or torture,
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- Gender
- Violence
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Rule of law, crime prevention and criminal justice in the United Nations development agenda beyond 2015 (2015), para. 17
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- Concerned about the serious threat that violence related to transnational organized crime poses to development and the rule of law, security and well-being of communities, hindering the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by reducing national income and productivity, diverting investment and rolling back hard-won development gains, and recognizing that comprehensive crime prevention strategies can contribute to addressing those challenges effectively,
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- Violence
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission (2019), para. 03
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- Recalling also that the Secretary-General, on 24 March 2005, transmitted to the President of the General Assembly a report of his Adviser concerning sexual exploitation and abuse by United Nations peacekeeping personnel, 2
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
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- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2004), para. 57
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- (f) To put an end to impunity and to ensure that those responsible for human rights violations and grave breaches of international humanitarian law are brought to justice in accordance with due process;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
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- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons (2009), para. 09
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- Recognizing also the need to continue fostering a global partnership against trafficking in persons and other contemporary forms of slavery,
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- Violence
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- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Strengthening the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2010), para. 14
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- Concerned about the growing degree of penetration of criminal organizations and their proceeds into the economy,
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- Violence
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- N.A.
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- Mar 5, 2020
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