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Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 14.5.a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Commission [...] urges Governments [...] to:] [14.5. HIV/AIDS] (a) Ensure that in all policies and programmes designed to provide comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support, particular attention and support is given to the girl child at risk, infected with, and affected by HIV/AIDS, including pregnant girls and young and adolescent mothers, as part of the global effort to scale up significantly towards the goal of universal access to comprehensive prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2007 | ||
Access and participation of women and girls in education, training and science and technology, including for the promotion of women's equal access to full employment and decent work 2011, para. 22p | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Commission urges Governments, at all levels [...] to take the following actions, as appropriate:] [Expanding access and participation in education]: Ensure that pregnant adolescents and young mothers, as well as single mothers, can continue and complete their education, and in this regard, design, implement and, where applicable, revise educational policies to allow them to return to school, providing them with access to health and social services and support, including childcare facilities and crèches, and to education programmes with accessible locations, flexible schedules and distance education, including e-learning, and bearing in mind the challenges faced by young fathers in this regard; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2011 | ||
Women and health 1999, para. 2a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Actions to be taken by Governments, the United Nations system and civil society, as appropriate:] (a) Accelerate efforts for the implementation of the targets established in the Beijing Platform for Action with regard to universal access to quality and affordable health services, including reproductive and sexual health, reduction of persistently high maternal mortality and infant and child mortality and reduction of severe and moderate malnutrition and iron deficiency anaemia, as well as to provide maternal and essential ob stetric care, including emergency care, and implement existing and develop new strategies to prevent maternal deaths, caused by, inter alia, infections, malnutrition, hypertension during pregnancy, unsafe abortion and post-partum haemorrhage, and child deaths, taking into account the Safe Motherhood Initiative; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 1999 | ||
Women, the girl child and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome 2001, para. 2a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Actions to be taken by Governments, the United Nations system and civil society, as appropriate]: Governments, relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, individually and collectively, should make efforts to place combating HIV/AIDS as a priority on the development agenda and to implement multisectoral and decentralized effective preventive strategies and programmes, especially for the most vulnerable populations, including women, young girls and infants, also taking into account the prevention of mother-to-child transmission; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2001 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2016, para. 17 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stresses the importance of governments, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and other United Nations specialized agencies, funds and programmes in developing and implementing strategies to improve infant HIV diagnosis, including through access to diagnostics at the point of care, significantly increasing and improving access to treatment for children and adolescents living with HIV, including access to prophylaxis and treatments for opportunistic infections, and promoting a smooth transition from paediatric to adult treatment and related support and services, while taking into account the need to put in place programmes focused on delivering services to HIV-negative children born to women living with HIV, as they are still at high risk of morbidity and mortality, and developing actions to limit post-delivery transmission through breastfeeding through the provision of information and education; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 22 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon those Member States that have made commitments to advance the Secretary-General's Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health, undertaken by a broad coalition of partners in support of national plans and strategies, to implement their commitments to significantly reduce the number of maternal, newborn and under-age-five deaths, as a matter of immediate concern, including, as appropriate, by scaling up a priority package of high-impact interventions and integrating efforts in such areas as health, education, gender equality, water and sanitation, poverty reduction and nutrition, and encourages those States that have not yet done so to consider making such commitments; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 31 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stresses the importance of Governments, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and other United Nations specialized agencies, funds and programmes developing and implementing strategies to improve infant HIV diagnosis, including through access to diagnostics at point of care, significantly increasing and improving access to treatment for children and adolescents living with HIV, including access to prophylaxis and treatments for opportunistic infections, and promoting a smooth transition from paediatric to adult treatment and related support and services, while taking into account the need to put in place programmes focused on delivering services to HIV-negative children born to women living with HIV, as they are still at high risk of morbidity and mortality; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 17 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes the need for intense health and intersectoral efforts with a high level of political commitment, calls upon Member States to accelerate progress in order to achieve Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 by addressing reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health in a comprehensive manner, inter alia, through the provision of family planning services, prenatal care, post-natal care, skilled attendants at birth, emergency obstetric and newborn care and methods of preventing and treating sexually transmitted diseases and infections, such as HIV, within strengthened health systems that provide accessible and affordable integrated health-care services and include community-based preventive and clinical care, and urges Member States to use their stewardship and leadership to involve other institutions and sectors in order to strengthen capacity to achieve a greater reduction in preventable maternal mortality