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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 20
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- Sexual violence is often used to achieve military, political and social objectives through, for instance, the targeting of specific ethnicities or terrorizing populations to force displacement. Data indicate that children are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence in and around refugee and internally displaced population settings, and when they are directly associated with armed forces and groups. Child survivors of sexual violence suffer both physical and psychological consequences, which are often debilitating. This is particularly true for girls who have been raped or forced to "marry" combatants, as well as for their children born of rape.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2010
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SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2012, para. 24
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- Trial Chamber I accepted the approach taken by the Pre-Trial Chamber and suggested by the Special Representative, according to which both conscription and enlistment are forms of recruitment, in that they refer to the incorporation of a boy or a girl under the age of 15 years into an armed group, whether coercively or voluntarily. The Special Representative argued in her brief to the Court that the distinction between voluntary enlistment and forced recruitment was a distinction without meaning, as even the most voluntary of acts could be a desperate attempt to survive by children with a limited number of options. In such circumstances, any consent given by a child could not be regarded as truly voluntary in the full sense of the word. Whether the child enlisted or was conscripted, the line between voluntary and involuntary recruitment was legally irrelevant and practically superficial in the context of children’s association with armed forces or armed groups in times of conflict.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2012, para. 33
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- [Reparations for children and the restoration of children’s rights]: Reparations programmes should bear in mind that victims who were children at the time of the commission of the violation may face stigmatization or marginalization as former child soldiers or forced wives, leading to the social exclusion of, in particular, girl child soldiers. Community members may also resent former child soldiers, who they feel are being rewarded for having taken part in hostilities, thus reinforcing existing divisions. The child perpetrator dilemma tends to be confusing for both the child and those who may have been their victims. Reparations, however, could also assist in signalling that past modes of operation will no longer be tolerated and could contribute to dismantling the relationship between former commanders and their victims. A public statement by community leaders on the legal findings of responsibility, followed by an intensive awareness-raising campaign on the judgement and a declaration to the effect that child victims of recruitment should not be held legally or morally responsible for their actions as combatants during the conflict, would be the best guarantee of non-repetition.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2016, para. 3
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- The effect of armed conflict on children during the reporting period was unyielding, with the Central African Republic, Israel and the State of Palestine, Libya, South Sudan, the Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen serving as regrettable examples where the situation worsened to a significant degree or saw no improvement. In the Central African Republic, a breakdown in law and order led to more intense violence between armed groups and the large-scale forced displacement of children, particularly since September. Nearly 2,000 children have been separated from armed groups by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and its partners in the Central African Republic in 2015. These children are now at risk of being re-recruited owing to the persistent instability and lack of appropriate reintegration programmes. In South Sudan, witnesses and survivors of government offensives between May and August 2015 gave horrifying accounts of children being thrown into burning houses, run over by military vehicles and hanged from trees, and of girls being killed if they resisted rape. In several instances, boys were reportedly found castrated and killed after attacks. In Yemen, heavy aerial bombardments and ground operations since the end of March 2015 have dramatically increased the number of child casualties and had a devastating impact on access to education in an already highly precarious environment. Nearly all parties to the conflict on the ground in Yemen have engaged in widespread child recruitment, with information indicating that four times as many children were recruited in the six-month period from March to September 2015 than in the whole of 2014. In the Syrian Arab Republic and Iraq, the increasingly complex conflict and persistent violations of international law are taking an ever-increasing toll on the civilian population, as evidenced by rising displacement and refugee outflows. Libya is also facing worsening instability, violence and localized conflicts, and the rising tensions and violence in the State of Palestine and Israel show no signs of abating at the end of the reporting period.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2014, para. 24
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- Early consideration of children's issues in peace-making processes can also facilitate the planning and mobilization of resources. For instance, the release and reintegration of children associated with armed forces or groups is strongly linked to security arrangements in peace processes. It is also an integral part of the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration process, which requires a specific focus on provisions for children, in particular girls. In that regard, the Special Representative commends the General Assembly for its continued call to States and regional organizations to support the inclusion of such commitments in peace agreements (see resolution 68/147). However, this aspect often remains neglected.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2015, para. 10
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- During the reporting period, extreme violence rose to an unprecedented level. The impact on children has multiplied in a number of countries, such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria and the Syrian Arab Republic. Children were victims of grave violations and were often forced to witness or take part in beheadings, immolations and summary executions. They were also indoctrinated, recruited and forced to be suicide bombers or human shields. Girls were subjected to additional abuses, including sexual slavery, abduction and forced marriage. The violations often took place in the context of mass abductions. Such brutal tactics had severe repercussions on children, which will have lasting effects for generations to come.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 46
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- Education has a unique potential to generate an environment where attitudes condoning violence can be changed and non-violent behaviour can be learned. Schools are well placed to break patterns of violence and provide skills to communicate, to negotiate and support peaceful solutions to conflicts. However, this potential is in marked contrast with the daily reality of millions of children. Within and around educational settings, both girls and boys continue to be exposed to violence, including verbal abuse, intimidation, physical aggression, and in some cases sexual abuse. At times they are also victims of gang violence and assault.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 108
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- Violence is a frequent dimension of children's lives. It occurs in various forms and contexts and has serious and long-lasting consequences on their well-being and development. Prevention and elimination efforts need to address those dynamics and invest in the social inclusion of girls and boys at special risk, for whom the multiple dimensions of deprivation go hand in hand with a cumulative exposure to violence. Enhancing families' capacity to protect and care for their children and preventing child abandonment and placement in residential care remain crucial dimensions of that process.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 121
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- Violence is a frequent dimension in children's lives. It occurs in various forms and contexts and has serious and long-lasting consequences on their well-being and development. Prevention and elimination efforts need to address these dynamics and invest in the social inclusion of girls and boys at special risk, for whom the multiple dimensions of deprivation go hand in hand with a cumulative exposure to violence. Enhancing families' capacity to protect and care for their children, and preventing child abandonment and placement in residential care remain crucial dimensions of this process.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 31b
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- [The urgency of safeguarding children's freedom from violence has certainly not diminished and the magnitude of this phenomenon remains high and deeply distressing. Significant United Nations reports illustrate this well:] In the past few years there has been a marked increase in trafficking in children. From 2007 to 2010, numbers rose from 20 to 27 per cent; in some regions more than 60 per cent of detected victims are children, as indicated in the UNODC 2012 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons and girls are particularly affected. Child trafficking is a serious form of violence; but it is also a source of incidents of abuse, as children are enslaved into prostitution, sold into marriage, coerced to work in plantations or deep-sea fishing, forced to beg on the street, or recruited by criminal networks.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 31c
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- [The urgency of safeguarding children's freedom from violence has certainly not diminished and the magnitude of this phenomenon remains high and deeply distressing. Significant United Nations reports illustrate this well:] Exploitation through labour remains particularly worrying. As stressed by the International Labour Organization in the 2013 report Marking progress against child labour - Global estimates and trends 2000-2012, 168 million children worldwide are involved in exploitative work; almost half of them are of primary school age and more than 11 million are girls involved in domestic work, often exposed to excessive working hours and hazardous tasks, as well as to violence, abuse and exploitation.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 31d
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- [The urgency of safeguarding children's freedom from violence has certainly not diminished and the magnitude of this phenomenon remains high and deeply distressing. Significant United Nations reports illustrate this well:] Early and forced marriage affects countless children around the world. Girls are particularly at risk. According to the 2014 UNICEF publication Ending Child Marriage: Progress and Prospects, more than 700 million women worldwide were married before their eighteenth birthday; and more than one third entered into union before the age of 15. Girls living in rural areas or belonging to the most impoverished families face the highest risk.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 24b
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- [The agenda of the Special Representative has been guided by four strategic priorities: consolidating progress in and mainstreaming the implementation of the recommendations of the United Nations study; enhancing awareness and consolidating knowledge on violence against children; reinforcing regional processes and national implementation efforts; and addressing emerging concerns. The following significant results have been achieved:] Enhanced awareness and consolidated knowledge to prevent and respond to violence against children through international expert consultations, the development of research and the release of thematic studies on strategic topics such as violence in schools and in the justice system, restorative justice for children, the rights of girls in the criminal justice system, and child-sensitive counselling and reporting and complaint mechanisms, as well as reports on the protection of children from harmful practices and from armed violence and organized crime and on opportunities and risks associated with information and communications technologies. Child-friendly materials were also produced to inform and empower children about their right to freedom from violence, most recently in Braille;
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 73
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- Developed by the Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum, the Model Law has the potential to inform action to end child marriage. This is an area where incremental progress is being achieved, for example with recent legislative developments in the Gambia and the United Republic of Tanzania. In 2015, Malawi adopted the Marriage, Divorce and Family Relations Act, which raised the minimum age of marriage to 18 years. The social mobilization around that process and the important partnership developed with traditional leaders helped to raise awareness of the new law and achieve important results, including a landmark initiative led by a female traditional chief that resulted in the initial annulment of 330 child marriages in a single district and since then has broken up 850 child marriages and banned the sexual initiation of girls.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 21
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- This is no time for complacency. Around the world, millions of girls and boys of all ages continue to be exposed to appalling levels of violence, in their neighbourhoods, in their schools, in institutions aimed at their care and protection, and also within the home.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Girls
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 30
