Search Tips
sorted by
300 shown of 10000+ entities
Trafficking in women and girls (2015), para. 55
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 21. Encourages the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the World Tourism Organization and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to promote their global campaign urging travellers to support the fight against trafficking in persons, especially women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
Paragraph
The right to a nationality: women’s equal nationality rights in law and in practice (2016), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Noting the pledge made in the political declaration of the fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women to take further concrete action to ensure the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, including through strengthened implementation of laws, policies, strategies and programme activities for all women and girls, and the agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women at its sixtieth session, in which it further urged States to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls through the removal, where they exist, of discriminatory provisions in legal frameworks, including punitive provisions, and setting up legal, policy, administrative and other comprehensive measures, including temporary special measures as appropriate, to ensure women’s and girls’ equal and effective access to justice and accountability for violations of human rights of women and girls, 1
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
Paragraph
Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto: situation of women and girls with disabilities (2018), para. 33
- Paragraph text
- 14. Calls upon States to take effective action to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence, exploitation and abuse, including sexual violence and abuse, against women and girls with disabilities without delay, including by:
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
Paragraph
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. 14
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that poverty and lack of empowerment of women, as well as their marginalization resulting from their exclusion from social policies and from the benefits of education, health and sustainable development, can place them at increased risk of violence, and that all forms of violence against women and girls, including sexual violence, are impediments to the development of their full potential as equal partners in all aspects of life, as well as obstacles to the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
Paragraph
The girl child (2018), para. 06
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming all relevant outcomes of major United Nations summits and conferences relevant to the girl child, including the outcome document of the twenty - seventh special session of the General Assembly on children, entitled “A world fit for children”, 7 the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, 10 the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, 11 the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, 12 the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS adopted at the twenty-sixth special session of the General Assembly on HIV/AIDS, entitled “Global Crisis – Global Action”, 13 and the political declarations on HIV and AIDS adopted by the high-level meetings of the General Assembly held in 2006, 14 2011 and 2016, and reiterating that their full and effective implementation is essential to achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including the Sustainable Development Goals,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
Paragraph
Cooperatives in social development (2016), para. 03
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that cooperatives, in their various forms, promote the fullest possible participation in the economic and social development of all people, including women, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples, are becoming a significant factor of economic and social development and contribute to the eradication of poverty and hunger,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers (1995), para. 26
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 15. Invites the World Summit for Social Development, the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace and the Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders to consider including in their respective programmes of action the subject of the traffic in women and girls, as well as youth;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
Paragraph
Implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the Secretary-General on the causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa (2016), para. 23
- Paragraph text
- Encouraging the United Nations system, the African Union and subregional organizations to enhance their interaction with civil society, including women’s and youth associations, academia and research institutions on issues relevant to the promotion of peace, security and sustainable development in Africa, and welcoming the ongoing efforts in this regard, including by the Office of the Special Adviser on Africa,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
Paragraph
Policies and programmes involving youth (2010), para. 27
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (c) Promoting, where appropriate, the physical and legal separation of juvenile from adult judicial and penal systems;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
Paragraph
Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 76
- Paragraph text
- Reports of homicides of "trans" people reflect that 93 murders were recorded in the first half of 2010. Another project has revealed that between January 2008 and September 2011 there were 681 reports of murdered "trans" people in 50 countries.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- LGBTQI+
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
Paragraph
Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 108
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 61 (m). Commit to reducing the risk of HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women by providing them with quality information and education, mentoring, social protection and social services, which evidence shows reduce their risk of HIV infection, by ensuring girls’ access and transition to secondary and tertiary education and addressing barriers to retention, and by providing women with psychosocial support and vocational training to facilitate their transition from education to decent work;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
Paragraph
Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus (2019), para. 04
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the need to encourage the full involvement of both women and men in ammunition management practice and policy,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
Paragraph
Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence (2017), para. 28
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Stressing the need to fully engage men and boys as agents and beneficiaries of change in the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, as well as allies in the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls, including domestic violence,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers (2016), para. 37
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Calls upon all Governments to incorporate a human rights, gender- sensitive and people-centred perspective in legislation, policies and programmes on international migration and on labour and employment, consistent with their human rights obligations and commitments under human rights instruments, for the prevention of and protection of migrant women against violence and discrimination, exploitation and abuse, to take effective measures to ensure that such migration and labour policies do not reinforce discrimination, and, where necessary, to conduct impact assessment studies of such legislation, policies and programmes in order to identify the impact of measures taken and the results achieved in regard to women migrant workers;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Elimination of all forms of violence against women, including crimes identified in the outcome document of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” (2005), para. 07
- Paragraph text
- Stressing the importance of the empowerment of women as a tool to eliminate all forms of violence against women, including crimes identified in the outcome document of the twenty-third special session,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
The girl child (2004), para. 27
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 10. Urges States to formulate comprehensive, multidisciplinary and coordinated national plans, programmes or strategies to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, which should be widely disseminated and should provide targets and timetables for implementation, as well as effective domestic enforcement procedures through the establishment of monitoring mechanisms involving all parties concerned, including consultations with women’s organizations, giving attention to the recommendations relating to the girl child of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women, its causes and consequences;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers (2008), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Noting with concern that many migrant women who are employed in the informal economy and in less skilled work are especially vulnerable to abuse and exploitation, and underlining in this regard the obligation of States to protect the human rights of migrants so as to prevent abuse and exploitation,
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Global efforts for the total elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (2011), para. 06
- Paragraph text
- Convinced that racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance manifest themselves in a differentiated manner for women and girls and may be among the factors leading to a deterioration in their living conditions, poverty, violence, multiple forms of discrimination and the limitation or denial of their human rights, and recognizing the need to integrate a gender perspective into relevant policies, strategies and programmes of action against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance in order to address multiple forms of discrimination,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Women, disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control (2014), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Urges Member States, relevant subregional and regional organizations, the United Nations and the specialized agencies to promote equal opportunities for the representation of women in all decision-making processes with regard to matters related to disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control, in particular as it relates to the prevention and reduction of armed violence and armed conflict;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
International migration and development (2005), para. 02
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development adopted at Cairo, 1 in particular chapter X on international migration, and the key actions for the further implementation of the Programme of Action, set out in the annex to General Assembly resolution S-21/2 of 2 July 1999, in particular section II.C on international migration, as well as the relevant provisions contained in the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development, 2 the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, 3 the Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women 4 and the outcome documents of the twenty- fourth 5 and twenty-fifth special sessions of the General Assembly,
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers (2018), para. 35
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing also that the vulnerabilities documented for women migrant workers highlight increasingly complex migration contexts and channels, where migrant workers may find themselves in life-threatening situations when entering other countries,
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in prevention (2010), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2018), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (b) The landmark political agreement between the Federal Government and federal Member States, which paves the way for the drafting, consultation and passage of an electoral law by December 2018 as a first step towards realizing historic one-person, one-vote elections in 2020 and, in particular, the commitment of the Federal Government, federal Member States and the National Independent Election Commission to protect inclusivity in terms of ensuring equal participation and representation of women in decision-making, as well as of displaced persons, young persons, persons with disabilities, minorities and all members of disadvantaged groups, at all stages of the electoral cycle;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Addressing the impact of multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence in the context of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance on the full enjoyment of all human rights by women and girls (2016), para. 14
- Paragraph text
- Deeply concerned by the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence to which all women and girls continue to be exposed all over the world,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Entrepreneurship for sustainable development (2019), para. 37
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 9. Invites Member States to strengthen the capacity of national financial institutions to reach out to those who have no access to banking, insurance and other financial services, particularly women and women-led micro-, small and medium- sized enterprises, green and inclusive businesses, and digital entrepreneurs, in urban and especially in rural areas, including through the use of innovative tools, including mobile banking, payment platforms and digitalized payments, and encourages them to adopt regulatory and supervisory frameworks that facilitate the safe and sound provision of financial services, increase access to information to protect consumers and promote financial literacy, particularly for women, young people and the most vulnerable people;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Traffic in women and girls (2001), para. 36
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 17. Invites Governments, once again, with the support of the United Nations, to formulate training manuals for law enforcement and medical personnel and judicial officers who handle cases of trafficked women and girls, taking into account current research and materials on traumatic stress and gender-sensitive counselling techniques, with a view to sensitizing them to the special needs of victims;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (2016), para. 15
- Paragraph text
- 6. We express concern, however, that there are still significant digital divides, such as between and within countries and between women and men, which need to be addressed through, among other actions, strengthened enabling policy environments and international cooperation to improve affordability, access, education, capacity-building, multilingualism, cultural preservation, investment and appropriate financing. Further, we acknowledge that a gender divide exists as part of the digital divides, and encourage all stakeholders to ensure the full participation of women in the information society and women’s access to new technologies, especially information and communications technologies for development.
