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Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts 2012, para. 15 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Expressing its strong belief that the rapid and unconditional release of women and children taken hostage in areas of armed conflict will promote the implementation of the noble goals enshrined in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, as well as the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly and the outcome document of the special session of the General Assembly on children, entitled “A world fit for children”, including the provisions therein regarding violence against women and children, |
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2012, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the 2006 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS, the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying Our Efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS and the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the HIV and AIDS-related goals contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals, in particular the resolve of Member States to have halted, by 2015, and begun to reverse the spread of HIV, |
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2012, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Recalling all previous resolutions on women, the girl child and HIV and AIDS, |
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2012, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General; |
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2012, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-eighth session on the situation of women, the girl child and HIV and AIDS, with an emphasis on accelerated actions taken in regard to women, the girl child and HIV and AIDS, in accordance with the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the 2006 and 2011 Political Declarations on HIV/AIDS and the 2011 Commitments on HIV/AIDS, using information provided by Member States and the United Nations system. |
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Bearing in mind that natural disasters affect human lives and living conditions thereafter, and often have a more direct and adverse impact on women, as well as vulnerable people within groups such as children, older persons and persons with disabilities, and that natural disasters often have different impacts on men and women in regard to the associated risks and vulnerabilities, due to gender inequality, gender stereotypes and discrimination against women, including the lack of equal access to adequate information and economic opportunities, poverty and social exclusion, safety and different family responsibilities, |
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Recalling the agreed conclusions of the forty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women of 15 March 2002, Commission on the Status of Women resolution 49/5 of 11 March 2005, as well as Commission resolution 55/1 of 4 March 2011 entitled “Mainstreaming gender equality and promoting empowerment of women in climate change policies and strategies”, the Hyogo Declaration and the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters, adopted by the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, which was held in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, from 18 to 22 January 2005, as well as all relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, including its resolutions 66/9 of 11 November 2011 and 66/120 of 15 December 2011, |
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Welcoming the response of the affected countries as well as the support and assistance given by the international community in the relief and recovery efforts for natural disasters in all parts of the world, including the devastating earthquake that struck eastern Japan on 11 March 2011, and other recent natural disasters, including those addressed in recent humanitarian appeals, while stressing the importance of further efforts in these responses, including in gender-responsive disaster management, |
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Stressing the importance of taking equally into account the specific needs of women and vulnerable people within groups such as children, older persons and persons with disabilities in every phase of disaster risk reduction, response and recovery, ensuring equal opportunities for their participation in these processes, calling for a people-centred, holistic approach, in order to build an inclusive society, supported by a social bond among people through community-based approaches, which promotes gender equality and the empowerment of women, strengthens the resilience of communities and reduces social vulnerabilities to disasters, |
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 2e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | [Urges Governments and, where appropriate, United Nations entities, civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, and other stakeholders to:] Make the utmost effort to secure equal access for women and men to disaster relief assistance and provide disaster response and support for recovery that is fully responsive to the needs and views of women and their enjoyment of all human rights, with special attention paid to the needs of pregnant and lactating women, families with infants, single-headed households and widows, such as in the context of the provision of food and supplies, water and sanitation, the set-up and management of shelter, safety and security, and the provision of physical, psychological and emergency health care, including for sexual and reproductive health, and counselling services, while encouraging the involvement of female professionals and gender-balance among field workers; |
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 2g | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | [Urges Governments and, where appropriate, United Nations entities, civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, and other stakeholders to:] Also ensure, in post-disaster environments, protection and care of and support to the victims of violence and, as appropriate, the provision of legal and other relevant services for victims of violence to aid, inter alia, in the investigation and prosecution of sexual and gender-based violence, taking into account women's needs in order to avoid the revictimization of women; |
