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Working towards the elimination of crimes against women and girls committed in the name of honour 2000, para. 4d
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- [Calls upon all States:] To establish, strengthen or facilitate, where possible, support services to respond to the needs of actual and potential victims by, inter alia, providing for them the appropriate protection, safe shelter, counselling, legal aid, rehabilitation and reintegration into society;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2000
- Paragraph type
- OP
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The girl child 2013, para. 2
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- Urges all States that have not yet ratified or acceded to the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) of the International Labour Organization to consider doing so;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- OP
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The girl child 2009, para. 2
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- Urges all States that have not yet signed and ratified or acceded to the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), of the International Labour Organization to consider doing so;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2009
- Paragraph type
- OP
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The girl child 2011, para. 2
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- Urges all States that have not yet signed and ratified or acceded to the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), of the International Labour Organization to consider doing so;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- OP
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The girl child 2015, para. 2
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- Urges all States that have not yet ratified or acceded to the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138), and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), of the International Labour Organization to consider doing so;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2015
- Paragraph type
- OP
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Forced marriage of the girl child 2007, para. 1b
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- [Urges States:] (b) To adopt and enforce requirements for registration of birth and marriage with the aim of definitively determining age at the time of marriage;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2007
- Paragraph type
- OP
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Forced marriage of the girl child 2007, para. 1h
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- [Urges States:] (h) To promote policies and measures aimed at the economic empowerment of young women, especially those living in rural and remote areas, inter alia, by increasing their access to economic resources, enhancing the employability of young women, developing their skills and broadening their access to career choices, as well as by facilitating better reconciliation of work and family life;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2007
- Paragraph type
- OP
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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
- Paragraph type
- OP
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (g)
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- Responding more effectively to protection problems faced by women and girls at risk requires a holistic approach that combines preventive strategies and individual responses and solutions. It involves collaboration between, and the involvement of, all relevant actors, including men and boys, to enhance understanding and promote respect for women's and girls' rights.
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- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2006
- Paragraph type
- OP
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Manifestations and causes of domestic servitude 2010, para. 22
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- The Special Rapporteur is particularly concerned about the high number of children in domestic work (see section 2c). Children are often sought for domestic work as they are seen as cheaper, less demanding and easier to control than adults. There are large numbers of child domestic workers in all continents, with the highest number probably residing in Asia. For example, ILO reports that 175,000 children under 18 are employed in domestic service in Central America, more than 688,000 in Indonesia, 53,942 children under 15 in South Africa and 38,000 children between 5 and 7 in Guatemala. Girls constitute the vast majority of child domestic workers (90 per cent according to some estimates). According to ILO, more girls under 16 years are in domestic service than in any other category of child labour.
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- Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2010
- Paragraph type
- Other
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Migrant domestic workers 2011, para. 19
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- Labour law. In many countries, domestic workers are not legally recognized as "workers" entitled to labour protection. A number of premises and special definitions are used to exclude domestic workers from the protection of labour laws, including the consideration that they work for private persons, who are not considered to be "employers". Equally, traditional perceptions of domestic work as tasks associated with unpaid work in the home performed by women and girls as well as traditional perceptions of domestic workers as either being "family helpers" often militate against the extension of national labour law to effectively cover domestic work. Because of their de facto and/or de jure, "unrecognized" status as "workers", domestic workers are unable to exercise the rights and freedoms granted by labour law to other workers.
- Body
- Committee on Migrant Workers
- Document type
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Other
Paragraph
Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention 2014, para. Preamble 2
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- Recognizing that the prohibition of forced or compulsory labour forms part of the body of fundamental rights, and that forced or compulsory labour violates the human rights and dignity of millions of women and men, girls and boys, contributes to the perpetuation of poverty and stands in the way of the achievement of decent work for all, and
- Body
- International Labour Organization
- Document type
- International treaty
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Paragraph type
- Other
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Manifestations and causes of domestic servitude 2010, para. 11
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- In the shadow of global domestic work industry, large numbers of people - in the majority, women and girls - find their dignity denied. They suffer invisibly in domestic servitude, contrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (art. 4) and human rights treaty law.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2010
- Paragraph type
- Other
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Servile marriage 2012, para. 81
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- Education is considered to be the strongest predictor of the age at which a girl will be married. According to UNICEF, in Nicaragua, 45 per cent of uneducated girls are married before the age 18 of years, compared to 28 per cent of girls having completed primary education, 16 per cent of girls having completed secondary education and 5 per cent of girls having completed higher education. In Mozambique, approximately 60 per cent of uneducated girls are married by the age of 18 years, compared to 10 per cent of girls having completed secondary education and less than 1 per cent of girls having completed higher education.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Other
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Pathways to, conditions and consequences of incarceration for women 2013, para. 76
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- Preparing children who have remained with their mothers in prison for integration back into society is a crucial step towards their ability to adjust to life outside, particularly for those who were born in prison or have no memory of life before prison. One report on India states that Many children born in prison have never experienced normal family life up to the age of four-five years. The socialization pattern of children gets severely affected due to their stay in prison. Their only image of a male authority figure is that of the police and prison officials. They are unaware of the concept of a "home". Boys sometimes talk in the female gender, having grown up only among women in the female ward. Sights like animals on roads frighten these children because of lack of exposure to the outside world.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- Other
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The girl child 2013, para. 21
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- Noting with concern that an estimated 68 million girls are engaged in child labour and that many of them face the double burden of having to combine economic activities with domestic chores, which deprive them of their childhood and diminish their opportunities to benefit from education and decent employment in the future,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- PP
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The girl child 2017, para. 3
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- Urges all States that have not yet ratified or acceded to the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138), and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), of the International Labour Organization to consider doing so;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2017
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Commodities (2016), para. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the adverse impact of excessive price volatility of commodities, especially on women and girls,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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Rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities (2018), para. 12
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that young women and girls belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities may often face particular challenges, and underlining in this context the importance of taking a gender-sensitive approach when considering measures to promote and protect the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities,
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
Paragraph
Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace (2017), para. 36
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- 7. Further encourages Member States to leverage sport and physical education policies and programmes to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: engaging men and boys in preventing and responding to violence against all women and girls (2017), para. 22
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- 1. Expresses outrage at the persistence and pervasiveness of all forms of violence against women and girls worldwide;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
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The girl child (2010), para. 26
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that early childbearing continues to be an impediment to the improvement of the educational and social status of girls in all parts of the world and that, overall, child and forced marriages and early motherhood can severely curtail their educational opportunities and are likely to have a long-term, adverse impact on their employment opportunities and on their and their children’s quality of life,
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that female genital mutilation is inherently linked to deep -rooted harmful stereotypes, negative social norms, perceptions and customs on the part of both women and men that threaten the physical and psychological integrity of women and girls, and that are obstacles to their full enjoyment of human rights, and acknowledging in this regard that awareness-raising is critical,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
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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
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- 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
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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
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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
Paragraph
The girl child (2014), para. 76
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 42. Calls upon States to ensure that social protection programmes, including HIV-sensitive programmes, are provided to orphans and other vulnerable children, with particular attention to addressing the needs and vulnerabilities of girl children and protecting their rights;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
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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
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
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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
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