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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;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Men
- 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) (d)
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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:] (d) respect for conjugal and family ties.
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Year
- 2018
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Affordability of water and sanitation services 2015, para. 38
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- In many instances, however, public financing is unequally distributed. Middle-class households often benefit from subsidies, both direct subsidies and "hidden" subsidies. Direct subsidies include tax breaks or financial incentives for constructing a toilet, which, when poorly targeted tend to benefit middle-income families. Subsidies are "hidden" when public financing is used to construct infrastructure and services that are intended to be used by all, but in fact are only available to middle- and high-income households.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Year
- 2015
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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2016), para. 07
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- Recalling its resolution 66/222 of 22 December 2011 on the International Year of Family Farming, 2014, which raised the profile of the role of family farming and smallholder farming in contributing to the achievement of food security and improved nutrition,
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2020), para. 26
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- Emphasizing that participatory research, in conjunction with effective, pluralistic and demand-driven extension and rural advisory services, is critical in order to ensure that agricultural technologies respond to the demands and nee ds of all farmers, including family farmers and smallholder producers,
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2014), para. 71
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- 41. Looks forward to the implementation of the International Year of Family Farming, 2014, recognizes the important contribution that family farming and smallholder farming can play in providing food security, reducing malnutrition and eradicating poverty in the attainment of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, stresses the importance of development strategies for family farming and smallholder farming, as appropriate, and invites Member States, United Nations agencies, farmers’ organizations and other partners to join efforts to successfully observe the International Year;
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Celebration of the tenth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond (2005), para. 07
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- Recognizing also the commendable efforts made by Governments at the local and national levels in carrying out specific programmes concerning families,
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Child and dependant care, including sharing of work and family responsibilities 1996, para. 5
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- Family responsibilities rest equally with men and with women. Greater participation of men in family responsibilities, including domestic work and child and dependant care, would contribute to the welfare of children, women and men themselves. Even though this change is bound to be slow and difficult, it remains essential.
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1996
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Child and dependant care, including sharing of work and family responsibilities 1996, para. 8
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- These measures should include recognition of the social and economic importance of unremunerated work, and should aim at desegregating the labour market through, inter alia, the adoption and application of laws embodying the principle of equal pay for women and men for equal work or work of equal value.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1996
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Child and dependant care, including sharing of work and family responsibilities 1996, para. 12c
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- [Action is needed to:] (c) Promote legislative measures, incentives and/or measures of encouragement that would enable men and women to take parental leave and receive social security benefits. Such measures should protect working men and women against dismissal and guarantee their right to re-enter employment in an equivalent post;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1996
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Child and dependant care, including sharing of work and family responsibilities 1996, para. 16
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- Child and dependant care can constitute a major source of new jobs for women and men.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1996
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Child slavery in the artisanal mining and quarrying sector 2011, para. 102
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- Economic alternatives, which provide the same income, need to be offered to working mining and quarrying families. Alongside the provision of economic alternatives, Governments should work with international organizations and CSOs to monitor this sector in order to transform it and ensure better pay and working conditions. This could then provide an income for families based on the labour of adults in a relatively safe working environment.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Year
- 2011
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Child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings (2017), para. 33
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- 13. Also urges States, with the collaboration of relevant stakeholders, to ensure that the basic humanitarian needs of affected populations and families, including clean water, sanitation, food, shelter, energy, health, including sexual and reproductive health, nutrition, education and protection, are addressed as critical components of humanitarian response, and to ensure that civil registration and vital statistics are an integral part of humanitarian assessments and that livelihoods are protected, recognizing that poverty and lack of economic opportunities for women and girls are among the drivers of child, early and forced marriage;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Women
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (n) iii
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- [Ensuring early identification and immediate response involves partnerships and actions to:] determine the best interests of girls at risk, provide alternative accommodation, physical protection and interim foster care as required, as well as initiate family tracing and ensure family unity wherever possible and in their best interests; and
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- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2006
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Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. 14
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- In Malawi, situations of debt bondage are reported to be prevalent within the tobacco industry. This sector is a major source of employment in Malawi and generates a significant amount of income for the country. Tobacco is traditionally grown by farmers who use waged workers, temporary workers and also tenants (workers to whom farmers provide land, food and housing and to whom they loan agricultural tools, the costs of which are deducted from future profits). The relationship between tenants and estate or farm owners has been reported to be largely exploitative, leading to a situation of debt bondage. The costs charged to tenants by the estate or farm owners exceed the amount received from tobacco sales due to manipulation of the debts. This leads to tenants, who are reportedly predominantly male, and their families, becoming trapped in situations of debt bondage. In 2013, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food estimated that 300,000 tobacco tenant families were living in extremely precarious situations in Malawi (see A/HRC/25/57/Add.1, para. 47). Since 1995, the Government has made several attempts to enact a specific law on tenancy labour but has yet not successfully developed such legislation. A tenancy labour bill was first drafted in 1995, and the latest version, from 2012, is still under debate.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Year
- 2016
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Effective Implementation of the OPSC 2010, para. 78
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- Because they are still growing and are dependent on adults, children are vulnerable by nature. They must be trained, brought up, educated, supervised, guided and moulded by their families, guardians and all others who exercise authority over them. However, certain children are more vulnerable than others.
