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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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| 2012 | ||||
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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| 2012 | ||||
Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34dd | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration | [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Promote women's full participation in the formal economy, in particular in economic decision-making, and their equal access to full employment and decent work; empower women in the informal sector; and ensure that women and men enjoy equal treatment in the workplace, as well as equal pay for equal work or work of equal value, and equal access to power and decision-making, and promote sharing of paid and unpaid work; |
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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 2014, para. 13 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Noting with concern that regulations, policies and practices, including those that limit legitimate trade of generic medicines, may seriously limit access to affordable HIV treatment and other pharmaceutical products in low- and middle-income countries, and recognizing that improvements can be made, inter alia, through national legislation, regulatory policy and supply chain management, and noting that reductions in barriers to affordable products could be explored in order to expand access to affordable and good-quality HIV prevention products, diagnostics, medicine and treatment commodities for HIV, including opportunistic infections and co-infections, |
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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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| 2012 | ||||
Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34yy | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration | [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Take measures to ensure that all workplaces are free from discrimination and exploitation, violence, and sexual harassment and bullying, and that they address discrimination and violence against women and girls, as appropriate, through measures such as regulatory and oversight frameworks and reforms, collective agreements, codes of conduct, including appropriate disciplinary measures, protocols and procedures, referral of cases of violence to health services for treatment and police for investigation; as well as through awareness-raising and capacity-building, in collaboration with employers, unions and workers, including workplace services and flexibility for victims and survivors; |
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34zz | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration | [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Increase measures to protect women and girls from violence and harassment, including sexual harassment and bullying, in both public and private spaces, to address security and safety, through awareness-raising, involvement of local communities, crime prevention laws, policies, programmes such as the Safe Cities Initiative of the United Nations, improved urban planning, infrastructures, public transport and street lighting, and also through social and interactive media; |
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34jj | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration | [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Design and implement national policies that aim at transforming those social norms that condone violence against women and girls, and work to counteract attitudes by which women and girls are regarded as subordinate to men and boys or as having stereotyped roles that perpetuate practices involving violence or coercion; |
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34ll | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration | [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Carry out awareness-raising and education campaigns, in cooperation with civil society organizations, especially women's organizations, through different means of communication, targeting the general public, young people, men and boys, to address the structural and underlying causes of violence and abuse against women and girls; to overcome gender stereotypes and promote zero tolerance for such violence; to remove the stigma of being a victim and survivor of violence; and to create an enabling environment where women and girls can easily report incidences of violence and make use of the services available and of protection and assistance programmes; |
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Women and the environment 1992, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Gravely concerned that major causes of the continuing deterioration of the global environment are the unsustainable pattern of production and consumption, particularly in developed countries, and increasing poverty in many developing countries, |
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Women in development 1992, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Deeply concerned about the worsening situation of women in developing countries, particularly in the least developed countries, |
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| 1992 | ||||
Women in development 1992, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Also urges Governments to adopt policies to promote economic development that will ensure the full and explicit integration of women's needs and concerns; |
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| 1992 | ||||
Advancement of women and the family 1992, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Recalling its resolution 34/7 of 8 March 1990, in which the Commission decided to give further consideration to the question of the International Year of the Family at subsequent sessions, |
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| 1992 | ||||
Advancement of women and the family 1992, para. 1c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | [Recommends to the Commission on Social Development that the following elements be taken into account at its thirty-third session when preparing for the 1994 International Year of the Family:] (c) That, as regards equality of women and men, the concept of equality must be understood as expressed in the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women and in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and must be taken into account in all policies and programmes for the International Year of the Family; |
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| 1992 | ||||
Women in development 1993, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Further convinced that international cooperation for development has a fundamental role in the creation of proper conditions that allow women to achieve full integration in development, |
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Women in extreme poverty 1993, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 1990/15 of 24 May 1990, |
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Women in extreme poverty 1993, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Welcoming with satisfaction General Assembly resolution 47/92 of 16 December 1992, in which the Assembly decided to convene a World Summit for Social Development in Denmark early in 1995, |
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| 1993 | ||||
Women in extreme poverty 1993, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Convinced of the essential role of international cooperation for development in efforts at all levels aimed at eradicating poverty, |
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| 1993 | ||||
Violence against women migrant workers 1994, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Requests the Secretary-General to see to the development of concrete indicators to determine the situation of women migrant workers in sending and receiving countries as a basis for future action; |
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Women in extreme poverty 1993, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Noting with concern that rural women, who are the backbone of the rural economy, are most vulnerable to situations of extreme poverty, |
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Women in development 1994, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Further urges Governments to include gender perspectives in all the guidelines for economic and social policies and to increase their capacities and capabilities in gender-responsive and gender-sensitive planning of development programmes; |
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Women in extreme poverty 1993, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Conscious that the circumstances imposed upon women living in extreme poverty constitute one of the fundamental means by which poverty is transmitted from one generation to another, |
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| 1993 | ||||
Traffic in women and girls 1995, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Reaffirming its faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women, enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, |
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Violence against women migrant workers 1995, para. 14 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Stressing that acts of violence directed against women impair or nullify women's enjoyment of their human rights and fundamental freedoms, |
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| 1995 | ||||
Integration of displaced rural women into development processes 1995, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Urges Governments to promote, as a matter of priority, rural development projects with a gender perspective; |
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Integration of displaced rural women into development processes 1995, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Decides to consider the question of the integration of displaced rural women into development processes at its fortieth session. |
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| 1995 | ||||
Women in agriculture and rural development 1995, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Urges Governments to take action in support of rural women's full participation in the economy and in the political system by developing specific plans to meet the above-mentioned needs; |
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Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Notes the need to raise awareness of the important role of the media, including new forms of information technology, in informing and educating people about the causes and effects of violence against women and in stimulating public debate on the topic; |
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Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commission on the Status of Women | Negotiated soft law | Resolution | Encourages the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women and the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, as well as the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery of the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, to continue to pay special attention to the problem of trafficking in women and girl children, and to make available their reports thereon to the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-second session; |
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