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The right to development 2016, para. 28 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Emphasizing that all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to development, are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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Rights of the child 2016, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming the importance of its resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989, by which it adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which constitutes the standard in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, reaffirming also that States parties to the Convention shall undertake all appropriate legislative, administrative and other measures for the implementation of the rights recognized therein, while bearing in mind the importance of the Optional Protocols to the Convention and calling for their universal ratification and effective implementation, as well as that of other human rights instruments, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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Human rights and extreme poverty 2016, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 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 and all other human rights instruments adopted by the United Nations, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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Human rights in the administration of justice 2016, para. 15 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Emphasizing that the right to access to justice for all forms an important basis for strengthening the rule of law through the administration of justice, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The right to privacy in the digital age 2016, para. 22 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting in particular that surveillance of digital communications must be consistent with international human rights obligations and must be conducted on the basis of a legal framework, which must be publicly accessible, clear, precise, comprehensive and non-discriminatory, and that any interference with the right to privacy must not be arbitrary or unlawful, bearing in mind what is reasonable to the pursuance of legitimate aims, and recalling that States that are parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights must undertake the necessary steps to adopt laws or other measures as may be necessary to give effect to the rights recognized in the Covenant, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The right to food 2016, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling also the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in which the fundamental right of every person to be free from hunger is recognized, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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Human rights and extreme poverty 2016, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Acknowledging the significant progress made in several parts of the world in combating extreme poverty, however, deeply concerned that extreme poverty persists in all countries of the world, regardless of their economic, social and cultural situation, and is particularly severe in developing countries, and that it extends to and manifests itself in, among other things, social exclusion, hunger, vulnerability to trafficking in persons, disease, lack of adequate shelter, illiteracy and hopelessness, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The right to food 2016, para. 17 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stressing also that improving access to productive resources and investment in rural development is essential for eradicating hunger and poverty, in particular in developing countries, through, inter alia, the promotion of investments in appropriate small-scale irrigation and water management technologies in order to reduce vulnerability to droughts and tackle water scarcity, as well as in programmes, practices and policies to scale up agroecological approaches, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The right to development 2016, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The right to development 2016, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming the objective of making the right to development a reality for everyone, as set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, adopted by the General Assembly on 8 September 2000, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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Rights of the child 2016, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming that States have the primary responsibility to respect, promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the rights of the child, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The right to food 2016, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming the Charter of the United Nations and its importance for the promotion and protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The right to food 2016, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming also all previous resolutions and decisions on the right to food adopted within the framework of the United Nations, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The right to food 2016, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which provides that everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for her or his health and well-being, including food, the Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition, the United Nations Millennium Declaration, in particular Millennium Development Goal 1 on eradicating extreme poverty and hunger by 2015, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in particular the Sustainable Development Goals on ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture and on ending poverty in all its forms everywhere, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The right to food 2016, para. 14 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing also the complex character of the global food crisis, in which the right to adequate food has been threatened to be violated on a substantial scale, as a combination of several major factors, such as the effects of the global financial and economic crisis, environmental degradation, desertification and the impacts of global climate change, as well as natural disasters and the lack in many countries of the appropriate technology, investment and capacity-building necessary to confront its impact, particularly in developing countries, least developed countries and small island developing States, and the need for coherence and collaboration between international institutions at the global level, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The right to food 2016, para. 15 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Resolved to act to ensure that the human rights perspective is taken into account at the national, regional and international levels in measures to address the realization of the right to food, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The right to food 2016, para. 16 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stressing the possible benefits of international trade to improve food and nutrition availability, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The right to food 2016, para. 11 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reiterating, as set out in the Rome Declaration on World Food Security, the Declaration of the World Food Summit and the Rome Declaration on Nutrition, that food should not be used as an instrument of political or economic pressure, and reaffirming in this regard the importance of international cooperation and solidarity, as well as the necessity of refraining from unilateral measures that are not in accordance with international law and the Charter and that endanger food and nutrition security, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The right to development 2016, para. 27 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing further that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is one of the critical elements in the promotion and realization of the right to development and is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, which requires a multifaceted and integrated approach, and committed to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions - economic, social and environmental - in a balanced and integrated manner, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The right to development 2016, para. 23 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing also that Member States should cooperate with one another in ensuring development and eliminating obstacles to development, that the international community should promote effective international cooperation, in particular to revitalize a global partnership for development, for the realization of the right to development and the elimination of obstacles to development and that lasting progress towards the implementation of the right to development requires effective development policies at the national level, as well as equitable economic relations and a favourable economic environment at the international level, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The right to development 2016, para. 24 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing further that poverty is an affront to human dignity, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The right to privacy in the digital age 2016, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming the human right to privacy, according to which no one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy, family, home or correspondence, and the right to the protection of the law against such interference, and recognizing that the exercise of the right to privacy is important for the realization of the right to freedom of expression and to hold opinions without interference and the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, and is one of the foundations of a democratic society, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 16 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Welcoming the efforts of the United Nations system to end female genital mutilation, in particular the commitment of 10 United Nations entities, announced in their joint inter-agency statement of 27 February 2008 on eliminating female genital mutilation, as well as the Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Change of the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Children's Fund, to accelerate the elimination of the practice, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The right to privacy in the digital age 2016, para. 21 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online, including the right to privacy, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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Rights of the child 2016, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming further the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which proclaims that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set out therein, without distinction of any kind, including that everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State and the right to leave any country, including his or her own, and to return to his or her country, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The right to food 2016, para. 13 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that, despite the efforts made and the fact that some positive results have been achieved, the problems of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition have a global dimension, that there has not been sufficient progress in reducing hunger and that these problems could increase dramatically in some regions unless urgent, determined and concerted action is taken, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The right to food 2016, para. 20 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Emphasizing that a multisectoral approach that integrates nutrition across all sectors, including agriculture, health, water and sanitation, social protection and education, as well as a gender perspective, is critical to achieving global food and nutrition security and the realization of the right to food, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The right to food 2016, para. 27 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing the role of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as the key United Nations agency for rural and agricultural development and its work in supporting the efforts of Member States to achieve the full realization of the right to food, including through its provision of technical assistance to developing countries in support of the implementation of national priority frameworks, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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The right to food 2016, para. 28 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled "The future we want", and recalling the commitment therein to work together to promote sustained and inclusive economic growth, social development and environmental protection and thereby to benefit all, endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution 66/288 of 27 July 2012, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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