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A world fit for children 2002, para. 44.9
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- [To achieve these goals, we will implement the following strategies and actions:] End harmful traditional or customary practices, such as early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation, which violate the rights of children and women.
- Organe
- United Nations General Assembly
- Type de document
- Resolution
- Thèmes
- Harmful Practices
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Women
- Année
- 2002
Paragraphe
Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Eliminating domestic violence 2015, para. 5
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- Urges States to strongly condemn all forms of violence against women and girls, and to refrain from invoking any custom, tradition or religious consideration to avoid their obligations with respect to its elimination, including harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation, as set out in the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women;
- Organe
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Type de document
- Resolution
- Thèmes
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Eliminating domestic violence 2015, para. 8a
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- [Calls upon States to take effective action to prevent domestic violence, including by:] Publicly condemning, addressing and penalizing the perpetrators of offences involving physical, sexual and psychological violence and economic deprivation occurring in the family, which encompasses but is not limited to battering, sexual abuse of women and girls in the household, incest, dowry-related violence, marital rape, partner violence, femicide, female infanticide, crimes committed against women and girls in the name of so-called “honour”, crimes committed in the name of passion, practices harmful to women and girls such as child, early and forced marriage, and female genital mutilation;
- Organe
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Type de document
- Resolution
- Thèmes
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Ensuring due diligence in prevention 2010, para. 7
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- Further urges States to publicly condemn violence against women and provide visible and sustained leadership at the highest levels to prevent all forms of violence against women and girls, and, in particular, in efforts to confront the attitudes, customs, practices and gender stereotypes that lie at the core of discriminatory and harmful acts and practices that are violent towards women, such as female genital mutilation, forced and early marriage, femicide, crimes committed in the name of honour and crimes committed in the name of passion;
- Organe
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Type de document
- Resolution
- Thèmes
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: Preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls 2016, para. 8
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- Urges States to condemn strongly and publicly all forms of violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls, and to refrain from invoking any custom, tradition or religious consideration to avoid their obligations with respect to its elimination, including harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation;
- Organe
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Type de document
- Resolution
- Thèmes
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: engaging men and boys in preventing and responding to violence against all women and girls 2017, para. 7
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- Urges States to condemn strongly and publicly all forms of violence against women and girls in all settings, public and private, and to refrain from invoking any custom, tradition or religious consideration to avoid their obligations with respect to its elimination, including by eliminating all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation;
- Organe
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Type de document
- Resolution
- Thèmes
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Adolescents and youth 2012, para. 9
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- Urges all States to develop, adopt and fully implement laws and to take other measures, such as policies and educational programmes, as appropriate, to eradicate harmful practices, including female genital mutilation and early and forced marriage, which are violations of the human rights of women and girls, and to intensify efforts, in cooperation with local women's and youth groups, to raise collective and individual awareness on how such harmful practices violate the human rights of women and girls;
- Organe
- Commission on Population and Development
- Type de document
- Resolution
- Thèmes
- Education
- Harmful Practices
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
African Youth Charter 2006, para. 1l
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- 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: l) Enact and enforce legislation that protect girls and young women from all forms of violence, genital mutilation, incest, rape, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, trafficking, prostitution and pornography;
- Organe
- African Union
- Type de document
- Regional treaty
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Année
- 2006
Paragraphe
Amélioration du sort des femmes et des filles en milieu rural (2018), para. 30
