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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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General Conclusion On International Protection 2000, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Affirming the importance of according priority attention to the protection needs of women, children, adolescents, and the elderly in the planning and implementation of UNHCR programmes and State policies; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 2000 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2016, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that children and adolescents are more likely to be lost to care and that those on antiretroviral medication are less likely than adults to reach viral load suppression and that there are many challenges in diagnosing and treating infants, children and adolescents, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Concerned also that women and adolescent girls have unequal access to health resources, including sexual and reproductive health-care services, for the prevention of HIV infection and treatment of and care and support for people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: engaging men and boys in preventing and responding to violence against all women and girls 2017, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Taking note of the work of the High-level Working Group on the Health and Human Rights of Women, Children and Adolescents, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Rights of the child 2004, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Taking note of the issuance by the Committee on the Rights of the Child of general comment No. 3 (2003) on HIV/AIDS and the rights of the child, general comment No. 4 (2003) on adolescent health and development in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and general comment No. 5 (2003) on general measures of implementation of the Convention (arts. 4, 42 and 44, para. 6), | United Nations Commission on Human Rights | Resolution |
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| 2004 | ||
Adolescents and youth 2012, para. 22 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing also that malaria-related ill health and deaths throughout the world, particularly among children, adolescents and youth, can be substantially reduced with political commitment and commensurate resources if the public is educated and sensitized about malaria and appropriate health services are made available, particularly in countries where the disease is endemic, | Commission on Population and Development | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Adolescents and youth 2012, para. 17 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Deeply concerned that young women living with HIV would like to space or limit pregnancy but are not using an effective modern method of contraception owing to limited access to voluntary family planning services and that addressing reproductive health and HIV together would better serve the needs of clients and health-care providers in a more comprehensive, cost-effective and efficient manner, | Commission on Population and Development | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Adolescents and youth 2012, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting with concern that for millions of people throughout the world, the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including access to medicines, still remains a distant goal and that in many cases, especially for children, youth and people living in poverty, the likelihood of achieving this goal is becoming increasingly remote, | Commission on Population and Development | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2016, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing the need to intensify efforts to end the AIDS epidemic through fast-tracking the HIV response across the prevention and treatment continuum, including in the context of the 90-90-90 targets of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and acknowledging the specific vulnerabilities of adolescent and young girls and women owing to, inter alia, unequal power relations in society between women and men, boys and girls, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2014, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting that, during a natural disaster, pregnant or lactating women and adolescent girls, who constitute an average of 18 to 20 per cent of the female population, are more vulnerable to disasters because of their limited physical mobility and their increased needs for food and water and for access to reproductive health care and safe birthing facilities, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2007, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Concerned that the vulnerability of women, girls and adolescents to HIV/AIDS is increased by their unequal legal, economic and social status, including poverty as well as other cultural and physiological factors, violence against women and girls and adolescents, early marriage, forced marriage, premature and early sexual relations, commercial sexual exploitation and female genital mutilation, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2006, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Concerned that the vulnerability of women, girls and adolescents to HIV/AIDS is increased by their unequal legal, economic and social status, including poverty as well as other cultural and physiological factors, violence against women and girls and adolescents, early marriage, forced marriage, premature and early sexual relations, commercial sexual exploitation and female genital mutilation, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2006 | ||
Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 2017, para. 20 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting global initiatives and partnerships to assist countries in the implementation of the commitments of the 2030 Agenda, inter alia, the Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health (2016-2030), the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, the Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage, the Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting, the High Time to End Violence against Children initiative, Alliance 8.7 to eradicate forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking and child labour, the Global Partnership for Education, the Global Education First Initiative, the Global Alliance for reporting progress on promoting peaceful, just and inclusive societies, the We Protect Global Alliance to End Child Sexual Abuse Online, and the Fast-Track strategy to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, and tools such as the technical guidance on the application of a human rights-based approach to the implementation of policies and programmes to reduce and eliminate preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights 2016, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Taking note of the Secretary-General’s renewed Global Strategy on Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health, and recognizing the important role it may play in reducing preventable maternal mortality and morbidity, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula 2016, para. 13 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing the need to raise awareness among men and adolescent boys and, in this context, to fully engage men and community leaders as strategic partners and allies in the efforts to address and eliminate obstetric fistula, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
