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Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas 2005, para. 2l | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Invites Member States, in collaboration with the organizations of the United Nations and civil society, as appropriate, to continue their efforts to implement the outcome of and to ensure an integrated and coordinated follow-up to United Nations conferences and summits, including their reviews, and to attach greater importance to the improvement of the situation of rural women, including indigenous women, in their national, regional and global development strategies by, inter alia:] Promoting programmes to enable rural women and men to reconcile their work and family responsibilities and to encourage men to share equally with women household and childcare responsibilities; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2005 | ||
Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women 2006, para. 8l | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Urges States to take action to eliminate all forms of violence against women by means of a more systematic, comprehensive, multisectoral and sustained approach, adequately supported and facilitated by strong institutional mechanisms and financing, through national action plans, including those supported by international cooperation and, where appropriate, national development plans, including poverty eradication strategies and programme-based and sector-wide approaches, and to this end:] To ensure that men and women and boys and girls have access to education and literacy programmes and are educated on gender equality and human rights, particularly women's rights and their responsibility to respect the rights of others, inter alia, by integrating women's rights into all appropriate curricula and by developing gender-sensitive teaching materials and classroom practices, especially for early childhood education; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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Women in development 2007, para. 15 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges all Governments to ensure women's equal rights with men and their equal access to all levels of education; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas 2007, para. 2n | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Urges Member States, in collaboration with the organizations of the United Nations and civil society, as appropriate, to continue their efforts to implement the outcome of and to ensure an integrated and coordinated follow-up to United Nations conferences and summits, including their reviews, and to attach greater importance to the improvement of the situation of rural women, including indigenous women, in their national, regional and global development strategies by, inter alia:] Promoting programmes to enable rural women and men to reconcile their work and family responsibilities and to encourage men to share equally with women household and childcare responsibilities; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women 2008, para. 16i | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Urges States to continue to develop their national strategy 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 by using best practices to end impunity and a culture of tolerance towards violence against women, inter alia, in the fields of legislation, prevention, law enforcement, victim assistance and rehabilitation, such as:] Adopting all appropriate measures, especially in the field of education, to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women and to eliminate prejudices, customary practices and all other practices based on the idea of the inferiority or superiority of either of the sexes and on stereotyped roles for men and women; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2008 | ||
Policies and programmes involving youth 2009, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stresses that young people are often among the main victims of armed conflict, expresses its deep concern at the violations of international humanitarian law that undermine the protection of the human rights of civilians in armed conflict, calls upon Member States, in accordance with the World Programme of Action for Youth, to take concrete measures to further protect and assist young women and men in these situations, bearing in mind that armed and other types of conflict and terrorism and hostage-taking still persist in many parts of the world and that aggression, foreign occupation and ethnic and other types of conflict are an ongoing reality affecting young persons in nearly every region, from which they need to be protected, and also calls upon Member States to recognize young women and men as important actors in conflict prevention, peacebuilding and post-conflict processes; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2009 | ||
Rio+20 – Conference on Sustainable Development: The future we want 2012, para. 229 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | We reaffirm our commitments to the right to education, and in this regard we commit to strengthen international cooperation to achieve universal access to primary education, particularly for developing countries. We further reaffirm that full access to quality education at all levels is an essential condition for achieving sustainable development, poverty eradication, gender equality and women's empowerment, as well as human development, for the attainment of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, and for the full participation of both women and men, in particular young people. In this regard, we stress the need for ensuring equal access to education for persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples, local communities, ethnic minorities and people living in rural areas. | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 2012 | ||
The girl child 2011, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon States, with the support of international organizations, civil society and non-governmental organizations, as appropriate, to develop policies and programmes, giving priority to formal and informal education programmes, including age-appropriate sex education, with appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians, that support girls and enable them to acquire knowledge, develop self-esteem and take responsibility for their own lives, and to place special focus on programmes to educate women and men, especially parents, about the importance of girls' physical and mental health and well-being, including the elimination of discrimination against girls in child and forced marriages; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
Women in development 2011, para. 11 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges Member States to incorporate a gender perspective, commensurate with gender-equality goals, into the design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of national development strategies, to ensure alignment between national action plans on gender equality and national development strategies, and to encourage the involvement of men and boys in the promotion of gender equality, and in this regard calls upon the United Nations system to support national efforts to develop methodologies and tools and to promote capacity-building and evaluation; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