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 05
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling also General Assembly resolution 71/168 of 19 December 2016, on intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation, and all other relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Commission on the Status of Women and the Human Rights Council on measures to eliminate traditional practices that are detrimental to the rights of women and girls,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2008), para. 25
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (h) To educate individual women and men, girls and boys, communities, policymakers and health professionals about how obstetric fistula can be prevented and treated and increase awareness of the needs of pregnant women and girls, including their right to the highest attainable standard of health, through working with community and religious leaders, traditional birth attendants, media, radio stations, influential public figures and policymakers, support the training of doctors, nurses and other health workers in lifesaving obstetric care, and include training on fistula repair, treatment and care as a standard element of health professionals’ training curricula;
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Trafficking in women and girls (2017), para. 21
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing further that pervasive gender inequality, poverty, unemployment, lack of socioeconomic opportunities, gender-based violence, discrimination and marginalization and persistent demand for trafficked women and girls are among the underlying causes that make women and girls vulnerable to trafficking,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2019), para. 24
- Paragraph text
- (b) To ensure that their international obligations on gender equality and non- discrimination are incorporated at all levels of legal frameworks, policies and practices, including in relation to women’s and girls’ access to justice, redress and effective remedies;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Women in development (2009), para. 37
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 14. Expresses deep concern about the pervasiveness of violence against women and girls, reiterates the need to further intensify efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, and recognizes that violence against women and girls is one of the obstacles to the achievement of the objectives of equality, development and peace and that women’s poverty and the lack of political, social and economic empowerment, as well as their marginalization, may result from their exclusion from social policies for and benefits of sustainable development and can place them at increased risk of violence;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers (2020), para. 54
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 12. Urges States to adopt or develop and implement legislation and policies, in accordance with their commitments and obligations under international law, to prevent and respond to gender-related killing of women and girls, including femicide, while taking into account the particular difficulties faced by women migrant workers in accessing justice;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in digital contexts (2018), para. 25
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing further that the multi-jurisdictional and transnational nature of violence against women and girls in digital contexts and the continual use and adaptation of digital technologies by perpetrators to avoid detection and investigation call for active cooperation among different actors, including States and their law enforcement and judicial authorities, and private actors with regard to detecting crimes, reporting them to competent authorities for investigation, safeguarding electronic evidence of crimes and handing the evidence over to those authorities in a timely manner,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Integrating volunteering in the next decade (2013), para. 25
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 18. Reaffirms the need to encourage volunteerism in all its forms, which contributes significantly to the cohesiveness and the well-being of communities and of societies as a whole and which involves and benefits all segments of society, especially women, children, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities, minorities, migrants and those who remain excluded for social or economic reasons;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Operational activities for development of the United Nations system (2016), para. 36
- Paragraph text
- 21. Stresses the need to avoid the use of core or regular resources to subsidize activities financed by non-core or extrabudgetary resources, reaffirms that the guiding principle governing the financing of all non -programme costs should be based on full cost recovery from core and non-core funding sources, proportionally, and in this regard notes the timelines agreed by the Executive Boards of the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) for an independent and external assessment, to be performed in 2016, of the consistency and alignment of the cost -recovery methodology with the quadrennial comprehensive policy review;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Developing human resources for development (1996), para. 16
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Emphasizes the need to ensure the full participation of women in the formulation and implementation of national policies to promote human resources development;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
System-wide coherence (2010), para. 136
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 87. Requests the Economic and Social Council to dissolve the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women as of the date of adoption of the pertinent resolution;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (2020), para. 46
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 34. Reaffirms that achieving gender equality, the empowerment of all women and girls and the full realization of the human rights of all people is essential to achieving sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth and sustainable development, and reiterates the need for gender mainstreaming, including targeted actions and investments in the formulation and implementation of all financial, economic, environmental and social policies in the least developed countries;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Working towards the elimination of crimes against women and girls committed in the name of honour (2005), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (b) The activities and initiatives of States aimed at the elimination of crimes against women committed in the name of honour, including the adoption of amendments to relevant national laws relating to such crimes, the effective implementation of such laws and educational, social and other measures, including national information and awareness-raising campaigns, as well as activities and initiatives of States aimed at the elimination of all other forms of violence against women;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Women in development (2006), para. 43
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 26. Urges the international community, the United Nations system and relevant organizations to give priority to assisting the efforts of developing countries to ensure the full and effective participation of women in deciding and implementing development strategies and integrating gender concerns into national programmes, including by providing adequate resources to operational activities for development in support of the efforts of Governments to ensure full and equal access of women to health care, capital, education, training and technology, as well as full and equal participation in all decision-making;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Improvement of the status of women in the United Nations system (2005), para. 17
- Paragraph text
- 12. Requests the Secretary-General to enable the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women to effectively contribute to, monitor and facilitate the setting and achievement of gender targets in human resource action plans, including by ensuring access to the information required to carry out that work;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (2000), para. 14
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the efforts made by civil society and non-governmental organizations that have contributed to creating a worldwide social conscience of the negative impact, both on social and on economic life, of violence against women,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Human rights and indigenous peoples (2019), para. 25
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 9. Recalls that the Human Rights Council decided in its resolution 39/13 that the theme of the annual half-day panel discussion on the rights of indigenous peoples, to be held during the forty-fifth session of the Council, would be the protection of indigenous human rights defenders, and requests the Office of the High Commissioner to encourage and facilitate the participation of indigenous women and to make the discussion fully accessible to persons with disabilities, and to prepare a summary report on the discussion and to submit it to the Council prior to its forty-seventh session;
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2015), para. 012
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling all its relevant resolutions, including resolution 68/191 of 18 December 2013, on taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls, and recognizing the key role of the criminal justice system in preventing and responding to gender-related killing of women and girls, including by ending impunity for such crimes,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 28
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 7. Urges States to ensure that the protection and provision of support to women and girls subject to, or at risk of, female genital mutilation are an integral part of policies and programmes that address the practice, and to provide women and girls with coordinated, specialized, accessible and quality multisectoral prevention and response, including education, as well as legal, psychological, health-care and social services, provided by qualified personnel, consistent with the guidelines of medical ethics;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Women, disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control (2014), para. 05
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the call for the full and meaningful participation of women in efforts to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit transfer of small arms, pursuant to Security Council resolutions 2106 (2013) of 24 June 2013, 2117 (2013) of 26 September 2013 and 2122 (2013) of 18 October 2013,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Women in development (2020), para. 93
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 63. Calls upon all organizations of the United Nations system, within their organizational mandates, to mainstream a gender perspective and to pursue gender equality in their country programmes, planning instruments, investment frameworks and sector-wide programmes and to articulate specific country-level goals and targets in this domain in accordance with national development strategies, wel comes the work of UN-Women with United Nations country teams in assisting Member States, at their request, in the integration of a gender perspective into national development policies and strategies, including sustainable development policies and strategi es, in accordance with their national priorities, and stresses its important role in leading, coordinating and promoting the accountability of the United Nations system so as to ensure that the commitment to gender equality and gender mainstreaming transla tes into effective action throughout the world;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Improvement of the status of women in the Secretariat (1999), para. 02
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling Articles 1 and 101 of the Charter of the United Nations, as well as Article 8, which provides that the United Nations shall place no restrictions on the eligibility of men and women to participate in any capacity and under conditions of equality in its principal and subsidiary organs,
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Alternative approaches and ways and means within the United Nations system for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms (1994), para. 02
- Paragraph text
- Recalling that in the Charter of the United Nations the peoples of the United Nations declared their determination to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small and to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples,
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Freedom of religion or belief (2014), para. 38
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (d) To end violations of the human rights of women and to devote particular attention to appropriate measures modifying or abolishing existing laws, regulations, customs and practices that discriminate against women, including in the exercise of their right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion or belief, and to foster practical ways to ensure equality between men and women;
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism (2016), para. 24
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 22. Calls upon States to highlight the important role of women in countering terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism, and to consider, when appropriate, the impact of counter-terrorism strategies on women’s human rights and women’s organizations, and to seek consultations with women and women’s organizations when developing strategies to counter terrorism and preventing violent extremism conducive to terrorism;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (2010), para. 15
- Paragraph text
- Bearing in mind the recommendation of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women that national reports should contain information on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, in accordance with paragraph 323 of the Platform,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Protection of migrants (2016), para. 62
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (g) Encourages all States to develop international migration policies and programmes that include a gender perspective, in order to adopt the measures necessary to better protect women and girls against dangers and abuse during migration;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: regional and subregional cooperation in promoting a human rights-based approach to combating trafficking in persons (2010), para. 02
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming all previous resolutions on the problem of trafficking in persons, especially women and children, in particular General Assembly resolutions 63/156 of 18 December 2008 and 64/178 of 18 December 2009, and Council resolutions 8/12 of 18 June 2008, in which it extended the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, and 11/3 of 17 June 2009, and recalling Council resolution 12/15 of 1 October 2009 on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights,
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Right to development (1999), para. 38
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 11. Affirms the need to apply a gender perspective in the implementation of the right to development, inter alia, by ensuring that women play an active role in the development process, and emphasizes that the empowerment of women and their full participation on a basis of equality in all spheres of society is fundamental for development;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Community of Central African States (2002), para. 16
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Noting the important contribution of women in the development process,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Women in development (2004), para. 53
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 29. Welcomes the convening of the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society, held in Geneva from 10 to 12 December 2003, and its second phase, to be held in Tunis from 16 to 18 November 2005, and encourages Governments and all other stakeholders to integrate a gender perspective in the preparatory processes and outcome documents, taking into account the agreed conclusions on women’s participation in and access to the media and information and communication technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women, adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-seventh session 10 and endorsed by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 2003/44 of 22 July 2003, and the report of the Secretary-General; 4
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Human resources development (2010), para. 22
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 11. Calls for steps to integrate gender perspectives into human resources development, including through policies, strategies and targeted actions aimed at promoting women’s capacities and access to productive activities, and in this regard emphasizes the need to ensure the full participation of women in the formulation and implementation of such policies, strategies and actions;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Improvement of the status of women in theUnited Nations system (2004), para. 31
- Paragraph text
- (d) To strongly encourage heads of departments and offices to continue selecting female candidates when their qualifications are the same as, or better than, those of male candidates, and to effectively encourage, monitor and assess the performance of managers in meeting targets for improving women’s representation;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Development cooperation with middle-income countries (2018), para. 24
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming that achieving gender equality, empowering all women and girls, and the full realization of their human rights are essential to achieving sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth and sustainable development, and in that regard reiterating the need for gender mainstreaming, including targeted actions and investments in the formulation and implementation of all financial, economic, environmental and social policies,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa (2000), para. 39
- Paragraph text
- 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;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (2016), para. 03
- Paragraph text
- Recalling the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocol thereto on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the Convention against Discrimination in Education, the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol thereto, and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) of the International Labour Organization,
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions (2018), para. 19
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the importance of full involvement and equal opportunities for the meaningful participation of women and men in disarmament processes, policy and programming decisions related to the Convention,
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) (2016), para. 71
- Paragraph text
- 34. Urges Member States to address the global challenge of youth unemployment by developing and implementing strategies that give young people, including young women, everywhere a real chance to find decent and productive work, and in this context stresses the need for the development of a global strategy on youth employment, building upon, inter alia, the Global Jobs Pact and the call for action by the International Labour Organization;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (2003), para. 36
- Paragraph text
- 21. Encourages all relevant entities of the United Nations system to continue to build women’s knowledge and understanding of and capacity to utilize human rights instruments, in particular the Convention and the Optional Protocol thereto;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2016), para. 30
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Emphasizing the relevance of international instruments and United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice related to the treatment of prisoners, in particular women and juveniles,
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
International cooperation against the world drug problem (2014), para. 40
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 7. Reiterates the commitment of Member States to promoting, developing, reviewing or strengthening effective, comprehensive, integrated drug demand reduction programmes, based on scientific evidence and covering a range of measures, including primary prevention, education, early detection and intervention, treatment, care and related support services, recovery support, rehabilitation and social reintegration efforts, aimed at promoting health and social well-being among individuals, families and communities and reducing the adverse consequences of drug abuse for individuals and society as a whole, taking into account the specific needs of women and the particular challenges posed by high-risk drug users, in full compliance with the three international drug control conventions and in accordance with national legislation, and commits Member States to investing increased resources in ensuring access to those interventions on a non-discriminatory basis, including in detention facilities, bearing in mind that those interventions should also consider vulnerabilities that undermine human development, such as poverty and social marginalization;
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Policies and programmes involving youth (2020), para. 06
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming that fulfilling the human rights, needs and well-being of youth, including adolescents and young women, is critical to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as well as other United Nations conferences and summits, including the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 11 the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 12 and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 13 and their review conferences,
