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Further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 2000, para. 82a
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- Promote and protect the rights of women workers and take action to remove structural and legal barriers as well as stereotypical attitudes to gender equality at work, addressing, inter alia, gender bias in recruitment; working conditions; occupational segregation and harassment; discrimination in social protection benefits; women's occupational health and safety; unequal career opportunities and inadequate sharing, by men, of family responsibilities;
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2000
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Rights of the child: Omnibus resolution 2008, para. 10
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- Reaffirming the importance of the family as the fundamental group of society and the natural environment for the growth and well-being of all its members, and particularly children, and that as such should be strengthened; that it is entitled to receive comprehensive protection and support; that the primary responsibility for the protection, upbringing and development of children rests with the family; that all institutions of society should respect children’s rights and secure their well-being and render appropriate assistance to parents, families, legal guardians and other caregivers so that children can grow and develop in a safe and stable environment and in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding, bearing in mind that, in different cultural, social and political systems, various forms of family exist,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Year
- 2008
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Migrant children and adolescents 2014, para. 14
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- Calls upon States to recognize that human mobility has become an integral part of the current social, economic and environmental situation, recognizes, in the process of elaborating future sustainable development goals, the importance of considering the reality of migration and its multiple direct impacts on the development prospects of migrants, their families and communities and on the development of countries of origin and destination, and encourages the international community to work so that aspects related to children and to migration being considered in the elaboration of the post 2015 development agenda can also be applicable in the case of accompanied and unaccompanied migrant children;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2014
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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The rights of the child 2005, para. 30f
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- [Calls upon all States:] To contribute to the elimination of the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography by adopting a holistic approach, addressing the contributing factors, including underdevelopment, poverty, economic disparities, inequitable socio-economic structures, dysfunctional families, lack of education, urban-rural migration, gender discrimination, criminal or irresponsible adult sexual behaviour, child sex tourism, organized crime, harmful traditional practices, armed conflicts and trafficking in children;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Year
- 2005
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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CRC - Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989, para. 2
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- 2. States Parties shall in accordance with their national laws ensure alternative care for such a child.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- International treaty
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Year
- 1989
- Date modified
- Mar 10, 2020
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Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (2011), para. 16
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- 8. Also welcomes the prompt consideration and action by the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice on a number of issues addressed in the Salvador Declaration, including those addressed in separate resolutions approved by the Commission at its nineteenth session, such as violence against migrants, migrant workers and their families, emerging forms of crime that have a significant impact on the environment and international cooperation in criminal matters; 3
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (2015), para. 09
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- Noting that 26 December 2014 marks the tenth anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster, which struck the Indian Ocean and South-East Asian regions and killed approximately 240,000 people, affecting the lives of victims and their families, and resulted in severe socioeconomic and environmental damage,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Question of Saint Helena (2016), para. 20
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- Recalling also the concerns expressed by the representative of Saint Helena about the potential negative impacts of the construction of the airport, including the growing number of expatriate families settling in the Territory and the lack of a specific plan to operate an air route or sea link between Saint Helena and neighbouring islands,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Question of Saint Helena (2018), para. 25
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- Aware also of the completion of the construction of the airport in the Territory and the commencement in October 2017 of commercial air service, and recalling the concerns expressed by a representative of the Legislative Council of Saint Helena about the potential impacts of the construction of the airport, such as the growing number of expatriate families settling in the Territory and the lack of a specific plan for the operation of an air route or sea link between Saint Helena and neighbouring islands,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2020), para. 36
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- 8. Invites the United Nations system and all relevant stakeholders to consider ways to make available, on mutually agreed terms, data and information relating to agriculture and food systems, including meteorology, big data, the Internet of things, satellite imagery, early warning systems and other data-based technologies, that could help to build the resilience of family farmers and smallholder producers, optimize yields and support rural livelihoods;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Implementation of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016–2025) (2018), para. 08
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- Recognizing the important contribution that family farming and smallholder farming can play in providing food security and eradicating poverty in the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of the child (2017), para. 081
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- 47. Recognizes that the migration of accompanied and unaccompanied children may be the result of diverse causes and factors, such as poverty, lack of social and economic opportunities in their communities of origin, the death of one or both parents, the search for family reunification, all forms of violence and lack of personal safety and/or the adverse effects of climate change, natural disasters or environmental factors;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Movement
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Rights of the child (2008), para. 084
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- (i) To contribute to the prevention and elimination of the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography by adopting a holistic approach, addressing the contributing factors, including underdevelopment, poverty, economic disparities, inequitable socio-economic structures, dysfunctional families, lack of education, urban-rural migration, gender discrimination, criminal or irresponsible adult sexual behaviour, child sex tourism, organized crime, harmful traditional practices, armed conflicts and trafficking in children;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The right to food (2019), para. 09
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- Recalling the proclamation by the General Assembly at its seventy-second session of 2019–2028 as the United Nations Decade of Family Farming and the close links between family farming, the promotion and conservation of historical, cultural and natural heritage, traditional customs and culture, halting the loss of biodiversity and the improvement of the living conditions of people living in rural areas,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Questions of American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guam, Montserrat, Pitcairn, Saint Helena, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands (2015), para. 150
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- Noting the concerns expressed by the representative of Saint Helena about the potential negative impacts of the construction of the airport, including the growing number of expatriate families settling in the Territory and the lack of a specific plan to operate an air route or sea link between Saint Helena and neighbouring islands,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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The girl child (2018), para. 11
