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Working towards the elimination of crimes against women and girls committed in the name of honour 2000, para. 4d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon all States:] To establish, strengthen or facilitate, where possible, support services to respond to the needs of actual and potential victims by, inter alia, providing for them the appropriate protection, safe shelter, counselling, legal aid, rehabilitation and reintegration into society; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 14 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges Member States, with the help of the United Nations system and the international community where needed, to strengthen health systems for women and girls in order to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, through health financing, training and retention of the health workforce, increasing knowledge and awareness regarding securing appropriate prenatal and post-natal care, procuring and distributing medicines, vaccines, commodities and equipment, and improving infrastructure, information systems, service delivery and political will in leadership and governance, bearing in mind a need for gender mainstreaming; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon Member States to ensure the right of women and girls to education of good quality and on an equal basis with men and boys, to ensure that they complete a full course of primary education, and to renew their efforts to improve and expand girls' and women's education at all levels, including at the secondary and higher levels, as well as vocational education and technical training, in order to, inter alia, achieve gender equality, the empowerment of women and poverty eradication; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Also calls upon Member States to address gender inequalities, poverty, violations of the full enjoyment of all human rights by women and girls, including during childbirth, discrimination against women and girls, including that caused by negative attitudes and gender stereotypes, and harmful traditional practices, such as female genital mutilation/cutting, that contribute to the unacceptably high and persistent global rate of maternal mortality and morbidity, bearing in mind the impact of multiple forms of discrimination; to guarantee to all women access to the highest attainable standard of health; and to ensure women's full participation in decision-making at the local, national and international levels regarding health care; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 35 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stresses the importance of Governments in ensuring that young men and women have access to information and education, including peer education and youth-specific HIV prevention education, including comprehensive evidence-based education for human sexuality, based on full and accurate information, for all adolescents and youth, in a manner consistent with their evolving capacities, with the appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians, with the involvement of children, adolescents, youth, communities, educators and health-care providers, that builds informed decision-making, communication and risk reduction skills, develops self-esteem and promotes respectful relationships, as well as services necessary for behaviour change, so as to enable them to develop the life skills required to reduce their vulnerability to HIV infections and reproductive ill health; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 20 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges Governments to prioritize and expand access to treatment for all people, in all settings, in a progressive and sustainable manner, including the prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections and co-infections and other HIV-related conditions and the effective use of and adherence to anti-retroviral medication, including through access to clinical and laboratory testing and post-exposure prophylaxis, with the full protection of their human rights, including their sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 38 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges Governments to continue to promote the participation and the significant contribution of people living with HIV, young people and civil society actors, in particular women's organizations, in addressing the problem of HIV and AIDS in all its aspects, including promoting a gender perspective, and to promote their full involvement and participation and leadership in the design, planning, implementation and evaluation of HIV and AIDS programmes, as well as in creating an enabling environment for combating stigmatization and discrimination; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 21 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Encourages Member States and the international community to take measures to protect women and girls, including indigenous and rural women and girls, those living in poverty and those with disabilities, regardless of their immigration status, from gender-based violence and from early and forced marriage, and to fully implement their obligations under national and international law with respect to preventing violence and investigating and punishing the perpetrators, and also encourages Member States and the international community to provide victims with access to appropriate quality, comprehensive, integrated and accessible health-care services and counselling and to primary and secondary education, and to scale up humanitarian and legal assistance to victims of rape and other forms of sexual violence, including when used as a tactic of war, inter alia, to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Also urges Governments and other relevant stakeholders to address the situation faced by women and girls who provide care and/or economic support for people living with or affected by HIV and AIDS, who are often forced to drop out of school or employment, by increasing the provision of resources, support and facilities to the survivors and caregivers, in particular children, especially in women- and child-headed households, and older persons, as well as to facilitate the balanced sharing of the provision of care by both men and women; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 31 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests the Secretary-General to provide a report to the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-eighth session, in consultation with Member States, international organizations and all other relevant stakeholders, taking into account relevant United Nations resolutions, on actions to strengthen linkages among programmes, initiatives and activities throughout the United Nations system for gender equality, the empowerment of women and girls, protection of all of their human