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Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 5
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- Also invites Governments, with the support of the United Nations, to formulate manuals for the training of personnel who receive and/or hold in temporary custody victims of gender-based violence, including trafficking, with a view to sensitizing them to the special needs of victims;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1997
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Traffic in women and girls 1998, para. 5
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- Invites Governments, with the support of the United Nations, to formulate manuals for the training of personnel who receive and/or hold in temporary custody victims of genderbased violence, including trafficking, with a view to sensitizing them to the special needs of the victims;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1998
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Traffic in women and girls 1999, para. 11
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- Invites Governments, with the support of the United Nations, to formulate manuals for the training of personnel who receive and/or hold in temporary custody victims of gender-based violence, including trafficking, taking into account current research and data on traumatic stress and gender-sensitive counselling techniques, with a view to sensitizing them to the special needs of the victims;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1999
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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The girl child (2016), para. 40
- Original document
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- 18. Also calls upon States to strengthen research, data collection and analysis on the girl child, disaggregated by household structure, sex, age, disability status, economic situation, marital status and geographical location, and improve gender statistics on time use, unpaid care work and water and sanitation in order to provide a better understanding of the situations of girls, especially of the multiple forms of discrimination that they face, and to inform the development of necessary policies and programme responses, which should take a holistic age-appropriate approach to addressing the full range of the forms of discrimination that girls may face, in order to protect their rights effectively;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), para. 14
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- Recognizing that poverty and lack of empowerment of women, as well as their marginalization resulting from their exclusion from social policies and from the benefits of education, health and sustainable development, can place them at increased risk of violence, and that all forms of violence against women and girls, including sexual violence, are impediments to the development of their full potential as equal partners in all aspects of life, as well as obstacles to the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Elimination of discrimination against women and girls in sport (2019), para. 15
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- 4. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a report on the intersection of race and gender discrimination in sports, including in policies, regulations and practices of sporting bodies, and elaborating on relevant international human rights norms and standards, and to present the report to the Human Rights Council at its forty-fourth session;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Trafficking in women and girls (2015), para. 80
- Original document
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- 46. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-first session a report that compiles information on successful interventions and strategies, as well as the gaps, in addressing the gender dimensions of the problem of trafficking in persons and provides recommendations on the strengthening of human rights-based, gender- and age-sensitive approaches within comprehensive and balanced efforts to address trafficking in persons.
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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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. 57
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- (f) Providing victims and survivors of violence in the world of work with effective remedies, including relief support and legal, medical, psychological and confidential counselling services and access to reasonable and necessary leave to participate in legal processes, receive medical treatment or make arrangements for their safety, and relevant, comprehensive and victim/survivor-centred legal protection in a gender-responsive manner, including protection of victims and survivors from secondary victimization and protection of victims, survivors, witnesses and whistle-blowers from reprisals for reporting violence in the world of work;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Gender
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Elimination of discrimination against women and girls (2017), para. 48
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 14. Calls upon all States to continue to develop and enhance standards and methodologies at the national and international levels to improve the collection, analysis and dissemination of gender statistics and sex- and age-disaggregated data by strengthening national statistical capacity, including by enhancing the mobilization, from all sources, of financial and technical assistance for enabling developing countries to systematically design, collect and ensure access to high-quality, reliable and timely data disaggregated by sex, age, income and other characteristics relevant in national contexts;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Violence against women migrant workers (1995), para. 26
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 15. Invites the World Summit for Social Development, the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace and the Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders to consider including in their respective programmes of action the subject of the traffic in women and girls, as well as youth;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity 2011, para. 2
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- Decides to convene a panel discussion during the nineteenth session of the Human Rights Council, informed by the facts contained in the study commissioned by the High Commissioner and to have constructive, informed and transparent dialogue on the issue of discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- LGBTQI+
- Year
- 2011
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity 2011, para. 3
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- Also decides that the panel will also discuss the appropriate follow-up to the recommendations of the study commissioned by the High Commissioner;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- LGBTQI+
- Year
- 2011
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence (2017), para. 28
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Stressing the need to fully engage men and boys as agents and beneficiaries of change in the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, as well as allies in the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls, including domestic violence,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2007), para. 08
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 2. Invites Governments to conduct their ageing-related policies through inclusive consultations with relevant stakeholders and social development partners, in the interest of creating national policy ownership and consensus-building;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 59
