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Rights of the child (2013), para. 089 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (q) To take measures to eliminate gender-based violence against and sexual exploitation and trafficking of indigenous children, and to actively involve indigenous peoples and their communities in the efforts towards the elimination of these practices; |
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Draft outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly of September 2005 (2005), para. 089 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 44. We reaffirm our commitment to support developing country efforts to ensure that all children have access to and complete free and compulsory primary education of good quality, to eliminate gender inequality and imbalance and to renew efforts to improve girls’ education. We also commit ourselves to continuing to support the efforts of developing countries in the implementation of the Education for All initiative, including with enhanced resources of all types through the Education for All fast-track initiative in support of country-led national education plans. |
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Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (2016), para. 65 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 18. Encourages the Agency, in close cooperation with other relevant United Nations entities, to continue to make progress in addressing the needs, rights and protection of children, women and persons with disabilities in its operations, including through the provision of necessary psychosocial and humanitarian support, in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 16 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 17 and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; 18 |
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Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence (2017), para. 04 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Recalling further all other relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Security Council, specifically those on women and peace and security and on children and armed conflict, and the Economic and Social Council, as well as those of the Human Rights Council and the Commission on the Status of Women, and relevant resolutions and processes of specialized agencies of the United Nations system on the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls, |
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Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (2004), para. 17 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 9. Urges States parties to comply strictly with their obligations under the Convention, including, in view of the high number of reports not submitted, their obligation to submit reports in accordance with article 19 of the Convention, and invites States parties to incorporate a gender perspective and information concerning children and juveniles when submitting reports to the Committee against Torture; |
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Progress at mid-decade on the implementation of General Assembly resolution 45/217 on the World Summit for Children (1997), para. 29 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 24. Also calls upon Governments and the United Nations system to promote an active and visible policy of mainstreaming a gender perspective in the implementation of the goals of the World Summit for Children; |
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United Nations Model Strategies and Practical Measures on the Elimination of Violence against Children in the Field of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (2015), para. 224 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (e) To design and implement mandatory, cross-cultural gender- and child- sensitivity training modules for criminal justice professionals on the unacceptability of all forms of violence against children and on the harmful impact on and consequences for all those who experience such violence; |
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Human rights in the administration of justice (2004), para. 25 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 15. Invites Governments, relevant international and regional bodies, national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations to devote increased attention to the issue of women in prison, including the children of women in prison, with a view to identifying the key problems and ways in which they can be addressed, and notes the proposal of the Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights to prepare a working paper on this question; 11 |
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Follow-up to the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond (2018), para. 12 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 4. Encourages Member States to promote work-family balance as conducive to the well-being of children, the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, inter alia, through flexible working and leave arrangements, parental leave, affordable, accessible and good quality childcare and initiatives to promote the equal sharing of household responsibilities, including unpaid care work, between men and women; |
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Humanitarian assistance and reconstruction of Liberia (2009), para. 08 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Strongly condemning all acts of gender-based violence, including sexual violence committed against civilians, in particular women and children, and underlining the need to implement the Government of Liberia/United Nations Joint Programme to Prevent and Respond to Sexual Gender-based Violence (2008–2012), |
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The right to development (2002), para. 37 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 16. Underlines the fact that, in the process of the realization of the right to development, special attention should be given to persons belonging to minorities, whether national, ethnic, religious or linguistic, as well as to persons belonging to vulnerable groups, such as elderly people, indigenous people, persons facing discrimination on multiple grounds, Roma, migrants, persons with disabilities and children and persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), and that such attention should have a gender perspective; |
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Eliminating rape and other forms of sexual violence in all their manifestations, including in conflict and related situations (2008), para. 34 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (c) To assign adequate resources within the United Nations system to those bodies, specialized agencies, funds and programmes responsible for the promotion of gender equality and women’s rights and to efforts throughout the United Nations system to eliminate violence against women and girls and design programmes to provide assistance to victims, including children born as a result; |
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Rights of the child (2016), para. 044 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Prevention and elimination of violence against children |
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The girl child (2001), para. 32 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 23. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that a gender perspective and the needs and rights of the girl child are integrated into the preparatory work for the special session of the General Assembly on the follow-up to the World Summit for Children in 2001, inter alia, by providing the General Assembly with a comprehensive report drawing on the experiences and outcomes of the five-year reviews of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Fourth World Conference on Women and the World Summit for Social Development, and the World Education Forum. |
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Commemorative high-level plenary meeting devoted to the follow-up to the outcome of the special session on children (2007), para. 14 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 7. Requests the President of the General Assembly, following consultations to be held with all Member States no later than 30 September 2007, with due regard to gender balance and equitable geographical representation, to draw up and circulate a list of three speakers for the closing plenary meeting in accordance with paragraph 6 above and a list of twenty children and twenty representatives of non- governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, as well as those accredited to or in a collaborative relationship or partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund, who will participate in the two round tables on the understanding that ten children and ten representatives of non- governmental organizations will participate in each of the round tables and that non- governmental organizations in a collaborative relationship or partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund will be considered on a no-objection basis for a final decision by the General Assembly; |