rights and elimination of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity. | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 30 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Encourages the United Nations to continue to support national monitoring and evaluation mechanisms in the context of the “three ones” principles, to enable the production and dissemination of comprehensive and timely information on the gender dimension of the epidemic, including through the collection of data disaggregated by sex, age, disability, marital status and geographical location, and to raise awareness about the need to address the critical intersection between gender inequality and HIV and AIDS, and encourages Member States to report on the relevant indicators for the global AIDS response progress reporting system; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 20 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Encourages Member States, including donor countries, and the international community to increase their efforts to eliminate preventable maternal mortality and morbidity through effective health interventions and health system strengthening, promotion and protection of the full enjoyment of all human rights by women and girls, including in particular the rights to freely consent to marriage, to decide freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children and to have the information and means to do so, and the empowerment of women and girls, and to give renewed emphasis to maternal mortality and morbidity initiatives in their development partnerships and cooperation arrangements, by honouring existing commitments and considering new commitments in areas such as humanitarian, emergency and crisis situations and by coordinating to strengthen planning and accountability for greatly accelerated progress on reducing maternal mortality and morbidity; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 37 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Encourages Governments and all other relevant actors, in the context of prevention programmes for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, to ensure accessible and affordable procurement of safe and effective prevention commodities and to promote funding, both domestically and externally, and to support and expedite action-oriented research leading to affordable, safe and effective methods controlled by women to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, including the use of female condoms, microbicides and vaccines, and research on strategies that empower women to protect themselves from sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, and methods of care, support and treatment for women of various ages, and to promote their involvement in all aspects of such research, as well as to ensure that gender-equality implications are a key component of research, implementation and evaluation of new prevention methods and that new prevention methods are part of a comprehensive approach to HIV prevention that protects and supports the rights of women and girls; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon Member States to fully and effectively implement the Beijing Platform for Action, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (“Cairo Programme of Action”) and the outcomes of their review conferences, including the commitments relating to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, and the promotion and protection of all human rights in this context, and to maximize their efforts to eliminate preventable maternal mortality and morbidity by strengthening comprehensive health-care services for women and girls, including access to sexual and reproductive health-care services and information as agreed to in the Beijing Platform for Action and the Cairo Programme of Action; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 11 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges Governments to strengthen initiatives that would increase the capacities of women and adolescent girls to protect themselves from HIV infection, principally through the provision of health-care services, including for sexual and reproductive health, and that integrate HIV prevention, treatment, care and support and include voluntary counselling and testing, including through effective HIV prevention education that takes into account the epidemiological and national context, while also recognizing the importance of reducing risk-taking behaviour, and encouraging responsible sexual behaviour, including abstinence and fidelity, correct and consistent use of condoms and equality between men and women within a culturally and gender-sensitive framework; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 19 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stresses the critical role of men and boys and the need to share responsibilities between women and men for reducing maternal mortality and morbidity and promoting the health of women and girls, and urges Member States, the United Nations and civil society to include in their development priorities programmes that support the critical role of men in abolishing the practice of early and forced marriage and in supporting women's access to safe conditions for pregnancy and childbirth, contributing to family planning, preventing sexually transmitted infections and HIV, ensuring adequate nutrition for women and girls within their families, including during pregnancy and lactation, and ending violence against women and girls, including harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation/cutting; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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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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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 27 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon Governments to integrate HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, including confidential voluntary counselling and testing and elimination of mother-to-child/vertical transmission, with other primary health-care services, including those for tuberculosis and sexual and reproductive health-care services such as family planning, maternal health and prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections, including those causing infertility and cervical cancer, and encourages Governments to strive towards universal health coverage, meeting the needs of women and girls living with HIV; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges Member States to build on effective, multisectoral and integrated approaches and to take action at all levels to address the interlinked root causes of maternal mortality and morbidity, such as, inter alia, poverty, poor nutrition, early marriage, barriers to education, the lack of accessible and appropriate health-care services, information and education, and gender inequality, and to pay particular attention to eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls and to promoting women's and girls' full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 29 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests the Secretariat and co-sponsors of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and other United Nations agencies, funds and programmes responding to the HIV and AIDS epidemic, as well as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and other international organizations, to mainstream a gender and human rights perspective throughout their HIV- and AIDS-related operations, including policy, planning, monitoring and evaluation, that includes sex- and age-disaggregated indicators, and to ensure that programmes and policies are developed and adequately resourced to address the specific needs of women and girls; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 44 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Commission on the Status of Women at its sixtieth session on the implementation of the present resolution, with an emphasis on accelerated actions taken in regard to women, the girl child and HIV and AIDS, in accordance with the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, and the Political Declarations on HIV and AIDS, using information provided by Member States, the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system and non-governmental organizations, with a view to assessing the impact of the present resolution on the well-being of women and the girl child. | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 41 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon Governments, the international community, relevant agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to intensify their support of national efforts against HIV/AIDS, particularly with respect to women and young girls, including efforts to provide affordable antiretroviral drugs, diagnostics and drugs to treat tuberculosis and other opportunistic infections, strengthening of health systems and training of medical personnel, including reliable distribution and delivery systems, implementation of a strong generic drug policy, bulk purchasing, negotiating with pharmaceutical companies to reduce prices, appropriate financing systems, and encouraging local manufacturing and import practices consistent with national laws and international agreements, particularly in the worst-hit regions in Africa and where the epidemic is severely setting back national development gains; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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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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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Emphasizes the need to strengthen policy and programme linkages and coordination between HIV and AIDS and sexual and reproductive health, and their inclusion in national development plans, and the need to design gender-based policies aimed at social and economic equality, including poverty reduction strategies and sector-wide approaches, where they exist, as a necessary strategy for fighting the HIV epidemic and mitigating its impact on the population, which could result in more relevant and cost-effective interventions with greater impact; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 28 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting the negative health effects of early pregnancy and early childbearing, acknowledging the direct health benefit of school attendance for young girls, in the light of the link between years of school attendance and delay in childbirth, including evidence that each additional year of schooling delays the age at which a girl has her first child by approximately six to ten months and that each year of schooling reduces by 14 per cent the likelihood of a girl under 18 having a child, to 23 per cent, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges Governments to take all necessary measures to create an enabling environment for the empowerment of women and girls and to protect and promote the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms in order to enable them to protect themselves from HIV infection, and to mitigate the impact of the epidemic, including through access to education, health, including sexual and reproductive health, social protection programmes, civil registration and other nationality documentation and the right to property and inheritance, as well as to strengthen the economic independence of women, including through employment and income-generation policies and strategies, decent work, political participation and decision-making at all levels; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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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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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stresses with deep concern that early pregnancy, early childbearing and limited access to quality, comprehensive, integrated and accessible sexual and reproductive health-care services, including in the area of skilled birth attendance, emergency obstetric care and the management of complications arising from abortion, causes high levels of maternal mortality and morbidity, including a high prevalence of obstetric fistula, and furthermore entails complications during pregnancy and childbirth, which often lead to death, particularly for young women and girls; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 25 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon all Governments, the international donor community and relevant entities of the United Nations system to prioritize programmes addressing the specific needs of women and girls, particularly those most vulnerable and at risk, in the HIV response and to take measures to ensure that resources commensurate with the impact of HIV and AIDS on women and girls are made available, in particular in funding provided to national HIV and AIDS programmes designed to promote and protect the human rights of women and girls in the context of the epidemic, to promote economic opportunities for women, including to diminish their financial vulnerability and their risk of exposure to HIV, and to achieve the gender-related goals set out, inter alia, in the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the 2006 and 2011 Political Declarations on HIV/AIDS; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 43 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recommends that a bold vision for addressing the HIV epidemic, including the situation of women and girls living with and affected by HIV and AIDS, be given due consideration in the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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