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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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European Social Charter (Revised) 1996, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right of employed women to the protection of maternity, the Parties undertake:
3. to provide that mothers who are nursing their infants shall be entitled to sufficient time off for this purpose; | Council of Europe | Regional treaty |
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| 1996 | ||
CRC - Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989, para. 2a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [2. States Parties shall pursue full implementation of this right and, in particular, shall take appropriate measures:] (a) To diminish infant and child mortality; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 1989 | ||
ICESCR - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966, para. 2a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [2. The steps to be taken by the States Parties to the present Covenant to achieve the full realization of this right shall include those necessary for:] (a) The provision for the reduction of the stillbirth-rate and of infant mortality and for the healthy development of the child; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 1966 | ||
African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child 1990, para. 2a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | State Parties to the present Charter shall undertake to pursue the full implementation of this right and in particular shall take measures: to reduce infant and child mortality rate; | Organization of African Unity | Regional treaty |
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| 1990 | ||
European Social Charter (Revised) 1996, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right of employed women to the protection of maternity, the Parties undertake:
4. to regulate the employment in night work of pregnant women, women who have recently given birth and women nursing their infants; | Council of Europe | Regional treaty |
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| 1996 | ||
CRC - Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989, para. 2d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [2. States Parties shall pursue full implementation of this right and, in particular, shall take appropriate measures:] (d) To ensure appropriate pre-natal and post-natal health care for mothers; | United Nations General Assembly | International treaty |
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| 1989 | ||
Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS 2006, para. 27 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Commit ourselves also to ensuring that pregnant women have access to antenatal care, information, counselling and other HIV services and to increasing the availability of and access to effective treatment to women living with HIV and infants in order to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV, as well as to ensuring effective interventions for women living with HIV, including voluntary and confidential counselling and testing, with informed consent, access to treatment, especially life-long antiretroviral therapy and, where appropriate, breast-milk substitutes and the provision of a continuum of care; | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 2006 | ||
Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula 2008, para. 8d | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon States and/or the relevant funds and programmes, organs and specialized agencies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates, and invites the international financial institutions and all relevant actors of civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and the private sector:] To strengthen research, monitoring and evaluation systems, including community-based notification of obstetric fistula cases and maternal and newborn deaths, to guide the implementation of maternal health programmes; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2008 | ||
Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying our Efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS 2011, para. 19 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Welcome the Secretary General's Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health, undertaken by a broad coalition of partners in support of national plans and strategies, to significantly reduce the number of maternal, newborn and under-five child deaths, as a matter of immediate concern, including by scaling up a priority package of high-impact interventions and integrating efforts in sectors such as health, education, gender equality, water and sanitation, poverty reduction and nutrition; | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 2011 | ||
The rights of the child 2010, para. 43f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon all States to include, within the overall context of policies and programmes for all children within their jurisdiction, appropriate provisions for the realization of the rights of children in early childhood, in particular:] To strengthen efforts significantly towards the goal of universal access to comprehensive prevention programmes, treatment, care and support to prevent the spread of the HIV epidemic and alleviate and control the detrimental impact of HIV/AIDS on children and including by taking all appropriate measures to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, to provide timely, accurate diagnosis and effective treatment, including antiretroviral therapies and to ensure adequate alternative care and psychosocial support for children who have lost parents or other primary caregivers to HIV/AIDS; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
The rights of the child 2010, para. 43h | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon all States to include, within the overall context of policies and programmes for all children within their jurisdiction, appropriate provisions for the realization of the rights of children in early childhood, in particular:] To ensure that community and civil society institutions, services and facilities responsible for early childhood comply with national quality standards, especially in the areas of health and social protection, and to develop training programmes to ensure a quality, suitable and well-trained workforce in these areas; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula 2010, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon States to accelerate progress in order to achieve Millennium Development Goal 5 and its two targets by addressing reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health in a comprehensive manner, inter alia, through the provision of family planning, prenatal care, skilled attendance at birth, emergency obstetric and newborn care and methods of prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and infections, such as HIV, within strengthened health systems that provide accessible and affordable integrated health-care services and include community-based preventive and clinical care, as also reflected in the outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, entitled “Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals”, and the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula 2010, para. 9a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon States and/or the relevant funds and programmes, organs and