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 2h | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | [Urges Governments and, where appropriate, United Nations entities, civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, and other stakeholders to:] Design, implement and evaluate gender-sensitive economic relief and recovery projects, including vocational and technical skills training measures, in order to help ensure equal economic opportunities between men and women, paying attention to eliminating obstacles to women's rapid integration or reintegration into the formal employment sector, owing to their role in the social and economic process, and taking into account the rural and urban migration that natural disasters may provoke; |
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 2j | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | [Urges Governments and, where appropriate, United Nations entities, civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, and other stakeholders to:] Ensure women and men's equal access to natural-hazard early warning systems and promote disaster risk reduction planning, taking into account the specific needs, views and all human rights of women and men, and raise public awareness and provide training at all levels on gender-sensitive approaches to disaster risk reduction, including in the areas of science and technology; |
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 2l | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | [Urges Governments and, where appropriate, United Nations entities, civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, and other stakeholders to:] Systematically collect demographic and socio-economic data and information disaggregated by sex, age and disability and continue to develop gender indicators and analyse gender differences, including through gender-sensitive needs assessment and planning processes, and integrate this information into disaster risk reduction and management policies and programmes; |
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 2m | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | [Urges Governments and, where appropriate, United Nations entities, civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, and other stakeholders to:] Document and assess disaster responses from a gender perspective, and widely disseminate, both nationally, regionally and internationally, information on good practices, lessons learned and tools, including technologies in support of disaster risk reduction, in order to promote and ensure their integration into disaster risk reduction planning; |
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 2p | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | [Urges Governments and, where appropriate, United Nations entities, civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, and other stakeholders to:] Forge constructive partnerships among all stakeholders, including Governments, United Nations entities and other relevant actors, such as civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, in order to strengthen a gender perspective in all aspects of disaster risk reduction, response and recovery; |
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Reaffirming its strong commitment to the full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (“Cairo Programme of Action”), adopted in 1994, and the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, adopted in 1995, the outcomes of their review conferences and commitments regarding the reduction of maternal, newborn and child mortality and universal access to reproductive health, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the 2005 World Summit Outcome, reaffirming its resolution 54/5 of 12 March 2010 and recalling other relevant United Nations resolutions, in particular Human Rights Council resolutions 11/8 of 17 June 2009, 15/17 of 30 September 2010 and 18/2 of 28 September 2011, |
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Reaffirming also the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, in particular Millennium Development Goal 5 on improving maternal health, including the targets to reduce by three quarters between 1990 and 2015 the maternal mortality ratio and to achieve by 2015 universal access to reproductive health, Millennium Development Goal 4 on reducing child mortality, Millennium Development Goal 3 on promoting gender equality and empowerment of women, and Millennium Development Goal 6 on combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, and noting with concern that Millennium Development Goal 5 is the least likely of all the Millennium Development Goals to be achieved, |
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the obligations of States parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, |
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Recognizing also the role of the United Nations system, including its funds, programmes and agencies, in particular the leading roles of the World Health Organization, the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Children's Fund, the World Bank and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, in eliminating preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and the work under the annual World Health Assembly agenda item on monitoring the achievement of the health-related Millennium Development Goals, and welcoming the ongoing efforts of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and other United Nations entities to promote gender equality, empowerment of women, development, human rights and peace through, inter alia, the mainstreaming of a gender equality perspective in United Nations activities, |
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Welcoming the ongoing partnerships between a variety of stakeholders at the local, national, regional and global levels aimed at addressing the multifaceted determinants of global health and the commitments and initiatives to accelerate progress on the health-related Millennium Development Goals, including those announced at the high-level event on the Millennium Development Goals held at United Nations Headquarters on 25 September 2008, and at the corresponding follow-up high-level event held on 23 September 2009, |