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers (2018), para. 50
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 13. Urges Governments to enhance bilateral, regional, interregional and international cooperation to address violence against women migrant worke rs, fully respecting international law, including international human rights law, as well as to strengthen efforts to reduce the vulnerability of women migrant workers by promoting decent work, by, inter alia, adopting minimum wage policies and employment contracts in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, facilitating effective access to justice and effective action in the areas of law enforcement, prosecution, prevention, capacity-building and victim protection and support, exchanging information and good practices in combating violence and discrimination against women migrant workers and fostering sustainable development alternatives to migration in countries of origin;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Promotion of the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: protecting women human rights defenders (2014), para. 29
- Paragraph text
- 8. Calls upon States to ensure that human rights defenders, including women human rights defenders, can perform their important role in the context of peaceful protests, in accordance with national legislation consistent with the Charter of the United Nations and international human rights law, and in this regard to ensure that no one is subject to excessive or indiscriminate use of force, arbitrary arrest or detention, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, enforced disappearance, abuse of criminal and civil proceedings or threats of such acts;
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls (2016), para. 25
- Paragraph text
- 8. Encourages Member States to criminalize, prosecute and punish rape and other forms of sexual and gender-related violence against women and girls committed in all situations, including situations of conflict, taking into account international standards, and urges, where appropriate, relevant stakeholders to support the development and strengthening of the capacities of national institutions, in particular law enforcement, judicial and health systems, and of local civil society networks to provide sustainable assistance and access to justice to women and girls affected by gender-related violence;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa (2003), para. 52
- Paragraph text
- 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;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
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 (2009), para. 61
- Paragraph text
- 29. Calls upon the United Nations system to continue its efforts towards achieving the goal of gender balance, including with the active support of gender focal points, and requests the Secretary-General to provide an oral report to the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-third and fifty-fourth sessions, to report to the General Assembly on a biennial basis, beginning at its sixty-fifth session, under the item entitled “Advancement of women”, and to include in his report on human resources management information on the status of women in the United Nations system, including on progress made and obstacles encountered in achieving gender balance, recommendations for accelerating progress, and up-to-date statistics, including the number and percentage of women and their functions and nationalities throughout the United Nations system, and information on the responsibility and accountability of the Office of Human Resources Management of the Secretariat and the secretariat of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination for promoting gender balance;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
The girl child (2000), para. 21
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 12. Calls upon States and international and non-governmental organizations to mobilize all necessary resources, support and efforts to realize the goals, strategic objectives and actions set out in the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Improvement of the status of women in the United Nations system (2003), para. 02
- Paragraph text
- Recalling Articles 1 and 101 of the Charter of the United Nations, as well as Article 8, which provides that the United Nations shall place no restrictions on the eligibility of men and women to participate in any capacity and under conditions of equality in its principal and subsidiary organs,
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030) (2019), para. 50
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Stresses the importance of the full involvement of all relevant stakeholders, including women, children according to their evolving capacities, young people, older persons, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and local communities, in the context of the Decade at all levels;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
The girl child (2008), para. 47
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 24. Requests all human rights treaty bodies and the human rights mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, including the special procedures, to adopt regularly and systematically a gender perspective in the implementation of their mandates and to include in their reports information on the qualitative analysis of violations of the human rights of women and girls, and encourages the strengthening of cooperation and coordination in that regard;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of human rights in Burundi (2019), para. 25
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Expresses particular concern at accounts of sexual violence, including rape and gang rape of women and girls for purposes such as intimidation or punishment, associated with perceived political affiliation, as well as sexual violence against men, including genital torture;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Organization of la Francophonie (2019), para. 25
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 8. Expresses its deep concern about the continued violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, including in countries in crisis or emerging from crisis, and particularly against women and children, as well as refugees, internally displaced persons and migrants, and welcomes the implementation of the cooperation agreement between the International Organization of la Francophonie and the International Committee of the Red Cross;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2019), para. 175
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (e) Apply measures that address the particular vulnerabilities of women, men, girls and boys, regardless of their migration status, who have become or are at risk of becoming victims of trafficking in persons and other forms of exploitation, by facilitating access to justice and safe reporting without fear of detention, deportation or penalty, focusing on prevention, identification, appropriate protection and assistance, and addressing specific forms of abuse and exploitation;
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Ethical imperatives for a nuclear-weapon-free world (2016), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (c) Greater attention must be given to the impact of a nuclear weapon detonation on women and the importance of their participation in discussions, decisions and actions on nuclear weapons;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Improvement of the status of women in the United Nations system (2003), para. 42
- Paragraph text
- 11. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-seventh session and to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session on the implementation of the present resolution, including by providing up-to-date statistics on the number and percentage of women in all organizational units and at all levels throughout the United Nations system, as well as gender- segregated attrition rates for all organizational units and at all levels, and on the implementation of departmental action plans for the achievement of gender balance.
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2018), para. 41
- Paragraph text
- (x) Supporting remunerative non-agricultural employment for rural women, including in the informal sector, including measures to improve working conditions, increase access to productive resources, invest in relevant infrastructure, public services and time- and labour-saving technologies, promote rural women’s paid employment in the formal economy and address the structural and underlying causes of the difficult conditions faced by rural women;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (2010), para. 068
- Paragraph text
- 44. We commit ourselves to redoubling our efforts to reduce maternal and child mortality and improve the health of women and children, including through strengthened national health systems, efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, improved nutrition, and access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, making use of enhanced global partnerships. We stress that accelerating progress on the Millennium Development Goals related to health is essential for making headway also with the other Goals.
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Human rights education (2003), para. 4
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Convinced that human rights education and information contribute to the concept of development consistent with the dignity of women and men of all ages, which takes into account particularly vulnerable segments of society of all ages, such as children, youth, older persons, indigenous people, minorities, rural and urban poor, migrant workers, refugees, persons with the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) and disabled persons,
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Trafficking in women and girls (2013), para. 23
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Encouraging the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-seventh session to consider the issue of trafficking in women and girls within the framework of the priority theme for 2013, “Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls”,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
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 (2006), para. 21
- Paragraph text
- (c) Respect for the rule of law, including legislation, and continued efforts to repeal laws and eradicate policies and practices that discriminate against women and girls, and to adopt laws and promote practices that protect their rights and promote gender equality;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2017), para. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Alarmed by the disproportionate and indiscriminate human costs of unilateral sanctions and their negative effects on the civilian population, in particular women and children, of targeted States,
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1999), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming their determination to ensure the full and equal enjoyment by women of all human rights and fundamental freedoms and to take effective action to prevent violations of these rights and freedoms,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Draft outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants (2016), para. 130
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (c) Encourage and empower refugees, at the outset of an emergency phase, to establish supportive systems and networks that involve refugees and host communities and are age- and gender-sensitive, with a particular emphasis on the protection and empowerment of women and children and other persons with specific needs;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Plans of action for the implementation of the Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century (2002), para. 221
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (c) Considering sharing with other States, via web sites or other media or forums, any proven practices concerning women as criminal justice practitioners, victims, witnesses, prisoners and offenders that take into account the special needs of women.
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Questions relating to the programme budget for the biennium 2010–2011 (2011), para. 086
- Paragraph text
- 3. Takes note of paragraph 7 of the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions on revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council at its fifteenth session 22 and decides to provide, under general temporary assistance, four posts (1 P-4, 1 P-3, 1 P-2 and 1 General Service (Other level)), as well as to provide for consultant services for the duration of nine months in connection with the adoption of Council resolution 15/23 of 1 October 2010 on the elimination of discrimination against women; 23
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
International cooperation against the world drug problem (2016), para. 028
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Encouraging Member States to continue to address, as appropriate, the reasons why women face social and structural barriers in accessing treatment for drug abuse, as well as the causes of the higher prevalence of HIV among women who inject drugs than among their male counterparts, where applicable,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in prevention (2010), para. 27
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 14. Urges States to strengthen initiatives that would increase the capacity of women and adolescent girls to protect themselves from HIV infection, including by providing HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support services, to ensure protection from and prevention of stigma and discrimination, and to cooperate with United Nations bodies, programmes and specialized agencies and international and non- governmental organizations in this regard;
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Working towards the elimination of crimes against women and girls committed in the name of honour (2005), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (a) The report of the Secretary-General on violence against women; 10
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
The right to food (2003), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 3. Considers it intolerable that there are around 840 million undernourished people in the world and that every year 36 million people die, directly or indirectly, as a result of hunger and nutritional deficiencies, most of them women and children, particularly in developing countries, in a world that already produces enough food to feed the whole global population, and regrets that this situation at the same time can generate additional pressures on the environment in ecologically fragile areas;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2016), para. 38
- Paragraph text
- 4. Expresses its very deep concern at the precarious humanitarian situation in the country, which could rapidly deteriorate owing to limited resilience to natural disasters and to government policies causing limitations in the availability of and access to adequate food, compounded by structural weaknesses in agricultural production resulting in significant shortages of diversified food and the State restrictions on the cultivation of and trade in foodstuffs, as well as the prevalence of chronic malnutrition, particularly among the most vulnerable groups, pregnant and lactating women, children, persons with disabilities, the elderly and political prisoners, and urges the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in this regard, to take preventive and remedial action, cooperati ng where necessary with international donor agencies and in accordance with international standards for monitoring humanitarian assistance;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence (2011), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming its strong support for fair and inclusive globalization and the need to translate growth into poverty reduction and, in this regard, its resolve to make the goals of full and productive employment and decent work for all, including for women and young people, a central objective of relevant national and international policies as well as national development strategies, including poverty reduction strategies, as part of efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2020), para. 46
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (j) To protect women and girls from being physically threatened or assaulted, including from sexual violence, while collecting household water and when accessing sanitation facilities outside their home or practising open defecation and urination, including through promoting safe public spaces and improving the security and safety of women and girls through gender-responsive rural and urban planning and infrastructure;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings (2017), para. 33
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2001), para. 23
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (f) At the continuing discrimination, in law and in practice, against women, who still lack full and equal enjoyment of their human rights, as reported by the Special Representative;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers (2016), para. 59
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 28. Encourages concerned Governments, in particular those of the countries of origin, transit and destination, to avail themselves of the expertise of the United Nations, including the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat, the International Labour Organization and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN -Women), to develop and enhance appropriate sex-disaggregated national data collection, analysis and dissemination methodologies that will generate comparable data, and tracking and reporting systems on violence against women migrant workers and, wherever possible, on violations of their rights at all stages of the migration process, and:
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons (2002), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 5. Welcomes the specific attention paid by the Representative of the Secretary-General to the special protection, assistance and development needs of internally displaced women, children and other groups with specific needs and his commitment to pay more systematic and in-depth attention to their needs;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in digital contexts (2018), para. 27
- Paragraph text
- 2. Condemns in the strongest possible terms all forms of violence against women and girls, including sexual and gender-based violence, perpetrated through the use of digital technologies;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2018), para. 34
- Paragraph text
- (q) Promoting the rights of women and girls with disabilities in rural areas, including by ensuring access on an equal basis to productive employment and decent work, economic and financial resources and disability-sensitive infrastructure and services, in particular in relation to health and education, as well as by ensuring that their priorities and needs are fully incorporated into policies and programme s, through, inter alia, their participation in decision-making processes;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers (2016), para. 56
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 25. Calls upon States, in accordance with the provisions of article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 32 to ensure that, if a woman migrant worker is arrested or committed to prison or custody pending trial, or is detained in any other manner, the competent authorities respect her freedom to communicate with and have access to the consular officials of the country of her nationality and, in this regard, to inform without delay, if that woman migrant worker so requests, the consular post of her State of nationality;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
International Widows’ Day (2011), para. 07
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing also the link existing between the situation of widows and that of their children,
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2015), para. 007
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming its resolutions addressing various aspects of violence against women and girls of all ages,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2016), para. 03
- Paragraph text
- Affirming the obligation of all States to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms, and also that all forms of discrimination, including discrimination against women and girls, are contrary to the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 2 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 3 the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 5 and other human rights instruments,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules) (2011), para. 044
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 5. The specific requirements for addressing the situation of women offenders have been emphasized at the United Nations in various contexts. For example, in 1980, the Sixth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders adopted a resolution on the specific needs of women prisoners, 18 in which it recommended that, in the implementation of the resolutions adopted by the Sixth Congress directly or indirectly relevant to the treatment of offenders, recognition should be given to the specific problems of women prisoners and the need to provide the means for their solution; that, in countries where it was not yet done, programmes and services used as alternatives to imprisonment should be made available to women offenders on an equal basis with male offenders; and that the United Nations, the governmental and non-governmental organizations in consultative status with it and all other international organizations should make continuing efforts to ensure that the woman offender was treated fairly and equally during arrest, trial, sentence and imprisonment, particular attention being paid to the special problems which women offenders encounter, such as pregnancy and child care.
