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Title | Date added | Template | Original document | Paragraph text | Body | Document type | Thematics | Topic(s) | Person(s) affected | Year |
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Human rights of women 1998, para. b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Actions to be taken by Governments:] Take steps, including a gender-sensitive review of national legislation, to revoke any laws or legal procedures and eradicate practices – national or customary – that promote discrimination on the basis of sex; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 1998 | ||
Forced marriage of the girl child 2007, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that women's poverty and lack of empowerment, as well as their marginalization resulting from their exclusion from social policies and from the benefits of sustainable development, can place them at increased risk of violence, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
Women's economic empowerment 2010, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Also calls upon States to fulfil their commitments to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and to ensure the equal access of women and girls to education for all, basic services, including primary health care, housing, economic opportunities and decision-making at all levels; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
Economic advancement for women 2005, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting further that hundreds of millions of women and girls, worldwide, live in poverty and that the majority live in rural areas where their livelihoods are dependent on subsistence and small-holder agriculture and employment in the informal sector, including forest and common property resources, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2005 | ||
Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 1g | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Respect, preserve and promote, where appropriate, the traditional knowledge of indigenous women with respect to medicine, including the conservation of their vital medicinal plants, animals and minerals; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Preventing and eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace 2017, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing also that sexual harassment may amount to discrimination on the basis of sex, reflects and reinforces discriminatory social attitudes and gender stereotypes, is an abuse of human rights and an affront to a worker’s dignity and prevents women from making a contribution commensurate with their abilities, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work 2017, para. 40 (u) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Work towards establishing or strengthening inclusive and gender-responsive social protection systems, including floors, to ensure full access to social protection for all without discrimination of any kind, and take measures to progressively achieve higher levels of protection, including facilitating the transition from informal to formal work; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2017 | ||
Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work 2017, para. 40 (r) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Promote decent paid care and domestic work for women and men in the public and private sectors by providing social protection, safe working conditions and equal pay for equal work or work of equal value, thereby facilitating the transition of informal workers, including those engaged in informal paid care and domestic work, into the formal economy; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2017 | ||
Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work 2017, para. 40 (p) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Take concrete steps towards eliminating the practice of gender-based price differentiation, also known as the "pink tax", whereby goods and services intended for or marketed to women and girls cost more than similar goods and services intended for or marketed to men and boys; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2017 | ||
Women's empowerment and the link to sustainable development 2016, para. 23t | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Commission [...] urges Governments, at all levels [...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening normative, legal and policy frameworks]: Fully engage men and boys, including community leaders, as strategic partners and allies in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls in both the public and private spheres, design and implement national policies and programmes that address the role and responsibility of men and boys and aim to ensure the equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men in caregiving and domestic work, transform with the aim to eliminate those social norms that condone violence against women and girls and attitudes and social norms by which women and girls are regarded as subordinate to men and boys, including by understanding and addressing the root causes of gender inequality, such as unequal power relations, social norms, practices and stereotypes that perpetuate discrimination against women and girls, and engage them in efforts to promote and achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls for the benefit of both women and men, girls and boys; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2016 | ||
Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls 2014, para. 21 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Commission notes that with regard to Millennium Development Goal 3 (promoting gender equality and empowering women), progress has been slow, with persistent gender disparities in some regions in secondary and tertiary education enrolment; the lack of economic empowerment, autonomy and independence for women, including a lack of integration into the formal economy, unequal access to full and productive employment and decent work, underrepresentation in non-agricultural wage employment, overrepresentation in low paid jobs and gender-stereotyped jobs like domestic and care work, and the lack of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value; the unequal burden of unpaid care work and insufficient measures to reconcile paid work and care responsibilities; the persistence of discriminatory attitudes, norms, stereotypes and legal frameworks; insufficient social protection and insurance coverage for women; and, despite progress, the low proportion and unequal participation and representation of women at all levels of decision-making, including in national parliaments and other governance structures. | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2014 | ||
The girl child 1998, para. d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Actions to be taken by Governments, civil society and the United Nations system, as appropriate:] Develop and implement national legislation and policies prohibiting customary or traditional practices that are violations of women's human rights and obstacles to the full enjoyment by women of their human rights and fundamental freedoms and prosecute the perpetrators of practices that are harmful to the health of women and girls; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 1998 | ||
Human rights of women 1998, para. g | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Actions to be taken by Governments, non-governmental organizations, employers, trade unions, the private sector and other actors in civil society, as appropriate:] Eradicate customary or traditional practices, particularly female genital mutilation, that are harmful to, or discriminatory against, women and that are violations of women's human rights and fundamental freedoms, through the design and implementation of awareness-raising programmes, education and training; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 1998 | ||
