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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2007), para. 08
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- 2. Invites Governments to conduct their ageing-related policies through inclusive consultations with relevant stakeholders and social development partners, in the interest of creating national policy ownership and consensus-building;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 59
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- 43. Takes note with appreciation of the work of the Inter-Agency Group on Ageing, an informal network of interested United Nations entities that exchange information and integrate ageing into their work programmes on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2014), para. 29
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- 17. Invites Governments to conduct their ageing-related policies through inclusive and participatory consultations with relevant stakeholders and social development partners, in the interest of developing effective policies that create national policy ownership and consensus-building;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2018), para. 26
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- 13. Recognizes the admission by the Myanmar military for the first time of the extrajudicial killing of 10 Rohingya villagers in Inn Din village, northern Rakhine State, while expressing concern that the Government of Myanmar has rejected credible reports of atrocities, reiterating grave concerns that reporters investigating the Inn Dinn killings have been jailed, and reiterating its calls upon the Myanmar authorities to cooperate with independent, credible and effective investigations into all allegations of human rights abuses and violations, including the gender dimension of such abuses and violations;
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- Gender
- Violence
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2019), para. 32
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- 14. Notes the findings of the Commission of Inquiry that such acts of sexual and gender-based violence were committed most commonly by Syrian authorities and associated militia, as well as by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Daesh), that they represent a widespread and systematic attack directed against the civilian population, amounting to crimes against humanity, and that such acts constitute the war crimes of rape and other forms of sexual violence, including torture and outrages upon personal dignity;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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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. 41
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- 22. Calls upon all parts of the United Nations system to continue to play an active role in ensuring the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session, through, inter alia, the maintenance of gender specialists in all entities of the United Nations system, as well as by ensuring that all personnel, especially those in the field, receive training and appropriate follow-up, including tools, guidance and support, for accelerated gender mainstreaming, and reaffirms the need to strengthen the capabilities of the United Nations system in the area of gender;
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (1996), para. 10
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- 1. Expresses its satisfaction with the report of the Board of Trustees of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, and commends the Institute for its efforts to focus on problems that constitute barriers to improving the status of women and their full participation in the sustainable development process;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (2014), para. 4
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- 2. Also welcomes the report of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on its fifty-second to fifty-fourth sessions; 2
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2013), para. 10
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- Recalling further 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
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2018), para. 30
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- 2. Also condemns unequivocally the specific attacks on women journalists in the exercise of their work, including sexual and gender-based discrimination and violence, intimidation and harassment, online and offline;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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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. 42
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- 29. Also requests the Secretary-General to report annually to the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the Commission on the Status of Women on follow-up to and progress in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session, with an assessment of progress made in mainstreaming a gender perspective within the United Nations system, including by providing information on key achievements, lessons learned and best practices, and to recommend further measures and strategies for future action within the United Nations system;
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Multilingualism (2007), para. 27
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- (d) Notes that the multilingual development and enrichment of the United Nations website has improved, although at a slower rate than expected owing to constraints that need to be addressed;
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- Gender
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The right to food (2018), para. 22
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- Emphasizing that a multisectoral approach that integrates nutrition across all sectors, including agriculture, health, water and sanitation, social protection and education, as well as a gender perspective, is critical to achieving global food and nutrition security and the realization of the right to food,
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- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto: accessibility (2020), para. 56
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- (a) To ensure that international cooperation is disability- and gender-sensitive and inclusive, including through the implementation of disability markers to monitor the implementation of programmes and the collection of data and statistics on persons with disabilities in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, targets and indicators, as well as other international frameworks;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Improvement of the status of women in the Secretariat (1997), para. 03
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- Recalling also its resolutions 45/125 of 14 December 1990 and 45/239 C of 21 December 1990, as well as the relevant paragraphs of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women on 15 September 1995, 1
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2020), para. 11