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- This is no time for complacency. Around the world, millions of girls and boys of all ages continue to be exposed to appalling levels of violence, in their neighbourhoods, in schools, in institutions aimed at their care and protection and within the home.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Girls
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2011, para. 38
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- In her previous reports, the Special Representative has consistently noted with concern the increasing trend of attacks on education. Such acts include the partial or total destruction of schools and other education facilities and threatened or actual targeting of education personnel. Attacks on education undermine the establishment of a protective environment for children and their chances for a better future. In addition, violent attacks on girls and targeted attacks on their education undermine their role in society and prevent them from exercising their rights.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 15
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- Beyond the destruction of educational facilities through deliberate targeting or as collateral damage during armed confrontation, attacks against education also present other faces. For instance, there are reports of the use of acid and gas on girl students on their way to or at school, as well as shootings and suicide bombings in school premises. In some contexts, schools are a prime recruiting ground of children by armed groups. Elsewhere, school buildings are used as training centres or as military bases, turning them into high-value military targets.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 70
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- Data and research are indispensable if we are to expose the hidden face of violence and address its root causes; understand perceptions and attitudes regarding this phenomenon, including among girls and boys of various ages and social backgrounds; identify children at greater risk and effectively support them; and assess the economic costs of violence and the social gains that can be achieved through steady investment in prevention. These are areas where consolidated partnerships and the acceleration of efforts will remain of the essence.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 136
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- Recognizing the relevance of that area, the Special Representative welcomes the call by the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly for a global study on children deprived of their liberty, and remains fully committed to contributing to its development. The global study will provide a strategic opportunity to prevent girls' deprivation of liberty, and associated risks of stigmatization and violence; safeguard girls' rights as victims, witnesses and alleged perpetrators; and promote their long-lasting recovery and reintegration.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 96
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- Young victims are often the target of these practices. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, between 2011 and 2012 there was a 70 per cent increase in child sexual abuse material focused on girls under the age of 10 years, and abuse material involving toddlers or babies is not uncommon. Once online, child abuse images can circulate indefinitely, alongside the risk of perpetuating victims' harm. The circulation of such images contributes to the hypersexualization of children and in turn fuels the demand for sexual abuse material.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Infants
- Youth
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2012, para. 25
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- The Chamber also decided to apply a broad interpretation of the term “participate actively in hostilities” to ensure justice and protection for all children associated with armed forces or armed groups. The Court held that the term included a wide range of individuals, from those on the front line (who participated directly) to the boys and girls who were involved in multiple roles that supported the combatants. The Court further refined that interpretation, using a case-by-case determination and adopting a double test: whether support was given and whether the support provided to the combatants exposed the child to real danger as a potential target. The Chamber made a clear distinction between the term “direct participation in hostilities”, which determines combatant status under international humanitarian law, and the term “actively participating in hostilities”, which is the criteria applicable to the use of children in hostilities, holding that the latter was to be interpreted broadly, and without conferring combatant status on those children.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2013, para. 86
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- If a peace agreement exclusively refers to the separation of child combatants, many children and youth, especially girls and those serving in so-called support functions, in particular victims of sexual violence, are at risk of being excluded from adequate reintegration assistance. Peace agreements should acknowledge the special needs of girls and provide for the establishment of rehabilitation programmes, health-care and counselling services for all boys and girls separated from armed forces and groups. Specific consideration should also be given to concerns regarding the protection of vulnerable children, such as refugee and internally displaced children, children separated from their families, unaccompanied minors and children orphaned by war.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2015, para. 11
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- Extremist groups have benefited from advances in technology, which have facilitated their rapid growth and led to the expansion of their territorial control, often across national borders. The military response to the threat has also raised protection challenges for children. Children caught in the middle of counter-terrorism operations have been killed and maimed and their homes and schools destroyed. In some cases, State-allied militias have been mobilized, resulting in boys and sometimes girls being used in support roles and even as combatants. Despite international calls for due process and respect for the rule of law, counter-terrorism operations often lack those elements. The Special Representative recalls that efforts to counteract extremist groups must be carried out in full compliance with international humanitarian, refugee and human rights law and must ensure that children are treated primarily as victims.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2015, para. 35
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- Sexual violence continues to be a prominent violation of children's rights in most situations of conflict, affecting both girls and boys dramatically. Rape and other forms of sexual violence are committed in the context of attacks against the civilian population and children are usually targeted due to their vulnerability and frequently because of their ethnicity. Violations are also committed in the context of recruitment and use of children and abductions. Girls are particularly vulnerable to abduction or recruitment by armed groups to be used for sexual purposes. Parties to conflict use sexual violence against children as a tactic to instil fear so as to assert control over people and land. It is also an increasing trend used by extremist groups to terrorize populations. For example, Boko Haram has been abducting girls from schools, and reports indicate that those girls have been forcibly married to local commanders.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 26
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- This is an area where urgent action is required. Existing data sets on children provide a basis to build upon, but they need to be integrated beyond sectors and individual disciplines, promoting a holistic consideration of the child. Gaps in child protection areas need to be addressed and monitoring tools and indicators expanded, including to consider boys and girls of all ages and in all settings, and to address those at greatest risk. Moreover, those efforts need to incorporate children's views and perspectives, and capture their experience, and dynamic and evolving free agency. This is crucial to understand the hidden face of violence and effectively address its root causes.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 40
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- The Special Representative participated in key policy discussions to promote the consideration of violence against children as a cross-cutting concern on the United Nations agenda. This included cooperation with UNODC on violence against children in the justice system, during the thematic debate held by the Human Rights Council, and with UN-Women on gender-based violence and the legal protection of girls from violence and harmful practices, during the Commission on the Status of Women and in the lead-up to the International Day of the Girl Child. Strategic cooperation was also pursued with United Nations partners to prevent and minimize the impact of armed and gang violence on children, including through policies that help to reduce the availability of and access to small arms.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 39
- Paragraph text
- Violence against girls and boys is also a concern echoed by the Secretary-General in his report mentioned in paragraph 3 above.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2017, para. 9
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- An important dimension of the Graça Machel study was the attention given to the distinct effects of armed conflict upon girls as compared to boys. In the past 20 years, there has been progress in addressing the impact of conflict on girls, including through developments in the normative framework and enhanced accountability efforts for the crimes of rape and other forms of sexual violence. However, a significant number of the challenges that were identified in the study two decades ago still remain, as the Human Rights Council acknowledged during the reporting period when it expressed outrage at the persistence and pervasiveness of all forms of violence against girls worldwide.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Girls
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 64
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- For vulnerable groups of children, including girls, children with disabilities, children belonging to minority or indigenous groups, and children affected by HIV and AIDS, these efforts must be redoubled. Such children face particular challenges in gaining access to schooling and in remaining in school. They are more likely to be subjected to violence or to be disregarded when they seek advice about or report incidents of violence. As a result, they may end up choosing not to report violence for fear of drawing attention to themselves.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 14
- Paragraph text
- The results from those surveys press for urgent action. They expose serious levels of violence shaping children's lives and they highlight the gap between the large number of children exposed to violence and the very limited number of victims seeking help and the even smaller number benefiting from the services that are needed. For example, across seven of the countries surveyed, more than 25 per cent of girls and 10 per cent of boys had endured sexual violence, but less than 10 per cent of victims had received support from social services.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 76
- Paragraph text
- There has been progress on these issues in Malawi, including the adoption in 2015 of the Marriage, Divorce and Family Relations Act, which increased the minimum age of marriage to 18 years; the Government's commitment, in November 2016, to align the Constitution with that legislation and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child; and the crucial role played by traditional leaders in mobilizing their communities to prevent the early and forced marriage of girls and to ensure their return to school to pursue their education.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 100
- Paragraph text
- Children on the move, including refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and victims of trafficking or smuggling may be placed in detention centres or cells in military bases or confined in restricted areas in airports, harbour facilities and islands. They may also be subject to involuntary transportation in vehicles, aeroplanes, boats or other vessels. Girls may be deprived of liberty supposedly for their own protection, including when they are at risk of honour crimes, trafficking or other forms of violence and, while detained, exposed to the risk?of?further?abuse and exploitation.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Movement
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2011, para. 35
- Paragraph text
- [Attacks on schools and hospitals: an emerging concern]: Armed conflict can either directly or indirectly result in the forced closure or the compromised functioning of civilian facilities. Children, teachers and health-care providers can be subject to direct threats and acts of intimidation by parties, which, for example, target Government institutions or medical personnel assisting the other party to the conflict. In other situations, armed elements are opposed to secular and/or girls’ education, or to girls being seen by male medical personnel. The delivery of health-care services to children is also heavily affected by lack of supplies and manpower caused by looting of the facilities and/or access constraints. A general climate of fear and insecurity as a result of armed hostilities can also prevent children, teachers and medical personnel from attending school or seeking medical help. Parents, for example, may find it too risky to send their children to school in a volatile security situation, or children may be denied timely access to hospitals because of checkpoints and roadblocks.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2011, para. 28
- Paragraph text
