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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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The girl child 1996, para. 3c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon all States and international and non-governmental organizations, individually and collectively:] To give attention to the rights and needs of adolescent girls, which call for special action for their protection from sexual exploitation and abuse, harmful cultural practices, teenage pregnancy and vulnerability to sexually transmitted diseases and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and for the development of life skills and self- esteem, reaffirming that the advancement and empowerment of women throughout the life cycle must begin with the girl child at all ages; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 1996 | ||
The girl child 1997, para. 4d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon all States and international and non-governmental organizations, individually and collectively:] To give attention to the rights and needs of adolescent girls, which call for special action for their protection from sexual and economic exploitation and abuse, harmful traditional and cultural practices, teenage pregnancy and vulnerability to the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and sexually transmitted diseases and for the development of life skills and self-esteem, reaffirming that the advancement and empowerment of women throughout the life cycle must begin with the girl child at all ages; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 1997 | ||
The girl child 1998, para. 6d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon all States and international and non-governmental organizations, individually and collectively:] To give attention to the rights and needs of adolescent girls, which call for special action for their protection from sexual and economic exploitation and abuse, harmful traditional and cultural practices, teenage pregnancy and vulnerability to sexually transmitted diseases and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and for the development of life skills and self-esteem, reaffirming that the advancement and empowerment of women throughout the life cycle must begin with the girl child at all ages; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 1998 | ||
Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century 2000, para. 24 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | We further recognize with great concern that juveniles in difficult circumstances are often at risk of becoming delinquent or easy candidates for recruitment by criminal groups, including groups involved in transnational organized crime, and we commit ourselves to undertaking countermeasures to prevent this growing phenomenon and to including, where necessary, provisions for juvenile justice in national development plans and international development strategies and to including the administration of juvenile justice in our funding policies for development cooperation. | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 2000 | ||
The rights of the child 2000, para. II.10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges States to give particular emphasis to the prevention of HIV infection in young children and strengthen efforts to prevent adolescents and women from becoming HIV-infected, inter alia, by including HIV/AIDS prevention in educational curricula and educational programmes consistent with the epidemiology of the diseases in each State, and by supporting wide-scale voluntary HIV testing and counselling programmes for pregnant women, together with services for HIV-infected pregnant women to reduce the risk of transmitting the virus from HIV/AIDS-infected pregnant women to their children; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2000 | ||
The rights of the child 2002, para. II.9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon all States and relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, in particular the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund, to pay particular attention to the development of sustainable health systems and social services to ensure the effective prevention of disease, malnutrition, disability and infant and child mortality, including through prenatal and post-natal health care, as well as the provision of necessary medical treatment and health care to all children, taking into consideration the special needs of young children and girls, including prevention of common infectious diseases, the special needs of adolescents, including those relating to reproductive and sexual health and threats from substance abuse and violence, and the particular needs of children living in poverty, children in situations of armed conflict and children in other vulnerable groups, and to strengthen ways of empowering families and communities; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2002 | ||
The rights of the child 2002, para. II.12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges States to give particular emphasis to the prevention of HIV infection in young children and strengthen efforts to prevent adolescents and women from becoming HIV-infected, inter alia, by including HIV/AIDS prevention in educational curricula and educational programmes consistent with the epidemiology of the diseases in each State, and by supporting wide-scale voluntary HIV testing and counselling programmes for pregnant women, together with services for HIV- infected pregnant women to reduce the risk of transmitting the virus from infected pregnant women to their children; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2002 | ||
The rights of the child 2002, para. II.16 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Also urges all States to make appropriate treatment and rehabilitation accessible for children, including adolescents, dependent on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, inhalants and alcohol; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2002 | ||
The rights of the child 2002, para. IV.7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon States to take all appropriate steps to combat the misuse of new information and communication technologies, including the Internet, for trafficking in children and for purposes of all forms of sexual exploitation and abuse, in particular the sale of children, child prostitution, child pornography, child sex tourism, acts of paedophilia and other forms of violence and abuse against children and adolescents, and notes that the use of such technologies can also contribute to preventing and eradicating such phenomena; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2002 | ||
The rights of the child 2002, para. IV.13 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Also calls upon States to identify best practices and to take all appropriate national, bilateral and multilateral measures, to allocate resources for the development of long-term policies, programmes and practices, to collect comprehensive and disaggregated gender-specific data and, while reaffirming the right of children, including adolescents, to express themselves freely, to facilitate the participation of child victims of sexual exploitation, taking into account their age and maturity, in the development of strategies to end the sale of children and their organs, sexual exploitation and abuse, including the use of children for pornography, prostitution and acts of paedophilia, and to combat existing markets; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2002 | ||
Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights 2015, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon countries of origin, transit and destination to facilitate family reunification, as appropriate, as an important objective in order to promote the welfare and the best interests of migrant children, including adolescents, as applicable under national law, due process and the relevant provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocols thereto, and to comply with the consular notification and access obligations set forth in the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations so that States may provide child-friendly consular assistance, as appropriate, including legal assistance; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights 2015, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests the Advisory Committee to develop a research-based study on the global issue of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights, in which it identifies areas, reasons and cases where this issue arises in the world, and the ways in which human rights are threatened and violated, and makes recommendations for the protection of the human rights of members of this population, and to submit it to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-third session for its consideration; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights 2015, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Decides to remain seized of the matter. | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