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- m) Éliminer toutes les formes de violence à l’égard des femmes et des filles rurales dans les espaces publics et privés grâce à des approches coordonnées et multisectorielles qui visent à prévenir et à combattre la violence à leur égard, à faire en sorte que les auteurs d’actes de violence perpétrés contre des femmes et des filles rurales soient poursuivis, traduits en justice et sanctionnés pour en finir avec l’impunité, à assurer la protection de toutes les victimes et rescapées et à leur donner accès à des services complets d’accompagnement social, de soins de santé physique et mentale et d’aide juridique, y compris un soutien psychosocial et une aide afin de leur permettre de se rétablir complètement et de se réinsérer dans la société, et considérant qu’il importe que toutes les femmes et les filles puissent vivre à l’abri de la violence, à savoir les meurtres sexistes, dont le féminicide, et les pratiques néfastes telles que le mariage d’enfants, le mariage précoce ou forcé et les mutilations génitales féminines, s’attaquer aux causes profondes et structurelles des violences faites aux femmes et aux filles en améliorant l’efficacité des mesures de prévention, en intensifiant les activités de recherche et en renforçant les dispositifs de coordination, de suivi et d’évaluation, notamment en encourageant les activités de sensibilisation ;
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
Paragraphe
Amélioration du sort des femmes et des filles en milieu rural (2020), para. 36
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- q) Éliminer toutes les formes de violence à l’égard des femmes et des filles rurales dans les espaces publics et privés grâce à des approches coordonnées et multisectorielles qui visent à prévenir et à combattre cette violence, à faire en sorte que les auteurs d’actes de violence perpétrés contre des femmes et des filles rurales soient poursuivis, traduits en justice et sanctionnés pour en finir avec l ’impunité, à assurer la protection de toutes les victimes et rescapées et à leur donner accès à des services complets d’accompagnement social, de soins de santé physique et mentale et d’aide juridique, y compris un soutien psychosocial et des services de réadaptation, afin de leur permettre de se rétablir complètement et de se réinsérer dans la société, et considérant qu’il importe que toutes les femmes et les filles puissent vivre à l’abri de la violence, y compris des meurtres liés au genre, dont le féminicide, et de pratiques néfastes telles que le mariage d’enfants, le mariage précoce ou forcé et les mutilations génitales féminines, et qu’il importe de s’attaquer aux causes profondes et structurelles des violences faites aux femmes et aux filles en améliorant l ’efficacité des mesures de prévention, en intensifiant les activités de recherche et en renforçant les dispositifs de coordination, de suivi et d’évaluation, notamment en encourageant les activités de sensibilisation ;
- Thèmes
- Pratique préjudiciable
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Femmes
- Filles
Paragraphe
Appuyer l’action engagée pour en finir avec la fistule obstétricale (2008), para. 24
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- g) À attirer l’attention des décideurs et des collectivités sur le problème de la fistule obstétricale afin de lutter contre l’opprobre et l’exclusion qui en découlent et d’aider les femmes et les filles qui en souffrent à surmonter l’aliénation et l’ostracisme et leurs répercussions psychosociales, en appuyant des projets de réinsertion sociale ;
- Thèmes
- Égalité & Inclusion
- Gouvernance & l'état de droit
- Pratique préjudiciable
- Santé
- Personnes concernées
- Femmes
- Filles
Paragraphe
Appuyer l’action engagée pour en finir avecla fistule obstétricale (2009), para. 27
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- h) À attirer l’attention des décideurs et des communautés sur le problème de la fistule obstétricale, afin de lutter contre l’opprobre et l’exclusion qui en découlent et d’aider les femmes et les filles qui en souffrent à surmonter l’abandon et l’exclusion sociale ainsi que les conséquences psychosociales qu’elle entraîne, notamment en appuyant des projets de réinsertion sociale ;
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
Paragraphe
Appuyer l’action engagée pour en finiravec la fistule obstétricale (2011), para. 35
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- i) À attirer l’attention des décideurs et des communautés sur le problème de la fistule obstétricale, afin de lutter contre l’opprobre et la discrimination qui en découlent et d’aider les femmes et les filles qui en souffrent à surmonter l’abandon et l’exclusion sociale ainsi que les conséquences psychosociales qu’elle entraîne, notamment en appuyant des projets de réinsertion sociale ;
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
Paragraphe
Article 3: The equality of rights between men and women - replaces GC No. 4 2000, para. 11
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- To assess compliance with article 7 of the Covenant, as well as with article 24, which mandates special protection for children, the Committee needs to be provided information on national laws and practice with regard to domestic and other types of violence against women, including rape. It also needs to know whether the State party gives access to safe abortion to women who have become pregnant as a result of rape. The States parties should also provide the Committee with information on measures to prevent forced abortion or forced sterilization. In States parties where the practice of genital mutilation exists information on its extent and on measures to eliminate it should be provided. The information provided by States parties on all these issues should include measures of protection, including legal remedies, for women whose rights under article 7 have been violated.