- [Children as victims and witnesses]: In some countries, traditional justice mechanisms are commonly used to resolve disputes and feuds between families and clans and to bring about settlement and reconciliation. For many children in these countries, traditional justice may be the only readily accessible form of justice, meaningful to their families and communities. As with all other forms of justice, however, there are limitations, particularly in the aftermath of armed conflict. Traditional justice relies on oral tradition and customary practice, which can be lost as a result of displacement, dissipation of collective memory and loss of traditional authority in times of breakdown of social structures. In addition, traditional authority often resides with the elder males of the community. This patriarchal structure does not always take into account or reflect children’s rights, and especially the rights of girls and their need for protection.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2011, para. 22
- Paragraph text
- Little is known of the strategies used by armed actors to access children for these acts of violence. However, anecdotal evidence suggests that families are forced to hand over their children to take part in these actions, and there have also been cases of poor families being induced by armed groups to give their children away, through the promise of money. The use of very young children and/or disabled children for such acts is also a horrifying trend of grave concern. There is an urgent need to fill the knowledge gap and to reach a better understanding of how these acts could be prevented. Concomitantly, there is a need to better address the stigmatization of, and prejudice against, children suspected of collaboration with armed actors, which lead to other violations including beatings, threats to children and their families, acts tantamount to torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions. In this context, particular attention must be given to young children, girls and disabled children.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2014, para. 69
- Paragraph text
- However, significant progress still needs to be accomplished in prosecuting crimes of sexual violence, at both the national and the international level. This need was highlighted by Judge Odio Benito in her dissenting opinion in the case against Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, in which she argued that by failing to deliberately include the sexual violence and other ill-treatment suffered by girls and boys within the legal concept of “use to participate actively in the hostilities”, the majority of the Chamber was making that critical aspect of the crime invisible. Sexual violence is recognized and criminalized under the Rome Statute and must be fully acknowledged. The Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, in close cooperation with the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, continues to promote and to advocate for accountability for sexual violence.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2013, para. 14
- Paragraph text
- Attacks on schools, hospitals, teachers, schoolchildren and medical personnel in situations of conflict remain widespread and alarming. Access to education and health care continues to be disrupted by the damage or destruction resulting from targeted attacks on schools and medical facilities and by the use of explosive weapons. Many schools and hospitals are looted by armed groups, used as barracks, operational centres and detention sites, including by governmental forces. Access to education is also hampered, as schools are targeted by armed groups as places for the indoctrination and recruitment of children. In some cases, extremist armed groups also interfere in school programmes. Teachers and medical personnel are often threatened or become victims of targeted killings and abductions. Girls' access to education is particularly affected by all forms of attack on schools.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 20c
- Paragraph text
- [The outcomes of the expert consultation are set out in a thematic report, to be launched during the commemoration of the 2012 International Day of the Girl Child, and include the following overarching recommendations:] Law reform is a long-term and ongoing process, necessary to recognize and safeguard children's rights, to fill protection gaps and address emerging practices and manifestations of violence; it needs to be supported by prevention and implementation efforts, including birth registration, awareness-raising, education and training, and mobilization of communities, including religious and local leaders and children, to promote dialogue and positive cultural values, enhance understanding about the detrimental impact of certain practices and support commitment by those concerned to the lasting abandonment of harmful attitudes and behaviour.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 85
- Paragraph text
- The Special Representative hosted high-level policy discussions to promote the consideration of violence against children as a cross-cutting concern within the United Nations agenda, including on extreme poverty and violence, during the Commission on Social Development; on gender-based violence and girls' victimization on the occasion of the Commission on the Status of Women; and on violence against children with disabilities during the General Assembly and the meeting of States Parties of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Strategic cooperation was also promoted with United Nations partners to curb violence in the community and minimize the impact of situations of armed and gang violence on children, including through policies that help to reduce availability of and access to small arms.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 14
- Paragraph text
- Children engaged in domestic work, most of them girls, are also highly vulnerable to violence. According to the most recent figures published by the International Labour Organization (ILO), at least 52.6 million people are employed as domestic workers across the world, 15.5 million of whom are children. Most of them work as housekeepers, nannies or caregivers, and many are also migrants who hope to support their families through their remittances. Often isolated, with no formal protection structure, child domestic workers are highly vulnerable to labour exploitation, working long hours without rest, being denied holidays or deprived of wages, and enduring serious manifestations of violence and abuse.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 29
- Paragraph text
- Cross-fertilization of knowledge and national experiences has been an important factor of progress. For this reason, in 2014, Swaziland in cooperation with UNICEF and the Together for Girls Partnership, hosted an important meeting at which 20 countries involved in this process gathered to share evidence and reflect on ways of translating national data and research into a multisectoral policy agenda to protect children from violence. The Special Representative will continue to support this process and will join the launch of national data surveys to support the consolidation of the policy agenda and accelerate progress in violence prevention and response.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 9
- Paragraph text
- As highlighted by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) report "Hidden in Plain Sight", the World Health Organization Global status report on violence prevention 2014, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Global Study on Homicide 2013 and its Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2014, the risk of violence remains widespread and deeply concerning. Almost a billion children between the ages of 2 and 14 are subject to physical punishment by their caregivers; 84 million girls are victims of emotional, physical, emotional or sexual violence at the hands of their husbands or partners; 8 per cent of global homicides affect children under the age of 15; and child trafficking continues to increase, in some regions reaching more than 60 per cent of detected victims, most of whom are girls.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 75c
- Paragraph text
- [Recent research on this topic has revealed a number of significant and worrying developments:] Of the content depicting children 15 years of age or younger, 93.1 per cent featured girls;
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2017, para. 7
- Paragraph text
- In Afghanistan, the Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen, the right of children to health has been severely compromised by attacks on hospitals and health-care professionals. A number of highly publicized attacks have taken place in 2016, which are indicative of trends that have seen increasing numbers of attacks and threats of attacks on health care in recent years. The right of girls to education has also continued to suffer, with attacks or threats of attacks on schools, teachers and female pupils in situations such as in Iraq, Nigeria and the Syrian Arab Republic, as well as in Afghanistan and Mali.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2017, para. 10
- Paragraph text
- Despite the significant efforts to end impunity, girls continue to be targeted in incidents of rape and other forms of sexual violence, often in order to terrorize, humiliate and weaken their communities. Armed conflicts are also characterized by a breakdown of the rule of law as well as of community structures; this exacerbates the vulnerability of girls to sexual violence, as armed elements can take advantage of the vacuum to commit human rights abuses. Violations of this nature are frequently compounded by an inadequate response to help survivors as well as children born of war. While the provision of dedicated services for girls has improved in recent years, there are still significant gaps in the form of non-existent, limited or disrupted access to essential services in some situations of armed conflict, as a result of a lack of medical workers, supplies and the necessary infrastructure and also due to insecurity and restrictions on movement. For example, the Special Representative notes that in 2016 in Iraq and the Syrian Arab Republic, girls who have been abducted and suffered sexual violence by armed groups have rarely been able to access services, due to ongoing conflict.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2016, para. 66
- Paragraph text
- Recalling that the sustainable reintegration of children is crucial for allowing children formerly associated with armed groups to exercise their human rights, the Special Representative encourages Member States to provide appropriate resources to the reintegration of the children recruited and used by any party to a conflict, giving special attention to the needs of girls.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 22
- Paragraph text
- Another aspect that tends to be underestimated is the trauma boys face as perpetrators or witnesses of sexual violence. They may be forced to commit rapes either directly by their commander or indirectly through peer pressure. Many may be forced to witness sexual violence perpetrated by others. It should be noted that through the jurisprudence of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (1998, Furundzija case), forcing an individual to witness acts of rapes and other sexual violence is considered as sexual torture under international law.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Girls
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 84
- Paragraph text
- Poverty, vulnerability and economic hardship are factors of stress in the community and in the home, generating a higher incidence of violence, including domestic violence. As families struggle to meet their basic needs, children may be pressed to drop out from school to contribute to household income; girls may be placed at risk of involvement in hazardous economic activities, including domestic service, begging and sexual exploitation; or forced to marry, the risk of getting married before the age of 18 being three times higher among poor girls.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Poverty
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 14b
- Paragraph text
- [At the consultation, in which governmental experts and representatives of United Nations agencies, international and regional organizations, human rights bodies, academia and civil society participated, a set of practical recommendations to assist States and other actors in the development of a violence-free justice system for children was drawn up. Those recommendations, included in a joint report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/21/25), address the following issues:] Protecting children from all forms of violence within the juvenile justice system. National laws, policies and procedures concerning juvenile justice should be brought into full compliance with relevant international standards, and juvenile justice reforms should pursue a child- and gender-sensitive approach and be guided by child rights principles and safeguards, including (i) the recognition of the deprivation of children's liberty as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate time; (ii) the separation of children from adults and of girls from boys in a child-sensitive environment; (iii) the explicit prohibition of and effective protection of children from violence, including as a form of punishment, treatment or sentencing; (iv) the legal provision of safe and child-sensitive counselling, reporting and complaints mechanisms to prevent and respond to incidents of violence; and (v) the establishment of independent oversight and monitoring mechanisms and accountability systems for the inspection of places of detention and the prompt investigation of incidents of violence against children.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 69
- Paragraph text
- Another significant gap revealed by the survey is the dearth of data on laws, policies and advocacy on the gender dimensions of violence and the legal protection of girls: 40 per cent of the respondents provide no information in that regard, and less than 30 per cent mention positive initiatives. Legislation remains a challenge, with less than half of the Governments indicating the enactment of a legal ban on harmful practices, which may fully or only partially cover female genital mutilation/cutting, child or forced marriage, witchcraft rituals, honour killings and other practices.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2012, para. 39
- Paragraph text
