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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic 2018, para. undefined
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- Art. 12. Members of the armed forces and other persons mentioned in the following Article, who are wounded or sick, shall be respected and protected in all circumstances. They shall be treated humanely and cared for by the Party to the conflict in whose power they may be, without any adverse distinction founded on sex, race, nationality, religion, political opinions, or any other similar criteria. Any attempts upon their lives, or violence to their persons, shall be strictly prohibited; in particular, they shall not be murdered or exterminated, subjected to torture or to biological experiments; they shall not wilfully be left without medical assistance and care, nor shall conditions exposing them to contagion or infection be created. Only urgent medical reasons will authorize priority in the order of treatment to be administered. Women shall be treated with all consideration due to their sex. The Party to the conflict which is compelled to abandon wounded or sick to the enemy shall, as far as military considerations permit, leave with them a part of its medical personnel and material to assist in their care.
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 11. (1) (c)
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- [Only adult able-bodied males who are of an apparent age of not less than 18 and not more than 45 years may be called upon for forced or compulsory labour. Except in respect of the kinds of labour provided for in Article 10 of this Convention, the following limitations and conditions shall apply:] (c) the maintenance in each community of the number of adult able-bodied men indispensable for family and social life;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2018
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–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (2003), para. 16
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- 5. Takes note of the real progress towards the implementation of those plans, most notably the increasing availability of insecticide-treated bednets, the growing use of preventive treatment of pregnant women and prompt access to treatment with effective drugs, that is being made in many countries in which malaria is endemic, particularly in Africa;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
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–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (2003), para. 22
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- (a) At least 60 per cent of those at risk for malaria, in particular pregnant women and children under five years of age, benefit from the most suitable combination of personal and community protective measures, such as insecticide- treated bednets and other interventions that are accessible and affordable, to prevent infection and suffering;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
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–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (2003), para. 23
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- (b) At least 60 per cent of all pregnant women who are at risk for malaria, especially those in their first pregnancy, have access to chemoprophylaxis or presumptive intermittent treatment;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Women
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–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (2006), para. 21
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- 9. Requests relevant international organizations, in particular the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund, to assist efforts of national Governments to establish universal protection of young children and pregnant women in malaria-endemic countries, particularly in Africa, with insecticide-treated nets as rapidly as possible, with due regard to ensuring sustainability through full community participation and implementation through the health system;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Youth
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–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (2006), para. 26
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- 14. Calls upon the international community to support investment in the development of new medicines to prevent and treat malaria, especially for children and pregnant women, sensitive and specific diagnostic tests, effective vaccines, and new insecticides and delivery modes in order to enhance effectiveness and delay the onset of resistance, including through existing partnerships;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
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–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (2007), para. 22
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- 10. Requests relevant international organizations, in particular the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund, to assist efforts of national Governments to establish universal protection of young children and pregnant women in malaria-endemic countries, particularly in Africa, with insecticide-treated nets as rapidly as possible, with due regard to ensuring sustainability through full community participation and implementation through the health system;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Youth
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–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (2007), para. 27
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- 15. Calls upon the international community, including through existing partnerships, to increase investment in and efforts towards the research and development of new, safe and affordable malaria-related medicines, products and technologies, such as vaccines, rapid diagnostic tests, insecticides and delivery modes, to prevent and treat malaria, especially for at-risk children and pregnant women, in order to enhance effectiveness and delay the onset of resistance;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
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–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (2007), para. 34
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- 22. Urges the international community to become fully knowledgeable about World Health Organization technical policies and strategies, including for indoor residual spraying, insecticide-treated nets and case management, intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women and monitoring of in vivo resistance studies to artemisinin-based combination therapy treatment, so that projects support those policies and strategies;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Women
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–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (2008), para. 23
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 11. Requests relevant international organizations, in particular the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund, to assist efforts of national Governments to establish universal protection of young children and pregnant women in malaria-endemic countries, particularly in Africa, with long- lasting insecticide-treated nets as rapidly as possible, with due regard to ensuring sustainability through full community participation and implementation through the health system;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Youth
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–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (2008), para. 28
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 16. Calls upon the international community, including through existing partnerships, to increase investment in and efforts towards the research and development of new, safe and affordable malaria-related medicines, products and technologies, such as vaccines, rapid diagnostic tests, insecticides and delivery modes, to prevent and treat malaria, especially for at-risk children and pregnant women, in order to enhance effectiveness and delay the onset of resistance;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
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–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (2008), para. 35
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 23. Urges the international community to become fully knowledgeable about World Health Organization technical policies and strategies and the provisions in the Stockholm Convention related to the use of DDT, including for indoor residual spraying, long-lasting insecticide-treated nets and case management, intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women and monitoring of in vivo resistance studies to artemisinin-based combination therapy treatment, so that projects support those policies, strategies and provisions;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
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–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (2010), para. 30
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 15. Requests relevant international organizations, in particular the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund, to assist efforts of national Governments to provide universal access to malaria control interventions especially to address at-risk young children and pregnant women in malaria-endemic countries, particularly in Africa, as rapidly as possible, with due regard to ensuring proper use of those interventions, including long-lasting insecticide nets, and sustainability through full community participation and implementation through the health system;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
- Youth
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–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (2010), para. 37
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 22. Calls upon the international community, including through existing partnerships, to increase investment in and efforts towards the research and development of new, safe and affordable malaria-related medicines, products and technologies, such as vaccines, rapid diagnostic tests, insecticides and delivery modes, to prevent and treat malaria, especially for at-risk children and pregnant women, in order to enhance effectiveness and delay the onset of resistance;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