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- Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Year
- 2010
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2018), para. 11
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- 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
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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. 04
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- Reaffirming the obligations of all States to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms, as enunciated in the Charter, and reaffirming also the obligations of States parties under international human rights instruments, in particular the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 9 the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 9 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 10 the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 11 the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 12 the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 13 and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, 14
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
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Equality in marriage and family relations 1994, para. 31
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- Even when these legal rights are vested in women, and the courts enforce them, property owned by a woman during marriage or on divorce may be managed by a man. In many States, including those where there is a community-property regime, there is no legal requirement that a woman be consulted when property owned by the parties during marriage or de facto relationship is sold or otherwise disposed of. This limits the woman's ability to control disposition of the property or the income derived from it.
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- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document type
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
- Year
- 1994
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Extreme poverty and human rights on universal basic income 2017, para. 38
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- However, many social insurance and social assistance programmes that are integral parts of the welfare state differ in crucial respects from basic income. A study of 108 countries where child benefit or family benefit schemes were anchored in national legislation found that only 49 of them had non-contributory schemes. And contributory schemes generally only cover those in formal employment. They are therefore not universal, and often impose conditions, such as actively searching for work or undergoing medical tests. Moreover, they often go well beyond a floor, by compensating in part or in full for lost earnings.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Year
- 2017
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2011), para. 15
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- 11. Calls upon Governments to ensure, as appropriate, conditions that enable families and communities to provide care and protection to persons as they age, and to evaluate improvement in the health status of older persons, including on a gender-specific basis, and to reduce disability and mortality;
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Older persons
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2013), para. 21
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- 13. Encourages Governments to continue their efforts to implement the Madrid Plan of Action and to mainstream the concerns of older persons into their policy agendas, bearing in mind the crucial importance of family intergenerational interdependence, solidarity and reciprocity for social development and the realization of all human rights for older persons, and to prevent age discrimination and provide social integration;
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Older persons
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Follow-up to the tenth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond (2010), para. 02
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- Recalling its resolutions 44/82 of 8 December 1989, 50/142 of 21 December 1995, 52/81 of 12 December 1997, 54/124 of 17 December 1999, 56/113 of 19 December 2001, 57/164 of 18 December 2002, 58/15 of 3 December 2003, 59/111 of 6 December 2004, 59/147 of 20 December 2004, 60/133 of 16 December 2005 and 62/129 of 18 December 2007 concerning the proclamation of the International Year of the Family and the preparations for, observance of and follow-up to the tenth anniversary of the International Year of the Family,
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Follow-up to the tenth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond (2010), para. 14
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- 3. Encourages Member States to adopt holistic approaches to policies and programmes that confront family poverty and social exclusion, and invites Member States to stimulate public debate and consultations on family-oriented and gender- and child-sensitive social protection policies, in accordance with the objectives of the International Year of the Family;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
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Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (2010), para. 057
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- (iii) Other forms of family-based or family-like care placements;
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (2010), para. 080
- Original document
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- Preventing family separation
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (2010), para. 091
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- B. Promoting family reintegration
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (2010), para. 168
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- 111. The above-mentioned records could be made available to the child, as well as to the parents or guardians, within the limits of the child’s right to privacy and confidentiality, as appropriate. Appropriate counselling should be provided before, during and after consultation of the record.
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
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Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (2010), para. 221
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- 151. Those responsible for the welfare of an unaccompanied or separated child should facilitate regular communication between the child and his/her family, except where this is against the child’s wishes or is demonstrably not in his/her best interests.
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
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Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (2010), para. 245
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- 164. The confidential nature of the information collected should be respected and systems put in place for safe forwarding and storage of information. Information should only be shared among duly mandated agencies for the purpose of tracing, family reintegration and care.
- Person(s) affected
- Families
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