- [Strengthening family and community protection mechanisms]: Establishing and strengthening community protection mechanisms and raising the awareness of families, communities and their leaders of the issue are other critical factors for prevention. Child protection and recruitment prevention policies are unlikely to work in contexts in which the community promotes the association of children with armed groups. Children are also most vulnerable to recruitment when family and community protection systems are weakened. In some contexts, children join armed groups because they are encouraged to do so by their families and/or communities. Domestic violence has also been found to be a central factor in the recruitment of children. Abusive families propel children on to the streets, where they are more vulnerable to recruitment, or directly into the ranks of an armed group. In Colombia, for example, the decision of children, mainly girls, to run away and join an armed group has been found to be closely linked to domestic exploitation and physical and sexual abuse.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 26
- Paragraph text
- Sexual violence against children, and particularly against girls, has been a topic which has received increased attention. Building upon a national study on violence against children undertaken in Swaziland in 2007 and supported by the Clinton Global Initiative, UNICEF has joined WHO, the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Development Fund for Women, together with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a strong partnership to promote similar research in other countries and provide support for the strengthening of an environment protecting girls against sexual violence. This is a significant initiative that the Special Representative will continue to follow closely and which is expected to lead to important results in violence prevention and protection from violence.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 36
- Paragraph text
- In 2010, the ILO will also release new global estimates on child labour which will help to consolidate evidence to inform policies and promote progress in this area. Following a 2008 decision by its Governing Body, ILO is also currently engaged in the consideration of new standards on decent work for domestic workers, which will open up avenues for improving the protection of children from exploitation in domestic service and any form of violence associated therewith. Indeed, child domestic workers, especially girls, are highly vulnerable to violence; working in private households, in many instances away from their home, and behind closed doors, with little or no protection or social support, they are exposed to excessive hours of work, hazardous tasks, discrimination, social stigma, physical, psychological and emotional violence, sexual abuse, and lack of engagement in community and social life. These significant initiatives provide a sound framework for strengthening this important partnership further.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 45
- Paragraph text
- Sexual violence against children, and particularly against girls, has been a topic which has received increased attention. Building upon a national study on violence against children undertaken in Swaziland in 2007 and supported by the Clinton Global Initiative, UNICEF has joined WHO, the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Development Fund for Women, together with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a strategic partnership to promote similar research in other countries and provide support for the strengthening of an environment to protect girls against sexual violence.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 62
- Paragraph text
- The Special Representative strongly supports the development of new ILO standards to ensure decent work for domestic workers. They open avenues for improving the protection of children from exploitation in domestic service and from any form of violence associated therewith. Child domestic workers, especially girls, are highly vulnerable to violence. Working in private households, often behind closed doors and away from their own home with little or no protection or social support, they are exposed to excessive working hours, hazardous tasks, social stigma and discrimination, and physical and emotional violence, as well as sexual abuse. The Special Representative remains committed to supporting this important standard-setting process and the adoption of binding provisions for the protection of children and young domestic workers.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 55
- Paragraph text
- During the General Assembly's session, the Special Representative also participated in two high-level side events devoted to the gender dimension of violence against children and the participation of children in decision-making, respectively. The first event - a ministerial breakfast meeting jointly organized by the Governments of Brazil, the Netherlands and the United States of America and in which heads of United Nations agencies and ministerial representatives from a large number of countries participated - raised the importance of combating violence against girls as part of the international agenda, promoted international cooperation in this area and supported child and youth participation in the developing policies concerning girls. At the meeting, commitment to the Special Representative's role was expressed and countries were encouraged to implement policies and programmes for the elimination of all violence against children, with a particular focus on girls.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Youth
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 38
- Paragraph text
- WHO remains a critical partner in the process of follow-up to the United Nations study. Violence prevention and the promotion of sound evidence, two priority recommendations of the study, are high on the WHO agenda, as illustrated by its work in the prevention of sexual violence against girls, the development of new estimates on the prevalence and health impact of child maltreatment, and the promotion of national surveys in this field. In 2011, collaboration will be pursued in these areas, with particular emphasis on data collection and analysis of violence against children in the home and the community.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Health
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 83
- Paragraph text
- In 2011, in order to further mainstream into the United Nations agenda the protection of children from violence, the Special Representative has promoted a number of high-level policy discussions. These have taken place in such forums as the Human Rights Council, in discussions on the rights of street children and on child-sensitive mechanisms for addressing incidents of violence; the Commission for Social Development, in discussions on extreme poverty and violence against children; the Commission on the Status of Women, in discussions on tackling violence, including sexual violence, against girls and on quality education and gender discrimination; and in the lead-up to the General Assembly, in discussions on the rights of children with disabilities. In addition, strategic cooperation has been promoted with United Nations partners to curb violence in communities and minimize the impacts of situations of armed and gang violence on children, including through policies that help to reduce the availability of and access to small arms.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 20a
- Paragraph text
- [The outcomes of the expert consultation are set out in a thematic report, to be launched during the commemoration of the 2012 International Day of the Girl Child, and include the following overarching recommendations:] Legislation plays a crucial role in the social process of abandonment of harmful practices against girls and boys, and is a core dimension of States' accountability for the protection of children from violence; this includes the obligation to ensure harmonization of all legislation, including customary and religious laws, with international human rights standards, and to ensure the establishment of a legal definition of the child in compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 80
- Paragraph text
- Second, the work conducted over the past three years has also helped to gain a better understanding of the multidimensional nature of violence and of the need to maintain a holistic view of the child when initiatives for the prevention and elimination of violence are pursued. It is critical to address the cumulative exposure of girls and boys to various manifestations of violence in different contexts, and throughout the child's life cycle. Indeed, for children at risk, violence in the home, in the school and in the community is a continuum, spilling over from one setting to another, and at times persisting across generations.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 39
- Paragraph text
- The study on harmful practices was released to mark the first anniversary of the International Day of the Girl Child, observed on 11 October 2012. Jointly developed with Plan International, in cooperation with the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and the African Union, it served as a reference with a sound perspective during the 2013 celebration of the Day of the African Child, devoted to the theme: "Eliminating harmful social and cultural practices affecting children: our collective responsibility". The study will frame additional regional initiatives to support the abandonment of harmful practices, including the consultation organized with the South Asia Initiative to End Violence against Children (SAIEVAC) (an apex body of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)) in September 2013 in Bhutan.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 28
- Paragraph text
- Children engaged in domestic work, most of them girls, are highly vulnerable to violence. According to ILO estimates contained in the publication Ending Child Labour in Domestic Work and Protecting Young Workers for Abusive Working Conditions, there may be as many as 100 million domestic workers worldwide, 15.5 million of whom are children. Most of them work as housekeepers, nannies or caregivers, and many are also migrants who hope to support their families through their remittances. Often isolated, with no formal protection structure, child domestic workers are highly vulnerable to labour exploitation, through having to work long hours without rest, being denied holidays or being deprived of wages, as well as to serious manifestations of violence and abuse.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 71
- Paragraph text
- Less than 30 per cent of respondents indicate 18 as the minimum age for marriage, with younger ages and different thresholds for boys and girls prevalent in a large number of countries.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Girls
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 25
- Paragraph text
- We must consolidate the gains that have been made, grasp the lessons we have learned, and redouble our efforts to shape a dynamic, forward-looking strategy to ensure children's freedom from violence everywhere and at all times. With this in mind, the global survey sets out eight imperatives which should be vigorously pursued: - All Governments should develop and promote a national, child-centered, integrated, multidisciplinary and time-bound strategy to prevent and address violence against children. - An explicit legal ban on all forms of violence against children must be enacted as a matter of urgency, backed by detailed measures for implementation and effective enforcement. - Policy initiatives and legal measures should be accompanied by increased efforts to overcome the social acceptance of violence against children. - There must be an ongoing commitment to strengthen children's meaningful participation. - All Governments must invest in the social inclusion of girls and boys who are particularly vulnerable. - Governments must recognize the crucial importance of building strong data systems and sound evidence to prevent and address violence against children. - A stronger focus is needed on the factors that influence levels of violence and the resilience of children, their families and communities. These include poverty, deprivation and inequality; weak rule of law, organized crime and political instability; mass population movements; and environmental degradation and natural disasters. - As the international community considers the future global development agenda beyond 2015, violence against children, including the most vulnerable and marginalized girls and boys, should be recognized as a priority and a cross-cutting concern.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 122
- Paragraph text
- Girls are often exposed to violence and discrimination owing to their gender, young age and powerlessness. They endure the detrimental impact of physical, mental and sexual violence in the home, at school, in the community, in institutional care and in justice institutions. Child trafficking is a crime that is on the rise and the majority of victims are girls. Despite the criminalization of female genital mutilation/cutting in many parts of the world, every year 3 million girls are at risk of enduring that practice and around 14 million girls are forcibly married, often with much older men, and exposed to high risks of sexual abuse and other forms of violence.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 4
- Paragraph text
- Those are promising developments, yet progress remains slow and uneven and the urgency of protecting children from violence has not diminished. As highlighted by recent United Nations reports, every year almost 1 billion children between the ages of 2 and 14 are subject to physical punishment by their caregivers; 84 million girls are victims of emotional, physical or sexual violence at the hands of their husbands or partners; child trafficking continues to increase, in some regions reaching more than 60 per cent of identified victims; and 8 per cent of global homicides affect children under the age of 15, while more than 50 per cent affect young people below the age of 30.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Youth
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 33
- Paragraph text
- Cooperation with African nations and institutions has been further pursued, including through the support of the Special Representative for the African Union campaign to combat child marriage. Marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, the Special Representative joined the African Union, the African Child Policy Forum and UNICEF in the development of the African Report on Violence against Children. The report reviews regional progress on the study on violence against children and recommends an agenda for action to address persisting challenges. It draws on the research initiatives and household surveys undertaken in the region and it will make a significant contribution in to the Conference on the Status of Children's Rights in Africa, and the African Girls' Summit on Ending Child Marriage, both to be held in late 2015.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 71