specialized agencies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates, and invites the international financial institutions and all relevant actors of civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and the private sector:] To redouble their efforts to meet the internationally agreed goal of improving maternal health by making maternal health services and obstetric fistula treatment geographically and financially accessible, including by increasing access to skilled attendance at birth, emergency obstetric care and appropriate prenatal and post-natal care; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula 2010, para. 13 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Welcoming further the Secretary-General's Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health, undertaken by a broad coalition of partners, in support of national plans and strategies aimed at significantly reducing the number of maternal, newborn and under-five child deaths as a matter of immediate concern by scaling up a priority package of high-impact interventions and integrating efforts in sectors such as health, education, gender equality, water and sanitation, poverty reduction and nutrition, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula 2012, para. 9c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon States and/or the relevant funds and programmes, organs and specialized agencies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates, and invites the international financial institutions and all relevant actors of civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and the private sector:] To ensure equitable access through national policies, plans and programmes that make maternal and newborn health-care services, particularly family planning, skilled attendance at birth, emergency obstetric and newborn care and obstetric fistula treatment, financially accessible, including in rural and remote areas and among the poorest women and girls, through, where appropriate, the distribution of health-care facilities and trained medical personnel, collaboration with the transport sector for affordable transport options, the promotion of and support for community-based solutions and the provision of incentives and other means to secure the presence in rural and remote areas of qualified health professionals who are able to perform interventions to prevent obstetric fistula; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2012 | ||
Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula 2014, para. 12n | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon States and/or the relevant funds and programmes, organs and the specialized agencies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates, and invites the international financial institutions and all relevant actors of civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and the private sector:] To strengthen research, monitoring and evaluation systems, including by developing a community- and facility-based mechanism for the systematic notification of obstetric fistula cases and maternal and newborn deaths to ministries of health, and their recording in a national register, and by acknowledging obstetric fistula as a nationally notifiable condition, triggering immediate reporting, tracking and follow-up for the purpose of guiding the development and implementation of maternal health programmes; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula 2014, para. 12o | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon States and/or the relevant funds and programmes, organs and the specialized agencies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates, and invites the international financial institutions and all relevant actors of civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and the private sector:] To strengthen research, data collection, monitoring and evaluation to guide the planning and implementation of maternal health programmes, including for obstetric fistula, by conducting up-to-date needs assessments on emergency obstetric and newborn care and for fistula and routine reviews of maternal deaths and near-miss cases as part of a national maternal death surveillance and response system, integrated within national health information systems; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula 2014, para. 12j | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon States and/or the relevant funds and programmes, organs and the specialized agencies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates, and invites the international financial institutions and all relevant actors of civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and the private sector:] To empower fistula survivors to contribute to community sensitization and mobilization as advocates for fistula elimination, safe motherhood and newborn survival; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula 2014, para. 15 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing the Secretary-General's Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health, undertaken by a broad coalition of partners, in support of national plans and strategies aimed at significantly reducing the number of maternal, newborn and under-five child deaths and disabilities as a matter of immediate concern by scaling up a priority package of high-impact interventions and integrating efforts in sectors such as health, education, gender equality, water and sanitation, poverty eradication and nutrition, | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2014 | ||
Key actions for the further implementation of the Programme of Action of the of the International Conference on Population and Development 1999, para. 18a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [18. Governments of developing countries and countries with economies in transition, with the assistance of the international community, especially donors, should:] (a) Continue to support declines in infant and child mortality rates by strengthening infant and child health programmes that emphasize improved prenatal care and nutrition, including breastfeeding, unless it is medically contraindicated, universal immunization, oral rehydration therapies, clean water sources, infectious disease prevention, reduction of exposure to toxic substances, and improvements in household sanitation; and by strengthening maternal health services, quality family-planning services to help couples to time and space births, and efforts to prevent transmission of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases; | United Nations General Assembly | Declaration / Confererence outcome document |
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| 1999 | ||
Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula 2016, para. 14j | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon States and/or the relevant funds and programmes, organs and the specialized agencies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates, and invites the international financial institutions and all relevant actors of civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and the private sector, to end obstetric fistula within a generation by: (j) Empowering fistula survivors to contribute to community sensitization and mobilization as advocates for fistula elimination, safe motherhood and newborn survival; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2016 | ||
Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights: follow-up to Council resolution 11/8 2010, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Welcoming the recent initiatives relevant to preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights, including the Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, the Group of Eight Muskoka initiative on maternal, newborn and under-five child health, as well as the convening of the fifteenth ordinary session of the summit of the African Union in Kampala, from 19 to 27 July 2010, with the theme “Maternal, infant and child health and development in Africa”, the launch of the African Union campaign in accelerated reduction of maternal mortality in Africa and the "Africa cares: no woman should die while giving life" campaign, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2010 | ||
The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health in the context of development and access to medicines 2011, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes the innovative funding mechanisms that contribute to the availability of vaccines and medicines in developing countries, such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the GAVI Alliance and the International Drug Purchase Facility, UNITAID, and calls upon all States, United Nations programmes and agencies, in particular the World Health Organization, and relevant intergovernmental organizations, within their respective mandates, and encourages relevant stakeholders, including pharmaceutical companies, to further collaborate to enable equitable access to good-quality, safe and efficacious medicines that are affordable to all, including those living in poverty, children and other vulnerable groups; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2011 | ||
Rights of the child: The right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health 2013, para. 16 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Deeply concerned that more than six million nine hundred thousand children under the age of 5 die each year, mostly from preventable and treatable causes, caused by lack of access to health care and services, including access to skilled birth attendants and immediate newborn care, as well as to health determinants, such as safe drinking water and sanitation, safe and adequate nutrition, and that mortality remains highest among children belonging to the poorest and most marginalized communities, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
Rights of the child: The right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health 2013, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges all States to ensure birth registration free of cost to all children immediately after birth through universal, accessible, simple, expeditious and effective registration procedures, in accordance with article 7 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and article 24 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to continuously raise awareness of the importance of birth registration at the national, regional and local levels, to ensure free or low-fee late birth registration, to identify and remove physical, administrative, procedural and any other barriers, paying due attention to, among others, those barriers relating to poverty, disability, gender, nationality, displacement, statelessness, illiteracy and detention contexts, and to persons in vulnerable situations that impede access to birth registration, including late birth registration, and to ensure that children who have not been registered enjoy their human rights; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
Rights of the child: The right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health 2013, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Affirms the importance of applying a human rights-based approach to reducing and eliminating preventable maternal and child mortality and morbidity, and requests all States to renew their political commitment in that respect at all levels, and also calls upon States, in adopting a human rights-based approach, especially to scale up efforts to achieve integrated management of maternal, newborn and child health care and to take action to address the main causes of maternal and child mortality; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
Rights of the child: The right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health 2013, para. 11 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon all States and, if appropriate, relevant international organizations, to combat all forms of malnutrition and to support the national plans and programmes of countries to improve nutrition in poor households, in particular plans and programmes that are aimed at combating undernutrition in mothers and children, and those targeting the irreversible effects of chronic undernutrition in early childhood, up to the age of 2 years, and to reaffirm the rights of everyone to have access to safe and nutritious food, consistent with the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger so as to be able to fully develop and maintain their physical and mental capacities; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
Rights of the child: The right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health 2013, para. 13 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Welcomes the comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition of the World Health Organization, adopted on 26 May 2012 at the sixty-fifth World Health Assembly, with its targets and time frame, and urges States and, where appropriate, international organizations and partners and the private sector to establish adequate mechanisms to safeguard against potential conflicts of interest and to put the comprehensive implementation plan into practice; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
Access to medicines in the context of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health 2013, para. 8 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes the innovative funding mechanisms that contribute to the availability of vaccines and medicines in developing countries, such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the GAVI Alliance and the International Drug Purchase Facility, UNITAID, and calls upon all States, United Nations programmes and agencies, in particular the World Health Organization, and relevant intergovernmental organizations, within their respective mandates, and encourages relevant stakeholders, including pharmaceutical companies, while safeguarding public health from undue influence by any form of real, perceived or potential conflict of interest, to further collaborate to enable equitable access to quality, safe and efficacious medicines that are affordable to all, including those living in poverty, children and other persons in vulnerable situations; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2013 | ||
Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern 2016, para. 9a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests the High Commissioner: To organize, prior to the thirty-ninth session of the Human Rights Council, in close collaboration with the World Health Organization, an expert workshop to discuss experiences in preventing mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age, with a particular focus on the implementation of the technical guidance, including challenges, best practices and lessons learned, and including consideration of the particular challenges in respect of the newborn child; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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