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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 right to development 1996, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming the commitment contained in the Charter of the United Nations to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 1996 | ||
The right to development 1996, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting the need for coordination and cooperation throughout the United Nations system for a more effective promotion of the right to development, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 1996 | ||
Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 1998, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Being Subjected to Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and its resolution 39/46 of 10 December 1984, by which it adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and all its subsequent relevant resolutions, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 1998 | ||
The right to development 2000, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting that the human person is the central subject of development and that development policy should therefore make the human being the main participant in and beneficiary of development, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2000 | ||
The right to development 2000, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stressing the importance of creating an economic, political, social, cultural and legal environment that will enable people to achieve social development, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2000 | ||
The right to development 2001, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Underlining further the important role of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the promotion and protection of the right to development, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2001 | ||
Right to food 2012, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming also all previous resolutions and decisions on the right to food adopted within the framework of the United Nations, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
The rights of the child 2003, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming further the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2003 | ||
Right to food 2012, para. 13 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Resolved to act to ensure that the human rights perspective is taken into account at the national, regional and international levels in measures to address the global food crisis, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Protection of the human rights of civilians in armed conflict 2008, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Guided by the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2008 | ||
Human rights in the administration of justice 2003, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Bearing in mind the principles embodied in articles 3, 5, 8, 9 and 10 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the relevant provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Optional Protocols thereto, in particular article 6 of the Covenant, which states, inter alia, that no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life and prohibits the imposition of the death penalty for crimes committed by persons below 18 years of age, and article 10, which provides that all persons deprived of their liberty shall be treated with humanity and with respect for the inherent dignity of the human person, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2003 | ||
Right to food 2004, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2004 | ||
Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2004, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling the recommendation contained in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993 that high priority be given to providing the necessary resources to assist victims of torture and effective remedies for their physical, psychological and social rehabilitation, inter alia, through additional contributions to the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture, and noting with satisfaction the existence of a considerable international network of centres for the rehabilitation of victims of torture, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2004 | ||
Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2006, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling also that a number of international, regional and domestic courts, including the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, have recognized that the prohibition of torture is a peremptory norm of international law and have held that the prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment is customary international law, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2006 | ||
Right to food 2007, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling further the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in which the fundamental right of every person to be free from hunger is recognized, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
Right to food 2007, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting that environmental degradation, desertification and global climate change are exacerbating destitution and desperation, causing a negative impact on the realization of the right to food, in particular in developing countries, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
Right to food 2008, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling also the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in which the fundamental right of every person to be free from hunger is recognized, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2008 | ||
Human rights and extreme poverty 2008, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and other human rights instruments adopted by the United Nations, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2008 | ||
Right to food 2009, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling also the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in which the fundamental right of every person to be free from hunger is recognized, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2009 | ||
Right to food 2009, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming also that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, and that they must be treated globally, in a fair and equal manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2009 | ||
Right to food 2009, para. 16 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Taking note of the final Declaration adopted at the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on 10 March 2006,[8] | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2009 | ||
Legal empowerment of the poor and eradication of poverty 2009, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reiterating that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2009 | ||
The right to development 2009, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,2 | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2009 | ||
Right to food 2010, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming also the Five Rome Principles for Sustainable Global Food Security contained in the Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security, adopted in Rome on 16 November 2009, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
Right to food 2010, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming further that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, and that they must be treated globally, in a fair and equal manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
Right to food 2010, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Resolved to act to ensure that the human rights perspective is taken into account at the national, regional and international levels in measures to address the global food crisis, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2010, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting that, under the Geneva Conventions of 1949, torture and inhuman treatment are a grave breach and that, under the statute of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, the statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994 and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, acts of torture can constitute crimes against humanity and, when committed in a situation of armed conflict, constitute war crimes, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
Right to food 2011, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling also the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in which the fundamental right of every person to be free from hunger is recognized, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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Right to food 2011, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming also the Five Rome Principles for Sustainable Global Food Security contained in the Declaration of the World Summit on Food Security, adopted in Rome on 16 November 2009, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
The right to development 2011, para. 20 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing also that Member States should cooperate with each other in ensuring development and eliminating obstacles to development, that the international community should promote effective international cooperation for the realization of the right to development and the elimination of obstacles to development and that lasting progress towards the implementation of the right to development requires effective development policies at the national level, as well as equitable economic relations and a favourable economic environment at the international level, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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