- Paragraph text
- The First African Girls' Summit on Ending Child Marriage in Africa was held in Lusaka in November 2015. Hosted by the African Union and the Government of Zambia, the Summit gathered Heads of State and Government, ministers responsible for gender and children, United Nations entities, development partners, civil society organizations and religious and traditional leaders, as well as young people who have experienced child marriage. The participants took stock of the progress made to end child marriage across the continent, shared evidence and good practices and renewed their commitment to bringing an end to this and other harmful practices in Africa.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Harmful Practices
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Youth
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 48
- Paragraph text
- Surrounded by such a devastating reality, children feel ready to embark on a perilous journey of uncertainty and to confront serious risks in the hope of finding a place of safety and security. Girls undertaking this journey face particularly serious risks of abuse and exploitation owing to their youth and gender. Some may be lured by traffickers with false promises of safety, an education or a future job. Others may be fleeing sexual abuse or the threat of a forced marriage; they may even have been sold into marriage by their desperate families, both to avoid the risk of rape and with the hope that the girl will acquire the citizenship of her husband.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2017, para. 11
- Paragraph text
- In situations of displacement, girls are particularly vulnerable. In addition to discrimination related to race, religion or ethnicity, girls are also often subject to abuses based on their sex, and therefore to multiple forms of discrimination. For example, displaced women and girls face high risks of sexual and gender-based violence, as highlighted in the 2016 report of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly entitled "In safety and dignity: addressing large movements of refugees and migrants" (A/70/59). These specific protection challenges must be recognized in order to mitigate the risks that girls are exposed to in situations of displacement. Member States are therefore urged to ensure that the needs of girls are addressed as part of their response both to refugees and to internally displaced persons. Protection measures should be implemented at all stages of the displacement cycle and girls who have suffered violations should be prioritized in refugee resettlement programmes.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 81
- Paragraph text
- The drugs trade typically uses children and adolescents for the most dangerous activities, such as monitoring territory, the transport and retail sale of drugs, or theft. Some children may end up being associated with criminal activities, including human trafficking, kidnapping and extortion and contract killings. Boys and girls may participate in human trafficking from an early age, as guides, lookouts or informants. Thereafter, they may be required to take care of safe houses and prevent escapes and later they may be armed and become involved in more dangerous tasks.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 75
- Paragraph text
- In October 2016, in Malawi, the Special Representative promoted the further implementation of the policy agenda launched during her previous visit undertaken in response to the findings of the 2015 violence against children survey. During the follow-up visit, she paid special attention to the prevention and abandonment of harmful practices, helping to focus national attention on the prevalence of child marriage, abuse associated with sexual initiation ceremonies, attacks against children with albinism and other practices compromising the rights of children, particularly girls.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 39
- Paragraph text
- [Vulnerabilities and risks faced by children who are internally displaced during armed conflict – addressing their rights]: The Guiding Principles assert that children, especially unaccompanied minors, as well as expectant mothers and mothers with young children, are “entitled to protection and assistance required by their condition and to treatment which takes into account their special needs” (Principle 4.2). The Principles also affirm the right of families to remain together and to be rapidly reunified (Principles 7 and 17); protection of children from sale into marriage, exploitation and forced labour (Principle 11); protection of children from recruitment or from taking part in hostilities (Principle 13); the right to documentation in their own names, including birth certificates (Principle 20); and the right to education, including the equal participation of girls (Principle 23).
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2012, para. 43
- Paragraph text
- Where State institutions are weak, prevention must begin at the community level. Establishing and strengthening community protection mechanisms and raising the awareness of families, communities and their leaders of the issue are other critical factors for prevention. Child protection and recruitment prevention policies are unlikely to work in contexts in which the community promotes the association of children with armed groups. Children are also most vulnerable to recruitment when family and community protection systems are weakened. In some contexts, children join armed groups because they are encouraged to do so by their families and/or communities. Abusive family environments can also propel children on to the streets, where they are more vulnerable to recruitment, or directly into the ranks of an armed group. In Colombia, for example, the decision of children, mainly girls, to run away and join an armed group has been found to be closely linked to domestic exploitation and physical and sexual abuse.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 20b
- Paragraph text
- [The outcomes of the expert consultation are set out in a thematic report, to be launched during the commemoration of the 2012 International Day of the Girl Child, and include the following overarching recommendations:] National legislation should include a clear and comprehensive prohibition of all harmful practices, secure the protection of children from all forms of violence and remove any justification of such practices that may compromise the safeguard of the best interests of the child, including their promotion in the name of honour or tradition; in this regard, the intent to cause harm is not a prerequisite for the definition of violence.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 20d
- Paragraph text
- [The outcomes of the expert consultation are set out in a thematic report, to be launched during the commemoration of the 2012 International Day of the Girl Child, and include the following overarching recommendations:] Sound data collection and analysis, and cross-country and cross-regional sharing of good practices in legislation and implementation are needed to gain a deeper understanding of, and help to address, the complex dimensions associated with social conventions, beliefs and practices, as well as to inform legislative, administrative, educational, social and other measures to promote the sustained abandonment of harmful practices against children.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Harmful Practices
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 21
- Paragraph text
- The urgency of this cause has clearly not diminished. Indeed, the magnitude and impact of this phenomenon remains high and deeply distressing. For millions of children, life is defined by one word: fear. In their early years and throughout adolescence, children endure violent disciplinary practices in schools, in care and justice institutions and also within the home. Community violence and organized crime undermines their daily life and development; millions of children experience violence in work settings, including domestic work; child trafficking is on the increase; and in some countries, boys and girls face the risk of inhuman sentencing and harmful practices persist, with long-lasting consequences for the enjoyment of children's rights.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 97
- Paragraph text
- In response to a call made by the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues for consolidation of knowledge on violence against indigenous children, the Special Representative joined hands with UNICEF, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Labour Organization in the development of the study entitled "Breaking the silence on violence against indigenous girls, adolescents and young women: a call to action based on an overview of existing evidence from Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America" (May 2013).
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 20
- Paragraph text
- At the same time, however, progress has been too slow, too uneven and too fragmented to make a genuine breakthrough in the protection of children from violence. Countless girls and boys of all ages continue to be exposed to the cumulative impact of different forms of violence as a result of reactive, ill-coordinated and ill-resourced national strategies; dispersed and poorly enforced legislation; and low levels of investment in family support and gender- and child-sensitive approaches and mechanisms to support child victims and fight impunity. Overall, data and research remain scarce and incipient - insufficient to overcome the invisibility and acceptance of this phenomenon and to safeguard children's freedom from violence at all times.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 31
- Paragraph text
- Violence against children is not a new topic in the development agenda. It is a core dimension of the right to freedom from fear, proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and emphasized by the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the process generated thereafter. In the Millennium Declaration, Member States reaffirmed the right of children to be raised in dignity and free from fear of violence, and expressed determination to "spare no effort in the fight against violence" (para. 8); moreover, they resolved to encourage the ratification and implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocols, which set out the normative foundation for children's right to freedom from violence. Furthermore, during the Millennium Summit of the United Nations, States expressed their commitment to strengthen child protection systems, to enhance accountability, and to prevent and combat all forms of violence against women and girls.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 135
- Paragraph text
- Thirdly, ending impunity and tolerance of violence against girls. That calls for information and social mobilization initiatives to overcome social norms compromising girls' protection from violence. It also requires strong accountability mechanisms in places of detention and effective training of professionals in the formal and informal justice system. Solid skills are indeed indispensable to address the complexities and sensitivities of violence against girls, to be effective in the prevention, investigation and prosecution of cases, and to safeguard girls' safety and protection, including when girls are deprived of their liberty. In that regard, it is important to promote special measures to protect girls' dignity and physical integrity through the use of alternative screening methods to replace strip and invasive body searches.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 9b
- Paragraph text
- [The following strategic dimensions of this important agenda in which significant progress has been made are highlighted in the report:] Enhancing awareness and consolidating knowledge to prevent and respond to violence against children by hosting international expert consultations, developing research on strategic topics and publishing studies. The publications included Toward a World Free from Violence: Global Survey on Violence against Children; 10 thematic studies on topics such as violence in schools and in the justice system, restorative justice for children, the rights of girls in the criminal justice system and child-sensitive counselling, and reporting and complaint mechanisms; reports on protecting children from harmful practices and from armed violence and organized crime; and a report on opportunities and risks associated with information and communication technologies (ICTs). In addition, child-friendly materials were produced to inform and empower children about their right to freedom from violence;
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 34
- Paragraph text
- The First African Girls' Summit on Ending Child Marriage was held in Lusaka in November 2015. Hosted by the African Union and the Government of Zambia, the summit gathered Heads of State and Government, ministers responsible for gender and children, United Nations agencies, development partners, civil society organizations and religious and traditional leaders as well as young people who have experienced child marriage. The participants took stock of the progress made to end child marriage across the continent, shared evidence and good practices and renewed their commitment to end child marriage and other harmful practices in Africa.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Harmful Practices
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Youth
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 5
- Paragraph text
- The year was also marked by the adoption by the World Health Assembly of resolution WHA69.5, in which the Assembly endorsed the World Health Organization (WHO) global plan of action to strengthen the role of the health system within a national multisectoral response to address interpersonal violence, in particular against women and girls, and against children. WHO also released INSPIRE, a package of evidence-based strategies to prevent and respond to violence against children. Furthermore, a global study led by ECPAT-End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking in Children for Sexual Purposes was issued to shed light on and reinforce collective efforts for the protection of children from sexual exploitation in travel and tourism. And the Terminology Guidelines for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, adopted by an inter-agency working group meeting in Luxembourg, were released to provide conceptual clarity to actions aimed at the protection of children, close legal loopholes and address misinterpretations that may put their safety at risk .