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Trafficking in women and girls (2019), para. 70
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 28. Invites Governments to consider establishing or strengthening a national mechanism, with the participation of civil society, as appropriate, includin g non-governmental organizations, such as women’s organizations, and survivors of human trafficking, to ensure a holistic and coordinated approach to anti-trafficking policies and measures, to encourage the exchange of information and to report on data, underlying causes, factors and trends in human trafficking, especially trafficking in women and girls, and to include data on victims of human trafficking disaggregated by sex, age and other relevant factors;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Women in development (2004), para. 07
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming that women are key contributors to the economy and to combating poverty through both remunerated and unremunerated work at home, in the community and in the workplace and that the empowerment of women is a critical factor in the eradication of poverty,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2015), para. 16
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, undertaken by a broad coalition of partners, in support of national plans and strategies aimed at significantly reducing the number of maternal, newborn and under-five child deaths and disabilities as a matter of immediate concern by scaling up a priority package of high-impact interventions and integrating efforts in sectors such as health, education, gender equality, water and sanitation, poverty eradication and nutrition,
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Human resources development (2014), para. 37
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 21. Calls for steps to integrate gender perspectives into human resources development, including through policies, strategies and targeted actions aimed at promoting women’s capacities and access to productive activities, and in this regard emphasizes the need to ensure the full participation of women in the formulation and implementation of such policies, strategies and actions;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Scope, modalities, format and organization of the high-level meeting on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women (2019), para. 19
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 10. Invites the United Nations system, including funds, programmes and specialized agencies, regional commissions and relevant envoys of the Secretary- General, to participate in the high-level meeting of the General Assembly, as appropriate, and urges them to consider initiatives in support of the preparatory process and the high-level meeting of the Assembly, particularly with regard to sharing good practices, challenges, lessons learned and urgent actions that need to be taken for the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Human rights situation in Yemen (2019), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Concerned by the allegations of violations of international humanitarian law and of violations and abuses of human rights law in Yemen, including those involving grave violations against children and persons with disabilities, sexual and gender-based violence, attacks on humanitarian workers, civilians and civilian infrastructure, including medical facilities and missions and their personnel, as well as schools, the prevention of access for humanitarian aid, the use of import and other restrictions as a military tactic, the use of starvation of civilians as a method of warfare, the severe restrictions on freedom of religion or belief, including for minorities, such as members of the Baha’i faith, and the harassment of and attacks against journalists and human rights defenders, including women human rights defenders,
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons (2007), para. 15
- Paragraph text
- 3. Urges Member States that have not yet done so to consider taking measures to ratify or accede to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 1 and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2 and to implement fully all aspects of these instruments;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Elimination of discrimination against women (2013), para. 35
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 18. Invites relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, treaty bodies and civil society actors, including non-governmental organizations, as well as the private sector, to cooperate fully with the Working Group in the fulfilment of its mandate, and requests the Working Group to continue its cooperation with the Commission on the Status of Women;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
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 (2002), para. 03
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, 1 and stressing the importance of the outcome of the special session, which has assessed the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 2 identified obstacles and challenges thereto and proposed actions and initiatives to overcome them and achieve full and accelerated implementation,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Women in development (2009), para. 12
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Expressing deep concern over the disproportionate negative impact on women of the multiple interrelated and mutually exacerbating current global crises, in particular the world financial and economic crisis, the volatile energy prices, the food crisis and the challenges posed by climate change,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Critical situation of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (2002), para. 06
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 2. Commends the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women for the successive implementation of phases I and II of the Gender Awareness Information and Networking System and the initiation of phase III;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (2014), para. 23
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 10. Invites UN-Women to work closely with the Inter-Parliamentary Union in such areas as the empowerment of women, institutional gende r mainstreaming, support to parliaments in promoting gender-sensitive legislation, increasing the representation of women in parliaments, combating violence against women and the implementation of relevant United Nations resolutions;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders (2011), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (e) To integrate a gender perspective throughout the work of his/her mandate, paying particular attention to the situation of women human rights defenders;
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Rights of indigenous peoples (2014), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling Commission on the Status of Women resolutions 49/7 of 11 March 2005, entitled “Indigenous women: beyond the ten-year review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action”, 8 and 56/4 of 9 March 2012, entitled “Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication”, 9
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Protection of migrants (2011), para. 49
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (a) Expresses its concern about the increase in the activities of transnational and national organized crime entities and others who profit from crimes against migrants, especially women and children, without regard for dangerous and inhumane conditions and in flagrant violation of domestic laws and international law and contrary to international standards;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Working towards the elimination of crimes against women and girls committed in the name of honour (2005), para. 21
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (b) To continue to intensify efforts to prevent and eliminate crimes against women and girls committed in the name of honour, which take many different forms, by using legislative, administrative and programmatic measures;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
The girl child (2008), para. 21
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Convinced that racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance reveal themselves in a differentiated manner for women and girls and can be among the factors leading to a deterioration in their living conditions, poverty, violence, multiple forms of discrimination and limitation or denial of their human rights,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (2008), para. 04
- Paragraph text
- Reiterating the need to intensify efforts to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women throughout the world,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Protection of migrants (2018), para. 43
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Also reaffirms the duty of States to effectively promote and protect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all migrants, especially those of women and children, regardless of their migration status, in conformity with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the international instruments to which they are party, and therefore:
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Human rights and indigenous peoples (2018), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Bearing in mind the importance of the empowerment and capacity-building of indigenous women and young persons, including their full and effective participation in decision-making processes in matters that affect them directly, including policies, programmes and resources, where relevant, that target the well-being of indigenous women, children and young persons, in particular in the areas of health, education, employment and the transmission of traditional knowledge, languages and practices, and the importance of taking measures to promote awareness and understanding of their rights,
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2016), para. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2006), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Rejects unilateral coercive measures with all their extraterritorial effects as tools for political or economic pressure against any country, in particular against developing countries, because of their negative effects on the realization of all the human rights of vast sectors of their populations, in particular children, women and the elderly;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Rights of indigenous peoples (2019), para. 50
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 20. Reaffirms the importance of effective accountability with regard to violence against indigenous women and girls, including sexual violence, abuse and exploitation, and of taking adequate measures to prevent and eliminate such violence;
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) (2016), para. 27
- Paragraph text
- Underlining the primary responsibility of Member States to promote universal health coverage that comprises universal and equitable access to quality health services and ensures affordable and quality service delivery, especially through primary health care and social protection mechanisms, with the support of the international community and with a view to providing access to health services for all, including those who are vulnerable or marginalized, and underlining also that women and children are particularly affected by disasters and outbreaks,
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Political Declaration of the Comprehensive High-level Midterm Review of the Implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–2020 (2016), para. 114
- Paragraph text
- 87. We encourage the use of and improved access to innovative tools, such as mobile banking, payment platforms and digitalized payments, as appropriate, including by women and micro-businesses, and we recognize the role that this can play in promoting financial inclusion, as well as in reducing costs, increasing transparency, improving the speed and security of payments and opening up new markets.
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers (2018), para. 63
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 26. Calls upon Governments, in cooperation with international organizations, non-governmental organizations, the private sector and other stakeholders, to provide women migrant workers who are victims of violence, irrespective of their migratory status, in line with domestic legislation, access to the full range of emergency assistance and protection and, to the extent possible, with gender-sensitive services that are culturally and linguistically appropriate, which includes the provision of information on the rights of women migrant workers, hotlines, dispute resolution mechanisms, legal aid, victim advocacy, services for children, safety planning, psychological support and trauma counselling, social services, women-only spaces and access to women’s shelters, where these exist, in accordance with relevant international human rights instruments and applicable conventions;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Terrorism and human rights (2019), para. 38
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 17. Urges States to ensure that gender equality and non-discrimination are taken into account when shaping, reviewing and implementing all counter-terrorism measures and to promote the full and effective participation of women in these processes;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the Secretary-General on the causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa (2016), para. 49
- Paragraph text
- 25. Notes with concern that violence against women and children, including sexual violence, continues and may increase even as armed conflicts draw to an end, urges further progress in the implementation of policies and guidelines relating to the protection of and assistance to women and children in conflict and post-conflict situations in Africa, including more systematic monitoring and reporting, notes the adoption by the General Assembly and the Security Council of relevant resolutions, and encourages the entities that compose United Nations Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict, as well as other relevant parts of the United Nations system, to assist the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict in the implementation of her mandate, including in Africa;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Trafficking in women and girls (2003), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming that sexual violence and trafficking in women and girls for purposes of economic exploitation, sexual exploitation through prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation and contemporary forms of slavery are serious violations of human rights,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas (2004), para. 07
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming further the ministerial declaration of the high-level segment of the substantive session of 2003 of the Economic and Social Council, adopted on 2 July 2003, 11 which stressed the need for rural development to become an integral part of national and international development policies and of the activities and programmes of the United Nations system, and called for an enhanced role for rural women at all levels of rural development, including decision-making,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls (2015), para. 89
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 23. Calls upon the inter-agency Programme Advisory Committee of the United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women, in consultation with the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality, to continue to provide guidance on the implementation of the 2010–2015 strategy for the Trust Fund and to further enhance its effectiveness as a system-wide funding mechanism for preventing and redressing all forms of violence against women and girls and to give due consideration, inter alia, to the findings and recommendations of the external evaluation of the Trust Fund;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2018), para. 45
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 35. Affirms the importance of age, gender and diversity mainstreaming in analysing protection needs and ensuring the participation of refugees and other persons of concern to the Office of the High Commissioner, as appropriate, in the planning and implementation of programmes of the Office and of State policies, also affirms the importance of according priority to addressing discrimination, gender inequality and the problem of sexual and gender-based violence, recognizing the importance of addressing the protection needs of women, children and persons with disabilities in particular, and underlines the importance of continuing to work on those issues;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
The role of the United Nations Development Fund for Women in eliminating violence against women (1996), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming the importance of developing a holistic and multidisciplinary approach to the task of promoting families, communities and States that are free from violence against women, and affirming the need for coordinated and strengthened international support for this approach,
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2008), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Calls upon States to take all necessary measures to ensure the right of women and girls to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, including sexual and reproductive health, and develop sustainable health systems and social services, with a view to ensuring access to such systems and services without discrimination, while paying special attention to adequate food and nutrition, family planning information, increasing knowledge and awareness and securing appropriate prenatal and post-natal care for the prevention of obstetric fistula;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Women in development (2004), para. 21
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General entitled “The empowerment of women and integration of gender perspectives in the promotion of economic growth, poverty eradication and sustainable development”; 4
