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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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African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention) 2009, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Women and men as well as separated and unaccompanied children shall have equal rights to obtain such necessary identity documents and shall have the right to have such documentation issued in their own names. | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2009 | ||
Violence against women migrant workers 1997, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Bearing in mind the Charter of the United Nations, which reaffirms faith in human rights and fundamental freedoms, in the dignity and worth of the human person, and in the equal rights of women and men, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 1997 | ||
Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2012, para. 2h | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Urges Governments and, where appropriate, United Nations entities, civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, and other stakeholders to:] Design, implement and evaluate gender-sensitive economic relief and recovery projects, including vocational and technical skills training measures, in order to help ensure equal economic opportunities between men and women, paying attention to eliminating obstacles to women's rapid integration or reintegration into the formal employment sector, owing to their role in the social and economic process, and taking into account the rural and urban migration that natural disasters may provoke; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Violence against women migrant workers 1995, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Bearing in mind the Charter of the United Nations, which reaffirms faiths in human rights and fundamental freedoms, in the dignity and worth of the human person, and in the equal rights of women and men, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 1995 | ||
Violence against women migrant workers 1996, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Bearing in mind the Charter of the United Nations, which reaffirms faith in human rights and fundamental freedoms, in the dignity and worth of the human person, and in the equal rights of women and men, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 1996 | ||
Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2014, para. 4j | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Urges Governments and, where appropriate, United Nations entities, civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, and other stakeholders:] To design, implement and evaluate gender-responsive economic relief and longer-term recovery projects, including vocational and technical skills training measures, in order to help ensure equal economic opportunities for men and women, paying attention to eliminating obstacles to women's rapid integration or reintegration into the formal employment sector, owing to their role in the social and economic process, and taking into account the rural and urban migration that natural disasters may provoke; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Women migrant workers 2008, para. 16 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Women migrant workers may be unable to save or transmit savings safely through regular channels due to isolation (for domestic workers), cumbersome procedures, language barriers, or high transaction costs. This is a great problem since in general they earn less than men. Women may further face familial obligations to remit all their earnings to their families to a degree that may not be expected of men. For example, single women may be expected to support even extended family members at home. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2008 | ||
Gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women 2014, para. 62 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Articles 1 to 3 of the Convention also support the right of women to benefit, on an equal basis with men, from naturalization for themselves and their spouses. Discrimination against women in this respect impedes the reduction of statelessness. The same holds true when women are unable to confer their nationality on their stateless spouses. It may also create further risks of statelessness in the case of children born out of such unions. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2014 | ||
Gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women 2014, para. 61b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Article 9 (2) of the Convention requires States parties to ensure that women and men have equal rights to confer their nationality to their children. The non-fulfilment by States parties of their obligations under article 9 (2) places children at risk of statelessness. Nationality laws that grant nationality through paternal descent alone infringe article 9 (2) and may render children stateless if:] The laws of the father's country do not permit him to confer nationality in certain circumstances, such as when the child is born abroad; | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2014 | ||
Gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women 2014, para. 61c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Article 9 (2) of the Convention requires States parties to ensure that women and men have equal rights to confer their nationality to their children. The non-fulfilment by States parties of their obligations under article 9 (2) places children at risk of statelessness. Nationality laws that grant nationality through paternal descent alone infringe article 9 (2) and may render children stateless if:] The father is unknown or not married to the mother at the time of the child's birth; | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2014 | ||
Gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women 2014, para. 63b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [In the light of the foregoing, the Committee recommends that States parties that have not already done so:] Review and reform their nationality laws to ensure equality of women and men with regard to the acquisition, changing and retention of nationality and to enable women to transmit their nationality to their children and to their foreign spouses and to ensure that any obstacles to practical implementation of such laws are removed, in full compliance with articles 1 to 3 and 9 of the Convention; | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2014 | ||
Gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women 2014, para. 59 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Article 9 of the Convention establishes that women enjoy the rights to acquire, change or retain their nationality and to confer their nationality on their children on an equal basis with men. The Committee has interpreted that this right also applies to spouses. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2014 | ||
Gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women 2014, para. 52 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Article 9 (2) of the Convention provides that women are to have the same rights as men to acquire, retain or change their nationality, regardless of marriage and divorce and of what their husbands do with their own nationality. Women are also, according to the Convention, to transmit their nationality to their children under the same conditions as their husbands, whether they are in their own country or abroad. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2014 | ||
Women migrant workers 2008, para. 11 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Women migrant workers may face sex- and gender-based discrimination, including compulsory HIV and AIDS testing for women returnees, moral "rehabilitation" for young women returnees and increased personal and social costs compared to men, without adequate gender-responsive services. For example, men may return to a stable family situation, whereas women may find disintegration of the family upon their return, with their absence from home regarded as the cause of such disintegration. There may also be a lack of protection against reprisals from exploitative recruiting agents. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2008 | ||
Gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women 2014, para. 61a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Article 9 (2) of the Convention requires States parties to ensure that women and men have equal rights to confer their nationality to their children. The non-fulfilment by States parties of their obligations under article 9 (2) places children at risk of statelessness. Nationality laws that grant nationality through paternal descent alone infringe article 9 (2) and may render children stateless if:] The father is stateless; | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2014 | ||
Gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women 2014, para. 61e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Article 9 (2) of the Convention requires States parties to ensure that women and men have equal rights to confer their nationality to their children. The non-fulfilment by States parties of their obligations under article 9 (2) places children at risk of statelessness. Nationality laws that grant nationality through paternal descent alone infringe article 9 (2) and may render children stateless if:] The father has been unwilling to fulfil administrative steps to confer his nationality or acquire proof of nationality for his children, for example if he has abandoned the family. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2014 | ||