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 74
- Paragraph text
- In February 2016, the Special Representative supported the launch of the results of the survey in Nigeria, conducted by the Government in cooperation with UNICEF and the Together for Girls partnership. Nigeria was the first country in West Africa to conduct a national survey on such a large scale. In response to its findings, the Year of Action to End Violence against Children was launched, along with a call to action to federal and state ministries and agencies, non-governmental organizations, faith-based organizations, the media, communities, parents and children to join together to prevent and respond to violence against children. As a key contribution to this process, the Special Representative participated in the launch of the campaign and policy agenda to end violence against children in Lagos State; Cross River State launched its campaign to end violence against children on 16 June 2016, the second state in Nigeria to respond to the call to action.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2017, para. 14
- Paragraph text
- Goal 5 of the Sustainable Development Goals aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Education is a key component of empowerment, however in times of conflict, children's access to education is often severely restricted, with a particular effect on girls as their schools are often directly targeted by attacks. Even when schools are operating in situations of armed conflict where girls' enrolment rates were high prior to the conflict, some parents prevent girls from going to schools due to insecurity, or because the facilities have been used by armed actors. The military use of schools exposes girls to an increased likelihood of sexual violence by armed elements and also increases the likelihood of attack by other parties to the conflict. In addition, girls are sometimes given extra household responsibilities that oblige them to stay home. There is also increased vulnerability to forced early marriage in situations of conflict, which is at times encouraged by families with the aim of providing their child with physical and financial security and results in girls withdrawing from schooling. Forced marriage is another practice that has increasingly been used by armed groups as an expression of power and control over populations. Given these susceptibilities, it is important to develop protection and education programmes for conflict-affected girls in order to provide them with support and avoid long out-of-school interruptions. In this regard, the Special Representative welcomes the call by the Human Rights Council for all States to strengthen and intensify their efforts to realize progressively the equal enjoyment of the right to education by every girl and encourages a focus on girls affected by armed conflict.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2017, para. 12
- Paragraph text
- The risk of trafficking from situations of armed conflict is a related issue of concern for the protection of girls, including during displacement. The Special Representative welcomes the Human Rights Council's call to Governments in June 2016 to ensure that the prevention of and responses to trafficking in persons continue to take into account the specific needs of women and girls and their participation in and contribution to all phases of preventing and responding to trafficking, especially in addressing specific forms of exploitation, such as sexual exploitation. The Special Representative has also undertaken a number of initiatives to support that aim, including contributing to the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of measures to counter trafficking in persons and addressing an event on the role of the United Nations in combating modern slavery and human trafficking in conflict, which was hosted in New York in November by the United Nations University.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 88
- Paragraph text
- Gender influences perceptions and attitudes towards violence, as well as the manner in which violence is perpetrated and experienced. Gender-based violence against girls includes differential access to food and services, domestic or intimate partner violence, sexual exploitation and abuse, deprivation of inheritance or property and harmful practices, such as child marriage, female genital mutilation/cutting and honour killing. Gender-based violence also includes specific types of violence against men and boys, including bullying, fighting, and assault and gun crime.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2011, para. 14
- Paragraph text
- In addition, in November 2010, during the visit of the Special Representative, the Transitional Federal Government in Somalia committed to work towards an action plan to release girls and boys within the ranks of the Government forces and allied militias. In Myanmar, action plan negotiations between the Government and the United Nations to end the recruitment and use of children in the Tatmadaw Kyi are ongoing. In the Sudan, a memorandum of understanding was signed by the Justice and Equality Movement and the United Nations on 21 July 2010, paving the way towards the signing of an action plan. On 22 December 2010, JEM/Peace Wing submitted a draft action plan to the United Nations, to be implemented in West Darfur. In Chad, some 1,000 children were released by 12 armed opposition groups during the reporting period. In April 2011, the Government of Chad prepared an action plan to address the recruitment and use of children by the Armée nationale tchadienne, which is ready for signature with the United Nations.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 25
- Paragraph text
- This is an area where urgent action is required and to which the Special Representative pays priority attention. Existing data sets on children provide a basis to build upon, but they need to be integrated beyond sectors and individual disciplines, to promote a holistic consideration of the child. Gaps in child protection areas need to be addressed and monitoring tools and indicators expanded to cover boys and girls of all ages and in all settings, and to identify those at greatest risk. Moreover, these efforts need to incorporate children's views and perspectives, and capture their experience, and dynamic and evolving agency. This is crucial to understand the hidden face of violence and to address its root causes effectively.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 40
- Paragraph text
- Another area of common concern is the development of new ILO standards to ensure decent work for domestic workers. The Special Representative continues to support this process, which opens avenues for strengthening children's protection from exploitation in domestic service and from any form of violence associated with it. Child domestic workers, especially girls, are highly vulnerable to violence. Working in private households, often far from their own homes and with little or no protection or social support, they are exposed to excessive working hours, hazardous tasks, social stigma and discrimination, physical and emotional violence, as well as sexual abuse.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 7
- Paragraph text
- The urgency of protecting children from violence has clearly not diminished. Indeed, the magnitude and impact of this phenomenon remain high level and deeply distressing. For countless children, life is defined by one word: fear. In their early years and throughout adolescence, children endure violent disciplinary practices in schools, in care and justice institutions and within the home. Armed and community violence undermines their daily life and development; millions of children experience violence in work settings, including domestic work; trafficking is on the increase; in some countries, inhuman sentencing is still imposed on boys and girls; and harmful practices persist, with long-lasting consequences for children's rights.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 87
- Paragraph text
- The promotion of children's freedom from violence remained a priority for the Special Representative in United Nations intergovernmental forums. In 2013, she joined policy discussions in three important bodies: the Human Rights Council, at its annual day of discussion on the rights of the child, devoted to the right to health, including prevention of violence; the Commission on the Status of Women, with its important commitments to addressing violence against women and girls; and the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, which called for the drafting of model strategies and practical measures on violence against children in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice. These discussions were critical to further mainstreaming children's protection from violence in the United Nations agenda.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 35
- Paragraph text
- The third message strongly conveyed by children was that violence constitutes not only a crucial priority that the post-2015 development agenda should specifically address, but also a cross-cutting concern that other development goals need to take into consideration. Thus, while placing special emphasis on the role of education in preventing and addressing violence, they highlighted the fact that violence is widespread in schools, compromising child development and well-being. Violence prevention was a dimension that, in their view, public health systems should consider. Violence was equally felt to undermine gender equality and empowerment, and social practices and beliefs compromise girls' confidence and ability to report incidents of violence, at times leading to school dropout. Moreover, children recognized that violence and poverty are closely related and both can lead to high risks of poor child health, failing school performance, social exclusion and welfare dependency.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Poverty
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 33
- Paragraph text
- In their recommendations, children highlighted three major issues. Firstly, they expressed deep concern at the high levels of violence affecting their lives - in schools, the community, the workplace and the home. Girls underscored the particularly high risk of sexual violence, and boys the special risk of severe forms of physical abuse, crime-related violence and homicide. Children called for their effective protection from violence in all contexts and at all times. They ranked protection from violence as their second highest priority, immediately after education. For them, education is crucial to develop children's talents and skills and to promote healthy lifestyles, and it is important in preventing violence and discrimination, countering intolerance, and enhancing dialogue and critical thinking. As they noted, receiving an inclusive and high-quality education helps prevent fear and abuse, as well as violence-related school dropout, early pregnancy, child marriage and child labour.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 69
- Paragraph text
- In February 2016, the Special Representative supported the launch of the results of the Nigeria survey, conducted by the Government in cooperation with UNICEF and the Together for Girls partnership. Nigeria was the first country in West Africa to conduct such a large-scale national survey. In response to its findings, the Year of Action to End Violence against Children was launched, along with a call to action for federal and state ministries and agencies, non-governmental organizations, faith-based organizations, the media, communities, parents and children to join together to prevent and respond to violence against children.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2017, para. 13
- Paragraph text
- Girls are also significantly affected by recruitment and use, with some estimates indicating that as many as 40 per cent of children associated with armed forces or armed groups are female. In addition to the use of girls in support functions, for sexual purposes or to be forced into marriage, they are also used for combat and to commit violent acts. For example, in a particularly grave example, in Nigeria in 2016, girls were increasingly being forced by Boko Haram to be suicide bombers, and were used for the purpose of avoiding detection by security personnel. Although the advocacy that has taken place since the Machel study has led to increased recognition of the plight of girls associated with parties to conflict, they still face significant obstacles in the process of being released and separated from parties to conflict. For example, it was noted in a recent report on the Democratic Republic of the Congo that out of the 1,004 children who had escaped or been separated from one armed group between 2009 and 2014, only 19 girls had been documented. While there was a significant number of young girls present in camps who were allegedly used as wives, concubines, cooks, and combatants in the ranks, male members of the group claimed that these girls were their daughters. In the light of this repudiation of their role, girls are often less visible and are frequently neglected in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes. When their role is recognized, societal factors have an impact, as girls are sometimes reluctant to join disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes, fearing rejection by their families and communities. Further action is required in order to raise awareness of the needs of girls in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration processes and also of the risks that they face after separation from armed groups, with special attention needing to be given to their reintegration into families and communities.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Youth