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Child, early and forced marriage (2015), para. 10
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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,
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Question of human rights in Afghanistan (2002), para. 48
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (g) Respect for the effective and equal access of women and girls to the facilities necessary to protect their right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Science, technology and innovation for sustainable development (2020), para. 52
- Paragraph text
- 13. Underlines that addressing barriers to equal access for women and girls to science, technology and innovation requires a systematic, comprehensive, integrated, sustainable, multidisciplinary and multisectoral approach, and in this regard urges Member States to mainstream a gender perspective in legislation, policies and programmes, and encourages efforts to mentor, attract and retain women and girls in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education and research and to support women in leveraging science and technology for entrepreneurship and economic empowerment in the changing world of work;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
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 (2014), para. 21
- Paragraph text
- 2. Reaffirms the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women, 1 the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly 2 and the declaration adopted on the occasion of the 15-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action at the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, 14 and also reaffirms its commitment to their full, effective and accelerated implementation;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in prevention (2010), para. 09
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Acknowledging that confronting and changing the harmful attitudes, customs, practices and gender stereotypes that underlie and perpetuate violence against women are fundamental to ensuring effective prevention,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
The negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights (2019), para. 23
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Alarmed by the disproportionate and indiscriminate human costs of unilateral sanctions and their negative effects on the civilian population, in particular women and children, of targeted States,
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Commodities (2003), para. 12
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing further that agriculture plays a crucial role in addressing the needs of a growing global population and is inextricably linked to poverty eradication, especially in developing countries, and recognizing also that enhancing the role of women at all levels and in all aspects of rural development, agriculture, nutrition and food security is imperative and, furthermore, that sustainable agriculture and rural development are essential for the implementation of an integrated approach to increasing food production and enhancing food security and food safety in an environmentally sustainable way,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas (2014), para. 27
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (v) Considering the adoption, where appropriate, of national legislation to protect the knowledge, innovations and practices of women in indigenous and local communities relating to traditional medicines, biodiversity and indigenous technologies;
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Women in development (2020), para. 46
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 18. Also recognizes that achieving the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, through, inter alia, equitable and universal access to affordable and quality health-care services and preventive health-care information, including in the area of sexual and reproductive health, is critical to women’s economic advancement and empowerment, that a lack of economic empowerment and independence increases women’s vulnerability to a range of negative consequences, including violen ce and the risk of contracting HIV and AIDS, and that the neglect of women’s full enjoyment of human rights severely limits their opportunities in public and private life, including the opportunities for receiving an education and for achieving economic an d political empowerment;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Question of human rights in Afghanistan (2000), para. 30
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (c) Respect for the right of women to work and their reintegration into employment;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers (1994), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Reaffirms the provision in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action that the rights of women should form an integral part of United Nations human rights activities, including the promotion of all human rights instruments specifically relating to women;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Industrial development cooperation (2013), para. 09
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that industrialization is an essential driver of sustained inclusive and equitable economic growth, sustainable development and poverty and hunger eradication in developing countries and countries with economies in transition, including the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and African countries, through, inter alia, the creation of decent productive employment, income generation and the facilitation of social integration, including the integration of women and youth into the economic growth process, and that it plays a key role in maintaining social stability and cohesion,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Assistance to the Palestinian people (2009), para. 27
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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,
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
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 (2010), para. 12
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming the commitments in regard to gender equality and the empowerment of women in the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development: outcome document of the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, 6F 7
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Women, disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control (2016), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Encourages Member States to better understand the impact of armed violence, in particular the impact of the illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons on women and girls, through, inter alia, the development of national action plans on women and peace and security and strengthening the collection of data disaggregated by sex and age;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (2002), para. 28
- Paragraph text
- 18. Invites the Special Rapporteur to continue to examine questions of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment directed against women, and conditions conducive to such torture, and to make appropriate recommendations for the prevention and redress of gender-specific forms of torture, including rape or any other form of sexual violence, and to exchange views with the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women, its causes and consequences, with the aim of enhancing further their effectiveness and mutual cooperation;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all (2018), para. 33
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 11. Recognizes that sustainable energy access and deployment can both improve and be accelerated by gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and calls upon Governments, the United Nations development system and other stakeholders to increase educational and capacity-building programmes for women in the sector, promote women’s full, equal and effective participation and leadership in the design and implementation of energy policies and programmes, mainstream a gender perspective in such policies and programmes and ensure women’s full and equal access to and use of sustainable energy to enhance their economic empowerment, including employment and other income-generating opportunities;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Operational activities for development of the United Nations system (2016), para. 55
- Paragraph text
- 36. Reaffirms the requests contained in its resolution 67/226 to the organizations of the United Nations development system to enhance gender mainstreaming within the United Nations system and expand the use of the United Nations country team performance indicators for gender equality and the empowerment of women (the “scorecard”) as a planning and reporting tool for use by country teams in the context of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework process, and welcomes the global review of the gender scorecard tool being undertaken by the United Nations development system;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Draft outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants (2016), para. 038
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 29. We recognize and will take steps to address the particular vulnerabilities of women and children during the journey from country of origin to country of arrival. This includes their potential exposure to discrimination and exploitation, as well as to sexual, physical and psychological abuse, violence, human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery.
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 35
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 14. Also calls upon States to develop unified methods and standards for the collection of data on all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls, especially forms that are underdocumented, harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, to develop additional indicators to effectively measure progress in eliminating the practice and to reinforce the sharing of good practices relating to the prevention and elimination of the practice at the subregional, regional and global levels;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development and of the United Nations Conference on SustainableDevelopment (2014), para. 11
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming the importance of freedom, peace and security, respect for all human rights, including the right to development and the right to an adequate standard of living, including the right to food, the rule of law, gender equality, women’s empowerment and the overall commitment to just and democratic societies for development,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Trafficking in women and girls (2013), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Concerned about the use of new information technologies, including the Internet, for purposes of exploitation of the prostitution of others, for trafficking in women as brides, for exploiting women and children and for child pornography, paedophilia and any other forms of sexual exploitation of children,
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (2019), para. 43
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 13. Also welcomes the cooperation between the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in the area of gender equality and women’s empowerment, in particular the signing of a memorandum of understanding on 22 September 2017;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2017), para. 25
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Further calls upon States to ensure the right to education of good quality for women and girls, on an equal basis with men and boys, and to ensure that they complete a full course of primary education, and to renew their efforts to improve and expand girls’ and women’s education at all levels, including at the secondary and higher levels, including age-appropriate sex education, as well as vocational education and technical training, in order to, inter alia, achieve gender equality, the empowerment of women and girls and poverty eradication;
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Promotion of the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: protecting women human rights defenders (2014), para. 14
- Paragraph text
- Mindful that domestic law and administrative provisions and their application should enable the work of women human rights defenders, including by avoiding any criminalization or stigmatization of the important activities and legitimate role of women human rights defenders and the communities of which they are a part or on whose behalf they work, as well as by avoiding impediments, obstructions, restrictions or selective enforcement thereof contrary to relevant provisions of international human rights law,
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of older women in society (2003), para. 05
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming that the Political Declaration and Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, 4 provide a broad spectrum of social, political and economic recommendations to improve the conditions of older women,
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
United Nations Literacy Decade: education for all (2011), para. 04
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming the Education for All goals, in particular goal 3, on ensuring that the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through equitable access to appropriate learning and life-skills programmes, and goal 4, on achieving a 50 per cent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for women, and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (2019), para. 7
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 5. Also requests the President of the General Assembly, in a timely manner, to draw up a list of other representatives of relevant non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, academic institutions and the private sector who may attend the high-level plenary meeting, taking into account the principles of transparency and of equitable geographical representation, and with due regard to the meaningful participation of women, and to submit the list to Member States for their consideration on a non-objection basis. 1
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (2014), para. 27
- Paragraph text
- 14. Also welcomes the contribution of national human rights institutions compliant with the Paris Principles to the work of the United Nations, including of the Commission on the Status of Women, the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing and the ongoing intergovernmental process of the General Assembly on strengthening and enhancing the effective functioning of the human rights treaty body system;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights (2016), para. 24
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Acknowledging that the failure to prevent maternal mortality and morbidity is one of the most significant barriers to the empowerment of women and girls in all aspects of life, the full enjoyment of their human rights, their ability to reach their full potential and to sustainable development in general,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/orDesertification, Particularly in Africa (2017), para. 08
- Paragraph text
- Noting that the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and targets, including Goal 15 and target 15.3, would serve as an accelerator to ending poverty and hunger, tackling inequality, empowering women and stimulating economic growth,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Protection of migrants (2006), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Deeply concerned at the manifestations of violence, racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance and inhuman and degrading treatment against migrants, especially women and children, in different parts of the world,
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Education for sustainable development in the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2020), para. 12
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Acknowledging also the importance of adopting science, technology and innovation strategies as integral elements of national sustainable development strategies to help to strengthen knowledge-sharing and collaboration and the importance of scaling up investments in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and digital literacy education and enhancing technical, vocational and tertiary education, distance education and training and of ensuring equal access for women and girls and encouraging their participation therein,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Human resources management (1999), para. 135
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Decides that all reports dealing with administrative and budgetary aspects of the status of women in the Secretariat shall be considered by the Fifth Committee;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Human rights and indigenous peoples (2012), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Stresses the need to pay particular attention to the rights and special needs of indigenous women and girls, as set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including in the process of protecting and promoting indigenous peoples languages and culture;
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Promotion of the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: protecting women human rights defenders (2014), para. 10
- Paragraph text
- Deeply concerned that historical and structural inequalities in power relations and discrimination against women, as well as various forms of extremism, have direct implications for the status and treatment of women and that the rights of some women human rights defenders are violated or abused and their work stigmatized owing to discriminatory practices and those social norms or patterns that serve to condone violence against women or perpetuate practices involving such violence,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
System-wide coherence (2009), para. 08
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Strengthening the institutional arrangements for support of gender equality and the empowerment of women.