The rights of the child 2003, para. 22 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon all States to take all appropriate measures to develop sustainable health systems and social services and to ensure access to such systems and services without discrimination and to pay particular attention to adequate food and nutrition to prevent disease and malnutrition, to prenatal and post-natal health care, to the special needs of adolescents, to reproductive and sexual health and to threats from substance abuse and violence, in particular to all vulnerable groups, and calls upon all States parties to take all necessary measures to ensure the right of all children, without discrimination, to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2003 | ||
The rights of the child 2003, para. 25c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Also calls upon all States:] To 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 | Resolution |
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| 2003 | ||
The rights of the child 2003, para. 25d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Also calls upon all States:] To promote an educational setting that eliminates all barriers that impede the schooling of pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2003 | ||
The rights of the child 2004, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirms that the general principles of, inter alia, the best interests of the child, non-discrimination, participation and survival and development provide the framework for all actions concerning children, including adolescents; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2004 | ||
The rights of the child 2004, para. 18 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon all States to take all necessary measures to ensure the right of the child, without discrimination, to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to develop sustainable health systems and social services, to ensure access to such systems and services without discrimination and to pay particular attention to adequate food and nutrition to prevent disease and malnutrition, to prenatal and post-natal health care, to the special needs of adolescents and to reproductive and sexual health; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2004 | ||
The rights of the child 2004, para. 21b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Also calls upon all States:] To design and implement programmes to provide social services and support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular by enabling them to continue and complete their education; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2004 | ||
The girl child 2005, para. 23 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests Member States to ensure that, in preventing and addressing HIV/AIDS, particular attention and support is given to the girl child infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS, including adolescent mothers; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2005 | ||
The rights of the child 2005, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirms that the general principles of, inter alia, the best interests of the child, non-discrimination, participation and survival and development provide the framework for all actions concerning children, including adolescents; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2005 | ||
The rights of the child 2006, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirms that the general principles of, inter alia, the best interests of the child, non-discrimination, participation and survival and development provide the framework for all actions concerning children, including adolescents; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2006 | ||
The rights of the child 2006, para. 18 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon all States to take all necessary measures to ensure the right of the child, without discrimination, to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to develop sustainable health systems and social services, to ensure access to such systems and services without discrimination and to pay particular attention to adequate food and nutrition to prevent disease and malnutrition, to prenatal and post-natal health care, to the special needs of adolescents and to reproductive and sexual health; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2006 | ||
The rights of the child 2006, para. 21b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Also calls upon all States:] To design and implement programmes to provide social services and support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular by enabling them to continue and complete their education; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2006 | ||
The girl child 2007, para. 30 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon States to strengthen the capacity of national health systems, and in this regard calls upon the international community to assist national efforts, including by allocation of adequate resources in order to provide essential services needed to prevent obstetric fistula and to treat those cases that occur by providing the continuum of services, including family planning, prenatal and post-natal care, skilled birth attendance, emergency obstetric care and post-partum care, to adolescent girls, including those living in poverty and in underserved rural areas where obstetric fistula is most common; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
The rights of the child 2007, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirms that the general principles of, inter alia, the best interests of the child, non-discrimination, participation and survival and development provide the framework for all actions concerning children, including adolescents; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
The rights of the child 2007, para. 26a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon States:] To take all necessary measures to ensure the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to develop sustainable health systems and social services, ensuring access to such systems and services without discrimination, paying special attention to adequate food and nutrition and combating disease and malnutrition, to access to safe drinking water and sanitation, to the special needs of male and female adolescents and to reproductive and sexual health, and securing appropriate prenatal and post-natal care for mothers, including measures to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and in this context to realize millennium development goals 4, 5 and 6; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
The rights of the child 2008, para. 24a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon States:] To take all necessary measures to ensure the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to develop sustainable health systems and social services, ensuring access to such systems and services without discrimination, paying special attention to adequate food and nutrition and combating disease and malnutrition, to access to safe drinking water and sanitation, to the special needs of male and female adolescents and to reproductive and sexual health, and securing appropriate prenatal and post-natal care for mothers, including measures to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and in this context to realize the millennium development goals aimed at reducing child mortality, improving maternal health and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2008 | ||
The rights of the child 2008, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirms that the general principles of, inter alia, the best interests of the child, non-discrimination, participation and survival and development provide the framework for all actions concerning children, including adolescents; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2008 | ||
The girl child 2009, para. 41 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon States to strengthen the capacity of national health systems, and in this regard calls upon the international community to assist national efforts, including by allocation of adequate resources in order to provide essential services needed to prevent obstetric fistula and to treat those cases that occur by providing the continuum of services, including family planning, prenatal and post-natal care, skilled birth attendance, emergency obstetric care and post-partum care, to adolescent girls, including those living in poverty and in underserved rural areas where obstetric fistula is most common; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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