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 11 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Expressing concern that each year approximately 15 million to 20 million women of childbearing age worldwide, including adolescent girls, suffer from often preventable maternal morbidity, disabilities, injuries and illnesses connected with pregnancy and childbirth, including as a result of early pregnancy, early childbearing and other high-risk conditions, such as uterine prolapse, obstetric fistulas, stress incontinence, hypertension, haemorrhoids, perineal tears, urinary tract infections and severe anaemia, and that, as a result of these conditions, women suffer serious physical, economic, psychological and social consequences that affect their well-being, |
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Recognizing that the root causes of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity, which can constrain efforts to eliminate them and contribute to their unacceptably high global rates, encompass a wide range of interlinked underlying factors related to development, human rights and health, including, inter alia, poverty, illiteracy, lack of economic opportunities, challenges associated with rapid population growth, poor nutrition, barriers to education, discrimination against women and girls, harmful traditional practices, such as female genital mutilation/cutting and early and forced marriage, as well as gender-based violence, lack of participation in decision-making, poor health infrastructure, inadequate training for health personnel and inadequate investment in education, nutrition and basic health care, |
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 13 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Recognizing also that most instances of maternal mortality and morbidity are preventable and that preventable maternal mortality and morbidity is a health, development and human rights challenge that also requires the effective promotion and protection of the human rights of women and girls, in particular their rights to life, to be equal in dignity, to education, to be free to seek, receive and impart information, to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress, to freedom from discrimination and to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including sexual and reproductive health, |
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Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 1c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | [Urges States to:] Ensure the realization of the right of indigenous women and girls to education, and promote a multicultural approach to education that is responsive to the needs, aspirations and cultures of indigenous women, including by developing appropriate education programmes, curricula and teaching aids, to the extent possible in the languages of indigenous peoples, by promoting their access to information and communications technologies and by providing for the participation of indigenous women in these processes, and take measures to ensure that indigenous women and girls have the right to equal access to all levels and forms of education without discrimination; |
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Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts 2014, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Guided also by the principles and norms of international humanitarian law, in particular the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and the Additional Protocols thereto of 1977, as well as relevant international standards of human rights, in particular the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted on 25 June 1993 by the World Conference on Human Rights, |
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Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts 2014, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, as well as the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, and the outcome document of the special session of the General Assembly on children, entitled “A world fit for children”, including the provisions therein regarding violence against women and children, and welcoming the ten-year review and appraisal of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action at the forty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women and General Assembly decision 64/530 on the commemoration of the fifteenth anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, |
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Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts 2014, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Recalling General Assembly resolution 57/337 of 3 July 2003 on the prevention of armed conflict, and Security Council resolutions 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000, 1820 (2008) of 19 June 2008, 1888 (2009) of 30 September 2009, 1889 (2009) of 5 October 2009 and 1960 (2010) of 16 December 2010, 2106 (2013) of 24 June 2013 and 2122 (2013) of 18 October 2013 on women and peace and security, as well as its resolutions 1314 (2000) of 11 August 2000, 1379 (2001) of 20 November 2001, 1460 (2003) of 30 January 2003, 1539 (2004) of 22 April 2004, 1612 (2005) of 26 July 2005, 1882 (2009) of 4 August 2009, 1998 (2011) of 12 July 2011, 2068 (2012) of 19 September 2012 and 2143 (2014) of 7 March 2014 on children and armed conflict, and 2133 (2014) of 27 January 2014 on kidnapping for ransom and hostage-taking by terrorists, |
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Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts 2014, para. 11 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Noting that women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, including in armed conflicts, whether international or non-international, are victims of serious violations of international law, including international humanitarian law and human rights law, that continue to have a negative impact on efforts to put an end to those conflicts and cause suffering to the families of those women and children, and stressing, in this regard, the need to address the issue from a humanitarian perspective, among others, |
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Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts 2014, para. 17 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Expressing its strong belief that the rapid and unconditional release of women and children taken hostage in areas of armed conflict will promote the implementation of the noble goals enshrined in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, as well as the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly and the outcome document of the special session of the General Assembly on children, entitled “A world fit for children”, including the provisions therein regarding violence against women and children, |
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