Human rights of women 1998, para. f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Actions to be taken by Governments, non-governmental organizations, employers, trade unions, the private sector and other actors in civil society, as appropriate:] Develop and implement national legislation and policies prohibiting customary and traditional practices that are harmful to women and that are violations of women's human rights; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 1998 | ||
Violence against women 1998, para. g | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Actions to be taken by Governments and civil society, including non-governmental organizations:] Raise awareness and mobilize public opinion to eliminate female genital mutilation and other harmful traditional, cultural or customary practices that violate the human rights of women and girls and negatively affect their health; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 1998 | ||
Violence against women 1998, para. m | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Actions to be taken by Governments:] Develop and implement national legislation and policies prohibiting harmful customary or traditional practices that are violations of women's and girls' human rights and obstacles to the full enjoyment by women and girls of their human rights and fundamental freedoms; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 1998 | ||
Child and dependant care, including sharing of work and family responsibilities 1996, para. 12j | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Action is needed to:] (j) Encourage social security regimes to take into account the time spent by working men and women on child and dependant care. | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2016, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stressing that gender equality and the political, civil, social, economic and cultural empowerment of women and girls, as well as the full and equal enjoyment of their human rights and fundamental freedoms, are fundamental in the eradication of poverty and the achievement of sustainable development, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 22 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests Governments to promote and provide equal and equitable access for all persons without discrimination, throughout their life cycle, to social services related to health care, safe drinking water and safe sanitation, nutrition, food security, education programmes, including HIV prevention programmes, and social protection schemes, especially for women and girls living with or affected by HIV and AIDS; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 1b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Urges States to:] Support the economic activities of indigenous women, in consultation with them and taking into account their traditional knowledge, so as to improve their situation and development, in particular by enhancing their equal access to productive resources and agricultural inputs, such as land, seeds, financial services, technology, transportation and information; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Women's economic empowerment 2010, para. 25 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that women's poverty and lack of empowerment, as well as their exclusion from social policies and from the benefits of sustainable development, can place them at increased risk of violence, and that violence against women impedes the social and economic development of societies and States, as well as the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
Women's economic empowerment 2010, para. 24 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting that the costs of unequal sharing of responsibilities include weaker labour market attachment for women (forfeited job, shorter working hours, confinement to informal work and lower wages), weaker access to social security benefits, and less time for education/training, leisure, self-care and political activities, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
Women's economic empowerment 2010, para. 17 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Bearing in mind that despite the increase of women's access to economic opportunities, hundreds of millions of women are dependent on subsistence and smallholder agriculture and employment in the informal sector, where they are more likely to have low-paid jobs, with limited or no social protection and deficient protection of their labour rights, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Women's economic empowerment 2010, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Concerned that women's economic empowerment is constrained by gender inequalities and disparities in economic power-sharing, unequal distribution of unremunerated work between women and men, lack of technological and financial support for women's entrepreneurship, unequal access to, and control over, capital, particularly land and credit and access to labour markets, as well as all harmful traditional and customary practices, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Ending female genital mutilation 2010, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that negative discriminatory stereotypical attitudes and behaviours have direct implications for the status and treatment of women and girls and that such negative stereotypes impede the implementation of legislative and normative frameworks that guarantee gender equality and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
Forced marriage of the girl child 2007, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that early marriage and early childbearing continue to be impediments to improvements in the educational, economic and social status of women in all parts of the world, and that early motherhood can severely curtail their educational and employment opportunities and is likely to have a long-term, adverse impact on the quality of their lives and the lives of their children, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2007, para. 15 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests Governments to provide equal access for women and men throughout their life cycle to social services related to health care, including education, clean water and safe sanitation, nutrition, food security and health education programmes, especially for women and girls living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, including treatment for opportunistic diseases; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2006, para. 15 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests Governments to ensure the provision of equal access for women and men throughout their life cycle to social services related to health care, including education, clean water and safe sanitation, nutrition, food security and health education programmes, especially for women and girls living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, including treatment for opportunistic diseases; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Economic advancement for women 2005, para. 16 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that women's social and economic marginalization and unequal rights can hamper their ability to fully and effectively participate in the economic life of their communities and societies and that they may need special support and legal empowerment in order to address the challenges and take full advantage of the opportunities of globalization and market liberalization, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Indigenous women: beyond the ten-year review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 2005, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Welcoming the fact that the theme of the third session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues focused on indigenous women, and taking note of the recommendations, which emphasize equality, non-discrimination, the diversity of cultural identities and social organization of indigenous women and girls, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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