in the context of improving the continuum of maternal and child health; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 33 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Welcomes the Global Plan towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections among Children by 2015 and Keeping their Mothers Alive and takes note of the Secretary-General's Every Woman, Every Child initiative, as well as national, regional and international initiatives contributing to reduction of the number of maternal, newborn and under-five child deaths, and urges Governments to rapidly scale up access to HIV prevention and treatment programmes integrated with family planning and maternal and child health programmes designed to eliminate mother-to-child/vertical transmission of HIV and reduce HIV-related maternal mortality by 50 per cent by 2015, to encourage men to participate with women in such programmes, address barriers faced by women and girls in accessing such programmes and provide sustained treatment and care for the mother after pregnancy, including care and support for the family; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Welcomes the commitment to working towards the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 2015 and substantially reducing AIDS-related maternal deaths, and urges Member States to ensure that women and girls of childbearing age have access to HIV prevention services and that pregnant women have access to antenatal care, information, HIV counselling and other HIV-related services, and to increase the availability of and access to effective prevention and treatment for women living with HIV and their infants, and in this regard welcomes the contribution of the Global Plan towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections among Children by 2015 and Keeping Their Mothers Alive; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 27 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing the need for greater coordination and commitment to improving access to health services for women and children through a primary health-care approach and the provision of proven and well-known evidence-based interventions and to reducing maternal, newborn and child mortality and morbidity, including through a continuum of services, including family planning, prenatal care, skilled birth attendance, emergency obstetric care and post-partum care, including for those living in poverty and in underserved rural areas, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2010, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming its strong commitment to the full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (“Cairo Programme of Action”),adopted in 1994, and the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, adopted in 1995, and the outcomes of their review conferences and commitments regarding the reduction of maternal, newborn and child mortality and universal access to reproductive health, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the 2005 World Summit Outcome, and recalling other relevant United Nations resolutions, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2010, para. 17 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Decides to hold, at its fifty-fifth session, an expert panel discussion on the elimination of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and the empowerment of women, including oral briefings by and an interactive discussion with the relevant United Nations funds and programmes, agencies and offices, including the World Bank, as well as representatives of the private sector and civil society, such as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, the Global Fund to Combat HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2010, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Expressing deep concern that more than half a million women and adolescent girls die every year from largely preventable complications related to pregnancy or childbirth; that, for every death, the World Health Organization has assessed that an estimated twenty additional women and girls suffer from pregnancy-related and childbirth-related injury, disability, infection and disease, that over 200 million women worldwide lack access to safe, affordable and effective forms of contraception, and that complications from pregnancy and childbirth are one of the leading causes of death for women between the ages of 15 and 19, in particular in many developing countries, and expressing grave concern over the almost nine million children — four million of them newborns — who will die in 2010, chiefly from preventable causes, and that children whose mothers die are ten times more likely to die within two years, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2010, para. 16 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing the need for greater coordination, global cooperation and commitment to achieving universal access to health services for women and children through a primary health-care approach and evidence-based interventions and to reduce maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity, including through the provision of sexual and reproductive health-care services, including family planning services, in line with the Beijing Platform for Action, and the Cairo Programme of Action, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 11 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Expressing concern that unregistered individuals may have limited or no access to services and the enjoyment of all the rights to which they are entitled, including the rights to a name and to acquire a nationality, and rights related to health, education, social welfare, work and political participation, and taking into consideration that registering a person's birth is a vital step towards the promotion and protection of all his or her human rights, and that persons without birth registration are more vulnerable to marginalization, exclusion, discrimination, violence, statelessness, abduction, sale, exploitation and abuse, including when they take the form of child labour, human trafficking, child, early and forced marriage, and unlawful child recruitment, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Also calls upon States to take all appropriate measures to permanently store and protect civil registration records and to prevent the loss or destruction of records, inter alia, due to emergency or armed conflict situations, including through the use of digital and new technologies as means to facilitate and universalize access to birth registration, and also to strengthen civil registration and vital statistics, which are key for the collection of disaggregated data for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 2017, para. 14 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes the right of the child to be registered immediately after birth, and calls upon all States to ensure free birth registration, including free or low-fee late birth registration, by means of universal, accessible, simple, expeditious and effective registration procedures, without discrimination of any kind, and that vital statistics are collected