Rights of rural women 2016, para. 29 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In line with general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, States parties should ensure that rural women may acquire, change, retain or renounce their nationality, or transfer it to their children and foreign spouse under the same conditions as men, and that they are aware of their rights in this regard. States parties should also provide rural women with access to personal identification documents (such as identity cards, passports and social security numbers) and ensure that civil registration procedures, including for birth, marriage, divorce and death, are accessible in rural areas. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2016 | ||
Gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women 2014, para. 63f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [In the light of the foregoing, the Committee recommends that States parties that have not already done so:] Promote awareness of recent legal and policy development granting women equal rights with men to acquire, change or retain their nationality or that enable women to confer their nationality to their children and their foreign spouses; | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2014 | ||
Gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women 2014, para. 63d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [In the light of the foregoing, the Committee recommends that States parties that have not already done so:] Consider permitting dual nationality where women have married foreign men, and for the children born of such unions, especially in situations in which legal regimes providing for dual nationality may lead to statelessness; | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2014 | ||
Equality in marriage and family relations 1994, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Migrant women who live and work temporarily in another country should be permitted the same rights as men to have their spouses, partners and children join them. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 1994 | ||
Gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women 2014, para. 61d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Article 9 (2) of the Convention requires States parties to ensure that women and men have equal rights to confer their nationality to their children. The non-fulfilment by States parties of their obligations under article 9 (2) places children at risk of statelessness. Nationality laws that grant nationality through paternal descent alone infringe article 9 (2) and may render children stateless if:] The father has been unable to fulfil administrative steps to confer his nationality or acquire proof of nationality for his children because, for example, he has died, has been forcibly separated from his family or cannot fulfil onerous documentation or other requirements; | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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| 2014 | ||
Conclusion on Protracted Refugee Situations 2009, para. (k) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes that protracted refugee situations can increase the risks to which refugees may be exposed and that, in this respect, there is a need to identify and respond effectively to the specific protection concerns of men, women, girls and boys, in particular, unaccompanied and separated children, adolescents, persons with disabilities, and older persons, who may be exposed to heightened risks, including sexual and gender-based violence and other forms of violence and exploitation; and encourages UNHCR and States to pursue age, gender and diversity mainstreaming and participatory approaches with a view to enhancing the safety, well-being and development of refugees and promoting appropriate solutions for them; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 2009 | ||
Personal Security of Refugees 1993, para. (b) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges States to take all measures necessary to prevent or remove threats to the personal security of refugees and asylum-seekers in border areas and elsewhere, including by affording UNHCR and, as appropriate, other organizations approved by the Governments concerned prompt and unhindered access to them, by situating refugee camps and settlements in secure locations, by ensuring the safety of vulnerable groups, by facilitating the issuance of personal documentation, and by involving the refugee community, both women and men, in the organization and administration of their camps and settlements; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 1993 | ||
Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Acknowledging that, while forcibly displaced men and boys also face protection problems, women and girls can be exposed to particular protection problems related to their gender, their cultural and socio-economic position, and their legal status, which mean they may be less likely than men and boys to be able to exercise their rights and therefore that specific action in favour of women and girls may be necessary to ensure they can enjoy protection and assistance on an equal basis with men and boys, | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 2006 | ||
Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (k) iii | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The empowerment of displaced women and girls is to be enhanced including by partnerships and actions to:] work with the displaced community, including men and boys, to rebuild family and community support systems undermined by conflict and flight and to raise awareness of the rights of women and girls and understanding of gender roles. | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 2006 | ||
General Conclusion On International Protection 2004, para. (t) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Acknowledges, consistent with UNHCR's Convention Plus initiative, the importance of comprehensive approaches, especially for the resolution of protracted and large-scale refugee situations, which incorporate, as appropriate and given the specifics of each refugee situation, voluntary repatriation, local integration and resettlement; encourages UNHCR, States and other relevant actors to pursue comprehensive arrangements for specific refugee situations that draw upon combinations of solutions; and notes that a community development approach, ensuring the participation of refugee men and women, and refugee children, as appropriate, contributes to the success of such solutions; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 2004 | ||
Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (c) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Identification and analysis of the presence and severity of these different factors help determine which women and girls are at heightened risk and enable targeted responses to be devised and implemented. Identification can present particular challenges because women and girls are often less visible in displaced populations than men and boys, they may not be or feel able to report protection incidents, particularly if these occur in the private domain. It is therefore important to ensure an enabling environment which supports continuing identification and analysis of the situation. | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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| 2006 | ||
Refugee Protection and Sexual Violence 1993, para. (c) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon States and UNHCR to ensure the equal access of women and men to refugee status determination procedures and to all forms of personal documentation relevant to refugees' freedom of movement, welfare and civil status, and to encourage the participation of refugee women as well as men in decisions relating to their voluntary repatriation or other durable solutions; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 22 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | One fourth of all households world wide are headed by women and many other households are dependent on female income even where men are present. Female- maintained households are very often among the poorest because of wage discrimination, occupational segregation patterns in the labour market and other gender-based barriers. Family disintegration, population movements between urban and rural areas within countries, international migration, war and internal displacements are factors contributing to the rise of female-headed households. | Fourth World Conference on Women | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 1995 | ||
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 36 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Global trends have brought profound changes in family survival strategies and structures. Rural to urban migration has increased substantially in all regions. The global urban population is projected to reach 47 per cent of the total population by the year 2000. An estimated 125 million people are migrants, refugees and displaced persons, half of whom live in developing countries. These massive movements of people have profound consequences for family structures and well-being and have unequal consequences for women and men, including in many cases the sexual exploitation of women. | Fourth World Conference on Women | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 1995 |