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (1995), para. 04
- Paragraph text
- Taking into consideration that, in its resolution 1994/30 of 27 July 1994, the Economic and Social Council reiterated the importance of maintaining the level of resources devoted to independent research and related training activities which are crucial for the situation of women,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Question of human rights in Afghanistan (2001), para. 38
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 12. Takes note of the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women, its causes and consequences, 12 on her mission to Afghanistan;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Traffic in women and girls (2001), para. 23
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Also urges Governments to devise, enforce and strengthen effective measures to combat and eliminate all forms of trafficking in women and girls through a comprehensive anti-trafficking strategy consisting of, inter alia, legislative measures, prevention campaigns, information exchange, assistance and protection for and reintegration of the victims and prosecution of all the offenders involved, including intermediaries;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Entrepreneurship for sustainable development (2017), para. 35
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 14. Encourages all stakeholders, in particular women and young entrepreneurs, to apply their creativity and innovation to solving sustainable development challenges, and emphasizes that local innovation and entrepreneurship systems need to be able to fully participate in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 11 including the Sustainable Development Goals, and that concerted efforts are needed to ensure the participation of all;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of human rights in South Sudan (2019), para. 33
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 11. Emphasizes the need for the Government of South Sudan to ensure the effective and meaningful participation of women during all stages and in all structures envisaged in the Revitalized Agreement, and for all parties to the Agreement to meet their commitments regarding women’s representation and to have regard to the need to ensure balance in the representation of youth, gender and national and regional diversity in their appointments;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Trafficking in women and girls (2013), para. 29
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 2. Also takes note with appreciation of the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, 13 which examines the existing international legal framework and standards applicable to States and businesses, in addition to non-binding codes of conduct and principles adopted by businesses, as part of efforts to prevent and combat human trafficking;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
The situation in Afghanistan (2010), para. 048
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 36. Acknowledges the efforts of the Government of Afghanistan in promoting respect for human rights, notes with concern reports of continued violations of human rights and of international humanitarian law, including violent or discriminatory practices, violations committed against persons belonging to ethnic and religious minorities, as well as against women and children, in particular girls, stresses the need to promote tolerance and religious freedom as guaranteed by the Afghan Constitution, emphasizes the necessity of investigating allegations of current and past violations, and stresses the importance of facilitating the provision of efficient and effective remedies to the victims and of bringing the perpetrators to justice in accordance with national and international law;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Right to work (2017), para. 40
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 28. Calls upon States to continue their efforts to prevent and combat all forms of discrimination and violence, including sexual harassment at the workplace, including by adopting and implementing laws and policies and through training, awareness-raising and support for women’s access to justice with respect to violence and sexual harassment, bearing in mind that these continue to be among the factors that have an adverse impact on the realization of the right to work for women;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Improvement of the status of women in the United Nations system (2001), para. 18
- Paragraph text
- (c) The actions agreed upon by the General Assembly at its twenty-third special session, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, to ensure the full and equal participation of women at all levels of decision-making in the United Nations system; 7
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”, 2005–2015, and further efforts to achieve the sustainable development of water resources (2015), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Stresses the importance of the full involvement of all relevant stakeholders, including women, children, older persons, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and local communities, in the implementation of the Decade at all levels and, as appropriate, in its comprehensive review;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers (2018), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling also that the declaration recognized that women and girls account for almost half of all international migrants at the global level and the need to address the special situation and vulnerability of migrant women and girls by, inter alia, incorporating a gender perspective into policies and strengthening national laws, institutions and programmes to combat gender-based violence, including trafficking in persons and discrimination against them, and emphasized in this regard the need to establish appropriate measures for the protection of women migrant workers in all sectors, including those involved in care and domestic work,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Legal empowerment of the poor and eradication of poverty (2010), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Stressing that gender equality and the empowerment of women are essential to achieving equitable and effective development and to fostering a vibrant economy, and reaffirming its commitment to eliminating gender-based discrimination in all its forms, including in the labour and financial markets, as well as, inter alia, in respect of the ownership of assets and property rights, to promoting women’s rights, including their economic empowerment, and effectively mainstreaming gender in law reforms, business support services and economic programmes, and to giving women full and equal access to economic resources,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
The situation in Afghanistan (2014), para. 085
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 57. Further welcomes the significant progress made by the Government of Afghanistan towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, in particular the considerable progress in enabling boys and girls to enrol in school and in enabling women and men to access basic health services, and acknowledges that quality improvements across basic service delivery will require attention and adequate national budget allocations;
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2014), para. 32
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (i) To fulfil pledges by the new President for greater space for freedom of expression and opinion by ending the harassment, intimidation and persecution of political opponents, human rights defenders, women’s rights activists, labour leaders, students, academics, film-makers, journalists and their families, other media representatives, bloggers, netizens, clerics, artists and lawyers, including by releasing persons detained arbitrarily or on the basis of their political views, and in this regard welcoming the reopening of the House of Cinema;
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
The girl child (2016), para. 17
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing also that the empowerment of and investment in girls, which is critical for economic growth, and the achievement of all Sustainable Development Goals, including the eradication of poverty and extreme poverty, as well as the meaningful participation of girls in decisions that affect them, are key in breaking the cycle of discrimination and violence and in promoting and protecting the full and effective enjoyment of their human rights, and recognizing further that empowering girls requires their active participation in decision -making processes and as agents of change in their own lives and communities, including through girls’ organizations with the active support and engagement of their parents, legal guardians, families and care providers, boys and men, as well as the wider community,
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
The Arms Trade Treaty (2018), para. 23
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 11. Encourages States parties and signatory States to ensure the full and equal participation of women and men in pursuing the object and purpose of th e Treaty and its implementation;
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Elimination of all forms of violence against women, including crimes identified in the outcome document of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” (2001), para. 12
- Paragraph text
- 5. Urges Member States to strengthen awareness and preventive measures for the elimination of all forms of violence against women, whether occurring in public or private life, by encouraging and supporting public campaigns to enhance awareness about the unacceptability and the social costs of violence against women, inter alia, through educational and media campaigns in cooperation with educators, community leaders and the electronic and print media;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
A United Nations literacy decade: education for all (2000), para. 17
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 5. Also appeals to all Governments to redouble their efforts to achieve their own goals of education for all by setting firm targets and timetables, where possible, including gender-specific education targets and programmes to combat the illiteracy of women and girls, and, by working in active partnership with communities, associations, the media and development agencies, to reach those targets;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2009), para. 16
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Calls upon States to take all necessary measures to ensure the right of women and girls to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, including sexual and reproductive health, and develop sustainable health systems and social services, with a view to ensuring access to such systems and services without discrimination, while paying special attention to adequate food and nutrition, water and sanitation, family planning information, increasing knowledge and awareness and securing appropriate prenatal and post-natal care for the prevention of obstetric fistula;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers (2018), para. 27
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing further that the intersection of, inter alia, age, class, race and gender-based and ethnic discrimination and stereotypes can compound the discrimination faced by women migrant workers and that gender-based violence is a form of discrimination,
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
New Urban Agenda (2017), para. 010
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 5. By readdressing the way cities and human settlements are planned, designed, financed, developed, governed and managed, the New Urban Agenda will help to end poverty and hunger in all its forms and dimensions; reduce inequalities ; promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth; achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in order to fully harness their vital contribution to sustainable development; improve human health and well - being; foster resilience; and protect the environment.
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
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. 06
- Paragraph text
- Taking note of the important role that can be played by the regional instruments to combat violence against women,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
The situation in Afghanistan (2010), para. 041
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 29. Recalls the constitutional guarantee of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all Afghans as a significant political achievement, calls for full respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all, without discrimination of any kind, and stresses the need to fully implement the human rights provisions of the Afghan Constitution, in accordance with obligations under applicable international law, including those regarding the full enjoyment by women and children of their human rights;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
The girl child (2016), para. 48
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 26. Deplores all acts of sexual exploitation, abuse of and trafficking in women and children, including in humanitarian crises and by humanitarian workers and peacekeepers, including military, police and civilian personnel involved in United Nations operations, welcomes the efforts undertaken by U nited Nations agencies and peacekeeping operations to implement a zero -tolerance policy in this regard, and requests the Secretary-General or the Member States from which those humanitarian workers originate and personnel-contributing countries to continue to take all appropriate action necessary to combat these abuses by such personnel, including through the full implementation without delay of those measures adopted in the relevant General Assembly resolutions based on recommendations of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations; 21
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2015), para. 36
- Paragraph text
- 4. Expresses its very deep concern at the precarious humanitarian situation in the country, which could rapidly deteriorate owing to limited resilience to natural disasters and to government policies causing limitations in the availability of and access to food, compounded by structural weaknesses in agricultural production resulting in significant shortages of diversified food and the State restrictions on the cultivation of and trade in foodstuffs, as well as the prevalence of chronic malnutrition, particularly among the most vulnerable groups, pregnant women, children, persons with disabilities and the elderly, and urges the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in this regard, to take preventive and remedial action, cooperating where necessary with international donor agencies and in accordance with international standards for monitoring humanitarian assistance;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2011), para. 10
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the adoption of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons, 10 stressing the need for its full and effective implementation, and expressing its view that it will, inter alia, enhance cooperation and a better coordination of efforts in fighting trafficking in persons and promote increased ratification and full implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 11 and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 12
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Protection of migrants (2013), para. 62
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (k) Urges States parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 18 and supplementing protocols thereto, namely, the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air 19 and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, 20 to implement them fully, and calls upon States that have not done so to consider ratifying or acceding to them as a matter of priority;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (2002), para. 07
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Convinced that every woman, man and child, in order to realize their full human potential, must be made aware of all their human rights and fundamental freedoms,
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
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 (2016), para. 38
- Paragraph text
- 16. Requests the entities of the United Nations system to systematically and strategically incorporate the outcomes of the Commission on the Stat us of Women into their work, within their mandates, and, inter alia, to ensure effective support for the efforts of Member States towards the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, and in this regard encourages UN -Women to continue to use concrete results-based reporting mechanisms and to ensure coherence, consistency and coordination between the normative and operational aspects of its work;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2011), para. 52
- Paragraph text
- (q) Strengthening national health and social infrastructure to reinforce measures to promote women’s equal access to public health care and address the health consequences of all forms of violence against women and girls, including by providing support to victims;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers (2020), para. 52
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 10. Encourages Governments engaged in the International Migration Review Forum to ensure that the implementation, review and follow-up of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration 35 take into account relevant provisions regarding women migrant workers;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2018), para. 11
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the contribution of families to sustainable development, and acknowledging the benefit of implementing family-oriented policies aimed at, inter alia, eliminating poverty, protecting them from violence, exclusion and involuntary separation, achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, the full participation of women in society, a work-family balance and the self-sufficiency of the family unit, and that the equal sharing of family responsibilities creates an enabling environment for the empowerment of all women and girls,
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
United Nations Millennium Declaration (2000), para. 49
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- • To promote gender equality and the empowerment of women as effective ways to combat poverty, hunger and disease and to stimulate development that is truly sustainable.
