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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 human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 4i | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon States:] To enhance efforts to substantially reduce the share of untreated wastewater released into the environment and to ensure that plans and programmes for improving sanitation services take into account the need for appropriate systems for the treatment of sewage produced, including disposal of infant faeces, with the aim of reducing the risks to human health, drinking water resources and the environment; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
The rights of the child 2015, para. 17 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Deeply concerned also that approximately 6 million children under the age of 5 die each year, mostly from preventable and treatable causes, owing to inadequate or lack of access to integrated and quality maternal, newborn and child health care and services, to early childbearing, as well as lack of access to health determinants, such as safe drinking water and sanitation, safe and adequate food and nutrition, including breastfeeding, and that mortality remains highest among children belonging to the poorest and most marginalized communities, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
The rights of the child 2008, para. 24f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon States:] To design and implement programmes to provide social services and support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular by enabling them and also the adolescent fathers to continue and complete their education; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The rights of the child 2008, para. 24a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon States:] To take all necessary measures to ensure the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to develop sustainable health systems and social services, ensuring access to such systems and services without discrimination, paying special attention to adequate food and nutrition and combating disease and malnutrition, to access to safe drinking water and sanitation, to the special needs of male and female adolescents and to reproductive and sexual health, and securing appropriate prenatal and post-natal care for mothers, including measures to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and in this context to realize the millennium development goals aimed at reducing child mortality, improving maternal health and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The rights of the child 2008, para. 47b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Also calls upon all States to give attention to the impact of parental detention and imprisonment on children and, in particular:] To identify and promote good practices in relation to the needs and physical, emotional, social and psychological development of babies and children affected by parental detention and imprisonment; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The rights of the child 2008, para. 25 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Expresses grave concern at the worsening of the world food crisis, which seriously undermines the realization of the right to food for all, including mothers and children, and also expresses grave concern that this crisis threatens to further undermine the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and stresses that solutions need a comprehensive and multifaceted approach requiring short-, medium- and long-term and sustained actions; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2008 | ||
The rights of the child 2007, para. 26a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon States:] To take all necessary measures to ensure the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to develop sustainable health systems and social services, ensuring access to such systems and services without discrimination, paying special attention to adequate food and nutrition and combating disease and malnutrition, to access to safe drinking water and sanitation, to the special needs of male and female adolescents and to reproductive and sexual health, and securing appropriate prenatal and post-natal care for mothers, including measures to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and in this context to realize millennium development goals 4, 5 and 6; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The rights of the child 2007, para. 26f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon States:] To design and implement programmes to provide social services and support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular by enabling them and also the adolescent fathers to continue and complete their education; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The rights of the child 2006, para. 12a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Urges all States to intensify their efforts in order to ensure the implementation of the right of the child to birth registration, preservation of identity, including nationality, and family relations, as recognized by law, by:] Providing, at minimal cost, simplified, expeditious and effective procedures for birth registration; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The rights of the child 2006, para. 12b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Urges all States to intensify their efforts in order to ensure the implementation of the right of the child to birth registration, preservation of identity, including nationality, and family relations, as recognized by law, by:] Raising awareness at the national, regional and local levels, whenever necessary, of the importance of birth registration; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The rights of the child 2006, para. 21b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Also calls upon all States:] To design and implement programmes to provide social services and support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular by enabling them to continue and complete their education; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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ICCPR - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. Every child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have a name. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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ICESCR - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966, para. 2a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [2. The steps to be taken by the States Parties to the present Covenant to achieve the full realization of this right shall include those necessary for:] (a) The provision for the reduction of the stillbirth-rate and of infant mortality and for the healthy development of the child; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness 1961, para. 1b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. A Contracting State shall grant its nationality to a person, not born in the territory of a Contracting State, who would otherwise be stateless, if the nationality of one of his parents at the time of the person's birth was that of that State. If his parents did not possess the same nationality at the time of his birth, the question whether the nationality of the person concerned should follow that of the father or that of the mother shall be determined by the national law of such Contracting State. Nationality granted in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph shall be granted: (b) Upon an application being lodged with the appropriate authority, by or on behalf of the person concerned, in the manner prescribed by the national law. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 of this article, no such application may be rejected. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness 1961, para. 1a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. A Contracting State shall grant its nationality to a person, not born in the territory of a Contracting State, who would otherwise be stateless, if the nationality of one of his parents at the time of the person's birth was that of that State. If his parents did not possess the same nationality at the time of his birth, the question whether the nationality of the person concerned should follow that of the father or that of the mother shall be determined by the national law of such Contracting State. Nationality granted in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph shall be granted: (a) At birth, by operation of law, or | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness 1961, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 1 (b) and 2 of this article, a child born in wedlock in the territory of a Contracting State, whose mother has the nationality of that State, shall acquire at birth that nationality if it otherwise would be stateless. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness 1961, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. If, under the law of a Contracting State, a child born out of wedlock loses the nationality of that State in consequence of a recognition of affiliation, he shall be given an opportunity to recover that nationality by written application to the appropriate authority, and the conditions governing such application shall not be more rigorous than those laid down in paragraph 2 of article 1 of this Convention. | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | (2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection. | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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