for all children, particularly those in situations of vulnerability, through comprehensive civil registration systems that are accessible and affordable; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 18 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests the High Commissioner to identify and actively pursue opportunities to collaborate with the United Nations Statistics Division and other relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, as well as other relevant stakeholders, in order to strengthen existing policies and programmes aimed at universal birth registration and vital statistics development, and to ensure that they are based on international standards, taking into account best practices, and are implemented in accordance with relevant international human rights obligations; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Further calls upon States to raise awareness of birth registration continuously at the national, regional and local levels, including by engagement in collaboration with all relevant actors, such as national human rights institutions, the public and private sectors and civil society organizations, in public campaigns that raise awareness of the importance of birth registration for effective access to services and the enjoyment of human rights; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on strengthening policies and programmes for universal birth registration and vital statistics development, which refers to the international legal framework related to birth registration, the progress and challenges towards the universality of this right, and existing policies and programmes aimed at universal birth registration and vital statistics development; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reminds States of their obligation to register all births without discrimination of any kind, and also reminds States that birth registration should take place immediately after birth, in the country where children are born, including the children of migrants, non-nationals, asylum seekers, refugees and stateless persons, in accordance with their national law and their obligations under the relevant international instruments, and that late birth registration should be limited to those cases that would otherwise result in a lack of registration; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon States to establish or strengthen existing institutions at all levels responsible for birth registration and to consider the development of comprehensive civil registration systems, and the preservation and security of such records, to ensure adequate training for registration officers, to allocate sufficient and adequate human, technical and financial resources to fulfil their mandate, and to increase, as needed, the accessibility of birth registration facilities within its territory and, in accordance with relevant international law, abroad, either by increasing the number or through other means, such as mobile birth registration officials in rural areas, paying attention to the local community level, promoting community awareness and working to address the barriers faced by vulnerable groups, such as persons with disabilities, in their access to birth registration; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling the obligation of States to register all children, without discrimination of any kind, immediately after birth, which is an important element of the protection and realization of all human rights, as provided for in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and other relevant international instruments to which they are party, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern 2016, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon States to adopt a human rights-based approach to reducing and eliminating preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age, including in scaling up efforts to achieve the integrated management of quality maternal, newborn and child health care and services, particularly at the community and family levels, and to take action to address the main causes of preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern 2016, para. 9a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests the High Commissioner: To organize, prior to the thirty-ninth session of the Human Rights Council, in close collaboration with the World Health Organization, an expert workshop to discuss experiences in preventing mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age, with a particular focus on the implementation of the technical guidance, including challenges, best practices and lessons learned, and including consideration of the particular challenges in respect of the newborn child; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern 2016, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Deeply concerned that more than 5,900,000 children under 5 years of age 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, early childbearing, and to health determinants, such as safe drinking water and sanitation, safe and adequate food and nutrition, and that mortality remains highest among children belonging to the poorest and most marginalized communities, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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Further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 2000, para. 79g | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Design and implement programmes to provide social services and support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular to enable them to continue and complete their education; | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 277a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [By Governments and, as appropriate, international and non-governmental organizations:] Promote an educational setting that eliminates all barriers that impede the schooling of married and/or pregnant girls and young mothers, including, as appropriate, affordable and physically accessible child-care facilities and parental education to encourage those who have responsibilities for the care of their children and siblings during their school years to return to, or continue with, and complete schooling; | Fourth World Conference on Women | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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The right to a nationality: Women’s Equal Nationality Rights in Law and in Practice 2016, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon States to identify and remove physical, administrative, procedural and any other barriers, especially those targeting women, that impede access to registration of vital life events including birth, marriage and death registration, and including late registration and associated fees, paying due attention to, among others, barriers relating to poverty, age, disability, gender, nationality, displacement, illiteracy and detention contexts, and to persons in vulnerable groups, and to remove barriers to birth registration based on discrimination against unwed mothers; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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