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying Our Efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS (2011), para. 025
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 21. Remain deeply concerned that, globally, women and girls are still the most affected by the epidemic and that they bear a disproportionate share of the caregiving burden, and that the ability of women and girls to protect themselves from HIV continues to be compromised by physiological factors, gender inequalities, including unequal legal, economic and social status, insufficient access to health care and services, including for sexual and reproductive health, and all forms of discrimination and violence, including sexual violence and exploitation;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in prevention (2010), para. 35
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 22. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a compilation of good practices in efforts aimed at preventing violence against women, in consultation with the Special Rapporteur, States, civil society and other relevant stakeholders, and to present a report thereon during the annual full-day discussion on women’s human rights at its seventeenth session;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Women in development (2020), para. 16
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Taking note of the reports of the High-level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, which outline the transformative impact of unlocking the potential of women to participate in the economy and achieve financial independence in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (2002), para. 19
- Paragraph text
- 5. Also welcomes the fact that the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has adopted the rules governing its work under the Optional Protocol as part of its revised rules of procedure; 10
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Improvement of the status of women in theUnited Nations system (2004), para. 28
- Paragraph text
- (a) To continue to develop innovative recruitment strategies to identify and attract suitably qualified women candidates, particularly from and in developing countries and countries with economies in transition and other Member States that are unrepresented or underrepresented in the Secretariat, and in occupations in which women are underrepresented;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers (2002), para. 07
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Noting the large numbers of women from developing countries and some countries with economies in transition who continue to venture forth to more affluent countries in search of a living for themselves and their families as a consequence of poverty, unemployment and other socio-economic conditions, and acknowledging the duty of the countries of origin to try to create conditions that provide employment and economic security for their citizens,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Women in development (2018), para. 68
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 41. Also recognizes the special needs of women and girls living in areas affected by complex humanitarian emergencies and in areas affected by terrorism, and that global health threats, climate change, more frequent and intense natural disasters, conflicts, violent extremism, as and when conducive to terrorism, an d related humanitarian crises and the forced displacement of people threaten to reverse much of the development progress made in recent decades and have particular negative impacts on women and girls that need to be comprehensively assessed and addressed;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Women in development (2002), para. 03
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration 2 and Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, 4 as well as the outcomes of other recent major United Nations conferences and summits and other relevant special sessions of the General Assembly and their follow-up processes,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Financial inclusion for sustainable development (2020), para. 08
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recommitting to promoting appropriate, affordable and stable access to credit and other financial services to micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises, in particular businesses and enterprises in the social and solidarity economy operating in both the formal and informal sectors, as well as adequate skills development training for all, particularly for youth, persons with disabilities, older persons, women, indigenous peoples, local communities and entrepreneurs,
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
United Nations common system: report of the International Civil Service Commission for 2009 (2010), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 3. Invites the Commission to continue to monitor future progress in achieving gender balance, including the aspect of regional representation if it deems it appropriate, and to make recommendations on practical steps that should be taken to improve the representation of women in the organizations of the common system;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Working towards the elimination of crimes against women committed in the name of honour (2001), para. 09
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Emphasizing that the elimination of crimes against women committed in the name of honour requires greater efforts and commitment from Governments and the international community, inter alia, through international cooperation efforts, and civil society, including non-governmental and community organizations, and that fundamental changes in societal attitude are required, and underlining the importance of the empowerment of women as a tool,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Equal pay (2019), para. 10
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that progress on the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls has been held back owing to the persistence of historical and structural unequal power relations between women and men, poverty and inequalities and disadvantages in access to resources and opportunities that limit women’s and girls’ capabilities, and growing gaps in equality of opportunity, discriminatory laws, policies, negative social norms, attitudes, harmful practices and gender stereotypes,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Improvement of the status of women in the United Nations system (2001), para. 14
- Paragraph text
- 2. Reaffirms the urgent goal of achieving 50/50 gender distribution in all categories of posts within the United Nations system, especially at the senior and policy-making levels, with full respect for the principle of equitable geographical distribution, in conformity with Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, and also taking into account the continuing lack of representation or under-representation of women from certain countries, in particular developing countries and countries with economies in transition;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Rights of indigenous peoples (2018), para. 46
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 21. Underlines the need to intensify efforts, in cooperation with indigenous peoples, to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence and discrimination against indigenous women, children, youth, older persons and persons with disabilities and to support measures that will ensure their empowerment and full and eff ective participation in decision-making processes at all levels and in all areas and eliminate structural and legal barriers to their full, equal and effective participation in political, economic, social and cultural life;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2019), para. 260
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (h) Cooperate with the private sector and employers to make available easily accessible and gender-responsive remote or online skills development and matching programmes to migrants at all skills levels, including early and occupation -specific language training, on-the-job training and access to advanced training programmes, to enhance their employability in sectors with demand for labour on the basis of the industry’s knowledge of labour market dynamics, especially to promote the economic empowerment of women;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
International Equal Pay Day (2020), para. 04
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling also the commitment to achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value, contained in the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular target 8.5,
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules) (2011), para. 030
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 9. Emphasizes that, when sentencing or deciding on pretrial measures for a pregnant woman or a child’s sole or primary caretaker, non-custodial measures should be preferred where possible and appropriate, with custodial sentences being considered when the offence is serious or violent;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe (2016), para. 11
- Paragraph text
- 1. Reiterates its call for the reinforcement of cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe regarding the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, the promotion of democracy and the rule of law and good governance at all levels, inter alia, the prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the fight against terrorism, trafficking in human beings and violence against women, the fight against all forms of racism, discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance, the promotion of freed om of expression and freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief, the protection of the rights and dignity of all members of society without discrimination on any grounds and the promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women and girls, as well as the promotion of human rights education;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
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 (2009), para. 36
- Paragraph text
- (p) Strengthening national health and social infrastructures to reinforce measures to promote women’s access to public health and taking action at the national level to address shortages of human resources for health by, inter alia, developing, financing and implementing policies, within national development strategies, to improve training and management and effectively govern the recruitment, retention and deployment of health workers, including through international cooperation in this area;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto: situation of women and girls with disabilities (2018), para. 19
- Paragraph text
- Acknowledging the importance of taking measures to raise awareness of the rights of women and girls with disabilities in order to eliminate stereotypes, prejudices and violence, including harmful practices which seriously violate and impair or nullify the enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by women and girls with disabilities and which constitute a major impediment to their full, equal and effective participation in society, the economy and political decision - making,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2007), para. 45
- Paragraph text
- 14. Calls upon the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality to consider ways and means to enhance the effectiveness of the United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women as a system-wide funding mechanism for preventing and redressing all forms of violence against women and girls;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Protection of migrants (2014), para. 54
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (d) Calls upon States that have not already done so to provide for the protection of the human rights of women migrant workers, to promote fair labour conditions and to ensure that all women, including care workers, are legally protected against violence and exploitation;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
The full enjoyment of human rights by all women and girls and the systematic mainstreaming of a gender perspective into the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for SustainableDevelopment (2017), para. 09
- Paragraph text
- Stressing that the full realization of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls will make a crucial contribution to progress across all the Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda, and that the systematic mainstreaming of a gender perspective into the implementation of the Agenda is crucial,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human rights in the Central African Republic (2017), para. 47
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 20. Remains deeply concerned by the conditions of displaced persons and refugees, and encourages the international community to support the national authorities and host countries to ensure appropriate protection and support for victims of violence, in particular women, children and persons with disabilities;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the Secretary-General on the causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainabledevelopment in Africa (2011), para. 30
- Paragraph text
- 15. Welcomes the ongoing efforts of the African Union to ensure the protection of the rights of women in conflict and post-conflict situations, recalls in this regard the adoption and entry into force of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, 6 and the Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa 6 and the African Union Gender Policy, as well as the Southern African Development Community Protocol on Gender and Development, stresses the significance of those instruments for all countries in Africa for strengthening the role of women in peace and conflict prevention on the continent, and strongly urges the United Nations and all parties to redouble their efforts and support in this regard;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (2014), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 7. Calls upon the least developed countries and their development partners to ensure enhanced focus on policies and means to address productive capacity- building, and in this respect encourages them to give priority to expanding the access of women, youth and the poor to factors of production such as employability skills, finance, technology and land;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 08
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling further the recommendation of the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-sixth session that the Economic and Social Council recommend to the General Assembly the adoption of a decision to consider the issue of ending female genital mutilation at its sixty-seventh session under the item entitled “Advancement of women”, 17
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
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. 47
- Paragraph text
- 9. Recalls the invitation extended to the Office of the High Commissioner by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 23/25 to include, during the annual full-day discussion on women’s human rights to be held at the twenty-ninth session of the Council, a discussion on the issue of gender-related killings;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
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 (2002), para. 39
- Paragraph text
- 26. Welcomes the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 12 and urges States parties to the Convention that have not yet done so to consider signing, ratifying or acceding to the Optional Protocol;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: engaging men and boys in preventing and responding to violence against all women and girls (2017), para. 42
- Paragraph text
- 10. Also calls upon States to take immediate and effective action to respond to violence against women and girls and to protect all victims/survivors by:
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Women in development (2020), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Noting the importance of the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, in particular its funds and programmes and the specialized agencie s, in facilitating the advancement and empowerment of women in development, in line with resolution 71/243 on the quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Draft outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants (2016), para. 189
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (i) Effective protection of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of migrants, including women and children, regardless of their migratory status, and the specific needs of migrants in vulnerable situations;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (2010), para. 102
- Paragraph text
- (h) Promoting inclusive financial services, particularly microfinance, and including affordable and accessible credit, savings, insurance and payments products for all segments of society, especially women, people in vulnerable situations and those who would not normally be served, or are underserved, by traditional financial institutions, as well as for micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Elimination of discrimination against women (2014), para. 10
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Bearing in mind the challenges still faced by all countries throughout the world to overcome inequality between men and women, and the need to intensify efforts to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls throughout the world,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (1995), para. 11
- Paragraph text
- 5. Urges the Secretary-General to appoint, as expeditiously as possible, a Director of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women and to fill the existing vacancies in order to permit the Institute to carry out its mandate;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers (1995), para. 23
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 12. Invites the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women to continue to include among the urgent issues pertaining to her mandate the violence perpetrated against women migrant workers;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Women, disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control (2016), para. 12
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Urges Member States, relevant subregional and regional organizations, the United Nations and the specialized agencies to promote equal opportunities for the representation of women in all decision-making processes with regard to matters related to disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control, in particular as it relates to the prevention and reduction of armed violence and armed conflict;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Sustainable mountain development (2020), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming that gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls will make a crucial contribution to progress across all the Sustainable Development Goals and targets, and that the achievement of full human potential and sustainable development is not possible if one half of humanity continues to be denied full human rights and opportunities,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons (2010), para. 04
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming Human Rights Council resolution 11/3 of 17 June 2009 on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, 1F 2
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: regional and subregional cooperation in promoting a human rights-based approach to combating trafficking in persons (2010), para. 12
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing also the challenges to combating trafficking in persons, especially women and children, owing to the lack of adequate legislation and implementation of existing legislation, the lack of availability of reliable sex- and age-disaggregated data and statistics and the lack of resources, and recognizing the role of international cooperation in this regard,
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) (2016), para. 52
- Paragraph text
- 19. Recognizes the urgent need to address poverty, hunger, malnutrition and food security, which will lead to rich payoffs across the Sustainable Development Goals, and encourages the international community to enhance international cooperation and devote resources to developing rural and urban areas and sustainable agriculture and fisheries and to supporting smallholder farmers, especially women farmers, herders and fishers in developing countries, particularly in the least developed countries;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (2006), para. 07
- Paragraph text
- Recalling also the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 2 in which Governments were urged to create or strengthen independent national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights, including the human rights of women,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Elimination of discrimination against women (2013), para. 34
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 17. Calls upon States and urges institutions of global governance, including the United Nations, to promote women’s equal access to decision-making positions and processes, and encourages them to appoint and promote women staff members in order to guarantee women’s equal participation;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1999), para. 03
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Aware of the fact that the majority of refugees are children and women,
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Women in development (2020), para. 04
