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Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 1949, para. undefined
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- Art. 32. The High Contracting Parties specifically agree that each of them is prohibited from taking any measure of such a character as to cause the physical suffering or extermination of protected persons in their hands. This prohibition applies not only to murder, torture, corporal punishments, mutilation and medical or scientific experiments not necessitated by the medical treatment of a protected person, but also to any other measures of brutality whether applied by civilian or military agents.
- Organismo
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- Tipo de documento
- International treaty
- Temas
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 1949
- Tipo de párrafo
- Article
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Harmful practices (joint General Recommendation with CRC) 2014, para. 55d
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- [The Committees recommend that the States parties to the Conventions adopt or amend legislation with a view to effectively addressing and eliminating harmful practices. In doing so, they should ensure:] That the legislation is consistent and comprehensive and provides detailed guidance on prevention, protection, support and follow-up services and assistance for victims, including towards their physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration, and is complemented by adequate civil and/or administrative legislative provisions;
- Organismo
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Tipo de documento
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Temas
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Personas afectadas
- All
- N.A.
- Año
- 2014
- Tipo de párrafo
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Certain forms of abuses in health-care settings that may cross a threshold of mistreatment that is tantamount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2013, para. 9
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- The Special Rapporteur calls upon all States to repeal any law allowing intrusive and irreversible treatments, including forced genital-normalizing surgery, involuntary sterilization, unethical experimentation, medical display, "reparative therapies" or "conversion therapies", when enforced or administered without the free and informed consent of the person concerned. He also calls upon them to outlaw forced or coerced sterilization in all circumstances and provide special protection to individuals belonging to marginalized groups.
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Temas
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2013
- Tipo de párrafo
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Gender perspectives on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment 2016, para. 74d
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- [With regard to harmful practices, the Special Rapporteur calls upon States to:] Ensure that victims of honour-based violence have equal access to justice and remedies, including appropriate long-term social, psychological, medical and other appropriate specialized rehabilitation measures.
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Temas
- Harmful Practices
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2016
- Tipo de párrafo
- Conclusion / Recommendation
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Gender perspectives on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment 2016, para. 72h
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- [With regard to abuses in health-care settings, the Special Rapporteur calls upon States to:] Adopt transparent and accessible legal gender recognition procedures and abolish requirements for sterilization and other harmful procedures as preconditions;
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Temas
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2016
- Tipo de párrafo
- Conclusion / Recommendation
Párrafo
Gender perspectives on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment 2016, para. 72f
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- [With regard to abuses in health-care settings, the Special Rapporteur calls upon States to:] Effectively monitor and regulate practices by public and private actors in health-care and educational settings to ensure the eradication of prohibited practices including, inter alia, the denial of maternal health care and compulsory medical examinations such as forced pregnancy and virginity testing, and investigate, prosecute and punish perpetrators;
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Temas
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2016
- Tipo de párrafo
- Conclusion / Recommendation
Párrafo
Gender perspectives on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment 2016, para. 74b
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- [With regard to harmful practices, the Special Rapporteur calls upon States to:] Implement legislation that prohibits all forms of female genital mutilation at all levels, including in State-run and private medical facilities; prosecute and hold accountable health-care professionals, community leaders and other public officials who perpetrate or condone the practice or refuse to implement relevant laws; and concomitantly raise awareness and mobilize public opinion against female genital mutilation through community-based programmes and educational campaigns;
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Temas
- Harmful Practices
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2016
- Tipo de párrafo
- Conclusion / Recommendation
Párrafo
Harmful practices (joint General Recommendation with CRC) 2014, para. 55h
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- [The Committees recommend that the States parties to the Conventions adopt or amend legislation with a view to effectively addressing and eliminating harmful practices. In doing so, they should ensure:] That a national system of compulsory, accessible and free birth registration is established in order to effectively prevent harmful practices, including child marriage;
- Organismo
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Tipo de documento
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Temas
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2014
- Tipo de párrafo
- Conclusion / Recommendation
Párrafo
Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2014, para. 20
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- Stresses that some progress has been made in combating female genital mutilations in a number of countries using a common coordinated approach that promotes positive social change at the community, national, regional and international levels, and recalls the goal set out in the United Nations inter-agency statement that female genital mutilations are to be eliminated within a generation, with some of the main achievements being obtained by 2015, in line with the Millennium Development Goals;
- Organismo
- United Nations General Assembly
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2014
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 20
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- Stresses that some progress has been made in combating female genital mutilation in a number of countries using a common coordinated approach that promotes positive social change at the community, national, regional and international levels, and recalls the goal set out in the United Nations inter-agency statement that female genital mutilation is to be eliminated within a generation, with some of the main achievements being obtained by 2030, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals;
- Organismo
- United Nations General Assembly
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2016
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 11
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- Invites the Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Change of the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Children’s Fund to continue to develop the national capacities of States and local communities for the effective implementation of inclusive policies, programmes and action plans to eliminate female genital mutilation at the local, national, and regional levels, while encouraging States and development cooperation agencies to consider increasing their financial support for the Joint Programme;
- Organismo
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2016
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 8
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- Encourages States to consider presenting, during the universal periodic review, relevant recommendations on measures to eliminate female genital mutilation;
- Organismo
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2016
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
Párrafo
Intensifying global efforts and sharing good practices to effectively eliminate female genital mutilation 2014, para. 10
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- Calls upon States to continue to increase technical and financial assistance for the effective implementation of policies, programmes and action plans to eliminate female genital mutilation at the national, regional and international levels, including by strengthening the United Nations Population Fund-United Nations Children’s Fund Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Change, and all the other initiatives and activities at the local, regional and international levels aimed at the prevention and elimination of female genital mutilation;