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 43. Takes note with appreciation of the work of the Inter-Agency Group on Ageing, an informal network of interested United Nations entities that exchange information and integrate ageing into their work programmes on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2014), para. 29
- Original document
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- 17. Invites Governments to conduct their ageing-related policies through inclusive and participatory consultations with relevant stakeholders and social development partners, in the interest of developing effective policies that create national policy ownership and consensus-building;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2018), para. 26
- Original document
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- 13. Recognizes the admission by the Myanmar military for the first time of the extrajudicial killing of 10 Rohingya villagers in Inn Din village, northern Rakhine State, while expressing concern that the Government of Myanmar has rejected credible reports of atrocities, reiterating grave concerns that reporters investigating the Inn Dinn killings have been jailed, and reiterating its calls upon the Myanmar authorities to cooperate with independent, credible and effective investigations into all allegations of human rights abuses and violations, including the gender dimension of such abuses and violations;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2019), para. 32
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 14. Notes the findings of the Commission of Inquiry that such acts of sexual and gender-based violence were committed most commonly by Syrian authorities and associated militia, as well as by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Daesh), that they represent a widespread and systematic attack directed against the civilian population, amounting to crimes against humanity, and that such acts constitute the war crimes of rape and other forms of sexual violence, including torture and outrages upon personal dignity;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2014), para. 41
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- 22. Calls upon all parts of the United Nations system to continue to play an active role in ensuring the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session, through, inter alia, the maintenance of gender specialists in all entities of the United Nations system, as well as by ensuring that all personnel, especially those in the field, receive training and appropriate follow-up, including tools, guidance and support, for accelerated gender mainstreaming, and reaffirms the need to strengthen the capabilities of the United Nations system in the area of gender;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (1996), para. 10
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- 1. Expresses its satisfaction with the report of the Board of Trustees of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, and commends the Institute for its efforts to focus on problems that constitute barriers to improving the status of women and their full participation in the sustainable development process;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (2014), para. 4
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- 2. Also welcomes the report of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on its fifty-second to fifty-fourth sessions; 2
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2013), para. 10
- Original document
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- Recalling further Commission on the Status of Women resolutions 49/7 of 11 March 2005, entitled “Indigenous women: beyond the ten-year review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action”, 8 and 56/4 of 9 March 2012, entitled “Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication”, 9
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2018), para. 30
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 2. Also condemns unequivocally the specific attacks on women journalists in the exercise of their work, including sexual and gender-based discrimination and violence, intimidation and harassment, online and offline;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2002), para. 42
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- 29. Also requests the Secretary-General to report annually to the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the Commission on the Status of Women on follow-up to and progress in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session, with an assessment of progress made in mainstreaming a gender perspective within the United Nations system, including by providing information on key achievements, lessons learned and best practices, and to recommend further measures and strategies for future action within the United Nations system;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Multilingualism (2007), para. 27
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (d) Notes that the multilingual development and enrichment of the United Nations website has improved, although at a slower rate than expected owing to constraints that need to be addressed;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The right to food (2018), para. 22
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Emphasizing that a multisectoral approach that integrates nutrition across all sectors, including agriculture, health, water and sanitation, social protection and education, as well as a gender perspective, is critical to achieving global food and nutrition security and the realization of the right to food,
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto: accessibility (2020), para. 56
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (a) To ensure that international cooperation is disability- and gender-sensitive and inclusive, including through the implementation of disability markers to monitor the implementation of programmes and the collection of data and statistics on persons with disabilities in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, targets and indicators, as well as other international frameworks;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Improvement of the status of women in the Secretariat (1997), para. 03
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling also its resolutions 45/125 of 14 December 1990 and 45/239 C of 21 December 1990, as well as the relevant paragraphs of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women on 15 September 1995, 1
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2020), para. 11
- Original document
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- Welcoming the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 14 and the commitments therein to, inter alia, build peaceful and inclusive societies, protect human rights and promote gender equality for sustainable development so that no one is left behind, including by ensuring public access to information and protecting fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements, and therefore recognizing the important contribution of the promoti on and protection of the safety of journalists in this regard,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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International cooperation against the world drug problem (2002), para. 48
- Original document
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- 19. Calls upon the Commission on Narcotic Drugs to continue mainstreaming a gender perspective into all its policies, programmes and activities, and requests the Secretariat to continue integrating a gender perspective into all documentation prepared for the Commission;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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