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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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Women in development 2015, para. 28 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that women and girls are often disproportionately affected by desertification, deforestation, natural disasters and climate change owing to gender inequalities and the dependence of many women on natural resources for their livelihoods, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 24 | 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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| 2016 | ||
Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls 2014, para. 20j | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Urges States to continue to develop their national strategies, translating them into concrete programmes and actions and a more systematic, comprehensive, multisectoral and sustained approach, aimed at eliminating all forms of violence against women, including by achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and keeping in view the responsibility of States to exercise due diligence to prevent, protect against and investigate all acts of violence against women, by, for example:] Also ensuring the systematic collection, analysis and dissemination of data disaggregated by sex and age to monitor all forms of violence against women and girls, including on the effectiveness of preventive and protective measures, with the involvement of national statistical offices and, where appropriate, in partnership with other actors, including law enforcement agencies, in order to effectively review and implement laws, policies, strategies and preventive and protective measures, while ensuring and maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of the victims; | 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. 20v | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Urges States to continue to develop their national strategies, translating them into concrete programmes and actions and a more systematic, comprehensive, multisectoral and sustained approach, aimed at eliminating all forms of violence against women, including by achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and keeping in view the responsibility of States to exercise due diligence to prevent, protect against and investigate all acts of violence against women, by, for example:] Taking effective measures, as appropriate, to prevent the requirement for victim consent from becoming an impediment to bringing perpetrators of violence against women and girls to justice, while ensuring that criminal justice processes are gender-sensitive and that appropriate safeguards and measures to protect women facing or subjected to violence, such as restraining and expulsion orders against the perpetrators, testimonial aids and adequate and comprehensive measures for the rehabilitation and reintegration of victims of violence into society, are in place; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
The rights of the child 2007, para. 57o | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Urges all States:] To ensure that all victims of violence have access to appropriate child-sensitive health and social services; special attention should be paid to the gender-specific needs of girls and boys who are victims of violence; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
Trafficking in women and girls 2014, para. 18 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing further that poverty, unemployment, lack of socioeconomic opportunities, gender-based violence, discrimination and marginalization are some of the contributing factors that make persons vulnerable to trafficking, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Trafficking in women and girls 2012, para. 16 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing further that poverty, unemployment, lack of socioeconomic opportunities, gender-based violence, discrimination and marginalization are some of the contributing factors that make persons vulnerable to trafficking, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 2000, para. 72g | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Adopt, enact, review and revise, where necessary or appropriate, and implement health legislation, policies and programmes, in consultation with women's organizations and other actors of civil society, and allocate the necessary budgetary resources to ensure the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, so that all women have full and equal access to comprehensive, high-quality and affordable health care, information, education and services throughout their life cycle; reflect the new demands for service and care by women and girls as a result of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and new knowledge about women's needs for specific mental and occupation health programmes and for the ageing process; and protect and promote human rights by ensuring that all health services and workers conform to ethical, professional and gender-sensitive standards in the delivery of women's health services, including by establishing or strengthening, as appropriate, regulatory and enforcement mechanisms; | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 2000 | ||
Sustainable Development Summit: Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 2015, para. 20 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Realizing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls will make a crucial contribution to progress across all the Goals and targets. 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. 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. We 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. All forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls will be eliminated, including through the engagement of men and boys. The systematic mainstreaming of a gender perspective in the implementation of the Agenda is crucial. | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 2015 | ||
Sustainable Development Summit: Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 2015, para. 20 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Realizing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls will make a crucial contribution to progress across all the Goals and targets. 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. 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. We 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. All forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls will be eliminated, including through the engagement of men and boys. The systematic mainstreaming of a gender perspective in the implementation of the Agenda is crucial. | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 2015 | ||
The girl child 1999, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges all States to fulfil their obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women as well as the commitment to implement the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 1999 | ||