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 15
- Paragraph text
- Throughout the world, countless numbers of girls and boys fall victims to harmful practices, including female genital mutilation or cutting, early and forced marriage, degrading initiation rites, breast ironing, son preference, stoning, honour killings, forced feeding, witchcraft rituals and many other less-known forms of harmful practice. Often violent in nature, these practices compromise the development and education of the child, have serious and long-lasting health and psychological consequences, and may result in disability or death.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Harmful Practices
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2013, para. 13
- Paragraph text
- Sexual violence remains widespread in many conflict situations, affecting both girls and boys. Although underreported, sexual violence and the forced marriage of girls to members of armed groups continued to be a pervasive threat.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Girls
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 55
- Paragraph text
- Violence prevention and the promotion of sound evidence, two priority areas addressed by the study, are high on the WHO agenda, as illustrated by the agency's work in the prevention of sexual violence against girls, in the development of new estimates on the prevalence and health impact of child maltreatment, and in the promotion of national surveys in this area. These dimensions gained centre stage at the Fourth Milestones of a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention Meeting, organized in September 2009 in Geneva, in which the Special Representative participated.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Health
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 90
- Paragraph text
- At the same time, there is a significant gap between these legal and policy frameworks, and implementation and public response. Working with both boys and girls is critical to overcome prejudice and preconceptions and support victims in seeking help and report incidences of violence. This is an area where incremental efforts are being made, including by engaging men and boys to change social norms of masculinity and encompass gender-equal relations free from violence, including more equal sharing of caregiving activities and domestic work within the household.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Girls
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 70
- Paragraph text
- Another significant gap revealed by the survey is the dearth of data on laws, policies and advocacy on the gender dimensions of violence and the legal protection of girls: 40 per cent of the respondents provide no information on this question and less than 30 per cent mention positive initiatives. Legislation in the area remains a challenge, with less than half of Governments indicating the enactment of a legal ban on harmful practices, which may fully or only partially cover female genital mutilation/cutting, child or forced marriage, witchcraft rituals, honour killings and other practices.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 121
- Paragraph text
- The Beijing Declaration includes nine strategic objectives to promote the elimination of all forms of discrimination, negative cultural attitudes and practices, and violence against the girl child. Over the past two decades, significant progress has been made to safeguard the rights of girls, including through strengthened legislation, policy and national plans of actions. However, as noted in the Global Survey conducted by the Special Representative's office, and other important studies, violence against girls, and overall against children and women, remains a global challenge.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 96
- Paragraph text
- Poverty, vulnerability and economic hardship are factors of stress in the community and the home, generating higher incidence of violence, including domestic violence. As families struggle to meet their basic needs, children may be pressed to drop out from school to contribute to household income; girls may be placed at risk of involvement in hazardous economic activities, including domestic service, begging and sexual exploitation, or forced to marry - the risk of getting married before 18 years is three times higher amongst poor girls.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Poverty
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 23
- Paragraph text
- Around the world, countless numbers of girls and boys fall victim to harmful practices. Often violent in nature, these practices compromise the development and education of the child, have serious and long-lasting health and psychological consequences, and may result in disability or death. At the same time, positive experiences have led to the successful abandonment of these practices and a lasting commitment by concerned communities to prevent their occurrence and safeguard the protection of children's rights.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Harmful Practices
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 98
- Paragraph text
- The study is guided by international standards and aims to break through the invisibility of violence. Recognizing the cumulative risks of violence faced by girls, adolescents and young women as a result of the convergence of risks associated with ethnicity, gender, age, disability, lack of parental care and other factors, the study reviews positive experiences and offers comprehensive recommendations for accelerating progress and inspiring further debate and action for the protection of indigenous girls and women from violence.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2011, para. 21
- Paragraph text
- Of growing concern is the use of children — sometimes unbeknownst to them — to carry or wear explosives. The reporting period has seen a steady increase in the number of girls and boys being used by armed groups for such purposes. These children, sometimes as young as eight, are often unaware of the actions or consequences of the acts they are instigated to commit. Such acts often lead to their own death and the killing of civilians, including other children.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2013, para. 21
- Paragraph text
- A growing body of reporting also contributes to an enhanced understanding of the multiple indirect adverse effects of drone strikes on children. Boys and girls have been the victims of drone strikes on schools, funeral processions and other community gatherings. Drone attacks have also led to weakening of the social fabric and of community protection mechanisms.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2016, para. 77
- Paragraph text
- Recalling that the issue of the reintegration of children is crucial to ensure the long-term sustainability of peace and security, the Special Representative encourages the Member States concerned to take appropriate measures to reintegrate those children, giving special attention to the needs of girls. She also calls on all Member States to provide the necessary political, technical and financial support to reintegration programmes.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 19
- Paragraph text
- Secondly, to prevent girls and boys from being targeted by violence or instrumentalized in criminal activities, the Model Strategies call for a strong and cohesive national child protection system, and recognize the need to address the root causes of child social exclusion and promote children's universal access to basic social services of quality (see paras. 12-17).
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 117
- Paragraph text
- Children are particularly vulnerable to those intertwined forms of violence, both as victims and witnesses. While adolescent boys may be at risk of physical aggression and homicide owing to their participation in street fighting, gang membership, possession of arms and manipulation by organized crime networks, girls are more likely to endure violence in the private sphere, in particular sexual violence, which is often associated with shame, fear and distrust.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 125
- Paragraph text
- Girls may also be criminalized for status offences or on the grounds of "immoral character" or "perverse conduct". Those who are victims of trafficking may end up being arrested and incarcerated as a result of their exploitation by prostitution rings. Girls may also be forced by boyfriends and family members or manipulated by criminal groups to commit offences, such as selling drugs.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 134
- Paragraph text
- Secondly, the establishment of widely available and easily accessible, safe and confidential mechanisms to support girls to overcome the fear of reporting cases of violence. They need to be supported by child- and gender-sensitive standards to ensure the effective participation of girls in relevant judicial and administrative proceedings, and to safeguard their safety, privacy and dignity at all stages.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 8
- Paragraph text
- Trafficking in persons continues to increase, and in some regions more than 60 per cent of victims are children. Countless millions of children are involved in exploitative work and slavery-like practices. In developing countries, one in every three girls is married before age 18 and one in nine is married before age 15, and children below 15 years represent 8 per cent of victims of homicides globally.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2010, para. 31
- Paragraph text
- WHO was an active supporter of the development of the United Nations study and remains a critical partner in the process of follow-up. The organization's contribution to the initiative to prevent sexual violence against girls, mentioned above, is a meaningful illustration of such steady commitment.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 124
- Paragraph text
- Driven by fear and superstition, incidents of violence are seldom reported or followed by investigation or prosecution. Girls may conceal them too, fearing further harassment and reprisals. Overall there is a pervasive culture of impunity.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 128
- Paragraph text
- Either as victims, witnesses or alleged offenders, those girls are in desperate need of care, treatment and protection, and gender-sensitive approaches to promote their social reintegration. Sadly, many of them may be at risk of ill-treatment and re-victimization by the justice system itself.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 32
- Paragraph text
- [Vulnerabilities and risks faced by children who are internally displaced during armed conflict – addressing their rights]: Children are disproportionately affected by internal displacement not only in terms of the numbers of those affected, but also in the risks that they face. It is important to recall the challenges faced by internally displaced children, as articulated by Graça Machel, in her 1996 landmark report to the General Assembly on the impact of armed conflict on children (A/51/306): “During flight from the dangers of conflict, families and children continue to be exposed to multiple physical dangers. They are threatened by sudden attacks, shelling, snipers and landmines, and must often walk for days with only limited quantities of water and food. Under such circumstances, children become acutely undernourished and prone to illness, and they are the first to die. Girls in flight are even more vulnerable than usual to sexual abuse. Children forced to flee on their own to ensure their survival are also at heightened risk. Many abandon home to avoid forced recruitment, only to find that being in flight still places them at risk of recruitment, especially if they have no documentation and travel without their families.”