- Organe
- Human Rights Committee
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Men
- Women
- Année
- 2000
Paragraphe
Article 3: The equality of rights between men and women - replaces GC No. 4 2000, para. 23
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- States are required to treat men and women equally in regard to marriage in accordance with article 23, which has been elaborated further by general comment No. 19 (1990). Men and women have the right to enter into marriage only with their free and full consent, and States have an obligation to protect the enjoyment of this right on an equal basis. Many factors may prevent women from being able to make the decision to marry freely. One factor relates to the minimum age for marriage. That age should be set by the State on the basis of equal criteria for men and women. These criteria should ensure women's capacity to make an informed and uncoerced decision. A second factor in some States may be that either by statutory or customary law a guardian, who is generally male, consents to the marriage instead of the woman herself, thereby preventing women from exercising a free choice.
- Organe
- Human Rights Committee
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Harmful Practices
- Personnes concernées
- Men
- Women
- Année
- 2000
Paragraphe
Article 3: The equality of rights between men and women - replaces GC No. 4 2000, para. 24
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- Another factor that may affect women's right to marry only when they have given free and full consent is the existence of social attitudes which tend to marginalize women victims of rape and put pressure on them to agree to marriage. A woman's free and full consent to marriage may also be undermined by laws which allow the rapist to have his criminal responsibility extinguished or mitigated if he marries the victim. States parties should indicate whether marrying the victim extinguishes or mitigates criminal responsibility and, in the case in which the victim is a minor, whether the rape reduces the marriageable age of the victim, particularly in societies where rape victims have to endure marginalization from society. A different aspect of the right to marry may be affected when States impose restrictions on remarriage by women that are not imposed on men. Also, the right to choose one's spouse may be restricted by laws or practices that prevent the marriage of a woman of a particular religion to a man who professes no religion or a different religion. States should provide information on these laws and practices and on the measures taken to abolish the laws and eradicate the practices which undermine the right of women to marry only when they have given free and full consent. It should also be noted that equality of treatment with regard to the right to marry implies that polygamy is incompatible with this principle. Polygamy violates the dignity of women. It is an inadmissible discrimination against women. Consequently, it should be definitely abolished wherever it continues to exist.
- Organe
- Human Rights Committee
- Type de document
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2000
Paragraphe
Assessment of the status of implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 2014, para. 13
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- Expresses deep concern about the pervasiveness of gender-based violence, in particular violence against women and girls, and reiterates the need to further intensify efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls and harmful practices, including child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation, and recognizes that violence against women and girls is one of the obstacles to achieving the empowerment of women and that women's poverty and lack of political, social and economic empowerment, as well as their marginalization, may result from their exclusion from social policies for and the benefits of sustainable development and can place them at increased risk of violence;
- Organe
- Commission on Population and Development
- Type de document
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
Assistance à la Somalie dans le domaine des droits de l’homme (2017), para. 21
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- 4. Se déclare particulièrement préoccupé par les sévices et les violations des droits fondamentaux que subissent les filles et les femmes, notamment la violence sexuelle et sexiste, les mariages d’enfants, les mariages précoces et les mariages forcés ainsi que les mutilations génitales féminines, et par les sévices et les violations des droits fondamentaux commis contre des enfants, y compris le recrutement et l’utilisation illicites d’enfants soldats et d’enfants dans les conflits armés, le meurtre et la mutilation, le viol et toute autre forme de violence sexuelle et sexiste, et les enlèvements, et souligne la nécessité de faire en sorte que les responsables de tels sévices et de telles violations répondent de leurs actes et que justice soit rendue ;
- Thèmes
- Humanitaire
- Pratique préjudiciable
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Enfants
- Femmes
- Filles
Paragraphe
Assistance à la Somalie dans le domaine des droits de l’homme (2018), para. 35