Women in development 2017, para. 16 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Underlining that, globally, the gross domestic product growth rate could increase significantly if every country achieved gender equality, and recognizing that the economic and social losses owing to a lack of progress in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are significant, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Women in development 2017, para. 13 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Taking note of the reports of the High-level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, which outline the transformative impact of unlocking the potential of women and girls to participate in the economy and achieve financial independence in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas 2017, para. 2ee | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Urges Member States, in collaboration with the organizations of the United Nations system and civil society, as appropriate, to continue their efforts to implement the outcome of and to ensure an integrated and coordinated follow-up to the relevant United Nations conferences and summits, including their reviews, and to attach greater importance to the improvement of the situation of rural women and girls in their national, regional and global development strategies by, inter alia:] Designing, revising and implementing laws to ensure that rural women are accorded full and equal rights to own and lease land and other property, including through the equal rights to economic and productive resources, access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including banking and microfinancing, and undertaking administrative reforms and all necessary measures to give women the same right as men to credit, capital, finance, appropriate technologies and vocational training, to improve access to markets and information and to ensure their equal access to justice and legal support; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Women in development 2015, para. 37 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges all Governments to eliminate discrimination against women and girls in the field of education and to ensure their equal access to, and encourage their participation in, all levels of education, including technical, vocational and tertiary education and training; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Women in development 2015, para. 20 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stresses the need to eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in public and private spaces, and encourages Member States to adopt specific preventive measures to protect women, youth and children from any abuse, including sexual abuse, exploitation, trafficking and violence; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 2000, para. 32 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Achievements. Some progress was made in primary and, to a lesser extent, secondary and tertiary education for girls, owing to the creation of a more gender-sensitive school environment, improved educational infrastructure, increased enrolment and retention, support mechanisms for pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, increased non-formal education opportunities and enhanced attendance at science and technology classes. Increased attention was given to the health of the girl child, including the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents. An increasing number of countries introduced legislation to ban female genital mutilation and imposed heavier penalties on those involved in sexual abuse, trafficking and all other forms of exploitation of the girl child, including for commercial ends. A recent achievement has been the adoption of the optional protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on involvement of children in armed conflict and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 2000 | ||
Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas 2015, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its seventy-second session on the implementation of the present resolution. | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls 2015, para. 19 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its seventy-second session on the implementation of the present resolution. | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls 2015, para. 13 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Expressing appreciation for the work undertaken by the United Nations system in preventing and responding to all forms of violence against women and girls, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls 2015, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling further its resolution 69/147 of 18 December 2014 on the intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Child, early and forced marriage 2016, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon States to promote and protect the right of women and girls to equal access to education through enhanced emphasis on free and quality primary and secondary education, including catch-up and literacy education for those who have not received formal education or have left school early, including because of marriage and/or childbearing, which empowers young women and girls to make informed decisions about their lives, employment, economic opportunities and health, including through scientifically accurate, age-appropriate comprehensive education, relevant to cultural contexts, that provides adolescent girls and boys and young women and men, in and out of school, consistent with their evolving capacities, with information on sexual and reproductive health, gender equality and the empowerment of women, human rights, physical, psychological and pubertal development and power in relationships between women and men, to enable them to build self-esteem and informed decision-making, communication and risk reduction skills and to develop respectful relationships, in full partnership with young persons, parents, legal guardians, caregivers, educators and health-care providers, in order to contribute to ending child, early and forced marriage; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls 2013, para. 17 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its seventieth session on the implementation of the present resolution. | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls 2013, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges Member States, acting at all levels, to end impunity by ensuring accountability and punishing perpetrators of those heinous crimes against women and girls; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls 2013, para. 19 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming the commitment to working together to put an end to such crimes, in full compliance with international and national legal instruments, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls 2013, para. 15 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Expressing its appreciation for the work undertaken by the United Nations system in preventing and responding to all forms of violence against women and girls, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls 2013, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling the relevant General Assembly resolutions addressing various aspects of violence against women and girls of all ages, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls 2013, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Deeply concerned that the global prevalence of different manifestations of the gender-related killing of women and girls is reaching alarming proportions, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
The girl child 2013, para. 20 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Also calls upon States to include an integrated approach in supporting and empowering child-headed households, given the mental and psychosocial trauma, stigma and physical and economic stress children may experience as a result of becoming heads of households at a very young age; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
The right to education in emergency situations 2010, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Also urges Member States, in their support for education, to specifically address the gender-specific needs of girls in emergency contexts, including their increased vulnerability to gender-based violence; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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