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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. 1a | 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: a) Introduce legislative measures that eliminate all forms of discrimination against girls and young women and ensure their human rights and fundamental freedoms; | 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. undefined | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | FIRMLY CONVINCED that any practice that hinders or endangers the normal growth and affects the physical and psychological development of women and girls should be condemned and eliminated; | 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. k | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | For the purpose of the present Protocol: k) “Women” means persons of female gender, including girls; | 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. p | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | For the purpose of the present Convention: p. "Women" mean persons of the female gender, including girls; | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2009 | ||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. g | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | BEARING IN MIND the international Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979) and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights relating to the Rights of Women in Africa (2003) and the progress achieved in eliminating gender discrimination, but ever cognisant of the obstacles that still prevent girls and women from fully participating in African society; | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
Adolescents and youth 2012, para. 20 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Emphasizing that the full implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons will contribute to address all factors and root factors that foster demand and make adolescents and youth, especially young women and girls, vulnerable to trafficking, as well as the protection and rehabilitation of victims and will, inter alia, promote, as appropriate, increased ratification and full implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, | Commission on Population and Development | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2012, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling all previous resolutions on women, the girl child and HIV and AIDS, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34yy | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Take measures to ensure that all workplaces are free from discrimination and exploitation, violence, and sexual harassment and bullying, and that they address discrimination and violence against women and girls, as appropriate, through measures such as regulatory and oversight frameworks and reforms, collective agreements, codes of conduct, including appropriate disciplinary measures, protocols and procedures, referral of cases of violence to health services for treatment and police for investigation; as well as through awareness-raising and capacity-building, in collaboration with employers, unions and workers, including workplace services and flexibility for victims and survivors; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2013 | ||
Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34jj | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Design and implement national policies that aim at transforming those social norms that condone violence against women and girls, and work to counteract attitudes by which women and girls are regarded as subordinate to men and boys or as having stereotyped roles that perpetuate practices involving violence or coercion; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2013 | ||
Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls 2013, para. 34ll | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Commission urges governments, at all levels[...] to take the following actions:] [Addressing structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent violence against women and girls]: Carry out awareness-raising and education campaigns, in cooperation with civil society organizations, especially women's organizations, through different means of communication, targeting the general public, young people, men and boys, to address the structural and underlying causes of violence and abuse against women and girls; to overcome gender stereotypes and promote zero tolerance for such violence; to remove the stigma of being a victim and survivor of violence; and to create an enabling environment where women and girls can easily report incidences of violence and make use of the services available and of protection and assistance programmes; | Commission on the Status of Women | CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration |
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| 2013 | ||
Traffic in women and girls 1995, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming its faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women, enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 1995 | ||
Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Encourages the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women and the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, as well as the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery of the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, to continue to pay special attention to the problem of trafficking in women and girl children, and to make available their reports thereon to the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-second session; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Traffic in women and girls 1997, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Encourages the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to continue to consider the problem of trafficking in human persons in the context of its discussions on the question of organized transnational crime; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2002, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Welcoming General Assembly resolution S-26/2 of 27 June 2001, entitled “Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS”, adopted at its twenty-sixth special session, held in New York from 25 to 27 June 2001, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2002 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2005, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming the relevant strategic objectives and actions set out in the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, and the goals and targets set forth in the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, adopted by the General Assembly at its twenty-sixth special session in 2001, and the HIV/AIDS-related goals contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration of 2000, in particular the aim of Member States to have halted, by 2015, and begun to reverse, the spread of HIV/AIDS, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2005 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2005, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling its resolutions 46/2 of 15 March 2002, 47/1 of 10 March 2003 and 48/2 of 9 March 2004 on women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2005 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2006, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, adopted by the General Assembly at its twenty-sixth special session in 2001, the HIV/AIDS-related goals contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration of 2000 and the Millennium Development Goals, in particular the aim of Member States to have halted, by 2015, and begun to reverse, the spread of HIV/AIDS, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2006 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2006, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling also all previous resolutions on this subject, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2006 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2006, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Taking note of the Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, as adopted by the Second International Consultation on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, annexed to the report of the Secretary-General, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2006 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2006, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirms the need for Governments, supported by the relevant actors, including civil society, to intensify national efforts and international cooperation in the implementation of the commitments contained in the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, the Beijing Platform for Action and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, and to work towards reflecting effectively in their national policies, strategies and budgets the gender dimension of the pandemic, in line with the time-bound goals of the Declaration and the Platform for Action; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2006 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2006, para. 41 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Decides to consider this question further at its fifty-first session. | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2006 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2007, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirms the need for Governments, supported by the relevant actors, including civil society, to intensify national efforts and international cooperation in the implementation of the commitments contained in the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, the Beijing Platform for Action3 and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, and to work towards effectively reflecting in their national policies, strategies and budgets the gender dimension of the pandemic, in line with the time-bound goals of the Declaration and the Platform for Action; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
Forced marriage of the girl child 2007, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-second session on the implementation of the present resolution. | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2007, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Taking note of the Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, as adopted by the Second International Consultation on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2008, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS of 2006, the HIV/AIDS-related goals contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration of 2000 and the Millennium Development Goals, in particular the aim of Member States to have halted, by 2015, and begun to reverse, the spread of HIV/AIDS, as well as them commitments on HIV/AIDS made at the 2005 World Summit, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2008 | ||
Ending female genital mutilation 2008, para. 17 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon the international community, the relevant United Nations entities and civil society to actively support, through the allocation of appropriate financial resources, targeted, innovative programmes and to disseminate best practices that address the needs and priorities of girls in vulnerable situations, such as that of female genital mutilation, who have difficulty accessing services and programmes, and in this regard welcomes the commitment of ten United Nations agencies in their joint statement of 27 February 2008 to continue working towards the elimination of female genital mutilation by, inter alia, providing technical and financial assistance to achieve this goal; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2008 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2008, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling all previous resolutions on this subject, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2008 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2009, para. 41 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stresses that the review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action during its fifty-fourth session must take into account the disproportionate impact of HIV and AIDS on women and girls; | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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| 2009 | ||
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2009, para. 43 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Decides to consider this question at its fifty-fourth session. | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2010, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Taking note of the outcome of the 2008 high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS, | Commission on the Status of Women | Resolution |
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