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- Welcoming the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 14 and the commitments therein to, inter alia, build peaceful and inclusive societies, protect human rights and promote gender equality for sustainable development so that no one is left behind, including by ensuring public access to information and protecting fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements, and therefore recognizing the important contribution of the promoti on and protection of the safety of journalists in this regard,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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International cooperation against the world drug problem (2002), para. 48
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- 19. Calls upon the Commission on Narcotic Drugs to continue mainstreaming a gender perspective into all its policies, programmes and activities, and requests the Secretariat to continue integrating a gender perspective into all documentation prepared for the Commission;
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2014), para. 05
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- Welcoming the important opportunity provided by the ongoing dialogue on the issues of ageing, inter alia, in the context of the discussions on the post-2015 development agenda,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Capital master plan (2009), para. 59
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- Accessibility
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Situation of older women in society (2002), para. 15
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- 4. Emphasizes the need for Governments and regional and international organizations, including the United Nations system and the international financial institutions, to develop and improve the collection, analysis and dissemination of data disaggregated by age and sex;
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2018), para. 57
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- 44. Takes note with appreciation of the establishment of an informal network of interested United Nations entities to exchange information and integrate ageing into their work programmes on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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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. 33
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- 14. Reiterates its call upon the United Nations system, including the main organs, their main committees and subsidiary bodies, functions such as the annual ministerial review and the Development Cooperation Forum of the Economic and Social Council and the funds, programmes and specialized agencies, to increase efforts to fully mainstream a gender perspective into all issues under their consideration and within their mandates, as well as into all United Nations summits, conferences and special sessions and their follow-up processes, including those of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in 2012, and the review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, at the fifty-first session of the Commission for Social Development, held in 2013;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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International cooperation to address and counter the world drug problem (2019), para. 028
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- Recognizing the importance of appropriately mainstreaming gender and age perspectives into drug-related policies and programmes,
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- Gender
- Health
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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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 (2010), para. 11
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- Alarmed at the increase in racist violence and xenophobic ideas in many parts of the world, in political circles, in the sphere of public opinion and in society at large, inter alia, as a result of the resurgent activities of associations established on the basis of racist and xenophobic platforms and charters, and the persistent use of those platforms and charters to promote or incite racist ideologies,
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Rights of the child (2006), para. 049
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- 24. Calls upon all States to protect the inheritance and property rights of orphans in law and in practice, with particular attention to underlying gender-based discrimination, which may interfere with the fulfilment of these rights;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2020), para. 37
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- 4. Calls upon States to develop and implement effectively legal frameworks and measures for the protection of journalists and media workers and for combating impunity, taking into consideration the gender dimensions thereof, including, where appropriate, through the creation and strengthening of special investigative units or independent commissions, the appointment of a specialized prosecutor and the adoption of specific protocols and methods of investigation and prosecution;
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Situation of older women in society (2002), para. 05
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- Welcoming the convening of the Second World Assembly on Ageing, to be held at Madrid in April 2002,
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2018), para. 30
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- 14. Notes the findings of the Commission of Inquiry that such acts of sexual and gender-based violence were committed most commonly by Syrian authorities and associated militia, as well as by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Daesh), that they form part of a widespread and systematic attack directed against a civilian population, amounting to crimes against humanity, and that, after February 2012, these acts constitute the war crimes of rape and other forms of sexual violence, including torture and outrages upon personal dignity;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing (2001), para. 13
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- 4. Notes the encouraging responses of Member States, United Nations entities and non-governmental organizations to the request by the Secretariat eliciting their views on the progress in and obstacles to the implementation of the International Plan of Action on Ageing, 3 as well as on priority issues to be addressed in a revised plan of action, and encourages those that have not yet responded to consider doing so;
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Question of human rights in Afghanistan (2003), para. 13
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- (a) Should be broad-based, gender-sensitive, multi-ethnic and fully representative of all of the Afghan people and committed to peace with all countries,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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