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–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (2010), para. 44
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- Paragraph text
- 29. Urges the international community to become fully knowledgeable about World Health Organization technical policies and strategies and the provisions in the Stockholm Convention related to the use of DDT, including for indoor residual spraying, long-lasting insecticide-treated nets and case management, intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women and monitoring of in vivo resistance studies to artemisinin-based combination therapy treatment, so that projects support those policies, strategies and provisions;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
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–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in DevelopingCountries, Particularly in Africa (2001), para. 16
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (a) At least 60 per cent of those at risk for malaria, particularly pregnant women and children under five years of age, shall benefit from the most suitable combination of personal and community protective measures, such as insecticide- treated bednets and other interventions that are accessible and affordable, to prevent infection and suffering;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
Paragraph
–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in DevelopingCountries, Particularly in Africa (2001), para. 17
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- Paragraph text
- (b) At least 60 per cent of all pregnant women who are at risk for malaria, especially those in their first pregnancies, shall have access to chemoprophylaxis or presumptive intermittent treatment;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Women
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A human rights-based approach to the administration of criminal justice in cases of trafficking in persons 2012, para. 17
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- It is important to emphasize that the relevant legislation must be clear, enforceable and comprehensive to ensure effective protection of the victim. States must criminalize trafficking as it has been defined by international law. This means that criminalization must cover a range of end purposes, including forced and exploitative labour; it must recognize the possibility of women, men and children being victims of trafficking; and that the trafficking in children must be defined differently to trafficking in adults. A trafficking law that covers only one of these aspects would fall short of this standard.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2012
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A human rights-based approach to the administration of criminal justice in cases of trafficking in persons 2012, para. 43
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- The Special Rapporteur is concerned, however, by practices where victims of trafficking are mandatorily detained in shelters. Although the Special Rapporteur recognizes that the motivation for this may be to protect victims, she notes that the routine detention of victims of trafficking violates, in some circumstances, the right to freedom of movement and, in most, if not all, circumstances, the prohibitions on unlawful deprivation of liberty and arbitrary detention. International law absolutely prohibits any discriminatory detention of victims, including detention that is linked to the sex of the victim. The routine detention of women and of children in shelter facilities, for example, is clearly discriminatory and therefore unlawful.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2012
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A human rights-based approach to the administration of criminal justice in cases of trafficking in persons 2012, para. 44
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- In Thailand, concerns persist that children and women identified as victims of trafficking are automatically placed in Government-run shelters, pursued if they "escape" and, in some cases, forced to spend years awaiting processing. Such detention not only impedes the rights of victims but also discourages and diminishes the quality of victim cooperation with authorities. Above and beyond the infringement of victims' human rights, the Special Rapporteur observes that such an approach can serve as a disincentive for victims to report cases to authorities.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2012
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A human rights-based approach to the administration of criminal justice in cases of trafficking in persons 2012, para. 80
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- The Special Rapporteur notes that linking asset seizure to victim support is in line with a rights-based approach to human trafficking. Recovered assets can be a key source of funds when providing victims with compensation. The Special Rapporteur reminds States that trafficking victims have a right to compensation for the harm committed against them. Indeed, article 6, paragraph 6 of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children provides that States parties legal systems must take measures that offer the possibility of compensation to victims.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2012
Paragraph
A human rights-based approach to the administration of criminal justice in cases of trafficking in persons 2012, para. 90
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- In addition to criminalizing trafficking in persons in conformity with the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, States must ensure the criminalization of other crimes relating to trafficking in persons, including - but not limited to - corruption, money-laundering, debt bondage, obstruction of justice and participation in organized criminal groups.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2012
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A more systematized and equitable response to internally displaced persons outside camps 2012, para. 43
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- Improved and more systematized responses to IDPs outside camps, can also help address a number of other issues, including the precarious nature and protection problems raised by unmonitored and unassisted hosting arrangements such as those between IDPs and host families or friends. Highly or entirely dependent on the assistance and shelter provided by host families, certain groups of IDPs, such as vulnerable categories of women, children and the elderly, may be particularly at risk of a number of protection concerns, including abuse, exploitation, and sexual violence by their hosts. In this regard, this mandate has recommended the establishment of appropriate monitoring and ombuds-mechanisms, and other activities such as visits by social workers, working with local associations and counselling centres, and the establishment of a hotline, in order enhance the protection of IDPs living within host-family arrangements.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2012
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A United Nations literacy decade: education for all (2000), para. 04
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- Deeply concerned about the persistence of the gender gap in education, which is reflected by the fact that nearly two thirds of the world’s adult illiterates are women,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Women
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A United Nations literacy decade: education for all (2000), para. 15
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- 3. Acknowledges the efforts and the preparatory work at the national and regional levels for the year 2000 assessment of progress towards achieving the goals of education for all in identifying both continuing and emerging challenges, and stresses the need to meet those challenges and to accelerate the efforts to meet the basic needs of people of all age groups, in particular girls and women;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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A United Nations literacy decade: education for all (2000), para. 17
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- 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
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A world against violence and violent extremism (2014), para. 18
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- 2. Condemns the targeting of civilian populations, including women and children, in violation of international law, in particular human rights and humanitarian law, including by violent extremists, as well as the attempts to disrupt and divert the popular quest for political reform, moderation and inclusive development in different societies and drive it away from the hard work of development towards violence;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
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A world against violence and violent extremism (2014), para. 21
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- 5. Stresses that it is important that States strongly condemn all forms of violence against women and refrain from invoking any custom, tradition or religious consideration to avoid their obligations with respect to its elimination, as set out in the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women; 3
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
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A world against violence and violent extremism (2015), para. 19
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- 2. Condemns the targeting of civilian populations, including women and children, in violation of international law, in particular human rights and humanitarian law, including by violent extremists, as well as the attempts to disrupt and divert the popular quest for political reform, moderation and inclusive development in different societies and drive it away from the hard work of development towards violence;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
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