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Title | Date added | Template | Original document | Paragraph text | Body | Document type | Thematics | Topic(s) | Person(s) affected | Year |
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Adequate housing as a component of the rights to an adequate standard of living, and the right to non-discrimination in this context, para. 27 | Sep 17, 2019 | Paragraph | experiences, including discrimination, violence against women and the disproportionate impact on women of forced evictions, inadequate water and sanitation services and pervasive poverty, and by undertaking legislative and other reforms to realize the equal rights of women and men, as well as girls and boys where applicable, to access economic and productive resources, including land and natural resources, and property and inheritance rights; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2018 | ||
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 58i | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [By Governments:] Formulate and implement, when necessary, specific economic, social, agricultural and related policies in support of female-headed households; | Fourth World Conference on Women | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 1995 | ||
Forced marriage of the girl child 2007, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that women's poverty and lack of empowerment, as well as their marginalization resulting from their exclusion from social policies and from the benefits of sustainable development, can place them at increased risk of violence, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
Human rights and land rights discrimination 1998, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Concerned that in situations of poverty, women are disproportionately affected and have the least access to productive resources, food, health, education, training and opportunities for employment and other needs, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 1998 | ||
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 | ||
Trafficking in women and girls 2014, para. 18 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing further that poverty, unemployment, lack of socioeconomic opportunities, gender-based violence, discrimination and marginalization are some of the contributing factors that make persons vulnerable to trafficking, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Trafficking in women and girls 2012, para. 16 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing further that poverty, unemployment, lack of socioeconomic opportunities, gender-based violence, discrimination and marginalization are some of the contributing factors that make persons vulnerable to trafficking, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
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 | ||
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 58o | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [By Governments:] Create social security systems wherever they do not exist, or review them with a view to placing individual women and men on an equal footing, at every stage of their lives; | Fourth World Conference on Women | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 1995 | ||
Women's economic empowerment 2010, para. 21 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Underlining the importance of strengthening domestic financial sectors as a source of capital by making them inclusive to women living in poverty, in particular women living in poverty and women living in rural and/or remote areas, thus expanding their access to financial services, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
Human rights and land rights discrimination 1998, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges States to pay particular attention to women and their rights and needs in designing and implementing development programmes, and specifically to address the feminization of poverty and its root causes, including secure land tenure; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 1998 | ||
Women in extreme poverty 1993, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests Member States and international, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to allocate or reallocate national resources through appropriate channels with a view to assisting women living in poverty to be active agents as well as direct beneficiaries of poverty eradication programmes; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 1993 | ||
Women in extreme poverty 1993, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests Governments to strengthen the effectiveness of national machinery for the advancement of women, in order to guarantee the inclusion of a gender perspective in the mainstream of socio-economic policies at the national level, giving particular attention to women living in extreme poverty; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 1993 | ||
Elimination of discrimination against women 2016, para. 14 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Expressing concern about the disparate impact of poverty, global economic crises, austerity measures, climate change, armed conflict and natural disasters on women’s and girls’ health and well-being, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Elimination of discrimination against women 2010, para. 17 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon States to pay particular attention to discrimination against women in situations of vulnerability, such as women living in poverty, migrant women, women with disabilities and women belonging to minorities; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
Women in development 2015, para. 25 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming also that women are key contributors to the economy and to combating poverty and inequalities, through both paid and unpaid work, at home, in the community and in the workplace and that the empowerment of women is a critical factor in the eradication of poverty, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Human rights and extreme poverty 2016, para. 14 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stressing that special attention should be given to those who are living in extreme poverty and in vulnerable situations, in particular women, children, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples, | United Nations General Assembly | 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 | ||
Human rights and extreme poverty 2014, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stressing that special attention should be given to those who are living in extreme poverty and in vulnerable situations, in particular women, children, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas 2013, para. 2a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Urges Member States, in collaboration with the organizations of the United Nations system, and civil society, as appropriate, to continue their efforts to implement the outcome of and to ensure an integrated and coordinated follow-up to the relevant United Nations conferences and summits, including their reviews, and to attach greater importance to the improvement of the situation of rural women, including indigenous women, in their national, regional and global development strategies by, inter alia:] Creating an enabling environment for improving the situation of rural women and ensuring systematic attention to their needs, priorities and contributions, including through enhanced cooperation and a gender perspective, and their full participation in the development, implementation and follow-up of macroeconomic policies, including development policies and programmes and poverty eradication strategies, including poverty reduction strategy papers, where they exist, based on the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, and the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
Women in development 2013, para. 14 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming also that women are key contributors to the economy and to combating poverty and inequalities through both remunerated and unremunerated work at home, in the community and in the workplace, and that the empowerment of women is a critical factor in the eradication of poverty, | 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 | ||
Role of microcredit and microfinance in the eradication of poverty 2006, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Bearing in mind also that microcredit programmes have especially benefited women and have resulted in the achievement of their empowerment, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2006 | ||
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 | ||
Women and political participation 2003, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing further that women's participation in decision-making and in political, civil, economic, social and cultural life is negatively affected by poverty, which disproportionately affects women, particularly in developing countries, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2003 |