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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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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 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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| 2017 | ||
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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| 2016 | ||
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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| 2000 | ||
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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| 1995 | ||
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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| 2016 | ||
Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 7g | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon States to take effective action to prevent violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls, by:] Ensuring free birth registration, including free or low-fee late birth registration, and further identifying and removing physical, administrative, procedural and any other barriers that impede access to birth registration, particularly barriers faced by indigenous women and girls, ensuring adequate training, and increasing, as needed, the accessibility of birth registration facilities; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage 2015, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Further urges States to strengthen their efforts 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 marriage, divorce and death registration as part of the civil registration and vital statistics systems, especially for individuals living in rural and remote areas, including by identifying and removing all physical, administrative, procedural and any other barriers that impede access to registration and by providing, where lacking, mechanisms for the registration of customary and religious marriages; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2015, para. 14 | 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 bodies, 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, and also requests the High Commissioner to prepare a report on efforts made in this regard and to submit it to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-third session; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2015, para. 8 | 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, and taking into consideration that registering a person’s birth is a vital step towards the promotion and protection of all of his or her human rights, and that persons without birth registration are more vulnerable to marginalization, exclusion, discrimination, violence, statelessness, exploitation and abuse, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage 2015, para. 18 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that birth registration and marriage, divorce and death registration are part of a comprehensive civil registration system that facilitates the development of vital statistics and the effective planning and implementation of programmes and policies intended to promote better governance and to achieve internationally agreed development goals, and that the absence of compulsory registration of customary and religious marriages is a major stumbling block for the implementation of existing legislation and other initiatives to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2015, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon States to establish or strengthen existing institutions at all levels responsible for birth registration 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, 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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| 2015 | ||
Rights of the child: Towards better investment in the rights of the child 2015, para. 26 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reminds States of their obligation to register births without discrimination of any kind, and calls upon States to do so irrespective of the status of the child’s parents, and to ensure free birth registration, including free or low-fee late birth registration limited to cases that would otherwise result in a lack of registration, by means of universal, accessible, simple, expeditious and effective registration procedures, without discrimination of any kind, as a means for providing an official record of the existence of a person and the recognition of that individual as a person before the law, and granting access to services and enjoyment of all the rights to which the child is entitled; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Intensifying global efforts and sharing good practices to effectively eliminate female genital mutilation 2014, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming that female genital mutilation is a form of discrimination, an act of violence against women and girls and a harmful practice that constitutes a serious threat to their health, including their psychological, sexual and reproductive health, which can increase their vulnerability to HIV and may have adverse obstetric and prenatal outcomes as well as fatal consequences for the mother and the newborn, and that the abandonment of this harmful practice can be achieved as a result of a comprehensive movement that involves all public and private stakeholders in society, including girls and boys, women and men, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern 2014, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Deeply concerned that more than 6,300,000 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, as well as 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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| 2014 | ||
Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern 2014, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Acknowledging the work done by the United Nations and its specialized agencies, programmes and funds in relation to the reduction and elimination of preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age, and in that regard welcoming the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health launched by the Secretary-General, and the related establishment of the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health and the Independent Expert Review Group on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health, the action plan “Every Newborn: an action plan to end preventable deaths” endorsed by the World Health Assembly, and the analytical study by the World Health Organization entitled “Women’s and Children’s Health: Evidence of Impact of Human Rights”, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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