- Organismo
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2014
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
Párrafo
Ending female genital mutilation 2010, para. 4
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- Urges States to condemn all harmful traditional practices, in particular all types of female genital mutilation, whether committed within or outside a medical institution;
- Organismo
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Harmful Practices
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2010
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
Párrafo
Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula 2008, para. 6
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- Urges States to enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses and, in addition, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage, and to raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary;
- Organismo
- United Nations General Assembly
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2008
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
Párrafo
Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2014, para. 22
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- Calls upon States, the United Nations system, civil society and all stakeholders to continue to observe 6 February as the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation and to use the day to enhance awareness-raising campaigns and to take concrete actions against female genital mutilations;
- Organismo
- United Nations General Assembly
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2014
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
Párrafo
Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2014, para. 24
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- Acknowledges that intensifying efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations is needed and, in this regard, the importance of giving the issue due consideration in the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda;
- Organismo
- United Nations General Assembly
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2014
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula 2014, para. 5
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- Urges States to enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage, including in rural and remote areas, is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses and, in addition, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage, and to raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary;
- Organismo
- United Nations General Assembly
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Personas afectadas
- All
- N.A.
- Año
- 2014
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 6
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- Emphasizes the need for States to systematize, as appropriate, collection of data on female genital mutilation, to encourage and provide financial support for research, particularly at the university level, to use the results to strengthen public information and awareness-raising activities, and to measure effectively progress in eliminating female genital mutilation;
- Organismo
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Education
- Harmful Practices
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2016
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
Párrafo
Ending female genital mutilation 2007, para. 15
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- Calls upon States to develop, support and implement comprehensive and integrated strategies for the prevention of female genital mutilation, including the training of social workers, medical personnel and other relevant professionals, as well as programmes of alternative professional training for the practitioners;
- Organismo
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2007
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
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Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 7
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- Calls upon States to provide assistance to victims of female genital mutilation, including through support services for treatment of its physical, physiological and psychological consequences;
- Organismo
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2016
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
Párrafo
Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 19
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- Calls upon the international community to strongly support, including through increased financial support, a third phase of the Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Change of the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Children's Fund, which will run until 2020, as well as national programmes focused on the elimination of female genital mutilation;
- Organismo
- United Nations General Assembly
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2016
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
Párrafo
Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2012, para. 16
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- Also calls upon States to support, as part of a comprehensive approach to eliminate female genital mutilations, programmes that engage local community practitioners of female genital mutilations in community-based initiatives for the abandonment of the practice, including, where relevant, the identification by communities of alternative livelihoods for them;
- Organismo
- United Nations General Assembly
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2012
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
Párrafo
Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula 2010, para. 6
- Paragraph text
- Urges States to enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses and, in addition, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage, and to raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary;
- Organismo
- United Nations General Assembly
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Personas afectadas
- All
- N.A.
- Año
- 2010
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
Párrafo
Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2012, para. 7
- Paragraph text
- Calls upon States to ensure that national action plans and strategies on the elimination of female genital mutilations are comprehensive and multidisciplinary in scope and incorporate clear targets and indicators for the effective monitoring, impact assessment and coordination of programmes among all stakeholders;
- Organismo
- United Nations General Assembly
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2012
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
Párrafo
Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 22
- Paragraph text
- Calls upon States, the United Nations system, civil society and all stakeholders to continue to observe 6 February as the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation and to use the day to enhance awareness-raising campaigns and to take concrete actions against female genital mutilation;
- Organismo
- United Nations General Assembly
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2016
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
Párrafo
Intensifying global efforts and sharing good practices to effectively eliminate female genital mutilation 2014, para. 12
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- Urges the international community to keep the issue of the elimination of female genital mutilation on the agenda of development policies, within the framework of the process of developing the post-2015 development agenda;
- Organismo
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2014
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
Párrafo
Intensifying global efforts and sharing good practices to effectively eliminate female genital mutilation 2014, para. 5
- Paragraph text
- Stresses the importance of working with local, regional and national networks to address female genital mutilation, while warning about the risk of shifting the practice from one country to another;
- Organismo
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2014
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
Párrafo
Elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 10
- Paragraph text
- Calls upon States to continue to increase technical and financial assistance for the effective implementation of policies, programmes and action plans to eliminate female genital mutilation at the national, regional and international levels;
- Organismo
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2016
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
Párrafo
Ending female genital mutilation 2010, para. 8
- Paragraph text
- Calls upon States to ensure that national action plans and strategies on elimination of female genital mutilation are comprehensive and multidisciplinary in scope, and incorporate clear targets and indicators for effective national monitoring, impact assessment and coordination;
- Organismo
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Tipo de documento
- Resolution
- Temas
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Personas afectadas
- All
- Año
- 2010
- Tipo de párrafo
- OP
Párrafo