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming and recalling the commitments made in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, including through the Sustainable Development Goal to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls and the commitments to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls made across the Sustainable Development Goals,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
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 (2005), para. 21
- Paragraph text
- 11. Emphasizes also the importance of men and boys taking joint responsibility with women and girls in the promotion of gender equality, taking into account the agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-eighth session on 12 March 2004; 6
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Trafficking in women and girls (2015), para. 64
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 30. Encourages Governments, in cooperation with intergovernmental and civil society organizations, to undertake or strengthen campaigns aimed at clarifying opportunities, limitations, rights and responsibilities with respect to migration, as well as information on the risks of irregular migration and the ways and means used by traffickers, to enable women to make informed decisions and to prevent them from becoming victims of trafficking;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016– 2025) (2016), para. 05
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Conscious of the need to eradicate hunger and prevent all forms of malnutrition worldwide, particularly undernourishment, stunting, wasting, underweight and overweight in children under 5 years of age and anaemia in women and children, among other micronutrient deficiencies, as well as reverse the rising trends in overweight and obesity and reduce the burden of diet-related non-communicable diseases in all age groups,
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Addressing the impact of multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence in the context of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance on the full enjoyment of all human rights by women and girls (2016), para. 12
- Paragraph text
- Emphasizing the importance and the need that States take measures to protect all women and girls from discrimination and violence in the context of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, and to ensure their meaningful participation in decision-making at all levels,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2005), para. 22
- Paragraph text
- (f) To take special measures to protect women and children from the appalling violence, including sexual violence, which has been and continues to be prevalent throughout the country, in particular in Ituri, North and South Kivu and other areas in the eastern part of the country, and condemns in particular the widespread use of sexual violence as a means of warfare;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Strengthening and promoting effective measures and international cooperation on organ donation and transplantation to prevent and combat trafficking in persons for the purpose of organ removal and trafficking in human organs (2019), para. 11
- Paragraph text
- Taking note of the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, on the issue of trafficking in persons for the removal of organs submitted to the General Assembly at its sixty - eighth session, 9
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas (2002), para. 17
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (b) Designing and revising laws to ensure that, where private ownership of land and property exists, rural women are accorded full and equal rights to own land and other property, including through the right to inheritance, and undertaking administrative reforms and other necessary measures to give women the same right as men to credit, capital, appropriate technologies and access to markets and information;
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers (2016), para. 02
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling all of its previous resolutions on violence against women migrant workers and those adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women, the Commission on Human Rights and the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, and also recalling the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, 1
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2007), para. 30
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 21. Reaffirms the obligation of all States and parties to an armed conflict to protect civilians in armed conflicts in accordance with international humanitarian law, and invites States to promote a culture of protection, taking into account the particular needs of women, children, older persons and persons with disabilities;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel (2017), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Expressing deep concern at the exposure of female humanitarian personnel and United Nations and associated personnel to certain forms of crime and acts of intimidation and harassment, including sexual violence and other forms of violence against women,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (2010), para. 181
- Paragraph text
- (b) Significantly intensifying prevention efforts and increasing access to treatment by scaling up strategically aligned programmes aimed at reducing the vulnerability of persons more likely to be infected with HIV, combining biomedical, behavioural and social and structural interventions, and through the empowerment of women and adolescent girls so as to increase their capacity to protect themselves from the risk of HIV infection and through the promotion and protection of all human rights. Prevention programmes should take into account local circumstances, ethics and cultural values, including information, education and communication in languages most understood by local communities and should be respectful of cultures, with the aim of reducing risk-taking behaviours and encouraging responsible sexual behaviour, including abstinence and fidelity; expanded access to essential commodities, including male and female condoms and sterile injecting equipment; harm-reduction efforts related to drug use; expanded access to voluntary and confidential counselling and testing; safe blood supplies; and early and effective treatment of sexually transmitted infections, and should promote policies that ensure effective prevention and accelerate research and development into new tools for prevention, including microbicides and vaccines;
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2018), para. 23
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Elimination of discrimination against women (2013), para. 12
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Deeply concerned by the fact that stigmatization, harassment and various forms of violence against women, including targeted attacks and sexual violence, have been used to silence and discredit women engaging in political and public life,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
The situation in Afghanistan (2017), para. 23
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 10. Also condemns in the strongest terms the heinous and cowardly terrorist attack carried out in the centre of Kabul on 31 May 2017, in which more than 92 people died and at least 491 were injured, almost all of whom were civilians, including women, children and members of the media, as well as diplomatic personnel, and which caused massive damage to public and private property, including foreign diplomatic missions, as well as the subsequent systematic a ttacks, including against religious minorities, and underlines the need to bring to justice the perpetrators, organizers, financers and sponsors of those reprehensible acts of terrorism;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Cooperatives in social development (2010), para. 04
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing also the important contribution and potential of all forms of cooperatives to the follow-up to the World Summit for Social Development, the Fourth World Conference on Women and the second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), including their five-year reviews, the World Food Summit, the Second World Assembly on Ageing, the International Conference on Financing for Development, the World Summit on Sustainable Development and the 2005 World Summit,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2020), para. 43
- Paragraph text
- (x) Supporting women entrepreneurs and women smallholder farmers, including those in subsistence farming, by continuing to provide public investment and to encourage private investment in rural women to close the gender gap in agriculture, and facilitating their access to extension and financial serv ices, agricultural inputs and land, water, sanitation and irrigation, markets and innovative technologies;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Improvement of the status of women in the United Nations system (2001), para. 04
- Paragraph text
- Recalling further its resolution 54/139 of 17 December 1999 on the improvement of the status of women in the Secretariat,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) (2016), para. 48
- Paragraph text
- 15. Stresses the importance of mobilizing greater domestic support towards the fulfilment of ODA commitments, including through raising public awareness, and providing data on aid effectiveness and demonstrating tangible results, encourages partner countries to build on progress achieved in ensuring that ODA is used effectively to help to achieve development goals and targets, encourages the publication of forward-looking plans that increase the clarity, predictability and transparency of future development cooperation, in accordance with national budget allocation processes, and urges countries to track and report resource allocations for gender equality and the empowerment of women;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Women, disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control (2014), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 3. Also welcomes the continuing efforts of the United Nations organs, agencies, funds and programmes to accord high priority to the issue of women and peace and security, and in this regard notes the role of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) in promoting the implementation of all resolutions related to women in the context of peace and security;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers (2016), para. 09
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the political declaration adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-ninth session on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, 13 and taking note, in particular, of the pledge to take further concrete action to ensure the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: engaging men and boys in preventing and responding to violence against all women and girls (2017), para. 11
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that violence against women and girls is rooted in historical and structural inequality in power relations between women and men, which further reinforce gender stereotypes and barriers to women’s and girls’ full enjoyment of their human rights, and that all forms of violence against women and girls constitute a major impediment to their full, equal and effective participation in society, the economy and political and individual decision-making, as well as in leadership roles, hindering them from the exercise and enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms on the basis of equality with men,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: engaging men and boys in preventing and responding to violence against all women and girls (2017), para. 46
- Paragraph text
- (d) Taking practical and concrete steps, in law and in practice, to create a safe and enabling environment where women and girls can easily report incidents of violence and receive post-gender-based violence care, including by providing men and women, particularly law enforcement officials, health-care providers and other first responders, with human rights training to ensure services that are women-centred, responsive to trauma and free from discrimination or stigmatization, and that prevent re-victimization;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
The situation in Afghanistan (2014), para. 016
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Noting the importance of the national Government being inclusive and representative of the ethnic diversity of the country and ensuring also the full and equal participation of women,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Women, disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control (2014), para. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 10. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-first session, under the item entitled “General and complete disarmament”, the sub-item entitled “Women, disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control”.
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
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 (2010), para. 31
- Paragraph text
- 13. Reaffirms that States have an obligation to exercise due diligence to prevent violence against women and girls, provide protection to the victims and investigate, prosecute and punish the perpetrators of violence against women and girls, and that failure to do so violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment of their human rights and fundamental freedoms, calls upon Governments to elaborate and implement laws and strategies to eliminate violence against women and girls, encourages and supports men and boys in taking an active part in the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence, encourages increased understanding among men and boys of how violence harms girls, boys, women and men and undermines gender equality, encourages all actors to speak out against any violence against women, and in this regard welcomes the Secretary-General’s campaign “UNiTE to End Violence against Women” and the United Nations Development Fund for Women social mobilization and advocacy platform “Say NO to violence against women”;
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
The girl child (2003), para. 17
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 2. Urges States to consider signing, ratifying or acceding to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 16 and the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child; 3
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Promotion of the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: protecting women human rights defenders (2014), para. 13
- Paragraph text
- Aware that information-technology-related violations, abuses, discrimination and violence against women, including women human rights defenders, such as online harassment, cyberstalking, violation of privacy, censorship and the hacking of e-mail accounts, mobile phones and other electronic devices, with a view to discrediting them and/or inciting other violations and abuses against them, are a growing concern and can be a manifestation of systemic gender-based discrimination, requiring effective responses compliant with human rights,
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2018), para. 39
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (e) To promote both women’s leadership and their full, effective and equal participation in decision-making on water and sanitation management and to ensure that a gender-based approach is adopted in relation to water and sanitation programmes, including measures, inter alia, to reduce the time spent by women and girls in collecting household water, in order to address the negative impact of inadequate water and sanitation services on the access of girls to education and to protect women and girls from being physically threatened or assaulted, including from sexual violence, while collecting household water and when accessing sanitation facilities outside of their home or practising open defecation;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Promoting human rights through sport and the Olympic ideal (2018), para. 41
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Invites States and national, regional and international sports organizations to, where appropriate, implement new or strengthen existing programmes that provide more opportunities and facilitate barrier-free access to sport for all, in particular for children and youth, persons with disabilities, and women and girls, and substantially increase opportunities for women’s participation and leadership in all areas of sport, and in this regard encourages States to leverage sport and physical education policies and programmes to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Assistance to the Palestinian people (2015), para. 10
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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,
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Trafficking in women and girls (2017), para. 60
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 23. Encourages the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the World Tourism Organization and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultu ral Organization to promote their global campaign urging travellers to support the fight against trafficking in persons, especially women and girls;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (1994), para. 05
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming the unique and specific role of the Institute in the areas of research and training that can facilitate the systematic inclusion of women as partners in development programmes and projects,
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Strengthening international cooperation in preventing and combating trafficking in persons and protecting victims of such trafficking (2004), para. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (a) Improved technical cooperation to strengthen local and national institutions aimed at preventing trafficking in persons, especially women and children, in countries of origin;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2016), para. 31
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 8. Underlines the importance of an effective remedy for violations of economic, social and cultural rights, including the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, and in this regard of judicial, quasi-judicial and other appropriate remedies, including procedures initiated by or on behalf of individuals or, as appropriate, groups of individuals, and of adequate procedures to avoid infringements of such rights with a view to ensuring justice for all for violations in the context of the realization of the rights to water and sanitation as components of the right to an adequate standard of living, including taking the measures necessary to ensure that women and girls and persons at risk have equal access to effective remedies;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas (2010), para. 03
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling also the importance attached to the problems of rural women in the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, 0F 1 the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women 1F 2 and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, 2F 3 including the review and appraisal of the implementation of the outcomes, and in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 4 3F
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2019), para. 134
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (k) Review relevant national labour laws, employment policies and programmes to ensure that they include considerations of the specific needs and contributions of women migrant workers, especially in domestic work and lower - skilled occupations, and adopt specific measures to prevent, report, address and provide effective remedy for all forms of exploitation and abuse, including sexual and gender-based violence, as a basis to promote gender-responsive labour mobility policies;
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Enlightenment and religious tolerance (2018), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Welcomes the invaluable contribution of the United Nations and the relevant entities of the United Nations system to strengthening dialogue in all its forms, including among and within religions or beliefs, and with broader participation, including of women, to promote greater tolerance, respect and mutual understanding;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Political declaration adopted at the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit (2018), para. 19
- Paragraph text
- 18. We acknowledge that civil society can play an important role in preventing conflicts, contributing to peacebuilding and advancing efforts to sustain peace. We also recognize that, depending on the nature of the conflict, a wide range of good offices exist that can play an important role across the peace continuum, including current and former Heads of State and Government, groups such as the Elders, the African Union Panel of the Wise, traditional leaders, religious leaders, cultural leaders, community leaders, business leaders, women’s and youth representatives, academics, sports personalities and celebrities. Sports and the arts in particular have the power to change perceptions, prejudices and behaviours, as well as to inspire people, break down racial and political barriers, combat discrimination and defuse conflict.
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph
Improvement of the status of women in the United Nations system (2005), para. 13
- Paragraph text
- 7. Stresses the need to address the continuing lack of representation or underrepresentation of women from certain countries, in particular from developing and least developed countries, from countries with economies in transition and from unrepresented or largely underrepresented Member States;
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
Paragraph