Contribution to the implementation of the joint commitment to effectively addressing and countering the world drug problem with regards to human rights, para. 24
- Paragraph text
- Calls upon States to mainstream a gender perspective into and ensure the involvement of women in all stages of the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of drug policies and programmes, and to develop and disseminate gender-sensitive and age-appropriate measures that take into account the specific needs and circumstances faced by women and girls with regard to the world drug problem, bearing in mind that targeted interventions that are based on the collection and analysis of data, including age- and gender-related data, can be particularly effective in meeting the specific needs of drug-affected populations and communities;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
The right to food, para. 36
- Paragraph text
- 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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
Elimination of violence against women 2004, para. 11
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Also urges Governments to design and implement programmes to encourage and enable men to adopt safe and responsible sexual and reproductive behaviour, and to use effectively methods to prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS;
- Document body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Document year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings 2017, para. 6
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Calls upon States to promote and protect the right of women and girls to equal access to education through enhanced emphasis on free and quality primary and secondary education, including catch-up and literacy education for those who have not received formal education or have left school early, including because of marriage and/or childbearing, which empowers young women and girls to make informed decisions about their lives, employment, economic opportunities and health, including through scientifically accurate, age-appropriate comprehensive education, relevant to cultural contexts, that provides adolescent girls and boys and young women and men, in and out of school, consistent with their evolving capacities, with information on sexual and reproductive health, gender equality and the empowerment of women, human rights, physical, psychological and pubertal development and power in relationships between women and men, to enable them to build self-esteem and informed decision-making, communication and risk reduction skills and to develop respectful relationships, in full partnership with young persons, parents, legal guardians, caregivers, educators and health-care providers, in order to contribute to ending child, early and forced marriage;
- Document body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Document year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2016, para. 5
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Further calls upon all governments to ensure a just and equitable world for women and girls, including through partnering with men and boys, as an important strategy for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls;
- Document body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Document year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2011, para. 23
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Welcomes the decision of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to scale up a gender-sensitive response to HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in order to address the vulnerabilities of women and girls to HIV infection;
- Document body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Document year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Ending female genital mutilation 2010, para. 14
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Further urges States to develop social and psychological support services and care and to take measures to improve health, including sexual and reproductive health, in order to assist women and girls who are subjected to female genital mutilation;
- Document body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Document year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2010, para. 23
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Welcomes the decision of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to scale up a gender-sensitive response to HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in order to address the vulnerabilities of women and girls to HIV infection;
- Document body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Document year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2009, para. 24
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Welcomes the decision of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to scale up a gender-sensitive response to HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in order to address the vulnerabilities of women and girls to HIV infection;
- Document body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Document year
- 2009
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2008, para. 23
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Welcomes the decision of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to scale up a gender-sensitive response to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in order to address the vulnerabilities of women and girls to HIV infection;
- Document body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Document year
- 2008
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2006, para. 40
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Recommends that the 2006 follow-up meeting take measures to ensure the inclusion of gender-equality perspectives throughout its deliberations and that it pay attention to the situation of women and girls infected and affected by HIV/AIDS;
- Document body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Document year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2005, para. 2
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Also stresses that gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are fundamental elements in the reduction of their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, and emphasizes that the advancement of women and girls is key to reversing the pandemic;
- Document body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Document year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2004, para. 11
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Emphasizes the need for the rapid scaling up of programmes for treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV and to encourage men to participate with women in programmes designed to prevent mother-to-child transmission;
- Document body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Document year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2004, para. 2
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Stresses also that gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are fundamental elements in the reduction of their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, and emphasizes that the advancement of women and girls is key to reversing the pandemic;
- Document body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Document year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2003, para. 1
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Stresses that gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are fundamental elements in the reduction of their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, and emphasizes that the advancement of women and girls is key to reversing the pandemic;
- Document body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Document year
- 2003
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2000, para. 9
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Encourages Governments to recognize the challenges facing girls and women, particularly older women, who are primary caregivers for people living with HIV/AIDS, and to provide them with the necessary economic and psychosocial support;
- Document body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Older persons
- Women
- Document year
- 2000
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2000, para. 3
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Urges Governments to take all necessary measures to strengthen women's economic independence and to protect and promote their human rights and fundamental freedoms in order to allow them to better protect themselves from HIV infection;
- Document body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Document year
- 2000
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Women and mental health, with emphasis on special groups 1999, para. 4
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Invites Governments to develop and implement public awareness campaigns on mental health and education focusing on women and girls who are most in need of psychological support;
- Document body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Document year
- 1999
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 1999, para. 3
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Urges Governments to take all necessary measures to strengthen women's economic independence, to protect and promote their human rights and fundamental freedoms in order to allow them to better protect themselves from HIV infection;
- Document body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Document year
- 1999
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Elimination of discrimination against women 2016, para. 9
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Calls upon States to monitor and prevent unlawful forced institutionalization and overmedication, and to ensure non-discrimination in relation to women’s mental health;
- Document body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Document year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Elimination of discrimination against women 2015, para. 19
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Notes with appreciation the intention of the Working Group to focus its next report on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice in health and safety;
- Document body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Document year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Elimination of discrimination against women 2015, para. 8
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Urges States to ensure that women have equal access to all economic, financial, fiscal and social services and benefits without discrimination, including those that head a family;
- Document body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Document year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Elimination of discrimination against women 2012, para. 3
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Welcomes the thematic priorities identified by the Working Group, namely, political and public life, economic and social life, family and cultural life, and health and safety;
- Document body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Document year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Elimination of discrimination against women 2010, para. 21
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Requests the working group to make its reports available to the General Assembly, the Commission on the Status of Women, UN Women and other relevant United Nations entities;
- Document body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Document year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 39
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Invites Member States to provide training for law enforcement and border control officials, as well as medical personnel, in identifying potential cases of trafficking in persons for the purpose of organ removal;
- Document body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Document year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 19
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Further urges Governments, where they have not yet done so, to institute and ensure the transparent and effective enforcement of laws and access to redress mechanisms to protect women and girls from child, early and forced marriage and marital rape;
- Document body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Document year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 15
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Also urges Governments to take measures to integrate, inter alia, family and community-based approaches in policies and programmes aimed at providing prevention, treatment, care and support to women and girls living with or affected by HIV and AIDS;
- Document body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Document year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2009, para. 38
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Welcomes the financial contributions made to date to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, urges further contributions to sustain the Fund, and calls upon all countries to encourage the private sector to contribute to the Fund;
- Document body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Document year
- 2009
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2008, para. 37
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Welcomes the financial contributions made to date to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, urges further contributions to sustain the Fund, and calls upon all countries to encourage the private sector to contribute to the Fund;
- Document body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Document year
- 2008
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2007, para. 33
- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Welcomes the financial contributions made to date to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, urges further contributions to sustain the Fund, and calls upon all countries to encourage the private sector to contribute to the Fund;
- Document body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Document year
- 2007
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019