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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.
- Legal status
- Legally binding
- 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
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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;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 2
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- Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
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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;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
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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;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- 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
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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;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
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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,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
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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,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
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Ending female genital mutilation 2007, para. 4
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- Urges States to condemn all harmful traditional practices, in particular female genital mutilation;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- 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
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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,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2008
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Ending female genital mutilation 2010, para. 15
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- Concerned about evidence of increased carrying out of female genital mutilation by medical personnel in all regions in which it is practised,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2012, para. 18
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- Calls upon the international community to strongly support, including through increased financial support, a second phase of the United Nations Population Fund-United Nations Children's Fund Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Change, which is currently due to end in December 2013, as well as national programmes focused on the elimination of female genital mutilations;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 19
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- Calls upon the international community to strongly support, including through increased financial support, a third phase of the Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Change of the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Children's Fund, which will run until 2020, as well as national programmes focused on the elimination of female genital mutilation;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
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Intensifying global efforts and sharing good practices to effectively eliminate female genital mutilation 2014, para. 14
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- Welcoming the holding during the twenty-sixth session of the Human Rights Council of the high-level panel discussion on the identification of good practices in combating female genital mutilation, and taking note with interest of the summary report thereon, prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula 2008, para. 6
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- Urges States to enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses and, in addition, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage, and to raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2008
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2012, para. 13
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- Deeply concerned that, despite the increase in national, regional and international efforts and the focus on the abandonment of female genital mutilations, the practice continues to exist in all regions of the world,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2012, para. 14
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- Deeply concerned also that a tremendous gap in resources continues to exist and that the shortfall in funding has severely limited the scope and pace of programmes and activities for the elimination of female genital mutilations,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2012, para. 7
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- Calls upon States to ensure that national action plans and strategies on the elimination of female genital mutilations are comprehensive and multidisciplinary in scope and incorporate clear targets and indicators for the effective monitoring, impact assessment and coordination of programmes among all stakeholders;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
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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;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- 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
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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;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- 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
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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;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- 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
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Intensifying global efforts and sharing good practices to effectively eliminate female genital mutilation 2014, para. 6
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- Also stresses the need to establish synergy between the activities of international, regional and local organizations to provide better support to field programmes, strengthen advocacy and ensure international support for the planning, development and implementation of innovative long-term strategies for the effective elimination of female genital mutilation;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
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Intensifying global efforts and sharing good practices to effectively eliminate female genital mutilation 2014, para. 8
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- Urges States, international and regional governmental organizations and civil society, including non-governmental organizations, to intensify research on the consequences of female genital mutilation, the persistence of the practice and the impact of campaigns and other initiatives to eliminate this scourge;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
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Intensifying global efforts and sharing good practices to effectively eliminate female genital mutilation 2014, para. 9
- Paragraph text
- Urges the international community to continue and strengthen efforts to share best practices on national and regional legislation, policies, programmes and action plans aimed at preventing and criminalizing the practice, to mobilize resources and to enhance international cooperation in this regard;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2012, para. 9
- Paragraph text
- Concerned about evidence of an increase in the incidence of female genital mutilations being carried out by medical personnel in all regions in which they are practised,
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula 2012, para. 5
- Paragraph text
- Urges States to enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage, including in rural and remote areas, is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses and, in addition, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage, and to raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
Paragraph
Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2014, para. 20
- Paragraph text
- 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;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2014
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 8
- Paragraph text
- 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;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- 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
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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;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
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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;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- 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
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