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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. 1f | 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: f) Ensure that education material and teaching practices are gender sensitive and encourage girls and young women to undertake studies in the sciences; | 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. 1c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 1. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to: c) protect women, especially the girl-child from all forms of abuse, including sexual harassment in schools and other educational institutions and provide for sanctions against the perpetrators of such practices; | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2003 | ||
Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings 2005, para. d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | To discourage the demand that fosters all forms of exploitation of persons, especially women and children, that leads to trafficking, each Party shall adopt or strengthen legislative, administrative, educational, social, cultural or other measures including:
d. preventive measures, including educational programmes for boys and girls during their schooling, which stress the unacceptable nature of discrimination based on sex, and its disastrous consequences, the importance of gender equality and the dignity and integrity of every human being. | Council of Europe | Regional treaty |
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| 2005 | ||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1e | 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: e) Guarantee equal access to and completion of vocational, secondary and higher education in order to effectively address the existing imbalance between young men and women in certain professions; | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1g | 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: g) Provide educational systems that do not impede girls and young women, including married and/or pregnant young women, from attending; | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
Women and peace and security 2009, para. 11 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges Member States, United Nations bodies and civil society, including non-governmental organizations, to take all feasible measures to ensure women and girls’ equal access to education in post-conflict situations, given the vital role of education in the promotion of women’s participation in post-conflict decision-making; | United Nations Security Council | Resolution |
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| 2009 | ||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 4h | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 4. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures with a view to achieving full realisation of this right and shall, in particular: h) Ensure, where applicable, that girls and young women who become pregnant or married before completing their education shall have the opportunity to continue their education; | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1d | 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: d) Guarantee universal and equal access to and completion of a minimum of nine years of formal education; | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
Children and armed conflict 2003, para. 13 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon Member States and international organizations to ensure that children affected by armed conflict are involved in all disarmament, demobilization and reintegration processes, taking into account the specific needs and capacities of girls, and that the duration of these processes is sufficient for a successful transition to normal life, with a particular emphasis on education, including the monitoring, through, inter alia, schools, of children demobilized in order to prevent re-recruitment; | United Nations Security Council | Resolution |
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| 2003 | ||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 3f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 3. The education of young people shall be directed to: f) The development of life skills to function effectively in society and include issues such as HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, substance abuse prevention and cultural practices that are harmful to the health of young girls and women as part of the education curricula; | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1k | 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: k) Introduce special legislation and programmes of action that make available opportunities to girls and young women including access to education as a prerequisite and a priority for rapid social and economic development; | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2006 | ||
CEDAW - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979, para. f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in order to ensure to them equal rights with men in the field of education and in particular to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women: (f) The reduction of female student drop-out rates and the organization of programmes for girls and women who have left school prematurely; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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African Youth Charter 2006, para. 4l | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 4. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures with a view to achieving full realisation of this right and shall, in particular: l) Introduce scholarship and bursary programmes to encourage entry into post-primary school education and into higher education outstanding youth from disadvantaged communities, especially young girls; | 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. 2c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 2. States Parties shall take specific positive action to: c) promote the enrolment and retention of girls in schools and other training institutions and the organisation of programmes for women who leave school prematurely. | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2003 | ||
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance 2007, para. 1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | State Parties shall endeavour to provide free and compulsory basic education to all, especially girls, rural inhabitants, minorities, people with disabilities and other marginalized social groups. | African Union | Regional treaty |
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| 2007 | ||
European Social Charter (Revised) 1996, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to vocational training, the Parties undertake:
2. to provide or promote a system of apprenticeship and other systematic arrangements for training young boys and girls in their various employments; | Council of Europe | Regional treaty |
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The girl child 1998, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges States, educational institutions and the United Nations system to provide gender-sensitive training for school administrators, parents and all members of the school community; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 1998 | ||
Traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls 1999, para. 1d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Welcomes:] The efforts undertaken by United Nations bodies, programmes and organizations, including the United Nations Children's Fund, the United Nations Population Fund, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the United Nations Development Fund for Women, to address the issue of traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls, and encourages them to continue to coordinate their efforts; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 1999 | ||
