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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 Youth Charter 2006, para. b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Every young person shall have responsibilities towards his family and society, the State, and the international community. Youth shall have the duty to: b) Protect and work for family life and cohesion; | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. l | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States Parties shall adopt and enforce legislative and other measures to guarantee women equal opportunities in work and career advancement and other economic opportunities. In this respect, they shall: l) recognise that both parents bear the primary responsibility for the upbringing and development of children and that this is a social function for which the State and the private sector have secondary responsibility; | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2003 | ||
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. i | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States Parties shall ensure that women and men enjoy equal rights and are regarded as equal partners in marriage. They shall enact appropriate national legislative measures to guarantee that: a woman and a man shall jointly contribute to safeguarding the interests of the family, protecting and educating their children; | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2003 | ||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. The family, as the most basic social institution, shall enjoy the full protection and support of States Parties for its establishment and development noting that the structure and form of families varies in different social and cultural contexts. | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States Parties shall ensure that women and men enjoy equal rights and are regarded as equal partners in marriage. They shall enact appropriate national legislative measures to guarantee that: monogamy is encouraged as the preferred form of marriage and that the rights of women in marriage and family, including in polygamous marital relationships are promoted and protected; | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2003 | ||
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. Women and men shall have the right to inherit, in equitable shares, their parents' properties. | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2003 | ||
African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention) 2009, para. 2h | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States Parties shall: h. Take necessary measures, including the establishment of specialized mechanisms, to trace and reunify families separated during displacement and otherwise facilitate the re-establishment of family ties; | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2009 | ||
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa 2003, para. a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The States Parties undertake to: a) ensure the protection of poor women and women heads of families including women from marginalized population groups and provide the an environment suitable to their condition and their special physical, economic and social needs; | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2003 | ||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Every young person shall have responsibilities towards his family and society, the State, and the international community. Youth shall have the duty to: c) Have full respect for parents and elders and assist them anytime in cases of need in the context of positive African values; | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. Young men and women of full age who enter into marriage shall do so based on their free consent and shall enjoy equal rights and responsibilities. | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
The contribution of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development to the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals 2009, para. 26 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Encourages Governments, including through technical and financial support and cooperation, to prevent and address, as a matter of priority, deaths and complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, which are still the leading cause of death of women of reproductive age in many developing countries, recognizing that maternal mortality and morbidity have shown very little decline in the least developed countries, that the lack of safe motherhood services is still one of the world's urgent concerns and that reducing maternal mortality and morbidity saves women's lives, protects family health, alleviates poverty and improves opportunities for the next generations; | Commission on Population and Development | Resolution |
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| 2009 | ||
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 29 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Encourages Governments, including through technical and financial support and cooperation, to prevent and address, as a matter of priority, deaths and complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, which are still the leading cause of death of women of reproductive age in many developing countries, recognizing that maternal mortality and morbidity have shown very little decline in the least developed countries, that the lack of safe motherhood services is still one of the world's urgent concerns and that reducing maternal mortality and morbidity saves women's lives, protects family health, alleviates poverty and improves opportunities for future generations; | Commission on Population and Development | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Also urges Governments and development partners, including through international cooperation, in order to improve maternal health, reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality and prevent and respond to HIV and AIDS, to strengthen health systems and ensure that they prioritize universal access to sexual and reproductive information and health-care services, including family planning, prenatal care, safe delivery and post-natal care, especially breastfeeding and infant and women's health care, emergency obstetric care, prevention and appropriate treatment of infertility, quality services for the management of complications arising from abortion, reducing the recourse to abortion through expanded and improved family planning services and, in circumstances where abortion is not against the law, training and equipping health-service providers and other measures to ensure that such abortion is safe and accessible, recognizing that in no case should abortion be promoted as a method of family planning, prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, and other reproductive health conditions and information, education and counselling, as appropriate, on human sexuality, reproductive health and responsible parenthood, taking into account the particular needs of those in vulnerable situations, which would contribute to the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Development Goals; | Commission on Population