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2019), para. 40 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 10. Stresses the importance of mainstreaming a gender and age perspective into justice systems at all levels to ensure equal protection of the law for women and girls, taking into consideration, inter alia, the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules), the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) and the United Nations Model Strategies and Practical Measures on the Elimination of Violence against Children in the Field of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice; |
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2013), para. 13 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Recognizing the Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, undertaken by a broad coalition of partners, in support of national plans and strategies aimed at significantly reducing the number of maternal, newborn and under-five child deaths and disabilities as a matter of immediate concern by scaling up a priority package of high-impact interventions and integrating efforts in sectors such as health, education, gender equality, water and sanitation, poverty eradication and nutrition, |
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2011), para. 19 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 2. Stresses the need to address the social issues that contribute to the problem of obstetric fistula, such as early marriage of the girl child, early pregnancy, lack of access to sexual and reproductive health, lack of or inadequate education of women and girls, poverty and the low status of women and girls; |
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The girl child (2014), para. 47 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 13. Urges all States to promote gender equality and equal access to basic social services, such as education, nutrition, water and sanitation, birth registration, health care, vaccinations and protection from diseases representing the major causes of mortality, including non-communicable diseases, and to mainstream a gender perspective into all development policies and programmes, including those specific to the girl child; |
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Terrorism and human rights (2019), para. 31 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 10. Also recognizes the important role of women in preventing and countering terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism, and requests States to consider the impact of counter-terrorism strategies on women’s and children’s enjoyment of human rights and to seek consultations with their respective organizations when developing strategies to counter terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism; |
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Draft outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly of September 2005 (2005), para. 131 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (g) Achieving universal access to reproductive health by 2015, as set out at the International Conference on Population and Development, integrating this goal in strategies to attain the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration, aimed at reducing maternal mortality, improving maternal health, reducing child mortality, promoting gender equality, combating HIV/AIDS and eradicating poverty; |
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Nelson Mandela International Day (2009), para. 03 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Recognizing also Nelson Mandela’s values and his dedication to the service of humanity, as a humanitarian, in the fields of conflict resolution, race relations, promotion and protection of human rights, reconciliation, gender equality and the rights of children and other vulnerable groups, as well as the upliftment of poor and underdeveloped communities, |
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (2019), para. 23 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Noting the adoption by the sixth Ministerial Conference on the Role of Women in the Development of Member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, held in Istanbul from 1 to 3 November 2016, of its revised Plan of Action for the Advancement of Women and its implementation mechanism, and the establishment of the Advisory Women Council, as well as activities of the Department of Family Affairs of the General Secretariat of the Organization to deal specific ally with issues concerning women and children, and underscoring the cooperation between the Department and relevant United Nations agencies, including the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), |
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2018), para. 49 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (ff) Taking appropriate measures to adopt or develop legislation and policies that provide rural women with access to land and support women’s cooperatives and agricultural programmes, including for subsistence agriculture, in order to contribute to school feeding programmes as a pull factor to keep children, in particula r girl children, in school, noting that school meals and take-home rations attract and retain children in schools and recognizing that school feeding is an incentive to enhance enrolment and reduce absenteeism, especially for girls; |
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Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (2019), para. 33 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 15. Encourages Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to organize training programmes and to support projects with a view to training or educating military forces, law enforcement officers and government officials, as well as private personnel acting on behalf of the State, in international humanitarian and human rights law connected with their work, to include a gender and child rights perspective in such training and to require, where appropriate, that all private security providers have vetting and training procedures in place, including mandatory appropriate weapons training, that include human rights norms and principles, and appeals to the international community and requests the Office of the High Commissioner to support endeavours to that end; |
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Rights of the child (2014), para. 075 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (k) To address the gender dimension of all forms of violence against children and incorporate a gender perspective in all policies adopted and actions taken to protect children against all forms of violence, acknowledging that girls and boys face varying risks from different forms of violence at different ages and in different situations, and in this context recalls the agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women, including those adopted at its fifty-seventh session, 36 on the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls; |
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The girl child (2014), para. 24 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Recognizing also that girl children are often at greater risk of being exposed to and encountering various forms of discrimination and violence, which continue to hinder efforts towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, and reaffirming the need to achieve gender equality to ensure a just and equitable world for girls, including through partnering with men and boys, as an important strategy for advancing the rights of the girl child, |
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United Nations Literacy Decade: education for all (2003), para. 04 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Reaffirming that a basic education is crucial to nation-building, that literacy for all is at the heart of basic education for all and that creating literate environments and societies is essential for achieving the goals of eradicating poverty, reducing child mortality, curbing population growth, achieving gender equality and ensuring sustainable development, peace and democracy, |
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Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (2013), para. 27 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 12. Encourages Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to organize training programmes and to support projects with a view to training or educating military forces, law enforcement officers and government officials in international humanitarian and human rights law connected with their work and to include a gender and child rights perspective in such training, and appeals to the international community and requests the Office of the High Commissioner to support endeavours to that end; |
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Terrorism and human rights (2020), para. 37 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 16. Also recognizes the important role of women in preventing and countering terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism, and requests States to consider, when appropriate, the impact of counter-terrorism strategies on women’s and children’s human rights, and to seek consultations with their respective organizations when developing strategies to counter terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism; |
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