The girl child 2000, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming further the Dakar Framework for Action adopted at the World Education Forum, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2000 | ||
The girl child 2003, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming the Dakar Framework for Action adopted at the World Education Forum, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2003 | ||
Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women 2006, para. 8l | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Urges States to take action to eliminate all forms of violence against women by means of a more systematic, comprehensive, multisectoral and sustained approach, adequately supported and facilitated by strong institutional mechanisms and financing, through national action plans, including those supported by international cooperation and, where appropriate, national development plans, including poverty eradication strategies and programme-based and sector-wide approaches, and to this end:] To ensure that men and women and boys and girls have access to education and literacy programmes and are educated on gender equality and human rights, particularly women's rights and their responsibility to respect the rights of others, inter alia, by integrating women's rights into all appropriate curricula and by developing gender-sensitive teaching materials and classroom practices, especially for early childhood education; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2006 | ||
The girl child 2007, para. 29 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges States, the international community, the relevant United Nations entities, civil society and international financial institutions to continue to actively support, through the allocation of increased financial resources, targeted innovative programmes that address ending female genital mutilation and developing and providing education programmes and sensitization workshops on the dire consequences of this harmful practice for the health of the girl and to provide for those who perform the harmful procedure training programmes so that they may adopt an alternative profession; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
The rights of the child 2007, para. 24 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes the right to education on the basis of equal opportunity and non-discrimination by making primary education compulsory and available free to all children, ensuring that all children have access to education of good quality, as well as making secondary education generally available and accessible to all, in particular through the progressive introduction of free education, bearing in mind that special measures to ensure equal access, including affirmative action, contribute to achieving equal opportunity and combating exclusion, and ensuring school attendance, in particular for girls and children from low-income families in order to achieve the objectives of Education for All, with the aim of realizing millennium development goal 2; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2007 | ||
The girl child 2009, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirming the Dakar Framework for Action, adopted at the World Education Forum in 2000, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2009 | ||
The girl child 2011, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon States and the international community to recognize the right to education on the basis of equal opportunity and non-discrimination by making primary education compulsory and available free to all children, and ensuring that all children have access to education of good quality, as well as making secondary education generally available and accessible to all, in particular through the progressive introduction of free education, bearing in mind that special measures to ensure equal access, including affirmative action, contribute to achieving equal opportunity and combating exclusion, and ensuring school attendance, in particular for girls and children from low-income families; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
The girl child 2011, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon States, with the support of international organizations, civil society and non-governmental organizations, as appropriate, to develop policies and programmes, giving priority to formal and informal education programmes, including age-appropriate sex education, with appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians, that support girls and enable them to acquire knowledge, develop self-esteem and take responsibility for their own lives, and to place special focus on programmes to educate women and men, especially parents, about the importance of girls' physical and mental health and well-being, including the elimination of discrimination against girls in child and forced marriages; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas 2013, para. 2z | 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, including indigenous women, in their national, regional and global development strategies by, inter alia:] Supporting a gender-sensitive education system that considers the specific needs of rural women in order to eliminate gender stereotypes and discriminatory tendencies affecting them, including through community-based dialogue involving women and men and girls and boys; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2014, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Further urges States, as appropriate, to promote gender-sensitive, empowering educational processes by reviewing and revising school curricula, educational materials and teacher-training programmes and elaborating policies and programmes of zero tolerance for violence against girls, including female genital mutilations, and to further integrate a comprehensive understanding of the causes and consequences of gender-based violence and discrimination against women and girls into education and training curricula at all levels; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2014, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges States to ensure that the protection and provision of support to women and girls subject to, or at risk of, female genital mutilation are an integral part of policies and programmes that address the practice and to provide women and girls with coordinated, specialized, accessible and quality multisectoral prevention and response, including education, as well as legal, psychological, health-care and social services, provided by qualified personnel, consistent with the guidelines of medical ethics; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
The rights of the child 2015, para. 49c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon all States to give full effect to the right to education for all children and in particular:] To take all appropriate measures to eliminate obstacles to effectively accessing and completing education, such as the cost of education, hunger and poor nutrition, distance from home to school, the institutionalization of children, armed conflicts, all forms of violence in school, insufficient infrastructure, including lack of access to water and sanitation, the lack of adequate and physically and otherwise accessible schooling facilities for girls, and child labour or heavy domestic work, and to ensure that children who are institutionalized also enjoy their right to education; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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