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Commodities (2016), para. 20 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Recognizing the adverse impact of excessive price volatility of commodities, especially on women and girls, |
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Rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities (2018), para. 12 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Recognizing that young women and girls belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities may often face particular challenges, and underlining in this context the importance of taking a gender-sensitive approach when considering measures to promote and protect the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, |
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Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace (2017), para. 36 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 7. Further encourages Member States to leverage sport and physical education policies and programmes to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls; |
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: engaging men and boys in preventing and responding to violence against all women and girls (2017), para. 22 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 1. Expresses outrage at the persistence and pervasiveness of all forms of violence against women and girls worldwide; |
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The girl child (2010), para. 26 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Recognizing that early childbearing continues to be an impediment to the improvement of the educational and social status of girls in all parts of the world and that, overall, child and forced marriages and early motherhood can severely curtail their educational opportunities and are likely to have a long-term, adverse impact on their employment opportunities and on their and their children’s quality of life, |
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019), para. 11 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Recognizing that female genital mutilation is inherently linked to deep -rooted harmful stereotypes, negative social norms, perceptions and customs on the part of both women and men that threaten the physical and psychological integrity of women and girls, and that are obstacles to their full enjoyment of human rights, and acknowledging in this regard that awareness-raising is critical, |
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Addressing the impact of multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence in the context of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance on the full enjoyment of all human rights by women and girls (2016), para. 12 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Emphasizing the importance and the need that States take measures to protect all women and girls from discrimination and violence in the context of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, and to ensure their meaningful participation in decision-making at all levels, |
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Sustainable mountain development (2020), para. 18 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Reaffirming that gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls will make a crucial contribution to progress across all the Sustainable Development Goals and targets, and that the achievement of full human potential and sustainable development is not possible if one half of humanity continues to be denied full human rights and opportunities, |
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Elimination of discrimination against women (2014), para. 10 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Bearing in mind the challenges still faced by all countries throughout the world to overcome inequality between men and women, and the need to intensify efforts to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls throughout the world, |
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The girl child (2014), para. 76 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 42. Calls upon States to ensure that social protection programmes, including HIV-sensitive programmes, are provided to orphans and other vulnerable children, with particular attention to addressing the needs and vulnerabilities of girl children and protecting their rights; |
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Equal pay (2019), para. 10 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Recognizing that progress on the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls has been held back owing to the persistence of historical and structural unequal power relations between women and men, poverty and inequalities and disadvantages in access to resources and opportunities that limit women’s and girls’ capabilities, and growing gaps in equality of opportunity, discriminatory laws, policies, negative social norms, attitudes, harmful practices and gender stereotypes, |
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The situation in Afghanistan (2010), para. 048 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 36. Acknowledges the efforts of the Government of Afghanistan in promoting respect for human rights, notes with concern reports of continued violations of human rights and of international humanitarian law, including violent or discriminatory practices, violations committed against persons belonging to ethnic and religious minorities, as well as against women and children, in particular girls, stresses the need to promote tolerance and religious freedom as guaranteed by the Afghan Constitution, emphasizes the necessity of investigating allegations of current and past violations, and stresses the importance of facilitating the provision of efficient and effective remedies to the victims and of bringing the perpetrators to justice in accordance with national and international law; |
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Human rights and indigenous peoples (2012), para. 15 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 6. Stresses the need to pay particular attention to the rights and special needs of indigenous women and girls, as set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including in the process of protecting and promoting indigenous peoples languages and culture; |
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Question of human rights in Afghanistan (2002), para. 48 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (g) Respect for the effective and equal access of women and girls to the facilities necessary to protect their right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; |
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2008), para. 11 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 1. Recognizes the interlinkages between poverty, malnutrition, lack of or inadequate or inaccessible health services, early childbearing, early marriage of the girl child and gender discrimination as root causes of obstetric fistula, that poverty remains the main social risk factor, that the eradication of poverty is critical to meeting the needs and protecting and promoting the rights of girls and that continued urgent national and international action is required to eliminate it; |
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2019), para. 50 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 20. Reaffirms the importance of effective accountability with regard to violence against indigenous women and girls, including sexual violence, abuse and exploitation, and of taking adequate measures to prevent and eliminate such violence; |
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Scope, modalities, format and organization of the high-level meeting on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women (2019), para. 19 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 10. Invites the United Nations system, including funds, programmes and specialized agencies, regional commissions and relevant envoys of the Secretary- General, to participate in the high-level meeting of the General Assembly, as appropriate, and urges them to consider initiatives in support of the preparatory process and the high-level meeting of the Assembly, particularly with regard to sharing good practices, challenges, lessons learned and urgent actions that need to be taken for the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls; |
