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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2017), para. 28
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- (c) To impose a zero-tolerance policy on sexual and gender-based violence, including female genital mutilation, ensuring that those responsible for sexual and gender- based violence, exploitation and abuse are, regardless of their status or rank, held to account;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Certain forms of abuses in health-care settings that may cross a threshold of mistreatment that is tantamount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2013, para. 9
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- The Special Rapporteur calls upon all States to repeal any law allowing intrusive and irreversible treatments, including forced genital-normalizing surgery, involuntary sterilization, unethical experimentation, medical display, "reparative therapies" or "conversion therapies", when enforced or administered without the free and informed consent of the person concerned. He also calls upon them to outlaw forced or coerced sterilization in all circumstances and provide special protection to individuals belonging to marginalized groups.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
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Certain forms of abuses in health-care settings that may cross a threshold of mistreatment that is tantamount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2013, para. 41
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- Numerous reports document that users of illicit drugs who are detained in such centres undergo painful withdrawal from drug dependence without medical assistance, administration of unknown or experimental medications, State-sanctioned beatings, caning or whipping, forced labour, sexual abuse and intentional humiliation. Other reported abuses included "flogging therapy", "bread and water therapy", and electroshock resulting in seizures, all in the guise of rehabilitation. In such settings, medical professionals trained to manage drug dependence disorders as medical illnesses are often unavailable.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
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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
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 04
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- Recalling its resolutions 27/22 of 26 September 2014, on intensifying global efforts and sharing good practices to effectively eliminate female genital mutilation, and 32/21 of 1 July 2016, on the elimination of female genital mutilation,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 15
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- Concerned about evidence of an increase in the incidence of female genital mutilation being carried out by medical personnel in all regions in which it is practised,
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 16
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- Recognizing that the practice constitutes torture or ill-treatment and must be prohibited, in accordance with regional and international human rights standards, and that the trend towards the medicalization of female genital mutilation does not make it any more acceptable,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 17
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- Expressing deep concern about the lack of effective measures for prosecuting perpetrators and providing victims of female genital mutilation with access to remedies and redress, health care and health services, psychosocial counselling, legal assistance and socioeconomic reintegration services,
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 18
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- Recognizing the role of regional and subregional instruments and mechanisms in the prevention and elimination of female genital mutilation,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 20
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- Recalling the inter-agency global strategy launched in 2010 by the World Health Organization to stop health-care providers from performing female genital mutilation,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 21
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- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the growing global consensus on the need to take appropriate measures to prevent and eradicate female genital mutilation, and considering that this practice cannot be justified on religious or cultural grounds,
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 22
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- Recognizing that efforts at the local, national, regional and international levels have led to a decline in the global prevalence of female genital mutilation, but remaining deeply concerned that there is still a significant shortfall in the resources allocated to the elimination of female genital mutilation and that the lack of funding has severely limited the scope and roll-out of programmes and activities designed to eliminate the practice,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 24
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- Bearing in mind that States have primary responsibility for preventing and eliminating female genital mutilation and for achieving zero tolerance of the practice,
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 33
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- 9. Calls upon States to take the following immediate and effective measures to eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation:
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 34
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- (a) Address the root causes of gender inequality, including gender stereotypes and negative social norms, attitudes and behaviours, the socioeconomic drivers of violence and unequal power relations such as patriarchal norms that perpetuate female genital mutilation;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 36
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- (c) Continue and intensify their efforts to provide information and raise awareness about the harmful effects of female genital mutilation, increase their support for action to eliminate the practice at the community, national and international levels, and organize activities within this framework during the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, with the involvement of religious and traditional authorities;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 38
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- (e) Adopt national legislation prohibiting female genital mutilation, in line with international human rights law, and take steps to ensure its strict application, while working to harmonize their laws in order to effectively combat the cross-border practice of female genital mutilation, including by strengthening transnational police and judicial cooperation in the exchange of information on victims and perpetrators of female genital mutilation, in accordance with national laws and policies and international human rights law;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 39
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- (f) Systematize the collection of data on female genital mutilation, encourage research, particularly at university level, transparency, accountability and data-sharing by the relevant stakeholders, and use the results to strengthen public information and awareness-raising activities and effectively measure the progress made in eliminating female genital mutilation;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 40
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- (g) Assist professional associations and trade unions of health service providers in adopting internal disciplinary rules prohibiting their members from engaging in the harmful practice of female genital mutilation;
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 42
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- 11. Encourages States to consider presenting, during the universal periodic review, relevant recommendations on measures to prevent and eliminate female genital mutilation;
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 44
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- Paragraph text
- 13. 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;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 45
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- 14. Invites the Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting 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, including in the health sector, to ensure the effective implementation of policies, programmes and action plans with the involvement of all stakeholders, and encourages States and development cooperation agencies to consider increasing their financial support for the Joint Programme;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Children
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 46
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- 15. Invites the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the relevant human rights treaty bodies to continue to give special consideration to the question of the elimination of female genital mutilation;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 48
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- Paragraph text
- 17. Decides to continue its consideration of the question of female genital mutilation in accordance with its programme of work.
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
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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
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 2
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- 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
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 3
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- Urges States to adopt national legislation prohibiting female genital mutilation, consistent with international human rights law, and to take steps to ensure its strict application, while working to harmonize their legislation in order to effectively address the cross-border practice of female genital mutilation;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
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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
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 6
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- Emphasizes the need for States to systematize, as appropriate, collection of data on female genital mutilation, to encourage and provide financial support for research, particularly at the university level, to use the results to strengthen public information and awareness-raising activities, and to measure effectively progress in eliminating female genital mutilation;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 6
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- Recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
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