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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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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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 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 | ||
The girl child 1995, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon Member States and organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, in particular, the United Nations Children's Fund, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization, to take into account the rights and the particular needs of the girl child, especially in education, health and nutrition, and to eliminate negative cultural attitudes and practices against the girl child; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 1995 | ||
Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula 2014, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Deeply concerned about discrimination against women and girls and the violation of their rights, which often result in less access for girls to education and nutrition, their reduced physical and mental health and the enjoyment by girls of fewer of the rights, opportunities and benefits of childhood and adolescence compared with boys, and in their often being subjected to various forms of cultural, social, sexual and economic exploitation and to violence and harmful practices, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas 2017, para. 14 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Deeply concerned that climate change poses a challenge to poverty eradication and the achievement of sustainable development, threatens food security and increases the risks of famine, and that rural women and girls, especially in developing countries, are disproportionately affected by the impacts of desertification, deforestation, sand and dust storms, natural disasters, persistent drought, extreme weather events, sea level rise, coastal erosion and ocean acidification, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Right to food 2009, 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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| 2009 | ||
Right to food 2010, 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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| 2010 | ||
Right to food 2009, 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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| 2009 | ||
Right to food 2011, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Also 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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| 2011 | ||
The girl child 2013, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing also that urgent national and international action is required to eliminate poverty, in particular extreme poverty, and noting that the ongoing effects of the global financial and economic crisis, volatile energy and food prices and continuing food insecurity as a result of various factors are felt directly by households, especially those headed by girls, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
Right to food 2013, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Expresses its concern that women and girls are disproportionately affected by hunger, food and nutrition 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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| 2013 | ||
Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas 2015, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security and the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems, endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security, which embrace gender equality as one of the main guiding principles of implementation in order to help address the ongoing disparities with regard to access to and control of land and other natural resources, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2015 | ||
Further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 2000, para. 79d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Strengthen measures to improve the nutritional status of all girls and women, recognizing the effects of severe and moderate malnutrition, the lifelong implications of nutrition and the link between mother and child health, by promoting and enhancing support for programmes to reduce malnutrition, such as school meal programmes, mother-child-nutrition programmes and micronutrient supplementation, giving special attention to bridging the gender gap in nutrition; | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 2000 | ||
The right to food 2016, 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 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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| 2016 | ||
The right to food 2016, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Encourages all States to mainstream a gender perspective in food security programmes and to take action to address de jure and de facto gender inequality and discrimination against women, in particular where such inequality and discrimination contribute to the malnutrition of women and girls, including by taking measures to ensure the full and equal realization of the right to food and ensuring that women and girls have equal access to social protection and resources, including income, land and water, and their ownership, and 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 to strengthen their role in decision-making; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
The girl child 2017, para. 38 | 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 requirements for an active and healthy life; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2017 |