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Policies and programmes involving youth 2011, para. 11
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- Also stresses that young people are particularly vulnerable in the labour market in times of crisis, and, in order to meet the needs of youth in a rapidly changing labour market, recognizes that promoting full employment, decent work and entrepreneurship requires investing in education, training and skills development for young women and men, strengthening social protection and health systems, applying internationally agreed labour standards, paying special attention to young people employed in the informal economy and the progressive and effective elimination of child labour;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2011
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The girl child 2013, para. 2
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- Urges all States that have not yet ratified or acceded to the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) of the International Labour Organization to consider doing so;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2013
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The girl child 2017, para. 3
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- Urges all States that have not yet ratified or acceded to the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138), and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), of the International Labour Organization to consider doing so;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2017
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The girl child 2009, para. 2
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- Urges all States that have not yet signed and ratified or acceded to the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), of the International Labour Organization to consider doing so;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2009
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Policies and programmes involving youth 2009, para. 8
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- Recognizing the special vulnerability of young people in the current financial and economic crisis, in particular with regard to youth unemployment and precarious working conditions,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2009
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The rights of the child 2014, para. 15
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- Calls upon all States to translate into concrete action their commitment to the progressive and effective eradication of child labour that is likely to be hazardous, to interfere with the child's education or to be harmful to the child's health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development, to eliminate immediately the worst forms of child labour and to promote education as a key strategy in this regard;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2014
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Further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 2000, para. 39
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- In countries with economies in transition, women are bearing most of the hardships induced by the economic restructuring and are the first to lose jobs in times of recession. They are being squeezed out from fast-growth sectors. Loss of childcare facilities due to elimination or privatization of State work places, increased need for older care without the corresponding facilities and continuing inequality of access to training for finding re-employment and to productive assets for entering or expanding businesses are current challenges facing women in these countries.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Women
- Year
- 2000
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The girl child 2013, para. 21
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- Noting with concern that an estimated 68 million girls are engaged in child labour and that many of them face the double burden of having to combine economic activities with domestic chores, which deprive them of their childhood and diminish their opportunities to benefit from education and decent employment in the future,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2013
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United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) 2015, para. 1
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- Services and agencies, governmental or otherwise, which assist released prisoners in re-establishing themselves in society shall ensure, so far as is possible and necessary, that released prisoners are provided with appropriate documents and identification papers, have suitable homes and work to go to, are suitably and adequately clothed having regard to the climate and season and have sufficient means to reach their destination and maintain themselves in the period immediately following their release.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2015
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Rights of the child 2000, para. 31a
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- [Further calls upon all States:] To examine and devise comprehensive economic and social solutions, at the national and international levels, to the problems causing children to work and/or to live on the street;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2000
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The girl child 2011, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- Urges all States that have not yet signed and ratified or acceded to the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), of the International Labour Organization to consider doing so;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2011
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Policies and programmes involving youth 2013, para. 5
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- Taking note of the resolution and conclusions of the International Labour Conference, at its 101st session, held in Geneva in 2012, on the theme “The youth employment crisis: a call for action”, which focused on employment and economic policies for youth employment; employability, education, training and skills and the school-to-work transition; labour market policies; youth entrepreneurship and self-employment; rights of young people; and the importance of mobilizing resources to address the youth employment crisis,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2013
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The girl child 2015, para. 2
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- Urges all States that have not yet ratified or acceded to the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138), and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), of the International Labour Organization to consider doing so;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2015
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Forced marriage of the girl child 2007, para. 1b
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- [Urges States:] (b) To adopt and enforce requirements for registration of birth and marriage with the aim of definitively determining age at the time of marriage;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 2017, para. 12
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that, while under-5 mortality has declined globally, an estimated 5.9 million children under the age of 5 died in 2015, with a global under-5 mortality rate of 43 per 1,000 live births,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2017
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The rights of the child 1998, para. VI.6
- Paragraph text
- Calls upon all States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying the conventions of the International Labour Organization concerning the abolition of forced labour and the minimum age for employment, including for particularly hazardous work for children, and to implement those conventions;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 1998
Paragraph
Adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, in the context of mega-events 2010, para. 5
- Paragraph text
- Requests the Special Rapporteur to consider, as appropriate, the issue of mega-events in the context of her work;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
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Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 1994, para. 5.6
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- Governments should maintain and further develop mechanisms to document changes and undertake studies on family composition and structure, especially on the prevalence of one-person households, and single-parent and multigenerational families.
- Body
- International Conference on Population and Development
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Year
- 1994
Paragraph
The promotion and protection of human rights in the context of peaceful protests 2013, para. 5
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- Underlines the role that communication between protestors, local authorities and police can play in the proper management of assemblies, such as peaceful protests;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Year
- 2013
Paragraph
Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: Mandate of the Special Rapporteur 2014, para. 13
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that persons without nationality or birth registration are particularly vulnerable to trafficking,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2014
Paragraph
International Albinism Awareness Day 2014, para. 2
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- Taking note of the preliminary report on persons with albinism submitted by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-fourth session,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
Paragraph
Forced marriage of the girl child 2007, para. 1h
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- [Urges States:] (h) To promote policies and measures aimed at the economic empowerment of young women, especially those living in rural and remote areas, inter alia, by increasing their access to economic resources, enhancing the employability of young women, developing their skills and broadening their access to career choices, as well as by facilitating better reconciliation of work and family life;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2007
Paragraph
Rights of the child: The fight against sexual violence against children 2010, para. 18
- Paragraph text
- Requests the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography to present her next report to the Council at its sixteenth session;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2010
Paragraph
Rights of the child 1999, para. 24a
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- [Calls upon all States:] That have not yet done so to consider ratifying the conventions of the International Labour Organization relating to child labour, in particular the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (Convention No. 29) and the Minimum Age for Admission to Employment Convention, 1973 (Convention No. 138);
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 1999
Paragraph
The rights of the child 1997, para. VI.6
- Paragraph text
- Calls upon all States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying the conventions of the International Labour Organization concerning the abolition of forced labour and the minimum age for employment, including for particularly hazardous work for children, and to implement those conventions;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 1997
Paragraph
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 2015, para. 31g
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- [To achieve this, it is important:] To promote and support the development of social safety nets as disaster risk reduction measures linked to and integrated with livelihood enhancement programmes in order to ensure resilience to shocks at the household and community levels;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
Paragraph
United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) 2015, para. 1
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- The maximum daily and weekly working hours of the prisoners shall be fixed by law or by administrative regulation, taking into account local rules or custom in regard to the employment of free workers.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2015
Paragraph
Human rights in the administration of justice 2016, para. 24
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the specific situation and needs of children formerly associated with armed forces or armed groups when accused of crimes under international law allegedly committed while they were associated with armed forces or armed groups,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
Paragraph
United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) 2015, para. 1
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- Every prisoner who is not employed in outdoor work shall have at least one hour of suitable exercise in the open air daily if the weather permits.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2015
Paragraph
United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) 2015, para. 2
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- Sufficient work of a useful nature shall be provided to keep prisoners actively employed for a normal working day.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Year
- 2015
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