and Development | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 18 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes the rights, duties and responsibilities of parents and other persons legally responsible for adolescents to provide, in a manner consistent with the evolving capacities of the adolescent, appropriate direction and guidance on sexual and reproductive matters, and that countries must ensure that the programmes and attitudes of health-care providers do not restrict the access of adolescents to appropriate services and the information they need, including on sexually transmitted infections and sexual abuse, and recognizes that in doing so, and in order to, inter alia, address sexual abuse, these services must safeguard the right of adolescents to privacy, confidentiality, respect and informed consent, respecting cultural values and religious beliefs, and that in this context, countries should, where appropriate, remove legal, regulatory and social barriers to reproductive health information and care for adolescents; | Commission on Population and Development | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 18 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing further that the availability of safer, more effective, affordable and acceptable methods of modern contraception, although still inadequate in some respects, has permitted greater opportunities for individual choice and responsible decision-making in matters of reproduction and that this ability to decide both the number and spacing of children has directly improved the immediate and long-term health of women, children and families, | Commission on Population and Development | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 38 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon the international community to assist Governments in reducing unmet needs for family planning by increasing financial resources for the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, especially in the area of family planning and commodities within primary health-care systems, ensuring that funding lines for family planning programmes and commodities are included in national budget formulations and that funding enables the development of quality, comprehensive and integrated reproductive health programmes; | Commission on Population and Development | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
The contribution of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development to the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals 2009, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges Governments, in order to ensure the contribution of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development to the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, to, inter alia, protect and promote the full respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms regardless of age and marital status, including by eliminating all forms of discrimination against girls and women, working more effectively to achieve equality between women and men in all areas of family responsibility and in sexual and reproductive life, empowering women and girls, promoting and protecting women's and girls' right to education at all levels, providing young people with comprehensive education on human sexuality, on sexual and reproductive health, on gender equality and on how to deal positively and responsibly with their sexuality, enacting and enforcing laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses, ensuring the right of women 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, combating all forms of violence against women, including harmful traditional and customary practices such as female genital mutilation, developing strategies to eliminate gender stereotypes in all spheres of life and achieving gender equality in political life and decision-making, which would contribute to the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Development Goals; | Commission on Population and Development | Resolution |
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| 2009 | ||
Adolescents and youth 2012, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the obligations of States parties to 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 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, | Commission on Population and Development | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Assessment of the status of implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 2014, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling further the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the obligations of States parties to 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 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, | Commission on Population and Development | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges Governments, in order to ensure the contribution of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development to the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, to, inter alia, protect and promote the full respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms regardless of age and marital status, including by eliminating all forms of discrimination against girls and women; working more effectively to achieve equality between women and men in all areas of family responsibility and in sexual and reproductive life; empowering women and girls, promoting and protecting women's and girls' right to education at all levels; providing young people with comprehensive education on human sexuality, on sexual and reproductive health, on gender equality and on how to deal positively and responsibly with their sexuality; enacting and enforcing laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses; ensuring the right of women 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; combating all forms of violence against women, including harmful traditional and customary practices such as female genital mutilation; developing strategies to eliminate gender stereotypes in all spheres of life and achieving gender equality in political life and decision-making, which would contribute to the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Development Goals; | Commission on Population and Development | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 26 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Encourages Member States to adopt and implement legislation and policies to promote the reconciliation of paid work and family responsibilities through, inter alia, family-friendly and gender-sensitive work environments, the facilitation of breastfeeding for working mothers and the provision of the necessary care for working women's children and other dependants and increased flexibility in working arrangements, and to ensure that both women and men have access to maternity, paternity, parental and other forms of leave and are not discriminated against when availing themselves of such benefits; | Commission on Population and Development | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
