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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. 1h | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. States Parties acknowledge the need to eliminate discrimination against girls and young women according to obligations stipulated in various international, regional and national human rights conventions and instruments designed to protect and promote women's rights. In this regard, they shall: h) Take steps to provide equal access to health care services and nutrition for girls and young women; | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
Right to food 2014, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Encourages all States to take action to address gender inequality and discrimination against women, in particular when they contribute to the malnutrition of women and girls, including measures to ensure the full and equal realization of the right to food and that women have equal access to resources, including income, land and water and their ownership and agricultural inputs, as well as full and equal access to health care, education, science and technology, to enable them to feed themselves and their families, and in this regard stresses the need to empower women and strengthen their role in decision-making; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
The right to food 2016, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stresses that the primary responsibility of States is to promote and protect the right to food and that the international community should provide, through a coordinated response and upon request, international cooperation in support of national and regional efforts by providing the assistance necessary to increase food production and access to food, including through agricultural development assistance, the transfer of technology, food crop rehabilitation assistance and food aid, ensuring food security, with special attention to the specific needs of women and girls, and promoting innovation, support for the development of adapted technologies, research on rural advisory services and support for access to financing services, and ensure support for the establishment of secure land tenure systems; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
The right to food 2016, para. 16 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stresses that the primary responsibility of States is to promote and protect the right to food, and that the international community should provide, through a coordinated response and upon request, international cooperation in support of national and regional efforts by providing the assistance necessary to increase food production and access to food, particularly through agricultural development assistance, the transfer of technology, food crop rehabilitation assistance and food aid, ensuring food security, with special attention to the specific needs of women and girls, support for the development of adapted technologies, research on rural advisory services and support for access to financing services, and to ensure support for the establishment of secure land tenure systems; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls 2014, para. 42cc | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Commission urges Governments, at all levels [...] to take the following actions:] [Realizing women's and girls' full enjoyment of all human rights]: Recognize, resource and support programmes that advance gender equality and women's rights in all areas of economic activities, including fisheries and aquaculture, to address food security and nutrition, and meaningfully facilitate women's contributions to small-scale and artisan fisheries and aquaculture, commercial fisheries, and the use and care of oceans and seas; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2014 | ||
Right to food 2005, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Expresses its concern that women are disproportionately affected by hunger, food insecurity and poverty, in part as a result of gender inequality and discrimination, that in many countries, girls are twice as likely as boys to die from malnutrition and preventable childhood diseases, and that it is estimated that almost twice as many women as men suffer from malnutrition; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2005 | ||
Right to food 2006, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Expresses its concern that women and girls are disproportionately affected by hunger, food insecurity and poverty, in part as a result of gender inequality and discrimination, that in many countries, girls are twice as likely as boys to die from malnutrition and preventable childhood diseases, and that it is estimated that almost twice as many women as men suffer from malnutrition; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2006 | ||
Right to food 2007, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Encourages all States to take action to address gender inequality and discrimination against women, in particular where it contributes to the malnutrition of women and girls, including measures to ensure the full and equal realization of the right to food and ensuring that women have equal access to resources, including income, land and water, to enable them to feed themselves and their families; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
Right to food 2008, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Expresses its concern that women and girls are disproportionately affected by hunger, food insecurity and poverty, in part as a result of gender inequality and discrimination, that in many countries, girls are twice as likely as boys to die from malnutrition and preventable childhood diseases and that it is estimated that almost twice as many women as men suffer from malnutrition; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2008 | ||
The girl child 2009, para. 36 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon all States to integrate food and nutritional support with the goal that children, especially girl children, have access at all times to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences, for an active and healthy life, as part of a comprehensive response to HIV and AIDS and other communicable diseases; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2009 | ||
The girl child 2009, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that chronic poverty remains the single biggest obstacle to meeting the needs of and promoting and protecting the rights of children and that urgent national and international action is therefore required to eliminate it, and noting that the burden of the global financial and economic crisis, the energy crisis, the food crisis and the continuing food insecurity as a result of various factors is felt directly by households, especially those depending on income from the informal sector, and particularly by women and girls, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2009 | ||
Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas 2015, para. 2l | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Urges Member States, in collaboration with the organizations of the United Nations system and civil society, as appropriate, to continue their efforts to implement the outcome of and to ensure an integrated and coordinated follow-up to the relevant United Nations conferences and summits, including their reviews, and to attach greater importance to the improvement of the situation of rural women and girls, in their national, regional and global development strategies by, inter alia:] Valuing and supporting the critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women in rural areas, in the conservation and sustainable use of traditional crops and biodiversity for present and future generations as an essential contribution to food security and nutrition; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
The right to food 2013, para. 13 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stresses that the primary responsibility of States is to promote and protect the right to food and that the international community should provide, through a coordinated response and upon request, international cooperation in support for national and regional efforts by providing the assistance necessary to increase food production, particularly through agricultural development assistance, the transfer of technology, food crop rehabilitation assistance and food aid ensuring food security, with special attention to the specific needs of women and girls; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
The right to food 2014, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Encourages all States to take action to address de jure and de facto gender inequality and discrimination against women, in particular where it contributes to the malnutrition of women and girls, including measures to ensure the full and equal realization of the right to food and ensuring that women have equal access to social protection and to resources, including income, land and water and their ownership, as well as full and equal access to education, science and technology, to enable them to feed themselves and their families; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
