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Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined
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- Art. 32. The High Contracting Parties specifically agree that each of them is prohibited from taking any measure of such a character as to cause the physical suffering or extermination of protected persons in their hands. This prohibition applies not only to murder, torture, corporal punishments, mutilation and medical or scientific experiments not necessitated by the medical treatment of a protected person, but also to any other measures of brutality whether applied by civilian or military agents.
- Body
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- Document type
- International treaty
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1949
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2012, para. 12
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- Welcoming the efforts of the United Nations system to end female genital mutilations, in particular the commitment of 10 United Nations entities announced in their joint inter-agency statement of 27 February 2008 on eliminating female genital mutilation, as well as the Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Change, of the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Children's Fund, to accelerate the elimination of the practice,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2012, para. 19
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- Stresses that some progress has been made in combating female genital mutilations in a number of countries using a common coordinated approach that promotes positive social change at the community, national, regional and international levels, and recalls the goal set out in the United Nations inter-agency statement that female genital mutilations be eliminated within a generation, with some of the main achievements being obtained by 2015, in line with the Millennium Development Goals;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2014, para. 5
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- Recalling also the decision of the African Union, adopted in Malabo on 1 July 2011, to support the adoption by the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session of a resolution banning female genital mutilation,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2014, para. 12
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the efforts of the United Nations system to end female genital mutilations, in particular the commitment of 10 United Nations entities, announced in their joint inter-agency statement of 27 February 2008 on eliminating female genital mutilation, as well as the Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Change of the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Children's Fund, to accelerate the elimination of the practice,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2014, para. 14
- Paragraph text
- Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2014, para. 20
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- Stresses that some progress has been made in combating female genital mutilations in a number of countries using a common coordinated approach that promotes positive social change at the community, national, regional and international levels, and recalls the goal set out in the United Nations inter-agency statement that female genital mutilations are to be eliminated within a generation, with some of the main achievements being obtained by 2015, in line with the Millennium Development Goals;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 20
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- Stresses that some progress has been made in combating female genital mutilation in a number of countries using a common coordinated approach that promotes positive social change at the community, national, regional and international levels, and recalls the goal set out in the United Nations inter-agency statement that female genital mutilation is to be eliminated within a generation, with some of the main achievements being obtained by 2030, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 16
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- Welcoming the efforts of the United Nations system to end female genital mutilation, in particular the commitment of 10 United Nations entities, announced in their joint inter-agency statement of 27 February 2008 on eliminating female genital mutilation, as well as the Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Change of the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Children's Fund, to accelerate the elimination of the practice,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 19
- Paragraph text
- Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 8
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- Calls upon States to ensure that national action plans and strategies on the elimination of female genital mutilation are comprehensive and multidisciplinary in scope and that they include projected timelines for goals and incorporate clear targets and indicators for the effective monitoring, impact assessment and coordination of programmes among all relevant stakeholders and promote their participation, including the participation of affected groups, practising communities and non-governmental organizations, in the development, implementation and evaluation of such plans and strategies;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Intensifying global efforts and sharing good practices to effectively eliminate female genital mutilation 2014, para. 10
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- Calls upon States to continue to increase technical and financial assistance for the effective implementation of policies, programmes and action plans to eliminate female genital mutilation at the national, regional and international levels, including by strengthening the United Nations Population Fund-United Nations Children’s Fund Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Change, and all the other initiatives and activities at the local, regional and international levels aimed at the prevention and elimination of female genital mutilation;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Intensifying global efforts and sharing good practices to effectively eliminate female genital mutilation 2014, para. 14
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- Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare, in consultation with States, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Population Fund, the treaty bodies, relevant special procedures, regional organizations, national human rights institutions, civil society and other relevant stakeholders, a compilation of good practices and major challenges in preventing and eliminating female genital mutilation, and to submit it to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-ninth session;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Children
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 4
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- Recalling also its resolution 27/22 of 26 September 2014 on intensifying global efforts and sharing good practices to effectively eliminate female genital mutilation,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 9
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- Recognizing also that efforts at the local, national, regional and international levels have led to a decline in the global prevalence of female genital mutilation,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 10
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing further the role of regional and subregional instruments and mechanisms in the prevention and elimination of female genital mutilation,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 15
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- Recalling the inter-agency global strategy initiated in 2010 by the World Health Organization to stop health-care providers from performing female genital mutilation,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 2
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- Calls upon States to continue and intensify efforts to provide information and raise awareness about the harmful effects of female genital mutilation and about the continuing increase at the national and international levels in support for the elimination of the practice, and to organize activities within this framework during the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation with the involvement of religious and traditional authorities, which make the movement to end female genital mutilation more visible;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 8
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- Encourages States to consider presenting, during the universal periodic review, relevant recommendations on measures to eliminate female genital mutilation;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 11
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- Invites the Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Change of the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Children’s Fund to continue to develop the national capacities of States and local communities for the effective implementation of inclusive policies, programmes and action plans to eliminate female genital mutilation at the local, national, and regional levels, while encouraging States and development cooperation agencies to consider increasing their financial support for the Joint Programme;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Ending female genital mutilation 2007, para. 4
- Paragraph text
- Urges States to condemn all harmful traditional practices, in particular female genital mutilation;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2007
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Ending female genital mutilation 2007, para. 14
- Paragraph text
- Urges States to allocate sufficient resources to the implementation of legislation and action plans aimed at abandoning female genital mutilation;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2007
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Ending female genital mutilation 2007, para. 17
- Paragraph text
- Encourages all decision makers, at all levels, with responsibilities for policies, legislation, programmes and allocation of public resources to play leadership roles in eliminating female genital mutilation;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2007
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Ending female genital mutilation 2008, para. 11
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the report of the Secretary-General on ending female genital mutilation and the recommendations contained therein,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2008
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Ending female genital mutilation 2008, para. 4
- Paragraph text
- Urges States to condemn all harmful traditional practices, in particular female genital mutilation;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2008
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Ending female genital mutilation 2008, para. 15
- Paragraph text
- Urges States to allocate sufficient resources to the implementation of legislation and action plans aimed at abandoning female genital mutilation;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2008
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Ending female genital mutilation 2008, para. 18
- Paragraph text
- Encourages all decision makers, at all levels, with responsibilities for policies, legislation, programmes and allocation of public resources to play leadership roles in eliminating female genital mutilation;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2008
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Ending female genital mutilation 2010, para. 11
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the report of the Secretary-General on ending female genital mutilation and the recommendations contained therein,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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