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A world fit for children 2002, para. 40.13
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- [To achieve these goals and targets, we will implement the following strategies and actions:] Develop and implement programmes that specifically aim to eliminate gender disparities in enrolment and gender-based bias and stereotypes in education systems, curricula and materials, whether derived from any discriminatory practices, social or cultural attitudes or legal and economic circumstances.
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2002
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Ability of associations to access financial resources as a vital part of the right to freedom of association & Ability to hold peaceful assemblies as an integral component of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly 2013, para. 21
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- The Special Rapporteur also warns that the political environment, where for instance patriarchy, sexism and authoritarian regimes are structural challenges, can also unduly undermine access to funding to civil society. Furthermore, criminalization in certain countries of peaceful activities, such as protection of human rights, non-discrimination and equality or promotion of gender equality, can also make it difficult, if not impossible, for associations working on these issues to raise funds.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in the world of work (2019), para. 11
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- Welcoming the International Labour Organization Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190),
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in the world of work (2019), para. 12
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- Taking note with appreciation of the report of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises on how to integrate a gender perspective in implementing the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, 2
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in the world of work (2019), para. 62
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- 12. Invites States Members of the International Labour Organization to ratify its Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190);
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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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. 11
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- Welcomes the work of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, and takes note with appreciation of her reports;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Women
- Year
- 2017
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Access to justice for people living in poverty 2012, para. 96
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- [States should:] Ensure that serious crimes, including gender-based crimes or sexual violence, are dealt with within the formal justice system
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 82p
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- [States should also:] Provide sufficient budgetary resources and adopt measures, including affirmative action policies, at all levels of education for people of African descent, as a means for Governments to recognize the existence of structural discrimination and to combat it;
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
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Activities of the Working Group 2015, para. 40
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- The Working Group is convinced that the Decade should also afford an opportunity to analyse gender discrimination faced by people of African descent and will consider intersectional forms of discrimination faced by people of African descent.
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
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Activities of the Working Group 2016, para. 26
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- During the period under review, the Working Group began thematic research on the issue of racial stereotyping of people of African descent, as an area of work for continued efforts to combat negative racial stereotypes.
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
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Activities of the Working Group 2016, para. 27
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- The Working Group studied racial stereotypes faced by people of African descent around the world including the role of blackface in public events, such as Black Pete in the Sinterklaas festival in the Netherlands, and the prevalence of such racial stereotypes in the media and advertisements.
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
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Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (Addis Ababa Action Agenda) (2015), para. 117
- Original document
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- 106. We recommit to broadening and strengthening the voice and participation of developing countries in international economic decision-making and norm-setting and global economic governance. We recognize the importance of overcoming obstacles to planned resource increases and governance reforms at IMF. The implementation of the 2010 reforms for IMF remains the highest priority and we strongly urge the earliest ratification of those reforms. We reiterate our commitment to further governance reform in both IMF and the World Bank to adapt to changes in the global economy. We invite the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and other main international regulatory standard-setting bodies to continue efforts to increase the voice of developing countries in norm-setting processes to ensure that their concerns are taken into consideration. As the shareholders in the main international financial institutions, we commit to open and transparent, gender- balanced and merit-based selection of their heads, and to enhanced diversity of staff.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (Addis Ababa Action Agenda) (2015), para. 127
- Original document
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- 115. Capacity development will be integral to achieving the post-2015 development agenda. We call for enhanced international support and establishment of multi-stakeholder partnerships for implementing effective and targeted capacity- building in developing countries, including least developed countries, landlocked developing countries, small island developing States, African countries and countries in conflict and post-conflict situations, to support national plans to implement all the sustainable development goals. Capacity development must be country-driven, address the specific needs and conditions of countries and reflect national sustainable development strategies and priorities. We reiterate the importance of strengthening institutional capacity and human resource development. It is also critical to reinforce national efforts in capacity-building in developing countries in such areas as public finance and administration, social and gender responsive budgeting, mortgage finance, financial regulation and supervision, agriculture productivity, fisheries, debt management, climate services, including planning and management for both adaptation and mitigation purposes, and water and sanitation-related activities and programmes.