The right to food 2015, para. 15 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stresses that the primary responsibility of States is to promote and protect the right to food and that the international community should provide, through a coordinated response and upon request, international cooperation in support for national and regional efforts by providing the assistance necessary to increase food production and access to food, particularly through agricultural development assistance, the transfer of technology, food crop rehabilitation assistance and food aid ensuring food security, with special attention to the specific needs of women and girls, support for the development of adapted technologies, research on rural advisory services and support for access to financing services, and ensure support for the establishment of secure land tenure systems; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that the root causes of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity, which can constrain efforts to eliminate them and contribute to their unacceptably high global rates, encompass a wide range of interlinked underlying factors related to development, human rights and health, including, inter alia, poverty, illiteracy, lack of economic opportunities, challenges associated with rapid population growth, poor nutrition, barriers to education, discrimination against women and girls, harmful traditional practices, such as female genital mutilation/cutting and early and forced marriage, as well as gender-based violence, lack of participation in decision-making, poor health infrastructure, inadequate training for health personnel and inadequate investment in education, nutrition and basic health care, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. Objective L5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Eliminate discrimination against girls in health and nutrition | Fourth World Conference on Women | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 1995 | ||
The right to food 2017, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes that reinforcing the rights of girls and women, especially those who are poor and vulnerable, to education and social protection and that increasing women's participation in decision-making and access to resources in an objective manner are critical for enhancing women's vital role in advancing agricultural development and food security, and recognizes also in that regard that the promotion of agro-industry through the voluntary dissemination of knowledge, the development and transfer of technology, capacity-building and financial support is a precondition for the involvement of women in advancing agriculture in developing countries; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
The right to food 2017, para. 15 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stresses that the primary responsibility of States is to promote and protect the right to food, and that the international community should provide, through a coordinated response and upon request, international cooperation in support of national and regional efforts by providing the assistance necessary to increase food production and access to food, particularly through agricultural development assistance, the transfer of technology, food crop rehabilitation assistance and food aid, achieving food security, with special attention to the specific needs of women and girls, support for the development of adapted technologies, research on rural advisory services and support for access to financing services, and to ensure support for the establishment of secure land tenure systems; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Agriculture development, food security and nutrition 2017, para. 31 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reiterating the importance of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, also reiterating the importance, inter alia, of empowering rural women, youth, small-scale farmers, family farmers and livestock farmers, fishers and fish workers as critical agents for enhancing agricultural and rural development and food security and for improving nutrition outcomes, and acknowledging their fundamental contribution to the environmental sustainability and the genetic preservation of agricultural systems and to sustaining productivity on often marginal lands, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas 2013, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Invites Governments to promote the economic empowerment of rural women, including through entrepreneurship training, and to adopt gender-responsive rural development strategies, including budget framework and relevant assessment measures, as well as to ensure that the needs and priorities of rural women and girls are systematically addressed and that they can effectively contribute to poverty alleviation, hunger eradication and food and nutrition security; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
Women, the girl child and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome 2001, para. 1e | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Actions to be taken by Governments, the United Nations system and civil society, as appropriate]: Alleviate the social and economic impact of HIV/AIDS on women who in their roles as food suppliers and traditional caregivers are primarily affected by the negative consequences of the pandemic, such as a reduced labour force and a breakdown of social service systems; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2001 | ||
Right to food 2008, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Encourages all States to take action to address gender inequality and discrimination against women, in particular where it contributes to the malnutrition of women and girls, including measures to ensure the full and equal realization of the right to food and ensuring that women have equal access to resources, including income, land and water and their ownership, as well as full and equal access to education, science and technology, to enable them to feed themselves and their families; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2008 | ||
Right to food 2011, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Encourages all States to take action to address gender inequality and discrimination against women, in particular where it contributes to the malnutrition of women and girls, including measures to ensure the full and equal realization of the right to food and ensuring that women have equal access to resources, including income, land and water and their ownership, as well as full and equal access to education, science and technology, to enable them to feed themselves and their families; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
Rights of the child 1999, para. 7b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon all States:] And international and non-governmental organizations, individually and collectively, to set goals and to develop and effectively implement gendersensitive strategies to address the rights and needs of children, in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, especially the rights and particular needs of girls in education, health and nutrition, and to eliminate harmful traditional or customary attitudes and practices against girls; | United Nations Commission on Human Rights | Resolution |
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| 1999 | ||
Right to food 2004, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Expresses its concern that women are disproportionately affected by hunger, food insecurity and poverty, in part as a result of gender inequality, that in many countries, girls are twice as likely as boys to die from malnutrition and preventable childhood diseases, and that it is estimated that almost twice as many women as men suffer from malnutrition; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2004 | ||
Right to food 2004, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Encourages all States to take action to address discrimination against women, particularly where it contributes to the malnutrition of women and girls, including measures to ensure the realization of the right to food and ensuring that women have equal access to resources, including income, land and water, to enable them to feed themselves; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2004 | ||
Right to food 2010, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Expresses its concern that women and girls are disproportionately affected by hunger, food insecurity and poverty, in part as a result of gender inequality and discrimination, that in many countries, girls are twice as likely as boys to die from malnutrition and preventable childhood diseases and that it is estimated that almost twice as many women as men suffer from malnutrition; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
The girl child 2011, para. 42 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon all States to integrate food and nutritional support with the goal that children, especially girl children, have access at all times to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences, for an active and healthy life, as part of a comprehensive response to HIV and AIDS, other communicable diseases and non-communicable diseases; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
The right to food 2016, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Also expresses its deep concern that, while women contribute more than 50 per cent of the food produced worldwide, they also account for 70 per cent of the world's hungry, that women and girls are disproportionately affected by hunger, food insecurity and poverty, in part as a result of gender inequality and discrimination, that in many countries girls are twice as likely as boys to die from malnutrition and preventable childhood diseases, and that it is estimated that almost twice as many women as men suffer from malnutrition; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2016 |