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- g) D’accorder la priorité à l’adoption de lois et à l’engagement de réformes visant à protéger et à faire respecter tous les droits de l’homme des femmes et des filles et à garantir à celles-ci la pleine jouissance de ces droits, de même qu’à combattre, à prévenir et à faire cesser toutes les formes de violence et de discrimination à l’égard des femmes et des filles, et notamment d’adopter une politique de tolérance zéro en ce qui concerne la violence sexuelle et la violence sexiste, les mariages d’enfants, les mariages précoces et les mariages forcés et toutes les formes de mutilations génitales féminines, et de veiller parallèlement à ce que les responsables de violences, d’exploitation et de maltraitance sexuelles et sexistes aient à répondre de leurs actes, quel que soit leur statut ou leur rang ;
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
Paragraphe
Assistance à la Somalie dans le domaine des droits de l’homme (2019), para. 42
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- k) D’accorder la priorité à l’adoption de lois et à l’engagement de réformes visant à protéger et à faire respecter tous les droits fondamentaux des femmes et des filles et à garantir à celles-ci la pleine jouissance de ces droits, de même qu’à combattre, à prévenir et à faire cesser toutes les formes de violence et de discrimination à l’égard des femmes et des filles, et notamment d’adopter une politique de tolérance zéro en ce qui concerne la violence sexuelle et la violence fondée sur le genre, les mariages d’enfants, les mariages précoces et les mariages forcés et toutes les formes de mutilations génitales féminines, et de veiller à ce que les responsables d’actes de violence, d’actes d’exploitation et de sévices sexuels et fondés sur le genre aient à répondre de leurs actes, quel que soit leur statut ou leur rang ;
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
Paragraphe
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 39
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- The girl child of today is the woman of tomorrow. The skills, ideas and energy of the girl child are vital for full attainment of the goals of equality, development and peace. For the girl child to develop her full potential she needs to be nurtured in an enabling environment, where her spiritual, intellectual and material needs for survival, protection and development are met and her equal rights safeguarded. If women are to be equal partners with men, in every aspect of life and development, now is the time to recognize the human dignity and worth of the girl child and to ensure the full enjoyment of her human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the rights assured by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, universal ratification of which is strongly urged. Yet there exists worldwide evidence that discrimination and violence against girls begin at the earliest stages of life and continue unabated throughout their lives. They often have less access to nutrition, physical and mental health care and education and enjoy fewer rights, opportunities and benefits of childhood and adolescence than do boys. They are often subjected to various forms of sexual and economic exploitation, paedophilia, forced prostitution and possibly the sale of their organs and tissues, violence and harmful practices such as female infanticide and prenatal sex selection, incest, female genital mutilation and early marriage, including child marriage.
- Organe
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Type de document
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 1995
Paragraphe
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 93
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- Discrimination against girls, often resulting from son preference, in access to nutrition and health-care services endangers their current and future health and well-being. Conditions that force girls into early marriage, pregnancy and child-bearing and subject them to harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation, pose grave health risks. Adolescent girls need, but too often do not have, access to necessary health and nutrition services as they mature. Counselling and access to sexual and reproductive health information and services for adolescents are still inadequate or lacking completely, and a young woman's right to privacy, confidentiality, respect and informed consent is often not considered. Adolescent girls are both biologically and psychosocially more vulnerable than boys to sexual abuse, violence and prostitution, and to the consequences of unprotected and premature sexual relations. The trend towards early sexual experience, combined with a lack of information and services, increases the risk of unwanted and too early pregnancy, HIV infection and other sexually transmitted diseases, as well as unsafe abortions. Early child-bearing continues to be an impediment to improvements in the educational, economic and social status of women in all parts of the world. Overall, for young women early marriage and early motherhood can severely curtail educational and employment opportunities and are likely to have a long-term, adverse impact on the quality of their lives and the lives of their children. Young men are often not educated to respect women's self-determination and to share responsibility with women in matters of sexuality and reproduction.