The girl child 2015, para. 21 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Emphasizing that increased and equal access to quality education for young people, especially adolescent girls, including in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, as well as health care, hygiene and sanitation, dramatically lowers their vulnerability to preventable diseases and infections, in particular HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula 2014, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing the need to raise awareness among men and adolescent boys and, in this context, to fully engage men and community leaders as strategic partners and allies in the efforts to address and eliminate obstetric fistula, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
The girl child 2013, para. 32 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Emphasizing that increased access to education for young people, especially adolescent girls, including in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, as well as health care, hygiene and sanitation, dramatically lowers their vulnerability to preventable diseases and infections, in particular HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula 2010, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing further the serious immediate and long-term implications for health, including sexual and reproductive health, as well as increased vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, and the negative impact on psychological, social and economic development that violence against the girl child and adolescent girls represents for individuals, families, communities and States, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula 2008, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing further the serious immediate and long-term implications for health, including sexual and reproductive health, as well as increased vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, and the negative impact on psychological, social and economic development, that violence against the girl child and adolescent girls represents for individuals, families, communities and States, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2008 | ||
Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula 2007, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing further the serious immediate and long-term implications for health, including sexual and reproductive health, as well as increased vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, and the negative impact on psychological, social and economic development, that violence against the girl child and adolescent girls represents for individuals, families, communities and States, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula 2016, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing further that adolescent girls are at particular risk of maternal death and morbidity, including obstetric fistula, and concerned that the leading cause of death among girls aged 15 to 19 in many low- and middle-income countries is complications from pregnancy and childbirth and that women aged 30 and older are at increased risk of developing complications and of dying during childbirth, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula 2014, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing further that adolescent girls are at particular risk of maternal death and morbidity, including obstetric fistula, and concerned that the leading cause of death among girls aged 15 to 19 in many low- and middle-income countries is complications from pregnancy and childbirth and that women aged 30 and older are at increased risk of developing complications and of dying during childbirth, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Adolescents and youth 2012, para. 16 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing also that young people between 15 and 24 years of age account for more than 40 per cent of all new HIV infections among those aged 15 years or over because of the social and economic factors and other inequities that increase their vulnerability, including stigma and discrimination, gender-based and sexual violence, gender inequality and violations and lack of accurate information on HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and ready access to sexual and reproductive health, including HIV services, | Commission on Population and Development | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern 2016, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Acknowledging the work done by the United Nations and its specialized agencies, funds and programmes in relation to the reduction and elimination of preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age, and in that regard notes the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016-2030) and the establishment of the Independent Accountability Panel, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Expressing deep concern that more than 350,000 women and adolescent girls still die every year from largely preventable complications related to pregnancy or childbirth, that adolescent girls face a higher risk of complications and death and that the average annual percentage decline in the global maternal mortality ratio still falls short of the figure of 5.5 per cent required to achieve the first target of Millennium Development Goal 5, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Rights of the child: A holistic approach to the protection and promotion of the rights of children working and/or living on the street 2011, para. 17 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Deeply concerned also about children, including adolescent girls, working and/or living on the street, facing violence, including sexual exploitation, HIV infection and other serious health problems, substance use and early pregnancies, and about the situation of children born on the street, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
Child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings 2017, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting the work of the World Health Organization High-level Working Group on the Health and Human Rights of Women, Children and Adolescents, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Adolescents and youth 2012, para. 15 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that reproductive rights embrace certain human rights that are already recognized in national laws, international human rights documents and other consensus documents and rest on the recognition of the basic right of all couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children and to have the information and means to do so, the right to attain the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health, the right to make decisions concerning reproduction free of discrimination, coercion and violence, as expressed in human rights documents, and the right to have control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence, | Commission on Population and Development | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Adolescents and youth 2012, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing also that the full implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the key actions for its further implementation, including those related to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, which would also contribute to the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, as well as those on population and development, education and gender equality, is integrally linked to global efforts to eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development, and that population dynamics are all-important for development, | Commission on Population and Development | Resolution |
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