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Situation of human rights in the People's Democratic Republic of Korea, para. 10 | Sep 17, 2019 | Paragraph | Acknowledging Security Council resolution 2397 (2017) of 22 December 2017, in which the Council noted that 41 per cent of the population of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was undernourished, and General Assembly resolution 72/188, in which the Assembly noted with concern the findings of the United Nations that well over half of the people in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea suffered from major insecurities in food and medical care, including a very large number of pregnant and lactating women and children under 5 who were at risk of malnutrition, and nearly a quarter of its total population was suffering from chronic malnutrition, condemned the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea for diverting its resources into pursuing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles over the welfare of its people, and emphasized the necessity for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to respect and ensure the welfare and inherent dignity of the people in the country, as referred to by the Council in its resolutions 2321 (2016) of 30 November 2016, 2371 (2017) of 5 August 2017, 2375 (2017) of 11 September 2017 and 2397 (2017), | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2018 | ||
The right to food 2016, para. 18 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing the importance and positive role of smallholder and subsistence farmers, including women farmers, young farmers, family farmers and farmers in less favoured areas, cooperatives and indigenous and local communities in developing countries, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
The right to food 2015, para. 18 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing the importance and positive role of smallholder and subsistence farmers, including women farmers, young farmers, family farmers and farmers in less favoured areas, cooperatives and indigenous and local communities in developing countries, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
The right to food 2012, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes the importance of smallholder farmers in developing countries, including women and local and indigenous communities, in ensuring food and nutrition security, reducing poverty and preserving ecosystems, and the need to assist their development; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
The right to food 2016, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes the importance of smallholder and subsistence farmers in developing countries, including women and local and indigenous communities, in ensuring food security, reducing poverty and preserving ecosystems, and the need to assist their development; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
The right to food 2015, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes the importance of smallholder and subsistence farmers in developing countries, including women and local and indigenous communities, in ensuring food security, reducing poverty and preserving ecosystems, and the need to assist their development; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
The right to food 2014, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes the importance of smallholder and subsistence farmers in developing countries, including women and local and indigenous communities, in ensuring food security, reducing poverty and preserving ecosystems, and the need to assist their development; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Women in development 1997, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing the continued need to review the impact of structural adjustment programmes in order to reduce any adverse impact on women, especially in terms of cut-backs in social services, education and health and the removal of subsidies on food and fuel, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 1997 | ||
Women in development 2013, para. 39 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes the critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women and women in local communities, and their traditional knowledge in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas 2001, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2001 | ||
Women's economic empowerment 2010, para. 13 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Expressing its deep concern over the negative impact of the global economic and financial crisis and of the food crisis and ongoing food insecurity which could hamper progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals and the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
The right to food 2016, para. 42 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon the private sector, including transnational corporations, to support investment and innovation, recognizing women’s economic empowerment, to help, inter alia, increase the participation of small-scale farmers in markets and agriculture food chains; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
The right to food 2016, para. 13 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Underlines the significance of national government policies and strategies in food production, poverty alleviation and social protection, and the importance of the national efforts made to ensure that women have equal access to State-sponsored benefits, facilities and services; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Women in development 2015, para. 46 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes the critical role and contribution of rural women, including smallholders and women farmers, and indigenous women and women in local communities, and their traditional knowledge in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2013, para. 20 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reiterating the importance of empowering rural women as critical agents for enhancing agricultural and rural development, food security and improved nutrition outcomes, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas 2009, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2009 | ||
Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas 2007, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas 2005, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2005 | ||
Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas 2003, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2003 | ||
Women in development 2009, para. 33 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Also recognizes the role of agriculture in development, and stresses the importance of reviewing agricultural policies and strategies to ensure that women's critical role in food security is recognized and addressed as an integral part of both short- and long-term responses to the food crisis; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2009 | ||
Women in development 1999, para. 15 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing further the continued need to review the impact of structural adjustment programmes in order to reduce any adverse impact on women, especially in terms of cutbacks in social services, education and health and the removal of subsidies on food and fuel, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 1999 | ||
Women in development 2017, para. 21 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming that in nutrition and other related policies special attention should be paid to the empowerment of women and girls, thereby contributing to women’s full and equal access to social protection and resources, including income, agricultural inputs, land, water, finance, education, training, science and technology and health-care services, thus promoting food security and health, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas 2017, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Expressing its deep concern also that, while women contribute more than 50 per cent of the food produced worldwide, they account for 70 per cent of the world’s hungry, and that women and girls are disproportionately affected by hunger, food insecurity and poverty, in part as a result of gender inequality and discrimination, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas 2017, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that rural women and, where applicable, girls are critical agents in poverty and hunger reduction, that they are crucial to achieving food security and improved nutrition in poor and vulnerable households and to environmental sustainability and that, in other ways, they are also critical to the achievement of all of the Sustainable Development Goals, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Elimination of violence against women 1996, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Welcomes the decision of the Commission on the Status of Women, at its fortieth session, to renew the open-ended working group established to develop an optional protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, taking into account the recommendations of the Special Rapporteur in regard to an optional protocol; | United Nations Commission on Human Rights | Resolution |
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| 1996 | ||
Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 1994, para. 4.2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Countries should develop an integrated approach to the special nutritional, general and reproductive health, education and social needs of girls and young women, as such additional investments in adolescent girls can often compensate for earlier inadequacies in their nutrition and health care. | International Conference on Population and Development | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 1994 | ||
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 266 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Existing discrimination against the girl child in her access to nutrition and physical and mental health services endangers her current and future health. An estimated 450 million adult women in developing countries are stunted as a result of childhood protein-energy malnutrition. | Fourth World Conference on Women | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 1995 | ||
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 82f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [By Governments, in cooperation with employers, workers and trade unions, international and non-governmental organizations, including women's and youth organizations, and educational institutions:] Promote women's central role in food and agricultural research, extension and education programmes; | Fourth World Conference on Women | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 1995 | ||
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 58j | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [By Governments:] Develop and implement anti-poverty programmes, including employment schemes, that improve access to food for women living in poverty, including through the use of appropriate pricing and distribution mechanisms; | Fourth World Conference on Women | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 1995 | ||
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 58e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [By Governments:] Develop agricultural and fishing sectors, where and as necessary, in order to ensure, as appropriate, household and national food security and food self-sufficiency, by allocating the necessary financial, technical and human resources; | Fourth World Conference on Women | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 1995 |