- Organe
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Type de document
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Boys
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 1995
Paragraphe
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 107a
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- [By Governments, in cooperation with non-governmental organizations, the mass media, the private sector and relevant international organizations, including United Nations bodies, as appropriate:] Give priority to both formal and informal educational programmes that support and enable women to develop self-esteem, acquire knowledge, make decisions on and take responsibility for their own health, achieve mutual respect in matters concerning sexuality and fertility and educate men regarding the importance of women's health and well-being, placing special focus on programmes for both men and women that emphasize the elimination of harmful attitudes and practices, including female genital mutilation, son preference (which results in female infanticide and prenatal sex selection), early marriage, including child marriage, violence against women, sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, which at times is conducive to infection with HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, drug abuse, discrimination against girls and women in food allocation and other harmful attitudes and practices related to the life, health and well-being of women, and recognizing that some of these practices can be violations of human rights and ethical medical principles;
- Organe
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Type de document
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Thèmes
- Education
- Harmful Practices
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Année
- 1995
Paragraphe
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 124i
- Paragraph text
- [By Governments:] Enact and enforce legislation against the perpetrators of practices and acts of violence against women, such as female genital mutilation, female infanticide, prenatal sex selection and dowry-related violence, and give vigorous support to the efforts of non-governmental and community organizations to eliminate such practices;
- Organe
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Type de document
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Thèmes
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 1995
Paragraphe
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 232h
- Paragraph text
- [By Governments:] Prohibit female genital mutilation wherever it exists and give vigorous support to efforts among non-governmental and community organizations and religious institutions to eliminate such practices;
- Organe
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Type de document
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 1995
Paragraphe
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 259
- Paragraph text
- The Convention on the Rights of the Child recognizes that "States Parties shall respect and ensure the rights set forth in the present Convention to each child within their jurisdiction without discrimination of any kind, irrespective of the child's or his or her parent's or legal guardian's race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, property, disability, birth or status" (art. 2, para. 1). However, in many countries available indicators show that the girl child is discriminated against from the earliest stages of life, through her childhood and into adulthood. In some areas of the world, men outnumber women by 5 in every 100. The reasons for the discrepancy include, among other things, harmful attitudes and practices, such as female genital mutilation, son preference - which results in female infanticide and prenatal sex selection - early marriage, including child marriage, violence against women, sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, discrimination against girls in food allocation and other practices related to health and well-being. As a result, fewer girls than boys survive into adulthood.
- Organe
- Fourth World Conference on Women
- Type de document
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 1995
Paragraphe
CEDAW - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- 2. The betrothal and the marriage of a child shall have no legal effect, and all necessary action, including legislation, shall be taken to specify a minimum age for marriage and to make the registration of marriages in an official registry compulsory.
- Organe
- United Nations General Assembly
- Type de document
- International treaty
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Women
- Année
- 1979
Paragraphe
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. 46
- Paragraph text
- International and regional human rights bodies have begun to recognize that abuse and mistreatment of women seeking reproductive health services can cause tremendous and lasting physical and emotional suffering, inflicted on the basis of gender. Examples of such violations include abusive treatment and humiliation in institutional settings; involuntary sterilization; denial of legally available health services such as abortion and post-abortion care; forced abortions and sterilizations; female genital mutilation; violations of medical secrecy and confidentiality in health-care settings, such as denunciations of women by medical personnel when evidence of illegal abortion is found; and the practice of attempting to obtain confessions as a condition of potentially life-saving medical treatment after abortion.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Women
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
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. 48
- Paragraph text
- Some women may experience multiple forms of discrimination on the basis of their sex and other status or identity. Targeting ethnic and racial minorities, women from marginalized communities and women with disabilities for involuntary sterilization because of discriminatory notions that they are "unfit" to bear children is an increasingly global problem. Forced sterilization is an act of violence, a form of social control, and a violation of the right to be free from torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment. The mandate has asserted that "forced abortions or sterilizations carried out by State officials in accordance with coercive family planning laws or policies may amount to torture".
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
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. 76
- Paragraph text
- The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has concluded that homophobic ill-treatment on the part of health professionals is unacceptable and should be proscribed and denounced. There is an abundance of accounts and testimonies of persons being denied medical treatment, subjected to verbal abuse and public humiliation, psychiatric evaluation, a variety of forced procedures such as sterilization, State-sponsored forcible anal examinations for the prosecution of suspected homosexual activities, and invasive virginity examinations conducted by health-care providers, hormone therapy and genital-normalizing surgeries under the guise of so called "reparative therapies". These procedures are rarely medically necessary, can cause scarring, loss of sexual sensation, pain, incontinence and lifelong depression and have also been criticized as being unscientific, potentially harmful and contributing to stigma (A/HRC/14/20, para. 23). The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women expressed concern about lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex women as "victims of abuses and mistreatment by health service providers" (A/HRC/19/41, para. 56).
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- LGBTQI+
- Women
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe