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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34yy | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Take measures to ensure that all workplaces are free from discrimination and exploitation, violence, and sexual harassment and bullying, and that they address discrimination and violence against women and girls, as appropriate, through measures such as regulatory and oversight frameworks and reforms, collective agreements, codes of conduct, including appropriate disciplinary measures, protocols and procedures, referral of cases of violence to health services for treatment and police for investigation; as well as through awareness-raising and capacity-building, in collaboration with employers, unions and workers, including workplace services and flexibility for victims and survivors; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2013 | ||
Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34jj | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Design and implement national policies that aim at transforming those social norms that condone violence against women and girls, and work to counteract attitudes by which women and girls are regarded as subordinate to men and boys or as having stereotyped roles that perpetuate practices involving violence or coercion; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34ll | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Carry out awareness-raising and education campaigns, in cooperation with civil society organizations, especially women's organizations, through different means of communication, targeting the general public, young people, men and boys, to address the structural and underlying causes of violence and abuse against women and girls; to overcome gender stereotypes and promote zero tolerance for such violence; to remove the stigma of being a victim and survivor of violence; and to create an enabling environment where women and girls can easily report incidences of violence and make use of the services available and of protection and assistance programmes; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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Violence against women 1998, para. g | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Actions to be taken by Governments:] Explore the possibility of mechanisms such as national rapporteurs, who report to Governments on the scale, prevention and combating of violence against women, particularly trafficking in women and girls. | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 1998 | ||
Education and training of women 1997, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Governments that have not yet done so should formulate national strategies and action plans for implementation of the Platform for Action that indicate how relevant institutions coordinate action to meet the goals and targets for education. The strategies should be comprehensive, have time-bound targets and benchmarks for monitoring, and include proposals for allocating or reallocating resources for implementation. Mobilization of additional funds from all sources to enable girls and women, as well as boys and men, on an equal basis, to complete their education, may also be necessary. | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 1997 | ||
The girl child 1998, para. i | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Actions to be taken by States parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women:] Ensure that any reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child are formulated as precisely and as narrowly as possible and that they are not incompatible with the object and purpose of those conventions, and review the reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child with a view to withdrawing them. | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 1998 | ||
The girl child 1998, para. h | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Actions to be taken by Governments, civil society and the United Nations system, as appropriate:] Support the activities of non-governmental organizations in the area of reproductive health and health orientation centres for girls; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 1998 | ||
Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 16 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Commission calls on all States and the international community, including the United Nations system, and invites international and non-governmental organizations and the private sector to mobilize and allocate all necessary resources, support and efforts, including at the international level, to realize the goals, strategic objectives and actions set out in the Beijing Platform for Action with regard to the elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child and the further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, as well as other relevant commitments. | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2007 | ||
Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child 2007, para. 14.10.b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Commission [...] urges Governments [...] to:] [14.10. Trafficking] (b) Strengthen and improve international cooperation and coordination, including regional efforts in the fight against trafficking in persons, especially women and girls, in order to prevent trafficking; protect, assist, rehabilitate and reintegrate victims; and prosecute and punish offenders in accordance with due process of law on the basis of the principles of shared responsibility, respect for human rights and the active cooperation of countries of origin, transit and destination and other relevant actors thereto; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2007 | ||
Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women 2008, para. 21s | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Commission urges Governments [...] to take the following actions:] (s) Strengthen the focus and impact of development assistance, specifically targeting gender equality and empowerment of women and girls, in line with national development priorities, through both gender mainstreaming and funding of targeted activities and enhanced dialogue on those issues between donors and developing countries, and strengthen mechanisms to effectively measure resources allocated to incorporating gender perspectives in all sectors and thematic areas of development assistance; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2008 | ||
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. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Commission acknowledges the important role of national machineries for the advancement of women, which should be placed at the highest possible level of government, the relevant contribution of national human rights institutions where they exist, and the important role of civil society, especially women's organizations, in advancing the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and in promoting the full and equal access and participation of women and girls in education, training and science and technology. | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2011 | ||
Political Declaration on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women 2015, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognize that the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the fulfilment of the obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women are mutually reinforcing in achieving gender equality, the empowerment of women and girls and the realization of their human rights, and call upon States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying or acceding to the Convention and the Optional Protocol thereto; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2015 | ||
Women's empowerment and the link to sustainable development 2016, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Commission reaffirms that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Optional Protocols thereto, as well as other relevant conventions and treaties, provide an international legal framework and a comprehensive set of measures for realizing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all women and girls throughout their life cycle. | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2016 | ||
Women's empowerment and the link to sustainable development 2016, para. 23bb | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Commission [...] urges Governments, at all levels [...] to take the following actions:] [Fostering enabling environments for financing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls]: Take steps to significantly increase investment to close resource gaps, including through the mobilization of financial resources from all sources, including public, private, domestic and international resource mobilization and allocation, including by enhancing revenue administration through modernized, progressive tax systems, improved tax policy, more efficient tax collection and increased priority on gender equality and the empowerment of women in official development assistance to build on progress achieved, and ensure that official development assistance is used effectively; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2016 | ||
Women's empowerment and the link to sustainable development 2016, para. 23r | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Commission [...] urges Governments, at all levels [...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening normative, legal and policy frameworks]: Adopt, review and ensure the accelerated and effective implementation of laws that criminalize violence against women and girls, as well as comprehensive, multidisciplinary and gender-sensitive preventive, protective and prosecutorial measures and services to eliminate and prevent all forms of violence against all women and girls, in public and private spaces, as well as harmful practices; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2016 | ||
Women's empowerment and the link to sustainable development 2016, para. 23v | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Commission [...] urges Governments, at all levels [...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening normative, legal and policy frameworks]: Formulate and implement, in collaboration with indigenous peoples, in particular indigenous women and their organizations, policies and programmes designed to promote capacity-building and strengthen their leadership while recognizing the distinct and important role of indigenous women and girls in sustainable development, and prevent and eliminate discrimination and violence against indigenous women and girls, which has a negative impact on their human rights and fundamental freedoms, to which they are disproportionately vulnerable and which constitutes a major impediment to indigenous women's full, equal and effective participation in society, the economy, and political decision-making; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2016 | ||
Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls 2014, para. 42ww | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Commission urges Governments, at all levels [...] to take the following actions:] [Strengthening the enabling environment for gender equality and the empowerment of women]: Strengthen international cooperation, including the role of North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation, bearing in mind that South-South cooperation is not a substitute for, but rather a complement to, North-South cooperation, and invites all Member States to enhance South-South and triangular cooperation focusing on shared development priorities, with the involvement of all relevant stakeholders in government, civil society and the private sector, while noting that national ownership and leadership in this regard are indispensable for the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2014 | ||
Women and girls with disabilities 2016, para. 13 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Article 6 paragraph 1 recognizes that women with disabilities are subject to multiple discrimination and requires that States parties take measures to ensure the full and equal enjoyment by women with disabilities of all human rights and fundamental freedoms. The Convention references multiple discrimination in article 5 paragraph 2 which not only requires States parties to prohibit any kind of discrimination based on disability, but also to protect against discrimination on other grounds . Jurisprudence by the CRPD Committee has included measures to address multiple and intersectional discrimination . | Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2016 | ||
Women and girls with disabilities 2016, para. 62a ii | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [In the light of the normative content and obligations outlined above, State parties should take the following steps to ensure the full implementation of article 6 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, providing adequate resources in this regard:] Combat multiple discrimination through inter alia: Adopting appropriate laws, policies and actions to ensure the rights of women with disabilities are included in all policies, especially in policies related to women in general, as well as in policies on disability. | Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2016 | ||
Women and girls with disabilities 2016, para. 53 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Violations relating to deprivation of liberty disproportionately affect women with intellectual or psychosocial disabilities and those in institutional settings. Those deprived of their liberty in places such as psychiatric institutions, on the basis of actual or perceived impairment, are subject to higher levels of violence as well as cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment or punishment , are segreggated and exposed to the risk of sexual violence and trafficking within care and special education institutions . Violence against women with disabilities in institutions includes: involuntary undressing by male staff against the will of the woman concerned; forced psychiatric medication; and overmedication which can reduce the ability to describe and/or remember sexual violence. Perpetrators may act with impunity because they perceive little risk of discovery or punishment as access to judicial remedies is severely restricted, and women with disabilities subjected to such violence are unlikely to be able to access helplines or other forms of support to report such violations. | Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2016 | ||
The right of the child to be heard 2009, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States parties reaffirmed their commitment to the realization of article 12 at the twenty seventh special session of the General Assembly on children in 2002. However, the Committee notes that, in most societies around the world, implementation of the child's right to express her or his view on the wide range of issues that affect her or him, and to have those views duly taken into account, continues to be impeded by many long-standing practices and attitudes, as well as political and economic barriers. While difficulties are experienced by many children, the Committee particularly recognizes that certain groups of children, including younger boys and girls, as well as children belonging to marginalized and disadvantaged groups, face particular barriers in the realization of this right. The Committee also remains concerned about the quality of many of the practices that do exist. There is a need for a better understanding of what article 12 entails and how to fully implement it for every child. | Committee on the Rights of the Child | General Comment / Recommendation |
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The right of the child to be heard 2009, para. 95 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | These programmes have to reinforce the principle that girls and boys have equal rights to express their views. | Committee on the Rights of the Child | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2009 | ||
The implementation of the rights of the child during adolescence 2016, para. 45 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States should guarantee that adolescents' right to freedom of association and peaceful assembly in all its forms is fully respected, consistent with the restrictions delineated in article 15 (2) of the Convention, including through the provision of safe spaces for both girls and boys. Legal recognition should be afforded to adolescents to establish their own associations, clubs, organizations, parliaments and forums, both in and out of school, form online networks, join political parties and join or form their own trade unions. Measures should also be introduced to protect adolescent human rights defenders, particularly girls, who often face gender-specific threats and violence. | Committee on the Rights of the Child | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2016 | ||
Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls 2014, para. 42q | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Commission urges Governments, at all levels [...] to take the following actions:] [Realizing women's and girls' full enjoyment of all human rights]: Develop, implement and support national prevention, care and treatment strategies to effectively address obstetric fistula using a multisectoral, multidisciplinary, comprehensive and integrated approach in order to bring about lasting solutions; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2014 | ||
Gender perspectives on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
or punishment 2016, para. 38 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Adequate and effective complaint and oversight mechanisms are critical sources of protection for at-risk groups that experience abuses in detention. All too often proper safeguards are absent or lacking in independence and impartiality, while fear of reprisals and the stigma associated with reporting sexual violence and other humiliating practices discourage women, girls, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons from reporting. In many cases, the vulnerability and isolation of women and girls is compounded by limited access to legal representation, inability to pay fees or bail as a result of poverty, dependence on male relatives for financial support and fewer family visits. | Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2016 | ||
Pathways to, conditions and consequences of incarceration for women 2013, para. 38 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | A recent study uncovered cases of rape of female political prisoners in the Islamic Republic of Iran throughout the 1980s, including the rape of young virgin girls before execution, forced marriages and other forms of sexual violence, some of which continues today. In July 2011, a female prisoner committed suicide after violent beatings, including with electronic batons. The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran states that a prisoner alleged that prison guards tortured her by subjecting her to sleep and toilet deprivation, keeping her in a standing position for hours, burning her with cigarettes, exposing her to extreme temperatures for extended periods of time and punching, kicking and striking her with batons (A/67/369, para. 27). | Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2013 | ||
State responsibility for eliminating violence against women 2013, para. 21 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In his 2006 study (A/61/122/Add.1 and Corr.1), the Secretary-General recalled that violence against women is a form of discrimination and a violation of human rights. He endorsed the principle of State responsibility to act with due diligence in the context of violence against women. In addition, resolutions on violence against women emanating from the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly have called upon States to exercise due diligence to prevent and investigate acts of violence against women and girls and punish the perpetrators. These resolutions broadly call upon the State to put in place civil and criminal measures to address offender accountability, to ensure victim safety and, importantly, to provide redress and justice measures that victims can access effectively. States are also urged to adopt laws, policies and programmes that recognize the consequences of multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination which lead to increased vulnerability for some categories of women. | Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2013 | ||
Violence against women: Twenty years of developments to combat violence against women 2014, para. 21 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Numerous human rights treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, refer to the issue of violence against women, in broad terms, and in some instances the girl child. This section will focus on the issue with regard to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. | Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2014 | ||
Existing legal standards and practices regarding violence against women in three regional human rights systems and activities being undertaken by civil society regarding the normative gap in international human rights law 2015, para. 67 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Closing the normative gap requires the international legalization of women's right to be free of all forms of violence, whether public or private. An international human rights law that explicitly articulates legal obligations in the protection of dignity, freedom, safety, security and equality rights for women will result in legal obligations, thereby providing for international scrutiny and accountability through a dedicated monitoring body. This will lead to positive consequences in domestic human rights practices in respect of protection, prevention and accountability for all manifestations of violence against women and girls. | Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2014, para. 24 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Early consideration of children's issues in peace-making processes can also facilitate the planning and mobilization of resources. For instance, the release and reintegration of children associated with armed forces or groups is strongly linked to security arrangements in peace processes. It is also an integral part of the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration process, which requires a specific focus on provisions for children, in particular girls. In that regard, the Special Representative commends the General Assembly for its continued call to States and regional organizations to support the inclusion of such commitments in peace agreements (see resolution 68/147). However, this aspect often remains neglected. | Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict | SRSG report |
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