Women in development 2011, para. 15 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that poverty eradication and the achievement and preservation of peace are mutually reinforcing, and recognizing also that peace is inextricably linked to equality between women and men and to development, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
Women in development 2013, para. 11 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges Member States to incorporate a gender perspective, commensurate with gender-equality goals, into the design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of national development strategies, to ensure alignment between national action plans on gender equality and national development strategies and to encourage the involvement of men and boys in the promotion of gender equality, and in this regard calls upon the United Nations system to support national efforts to develop methodologies and tools and to promote capacity-building and evaluation; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula 2014, para. 12k | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon States and/or the relevant funds and programmes, organs and the specialized agencies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates, and invites the international financial institutions and all relevant actors of civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and the private sector:] To educate individual women and men, girls and boys, communities, policymakers and health professionals about how obstetric fistula can be prevented and treated, and increase awareness of the needs of pregnant women and girls, as well as of those who have undergone surgical fistula repair, including their right to the highest attainable standard of health, including sexual and reproductive health, by working with community and religious leaders, traditional birth attendants, women and girls who have suffered from fistula, the media, social workers, civil society, women's organizations, influential public figures and policymakers; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Trafficking in women and girls 2014, para. 18 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Further urges Governments, in cooperation with intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, to support and allocate resources to strengthen preventive action, in particular education for women and men, as well as for girls and boys, on gender equality, self-respect and mutual respect, and campaigns, carried out in collaboration with civil society, to increase public awareness of the issue at the national and grass-roots levels, including anti-trafficking awareness-raising campaigns targeted at groups that are at increased risk of becoming victims of trafficking, as well as at those who may fuel the demand for the exploitation of trafficked persons and/or their labour; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Women, disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control 2016, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling that the Charter of the United Nations reaffirms the equal rights of women and men, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) 2015, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Guided by the principal purposes of the United Nations, as set out in the Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and inspired by the determination to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, without distinction of any kind, and in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Key actions for the further implementation of the Programme of Action of the of the International Conference on Population and Development 1999, para. 22 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 22. Governments and civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, should create opportunities and remove barriers that hinder elderly women and men from continuing to contribute their skills to their families, to the workforce and to their communities, in order to help to foster intergenerational solidarity and enhance the well-being of society. This will require life-long education and opportunities for retraining. | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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Key actions for the further implementation of the Programme of Action of the of the International Conference on Population and Development 1999, para. 23 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 23. The United Nations system should, provided that additional resources are made available, document the positive experience of policies and programmes in the area of ageing of men and women and disseminate information and recommendations about those practices. Countries should be enabled, through adequate training and capacity-building, to evolve their own policies appropriate to their cultures, traditions and socio-economic circumstances. | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 1999 | ||
Key actions for the further implementation of the Programme of Action of the of the International Conference on Population and Development 1999, para. 47 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 47. The differential impact on women and men of globalization of the economy and the privatization of basic social services, particularly reproductive health services, should be monitored closely. Special programmes and institutional mechanisms should be put in place to promote and protect the health and well-being of young girls, older women and other vulnerable groups. The provision of services to meet men's reproductive and sexual health needs should not prejudice reproductive and sexual health services for women. | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 1999 | ||
Further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 2000, para. 82a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Promote and protect the rights of women workers and take action to remove structural and legal barriers as well as stereotypical attitudes to gender equality at work, addressing, inter alia, gender bias in recruitment; working conditions; occupational segregation and harassment; discrimination in social protection benefits; women's occupational health and safety; unequal career opportunities and inadequate sharing, by men, of family responsibilities; | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 2000 | ||
Further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 2000, para. 82c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Develop or strengthen policies and programmes to support the multiple roles of women in contributing to the welfare of the family in its various forms, which acknowledge the social significance of maternity and motherhood, parenting, the role of parents and legal guardians in the upbringing of children and caring for other family members. Such policies and programmes should also promote shared responsibility of parents, women and men and society as a whole in this regard; | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 2000 | ||
Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula 2016, para. 14k | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon States and/or the relevant funds and programmes, organs and the specialized agencies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates, and invites the international financial institutions and all relevant actors of civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and the private sector, to end obstetric fistula within a generation by: (k) Educating individual women and men, girls and boys, communities, policymakers and health professionals about how obstetric fistula can be prevented and treated, and increasing awareness of the needs of pregnant women and girls, as well as of those who have undergone surgical fistula repair, including their right to the highest attainable standard of mental and physical health, including sexual and reproductive health, by working with community and religious leaders, traditional birth attendants and midwives, women and girls who have suffered from fistula, the media, social workers, civil society, women's organizations, influential public figures and policymakers; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in prevention 2010, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that power imbalances and structural inequality between men and women are among the root causes of violence against women, and that effective prevention of violence against women and girls requires action at all levels of government, the engagement of civil society, the involvement of men and boys and the adoption and implementation of multifaceted and comprehensive approaches that promote gender equality and empowerment of women, and integrate awareness, education, training, political will, legislation, accountability, targeted policies and programmes, specific measures to reduce vulnerability, data collection and analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and protection, support and redress for victims, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in protection 2011, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes that effective protection requires comprehensive, integrated, coordinated multisectoral approaches involving multiple stakeholders, including women’s organizations, religious and community leaders, youth, men and boys, victim service workers and advocates, law enforcement personnel, the judiciary, corrections officials and forensic scientists, as well as legal, health and education professionals, and that such responses should avoid re-victimization, be empowering to the victim, be evidence-based and culturally sensitive, and integrate the specific and differentiated needs of women and girls who face multiple, intersecting and aggravated forms of discrimination; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
Elimination of discrimination against women 2012, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Bearing in mind that international human rights treaties, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender and include guarantees to ensure the enjoyment by women and men, and girls and boys, of their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights on a basis of equality, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Elimination of discrimination against women 2014, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Bearing in mind that international human rights treaties, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender and include guarantees to ensure the enjoyment by women and men, and girls and boys, of their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights on a basis of equality, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment 2014, para. 6a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Urges States to demonstrate their commitment to preventing and eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, thereby reducing barriers to women’s social, economic and political empowerment, including by:] Taking effective steps to ensure the full and equal participation of women and men in all spheres of political life, including at the grass-roots level, in political reform and at all levels of decision-making, in all situations, and to contribute to the prevention and the elimination of discrimination and violence against women and girls; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage 2015, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges States to enact, enforce, harmonize and uphold laws and policies aimed at preventing and ending child, early and forced marriage, protecting those at risk and supporting already married women and girls, and to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the informed, free and full consent of the intending spouses and that women have equality with men in all matters pertaining to marriage, divorce, child custody and the economic consequences of marriage and its dissolution; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Eliminating domestic violence 2015, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that violence against women and girls is rooted in historical and structural inequality in power relations between women and men, and that all forms of violence against women and girls seriously violate and impair or nullify their enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms and constitute a major impediment to women’s full, equal and effective participation in society, the economy and political decision-making, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
The right to work 2016, para. 22 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Underscores that there is an urgent need to create an environment at the national and international levels that is conducive to the attainment of full and productive employment and decent work for all as a foundation for sustainable development, and that an environment that supports investment, growth and entrepreneurship is essential to the creation of new job opportunities, and reaffirms that opportunities for men and women to obtain productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity are essential to ensure the eradication of hunger and poverty, the improvement of economic and social well-being for all, the achievement of sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth and sustainable development of all nations and a fully inclusive and equitable globalization; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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The rights of persons with disabilities in situations of risk and humanitarian emergencies 2016, para. 5a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon States and all relevant stakeholders to take effective and appropriate steps to facilitate the protection and safety of persons with disabilities in situations of risk, including situations of armed conflict, humanitarian emergencies and the occurrence of natural disasters, having regard for the measures contemplated by the Convention, and urges States and all relevant stakeholders, in furtherance of this objective, to, inter alia:] Promote active participation of and meaningful consultation with persons with disabilities and their representative organizations, including women, men, boys and girls with disabilities of all ages, at all levels in a manner consistent with article 4 (3) of the Convention; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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