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 11
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- The mandate holder started her tenure on 1 August 2015 and acquired the work carried out by her predecessor on the adequacy of the legal framework on violence against women (A/HRC/26/38, A/69/368 and A/HRC/29/27), in particular, her proposal to “examine the normative gaps within the existing international binding legal frameworks, and address more specifically the legal gaps in protection, prevention and accountability in respect of violence against women”. The current Special Rapporteur presented the report of her predecessor to the General Assembly and decided to continue discussing this question by inviting all stakeholders to send their views and perspectives on the adequacy of the current legal framework on violence against women.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Women
- Year
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 24
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- Even though civil society organizations didn’t express a unitary perspective on the current debate on the adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women, the Special Rapporteur could identify some recurrent concerns, which have been grouped under the following categories: (a) support for a new stand-alone treaty with a new separate monitoring body; (b) opposition to such a treaty and proposals to strengthen existing instruments; (c) support for the strengthening of the current legal framework and mechanisms with the possible adoption of a new optional protocol under the Convention as a long-term solution; and (d) other innovative proposals.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Women
- Year
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 26
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- Civil society organizations also expressed concern at the weaknesses of the current legal framework, the “added value” of a new treaty, practical issues that should be emphasized in a new treaty, sensitive issues relating to its negotiation and, finally, practical options for improving the implementation of the prohibition of gender-based violence which would not necessarily involve negotiating a new treaty.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 77
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- General recommendation No. 35 incorporates the newest developments at the national, regional and international levels and builds upon the growing jurisprudence and work of the Committee, and the work of the Special Rapporteur and other human rights mechanisms. The Special Rapporteur believes that this new instrument will provide in a timely manner additional guidance that is very much needed on steps that should be taken to address gender-based violence in all its forms and to accelerate progress towards its elimination. The mandate holder also welcomes the inclusive participatory process that accompanied the update of general recommendation No. 19.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 78
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- General recommendation No. 35 reiterates and complements the scope of general recommendation No. 19 by not only recalling the standards expressed in the jurisprudence of women’s rights mechanisms and the recommendations of the Committee within the past 25 years, but also expanding the range of issues explicitly addressed in the Committee’s recommendations.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Women
- Year
- 2017
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Adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living 2010, para. 2d
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- [Decides to extend for a period of three years the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, in order that he or she may, inter alia:] Apply a gender perspective, including through the identification of gender-specific challenges to the realization of the right to adequate housing;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
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Adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living in the context of disaster settings 2012, para. 4c
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- [Urges States, in the context of post-disaster settings, and recognizing that short-term humanitarian response and early recovery phases are based on needs, to respect, protect and fulfil the right to adequate housing without discrimination of any kind as to race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status, and, in this regard:] To give due priority to the realization of the right to adequate housing for the most disadvantaged and vulnerable persons through housing reconstruction and the provision of alternative housing, especially by respecting the principles of non-discrimination and gender equality, and by integrating a gender perspective into policies, strategies and programmes for disaster risk reduction, prevention and preparedness, as well as into all phases of disaster response and recovery;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
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Adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and the right to non-discrimination in this context 2016, para. 6
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- Calls upon States to take positive measures with a view to prevent and eliminate homelessness by adopting and implementing cross-sectoral strategies that are gender-responsive and based on international human rights law;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
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Administration of justice at the United Nations (2005), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Cross-cutting issues – general guidelines
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Administration of justice at the United Nations (2011), para. 51
- Original document
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- 45. Requests the Secretary-General, in order to attract a pool of outstanding candidates reflecting appropriate language and geographical diversity, different legal systems and gender balance, to advertise Tribunal vacancies widely in appropriate journals in both English and French, and to disseminate information relating to the judicial vacancies to Chief Justices and to relevant associations, such as judges’ professional associations, if possible, before those vacancies arise;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Administration of justice at the United Nations (2015), para. 15
- Original document
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- 11. Decides that the panel shall be appointed from a pool of experts drawn from all regional groups and judicial systems, selected to ensure the independent nature of the assessment, taking into account geographical representation and gender balance, and that it shall have a broad mix of expertise, comprising members with knowledge of internal United Nations processes and United Nations intergovernmental legislation, as well as judicial experience, knowledge of internal labour dispute mechanisms and knowledge of different legal and justice systems, including expertise in employment and/or human rights law;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Administration of justice at the United Nations (2018), para. 22
- Original document
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- 17. Requests the Secretary-General to include information and recommendations on the overall results of the staff survey as they relate to staff perceptions of workplace conflict in the next report on the activities of the Office of the United Nations Ombudsman and Mediation Services;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Advancement of women and acts of terrorism against women 1992, para. 4
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- Decides to consider this question under the priority theme "Peace" at its thirty-seventh session.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Women
- Year
- 1992
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Advisory services and technical assistance for Cambodia (2017), para. 23
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 14. Takes note of the latest findings regarding gender-based issues in Cambodia, and encourages the Government of Cambodia to strengthen its efforts on gender-based issues, including by effectively enforcing existing laws and regulations;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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Advisory services and technical assistance for Cambodia (2019), para. 26
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 17. Takes note of the latest findings regarding gender-based issues in Cambodia, and encourages the Government of Cambodia to strengthen its efforts on gender-based issues, including by effectively enforcing existing laws and regulations;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
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African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 2
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- Electoral observer missions shall be conducted by appropriate and competent experts in the area of election monitoring, drawn from continental and national institutions such as, but not limited to, the Pan- African Parliament, national electoral bodies, national legislatures and eminent persons taking due cognizance of the principles of regional representation and gender equality.
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2007
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African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 6
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- State Parties shall implement this Charter in accordance with the following principles: Promotion of gender equality in public and private institutions;
- Body
- African Union
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2007
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