The contribution of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development to the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals 2009, para. 21 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes the dire need to increase financial resources for the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, particularly for family planning, and calls upon the international community to assist Governments in this regard, to increase funding to reduce unmet needs for family planning, which is far below suggested targets, and to ensure that funding lines for family planning programmes and commodities are included in national budget formulations and that development funding enables the development of quality, comprehensive and integrated reproductive health programmes; | Commission on Population and Development | Resolution |
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Assessment of the status of implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 2014, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes the rights, duties and responsibilities of parents and other persons legally responsible for adolescents to provide, in a manner consistent with the evolving capacities of the adolescent, appropriate direction and guidance on sexual and reproductive matters, and that countries must ensure that the programmes and attitudes of health-care providers do not restrict the access by adolescents to appropriate services and the information they need, including on sexually transmitted infections and sexual abuse, and also recognizes that in doing so, and in order to address, inter alia, sexual abuse, these services must safeguard the right of adolescents to privacy, confidentiality, respect and informed consent, respecting cultural values and religious beliefs, and that in this context countries should, where appropriate, remove legal, regulatory and social barriers to reproductive health information and care for adolescents; | Commission on Population and Development | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 2014 | ||
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges Governments, in order to ensure the contribution of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development to the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, to, inter alia, protect and promote full respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms regardless of age and marital status, including by eliminating all forms of discrimination against girls and women, working more effectively to achieve equality between women and men in all areas of family responsibility and in sexual and reproductive life, empowering women and girls, promoting and protecting the right of women and girls to education at all levels, providing young people with comprehensive education on human sexuality, on sexual and reproductive health, on gender equality and on how to deal positively and responsibly with their sexuality, enacting and enforcing laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses, ensuring the right of women 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, combating all forms of violence against women, including harmful traditional and customary practices such as female genital mutilation, developing strategies to eliminate gender stereotypes in all spheres of life and achieving gender equality in political life and decision-making, which would contribute to the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Development Goals; | Commission on Population and Development | Resolution |
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Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 15 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Noting that, owing to declining mortality levels and the persistence of high fertility levels, a large number of developing countries continue to have very large proportions of children and young people in their populations and that these young populations have health, education and employment needs to be met by families, local communities, countries and the international community, | Commission on Population and Development | Resolution |
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Advancement of women and the family 1992, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling its resolution 34/7 of 8 March 1990, in which the Commission decided to give further consideration to the question of the International Year of the Family at subsequent sessions, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Advancement of women and the family 1992, para. 1c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Recommends to the Commission on Social Development that the following elements be taken into account at its thirty-third session when preparing for the 1994 International Year of the Family:] (c) That, as regards equality of women and men, the concept of equality must be understood as expressed in the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women and in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and must be taken into account in all policies and programmes for the International Year of the Family; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2010, para. 29 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Welcomes the call by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 2015, and urges Governments to rapidly scale up access to prevention and treatment programmes to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV and to encourage men to participate with women in programmes designed to prevent mother-to-child transmission, to encourage women and girls to participate in those programmes and to provide sustained treatment and care for the mother after pregnancy, including care and support for the family; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Ending female genital mutilation 2010, para. 11 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Further urges States to provide education and training on the rights of women and girls to families, community leaders and members of all professions relevant to the protection and empowerment of women and girls, such as all levels of health-care providers, social workers, police officers, legal and judicial personnel and prosecutors, in order to increase awareness and commitment to the promotion and protection of the rights of women and girls and appropriate responses to rights violations with regard to female genital mutilation; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Women's economic empowerment 2010, para. 14e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Urges States and/or, as appropriate, the relevant entities of the United Nations system, international and regional organizations, within their respective mandates, as well as civil society, the private sector, employer organizations, trade unions, media and other relevant actors:] To develop or strengthen policies and programmes to support the multiple roles of women in society, while acknowledging the social significance of maternity and motherhood, parenting, the role of parents and legal guardians in the upbringing of children and caring for other family members; such policies and programmes should also promote shared responsibility of parents, women and men and society as a whole; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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