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Violence against women migrant workers (2020), para. 54 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 12. Urges States to adopt or develop and implement legislation and policies, in accordance with their commitments and obligations under international law, to prevent and respond to gender-related killing of women and girls, including femicide, while taking into account the particular difficulties faced by women migrant workers in accessing justice; |
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Women in development (2009), para. 37 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 14. Expresses deep concern about the pervasiveness of violence against women and girls, reiterates the need to further intensify efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, and recognizes that violence against women and girls is one of the obstacles to the achievement of the objectives of equality, development and peace and that women’s poverty and the lack of political, social and economic empowerment, as well as their marginalization, may result from their exclusion from social policies for and benefits of sustainable development and can place them at increased risk of violence; |
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 05 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Recalling also General Assembly resolution 71/168 of 19 December 2016, on intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation, and all other relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Commission on the Status of Women and the Human Rights Council on measures to eliminate traditional practices that are detrimental to the rights of women and girls, |
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences (2019), para. 08 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Deeply concerned that the global estimate of the number of people subjected to contemporary forms of slavery is 40.3 million, of which 28.7 million are women and girls and one in four are children, 2 |
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Traffic in women and girls (2001), para. 08 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Reaffirming that sexual violence and trafficking in women and girls for purposes of economic exploitation, sexual exploitation through prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation and contemporary forms of slavery are serious violations of human rights, |
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Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2009), para. 35 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (o) Eliminating gender inequalities, gender-based abuse and violence; increasing the capacity of women and adolescent girls to protect themselves from the risk of HIV infection, principally through the provision of health care and services, including sexual and reproductive health, and the provision of full access to comprehensive information and education; ensuring that women can exercise their right to have control over, and decide freely and responsibly on, matters related to their sexuality in order to increase their ability to protect themselves from HIV infection, including their sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence; and taking all necessary measures to create an enabling environment for the empowerment of women and to strengthen their economic independence, while, in this context, reiterating the importance of the role of men and boys in achieving gender equality; |
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Women, disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control (2014), para. 14 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 4. Encourages Member States to better understand the impact of armed violence, in particular the impact of the illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons on women and girls, through, inter alia, strengthening the collection of data disaggregated by sex and age; |
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2016), para. 31 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 8. Underlines the importance of an effective remedy for violations of economic, social and cultural rights, including the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, and in this regard of judicial, quasi-judicial and other appropriate remedies, including procedures initiated by or on behalf of individuals or, as appropriate, groups of individuals, and of adequate procedures to avoid infringements of such rights with a view to ensuring justice for all for violations in the context of the realization of the rights to water and sanitation as components of the right to an adequate standard of living, including taking the measures necessary to ensure that women and girls and persons at risk have equal access to effective remedies; |
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Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2010), para. 31 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 13. Reaffirms that States have an obligation to exercise due diligence to prevent violence against women and girls, provide protection to the victims and investigate, prosecute and punish the perpetrators of violence against women and girls, and that failure to do so violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment of their human rights and fundamental freedoms, calls upon Governments to elaborate and implement laws and strategies to eliminate violence against women and girls, encourages and supports men and boys in taking an active part in the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence, encourages increased understanding among men and boys of how violence harms girls, boys, women and men and undermines gender equality, encourages all actors to speak out against any violence against women, and in this regard welcomes the Secretary-General’s campaign “UNiTE to End Violence against Women” and the United Nations Development Fund for Women social mobilization and advocacy platform “Say NO to violence against women”; |
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The girl child (2003), para. 28 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 13. Calls upon Governments, civil society, including the media, and non- governmental organizations to promote human rights education and the full respect for and enjoyment of the human rights of the girl child, inter alia, through the translation, production and dissemination of age-appropriate information material on those rights to all sectors of society, in particular to children; |
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Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto: situation of women and girls with disabilities (2018), para. 19 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Acknowledging the importance of taking measures to raise awareness of the rights of women and girls with disabilities in order to eliminate stereotypes, prejudices and violence, including harmful practices which seriously violate and impair or nullify the enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by women and girls with disabilities and which constitute a major impediment to their full, equal and effective participation in society, the economy and political decision - making, |
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A United Nations literacy decade: education for all (2000), para. 17 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 5. Also appeals to all Governments to redouble their efforts to achieve their own goals of education for all by setting firm targets and timetables, where possible, including gender-specific education targets and programmes to combat the illiteracy of women and girls, and, by working in active partnership with communities, associations, the media and development agencies, to reach those targets; |
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Women, disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control (2016), para. 15 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 4. Encourages Member States to better understand the impact of armed violence, in particular the impact of the illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons on women and girls, through, inter alia, the development of national action plans on women and peace and security and strengthening the collection of data disaggregated by sex and age; |
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