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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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The girl child 2013, para. 21 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
| 2013 | |||
Working towards the elimination of crimes against women and girls committed in the name of honour 2000, para. 4d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon all States:] To establish, strengthen or facilitate, where possible, support services to respond to the needs of actual and potential victims by, inter alia, providing for them the appropriate protection, safe shelter, counselling, legal aid, rehabilitation and reintegration into society; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
| 2000 | |||
The girl child 2017, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
| 2017 | |||
The girl child 2015, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
| 2015 | |||
The girl child 2013, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
| 2013 | |||
The girl child 2011, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
| 2011 | |||
The girl child 2009, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
| 2009 | |||
Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Welcoming in particular the efforts of States, United Nations bodies and agencies and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to combat trafficking in persons, especially women and children, including the implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 64/293 of 30 July 2010, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Women in development 2015, para. 14 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming the importance of supporting the African Union's Agenda 2063, as well as its 10-year plan of action, as a strategic framework for ensuring a positive socioeconomic transformation in Africa within the next 50 years, and its continental programme, embedded in the resolutions of the General Assembly on the New Partnership for Africa's Development, and regional initiatives, which promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Trafficking in women and girls 2014, para. 22 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges Governments to develop age-appropriate educational and training programmes and policies aimed at preventing sex tourism and trafficking, giving special emphasis to the protection of young women and children; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Welcoming the adoption of the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants, entitled the "New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants", in which it recognized that refugees and migrants in large movements are at greater risk of being trafficked and of being subjected to forced labour, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas 2015, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests the relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, in particular those dealing with issues of development, to address and support the empowerment of rural women and their specific needs in their programmes and strategies; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas 2015, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Invites the Commission on the Status of Women to give consideration to the issue of the empowerment of rural women in a timely and appropriate manner; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Encourages the Commission on the Status of Women to consider the issue of trafficking in women and girls at its sixty-first session, within the framework of the priority theme for 2017, "Women's economic empowerment in the changing world of work"; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 14 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting the renewal by the Human Rights Council, at its twenty-sixth session, of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, and the fact that part of her task is to integrate a gender- and age-specific perspective throughout the work of her mandate, inter alia, through the identification of gender- and age-specific vulnerabilities in relation to the issue of trafficking in persons, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 16 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Bearing in mind the obligations of States to exercise due diligence to prevent trafficking in persons, to investigate and punish perpetrators of trafficking in persons and to protect and empower victims, and that not doing so violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the victims, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls 2014, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling also the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework, including the responsibility of business enterprises to respect human rights, bearing in mind the different risks that may be faced by women and men, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Trafficking in women and girls 2014, para. 20 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges Governments to strengthen measures to eliminate sex tourism demand, especially for children, through all possible preventive actions, including legislative measures and other relevant policies and programmes; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Welcoming, in the agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women at its sixtieth session, the commitment of Governments to ensure that the rights and specific needs of women and girls affected and displaced by trafficking in persons are addressed in national and international plans, strategies and responses, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls 2014, para. 28 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences to present an annual report to the General Assembly at its seventieth and seventy-first sessions; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Trafficking in women and girls 2014, para. 19 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing the heightened vulnerability to trafficking of women and girls in humanitarian crisis situations, including in conflict and post-conflict environments, natural disasters and other emergency environments, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls 2014, para. 26 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Acknowledges the work of the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat, as requested by the Statistical Commission, on the development of guidelines to support the production by Member States of statistics on violence against women and girls; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas 2015, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Encourages Member States, United Nations entities and all other relevant stakeholders to promote access to social protection for female-headed rural households; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing the importance of a revitalized global partnership to ensure the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, including the implementation of the goals and targets related to ending violence against women and girls and human trafficking, and in this regard taking note with appreciation of Alliance 8.7 and of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 17 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Seriously concerned that an increasing number of women and girls are being trafficked, including to developed countries, as well as within and between regions and States, and recognizing that trafficking in persons disproportionately affects women and girls and that men and boys are also victims of trafficking, including for sexual exploitation, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 23 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing further the need to reinforce efforts regarding the provision of relevant documents, such as birth registration documents, in order to lower the risk of being trafficked and to help to identify victims of trafficking in persons, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula 2016, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon States to take all measures necessary to ensure the right of women and girls to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, including sexual and reproductive health, and reproductive rights, in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development,3 the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences, and to develop sustainable health systems and social services with a view to ensuring universal access to such systems and services without discrimination, while paying special attention to adequate food and nutrition, water and sanitation, family planning information, increasing women's empowerment, knowledge and awareness and ensuring equitable access to high-quality appropriate prenatal and delivery care for the prevention of obstetric fistula and the reduction of health inequities, as well as postnatal care for the detection and early management of fistula cases; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula 2016, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges multilateral donors, international financial institutions and regional development banks in the public and private sectors, within their respective mandates, to review and implement policies to support national efforts and institutional capacity-building to end obstetric fistula and to ensure that a higher proportion of resources reach young women and girls, in particular in rural and remote areas and the poorest urban areas, as well as to ensure that needed funding is increased, predictable and sustained; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Women in development 2015, para. 14 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges the donor community, Member States, international organizations, including the United Nations, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, trade unions and other stakeholders to strengthen the focus and impact of development assistance targeting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls through gender mainstreaming, the funding of targeted activities and enhanced dialogue between donors and partners, and to also strengthen the mechanisms needed to measure effectively the resources allocated to incorporating gender perspectives in all areas of development assistance; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Women in development 2015, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming that the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls will make a crucial contribution to progress across all the Sustainable Development Goals and targets, that the achievement of full human potential and of sustainable development is not possible if one half of humanity continues to be denied its full human rights and opportunities, that women and girls must enjoy equal access to quality education, economic resources and political participation, as well as equal opportunities with men and boys for employment, leadership and decision-making at all levels, that it will work for a significant increase in investments to close the gender gap and strengthen support for institutions in relation to gender equality and the empowerment of women at the global, regional and national levels, that all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls will be eliminated, including through the engagement of men and boys, and that the systematic mainstreaming of a gender perspective in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is crucial, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 |