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- Deeply concerned that the extreme situation of girls in child-headed households persists and that poverty, armed conflict, climate-related and other hazards, natural disasters, disease outbreaks, including the impact of the HIV and AIDS epidemic, and other humanitarian emergencies increase the incidence of child-headed households, forcing children, particularly girls, to undertake adult responsibilities, including being the main household earner and caring for younger siblings, and making them particularly vulnerable to poverty, violence, including physical and sexual violence, and discrimination, which seriously inhibits their development and violates and/or impairs the full enjoyment of their human rights,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Humanitarian
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2018), para. 61
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- 23. Stresses the importance of the application of science, technology and innovation and related knowledge management and communications systems in ensuring food security by 2030, and encourages the adoption of the most advanced and appropriate information technology, such as the Internet, mobile platforms, meteorology, big data and cloud computing, in agriculture systems in order to support the efforts of smallholder and family farmers to increase their resilience, productivity and incomes and include them in the development of research and innovation agendas;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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International migration and development (2017), para. 34
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- 18. Notes the adoption of resolution 189/XXXVIII by the Governing Council of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, on 16 February 2015, in which the Governing Council proclaimed 16 June as the International Day of Family Remittances and focused attention on the receiving end of family remittances and the need to capitalize on their potential to further help meet the economic, social and environmental challenges confronting developing countries, particularly in rur al areas;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Date modified
- Mar 5, 2020
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Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (2010), para. 017
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- 3. The family being the fundamental group of society and the natural environment for the growth, well-being and protection of children, efforts should primarily be directed to enabling the child to remain in or return to the care of his/her parents, or when appropriate, other close family members. The State should ensure that families have access to forms of support in the caregiving role.
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028) (2018), para. 20
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- Conscious that climate change represents an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet, that it is seriously affecting agriculture throughout the world and that supporting family farming could contribute to combating climate change as well as to increasing the ability to adapt to its adverse impacts and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development in a manner that does not threaten food production,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Natural plant fibres and sustainable development (2020), para. 17
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- Recalling also the proclamation of the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification (2010–2020), the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity, 2011–2020, the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018–2028, the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, 2021–2030, the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028), the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030) and the Third United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2018–2027),
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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The girl child (2014), para. 15
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- Deeply concerned about the serious social problem of child-headed households, in particular those headed by girls, and that the impact of the HIV and AIDS epidemic, including illness and mortality, the erosion of the extended family, the exacerbation of poverty, unemployment and underemployment and migration, as well as urbanization, have contributed to the increase in the number of child-headed households,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Health
- Movement
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Date modified
- Mar 4, 2020
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Rights of the child (2020), para. 024
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- Expressing concern that millions of children worldwide continue to grow up deprived of parental care, separated from their families for many reasons, including but not limited to poverty, discrimination, violence, abuse, neglect, trafficking in persons, humanitarian emergencies, armed conflict, natural disaster, climate change, migration, death or illness of a parent and lack of access to education, health and other family-support services,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Date modified
- Feb 29, 2020
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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2020), para. 31
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- 3. Recognizes the important role of family farming and smallholder farming in contributing to the achievement of food security and improved nutrition and the role that family farms play in contributing to global food security, poverty eradication and sustainability, as well as job creation, and in ending chronic child malnutrition, and that agricultural technologies should be adapted to the needs of small - and medium-scale family farmers and combined with credit access for sustainable production and significant investment in rural infrastructure as well as the training and education of those who would most benefit from them;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Date modified
- Feb 29, 2020
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Agricultural technology for sustainable development (2018), para. 23
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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 needs of family farmers and smallholder producers,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Date modified
- Feb 29, 2020
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Eradicating rural poverty to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2019), para. 13
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- Welcoming the proclamation of 2019–2028 as the United Nations Decade of Family Farming, to raise the profile of the role of family farming 4 in contributing to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Date modified
- Feb 29, 2020
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Protection of migrants (2020), para. 34
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- 2. Expresses its concern about the impact of financial and economic crises, as well as natural disasters and the effects of climate-related phenomena, on international migration and migrants, and in that regard urges Governments to combat discriminatory treatment of migrants, in particular migrant workers and their families , and to facilitate fair and ethical recruitment;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Date modified
- Feb 29, 2020
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The right to food (2020), para. 11
- Original document
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- Recalling the proclamation by the General Assembly at its seventy-second session of 2019–2028 as the United Nations Decade of Family Farming and the close links between family farming, the promotion and conservation of historical, cultural and natural heritage, traditional customs and culture, halting the loss of biodiversity and the improvement of the living conditions of people living in rural areas,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Date modified
- Feb 28, 2020
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2020), para. 78
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- 29. Stresses the importance of the application of science, technology and innovation and related knowledge management and communications systems in ensuring food security by 2030, and encourages the adoption of the most advanced and appropriate information technology, such as the Internet, mobile platforms, meteorology, big data and cloud computing, in agriculture systems in order to support the efforts of smallholder and family farmers to increase their resilience, productivity and incomes and include them in the development of research and innovation agendas while reducing negative environmental impacts;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Date modified
- Feb 28, 2020
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Global health and foreign policy: a healthier world through better nutrition (2019), para. 30
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- Welcoming the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028), and in this regard encouraging the full implementation of its resolution 72/239 of 20 December 2017, in which it recognized the role that family farms play in improving nutrition and ensuring global food security, eradicating poverty, ending hunger, conserving biodiversity, achieving environmental sustainability and helping to address migration,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Date modified
- Feb 28, 2020
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