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2015, para. 31
- Paragraph text
- Attacks on schools and hospitals are becoming an all-too familiar aspect of conflict, depriving millions of children of their right to education and health. The Special Representative remained deeply concerned by the increasing number of attacks on schools and hospitals, despite their protected status under international law. In almost every situation relating to the children and armed conflict agenda, the right to education and health was gravely affected by attacks on and the widespread military use of schools and hospitals as well as by attacks and threats of attacks against teachers and doctors. In many situations, such as in Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Israel and the State of Palestine and the Syrian Arab Republic, parties to conflict destroyed schools and hospitals by indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas or in targeted attacks against education facilities, teachers, school children, health workers and clinics. In 2014, we witnessed attacks on schools and ideological opposition to standard school curricula in places as varied as Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, southern Thailand, Somalia and the Syrian Arab Republic. Attempts by certain groups to radicalize teachings or exclude girls or minorities from education pose an even greater risk to the fundamental right of all children to an education. Health centres and health workers were also targeted, leading to the resurgence of preventable diseases, such as polio.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 89
- Paragraph text
- As noted in the United Nations study, and confirmed during the Special Representative's missions to all regions, violence against children knows no geographic, cultural or economic bounds; it affects boys and girls of all ages, and occurs in all settings, including where children are expected to benefit from special care and protection.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 33d
- Paragraph text
- [The meeting called for a multidimensional strategy and:] Data and research on violence in schools to capture the hidden face of violence and address its root causes; assess perceptions and attitudes, including among girls and boys of different ages and social backgrounds; identify children at greater risk; and assess the economic cost of violence and the social return that may be achieved with investment in prevention;
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 29
- Paragraph text
- In the same publication, ILO expresses special concern at the largely hidden nature of domestic work and its strong association with incidents of violence. Name-calling, threats, shouting and screaming, beating, kicking, whipping, scalding, overwork and denial of food, and sexual harassment and abuse are some of the incidents acknowledged in the report. If they become pregnant, girls may be dismissed and find themselves on the streets, afraid to return home.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 17
- Paragraph text
- As the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child draws closer and discussions on the post-2015 global development agenda intensify, the report on the global survey provides strategic insight into how far the international community has come towards ensuring children's protection from violence and, crucially, what still needs to be done to give every girl and boy the opportunity of enjoying a childhood free from violence.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 118
- Paragraph text
- According to UNICEF, one in three adolescent girls aged 15 to 19 worldwide have been the victims of emotional, physical or sexual violence committed by their husbands or partners at some point in their lives. Taking place behind closed doors, incidents of violence are often associated with a culture of silence that inhibits girls from speaking out, from seeking help, accessing justice and bringing perpetrators to justice.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 40
- Paragraph text
- It should be noted that the focus of international criminal justice and mixed tribunals specifically on crimes against children has also raised the stakes in the fight against impunity. The Special Court for Sierra Leone paved the way for sanctioning individuals for child-specific violations by including such crimes in the indictments of all the individuals charged by the Court. This includes former President of Liberia Charles Taylor on counts of recruitment and use of children. In addition, despite the challenges in the trial of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo by the International Criminal Court for recruiting and using children, that case has symbolized the will of the international community to act for children and as such has sent a powerful message to perpetrators. As this is the first case before the International Criminal Court on the issue of children and armed conflict, and having filed an amicus curiae, the Special Representative gave testimony before the Court on the need to adopt a case-by-case method in deciding on what constitutes enlistment and conscription in terms of the statute. The Special Representative urged an interpretation that would not exclude girl children, who play multiple roles in many groups, not only as combatants but as wives and domestic aides.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 26a
- Paragraph text
- [The consultation highlighted the following issues:] The critical role of legislation, which constitutes a core dimension of States' accountability for the protection of children from violence and makes a decisive contribution to the abandonment of harmful practices against girls and boys by communities concerned;
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2015, para. 66
- Paragraph text
- Recalling that the issue of the reintegration of children is crucial to ensure the long-term sustainability of peace and security, the Special Representative encourages the Member States concerned to take appropriate measures to reintegrate those children, giving special attention to the needs of girls. She also calls on all Member States to provide the necessary political, technical and financial support to reintegration programmes.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 52
- Paragraph text
- Violence has a negative and often long-term impact on child victims. Beyond those directly affected, however, it creates fear and insecurity among students, hampering their learning opportunities and well-being. This in turn gives rise to anxiety and concerns in the family, sometimes fuelling pressure to keep children, particularly girls, out of school or to encourage school abandonment as a means of avoiding further violence.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 56
- Paragraph text
- Adolescent boys are at high risk of homicide as a result of participation in violence-prone activities, such as street fighting, street crime, gang membership and possession of weapons. For girls, the incidence of inter-partner violence is particularly high, and in many nations, family-related homicide is the major cause of female deaths.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Boys
- Families
- Girls
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 105
- Paragraph text
- An estimated 526,000 people die violently every year; in the large majority of cases, in non-conflict settings. Young males are at high risk of homicide owing to their participation in street fighting, street crime, gang membership, possession of arms and other violence-prone activities. Women and girls are predominantly targeted by intimate and gender-based violence and in many nations family related homicide is the major cause of female deaths.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 38
- Paragraph text
- Firstly, it is crucial to mobilize the voice and support of leaders in all areas. In this spirit, on 20 November 2013, the International Day of the Child, the Special Representative together with other United Nations child rights experts issued a call to all Governments to include the protection from violence of all girls and boys, including the most vulnerable and marginalized, as a priority in the post-2015 agenda, and to back this commitment with firm funding.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 119
- Paragraph text
- As the international community reviews progress in the implementation over the past twenty years of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, including the protection of girls from discrimination and violence, it is crucial to prevent and address the challenges they face when involved with the criminal justice system, as victims and witnesses of violence, and when deprived of their liberty. That is a concern the Special Representative will continue to pursue.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2017, para. 60
- Paragraph text
- The Special Representative encourages all actors to renew their efforts to address the impact of conflict on girls. In this regard, the Special Representative calls upon Member States to ensure that appropriate services are in place to reintegrate girls associated with parties to conflict as well as supporting communities for the return of those who have been forcibly married and/or have suffered sexual violence and/or have borne children.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 42
- Paragraph text
- In this regard, the High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda recommended the inclusion in the future agenda of dimensions such as eliminating all forms of violence against children and in particular against girls, and ending child marriage.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 15
- Paragraph text
- Gender discrimination and stereotyped gender roles increase the risk of violence against girls, including rape, forced marriage and crimes in the name of honour. Those misperceptions may lead to punitive approaches in legislation, policy and implementation.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2017, para. 19
- Paragraph text
- Long-standing and well-established principles of detention are also being sidelined and overlooked in the context of armed conflict. For example, in many situations children are being held together with adults, and boys are also being held together with girls. Detaining children in this way exposes them to a range of risks to their physical integrity and can have harmful consequences for their psychological development. The nomenclature regarding detention is also a serious concern, as in some instances, the use of terminology such as a "reintegration", "rehabilitation" or "deradicalization" centre has been used to circumvent the applicability of safeguards and to deny the rights of those deprived of their liberty. In this regard, the Special Representative reminds concerned Member States of the importance of adhering to the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (Beijing Rules) in all instances of the deprivation of liberty of children. In all situations, priority must also be given to maintaining family ties for children in detention, and children should also have access to educational programmes, medical care and psychological support. These provisions will aid a child's reintegration into society once he or she is released.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2010, para. 21
- Paragraph text
- Girls remain the main victims of sexual violence in armed conflict. However, there are increasing reports of sexual abuse committed against boys. This phenomenon is still not adequately understood, and is yet to be comprehensively addressed in advocacy, monitoring, reporting and response. Knowledge about sexual violence against boys continues to be thin, in part because boys are more reluctant to speak out about sexual violence and there is inherently a bias against questioning boys about such abuse.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Girls
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 64
- Paragraph text
- In November 2010, the Special Representative met the Vice President of the European Commission, Viviane Reding. The meeting was a strategic opportunity to address areas of shared concern, including the inclusion of children's protection from violence in the above-mentioned strategy on the rights of the child, the consolidation of legislation and other actions for the protection of girls from harmful practices, and the safeguard of the rights of child victims of incidents of violence.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 93
- Paragraph text
- Unfortunately, however, this unique potential stands in stark contrast with the daily reality of millions of children. Within and around educational settings, both girls and boys continue to be exposed to violence, including verbal abuse, intimidation, physical aggression and, in some cases, sexual abuse. At times, they are also victims of gang violence and assault.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 94
- Paragraph text
- Violence not only has a negative impact on child victims; beyond those directly affected, it also generates fear and insecurity among students, hampering their learning opportunities and overall well-being. This situation raises families' anxiety and concerns, at times fuelling pressure to keep children, particularly girls, away from school and encouraging dropping out of school as a means of preventing further violence and harm.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 53
- Paragraph text
- For vulnerable groups of children, including girls, children with disabilities, children belonging to minorities or indigenous groups, or affected by HIV, these efforts need to be redoubled. They face particular challenges in gaining access to schooling and in remaining in school. They are more likely to be subjected to violence, or disregarded when they seek advice or report incidents of violence. As a result, they may end up choosing not to report violence for fear of drawing attention.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 81
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- Girls constitute a particularly vulnerable group, and their offending is often closely related to various forms of discrimination and deprivation: girls living in poverty may be easy targets and manipulated by criminal networks for sexual exploitation and drug dealing. Girls are also at risk of being arrested for prostitution or rounded up on the assumption that they are sex workers.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 41e
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- [In some countries, important legislative initiatives have addressed violence against children with albinism and those accused of witchcraft, criminalizing harmful practices and issuing protective measures to secure children's safety and protection. Legislation is, however, insufficient to change superstition and deeply rooted beliefs. To ensure the protection of these children, the Special Representative has called for a comprehensive strategy highlighting, the following measures:] Enacting a clear legal ban against all forms of violence. In many countries, criminal legislation prohibits serious crimes, such as murder and torture. However, owing to the stigma and superstitious beliefs surrounding children with albinism or accused of witchcraft, additional legislative measures are needed to secure their effective protection. National legislation needs to include a clear and comprehensive prohibition of all forms of violence and harmful practices to protect these marginalized girls and boys, and to provide for means of redress and accountability. Clear provisions on reporting, investigation and prosecution of incidents of violence are essential to fight impunity. Information campaigns and awareness-raising initiatives, and capacity-building of relevant professionals, are equally needed to make the provisions of the law known and effectively enforced, and to overcome deep-rooted social conventions condoning violence.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 64
- Paragraph text
- Gender differences also influence how children use ICTs and perceive and respond to online risks. In Europe, boys appear more bothered by online violence than girls, while girls are more concerned with contact-related risks. Teenage girls are slightly more likely to receive nasty or hurtful messages online than teenage boys.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 120
- Paragraph text
- In 1995, data from many countries showed that girls experienced discrimination from the earliest stages of life, through their childhood and into adulthood. Owing to violence, sexual abuse and exploitation, harmful attitudes and practices, such as female genital mutilation, son preference and child marriage, many girls do not survive into adulthood. They are neglected and their self-esteem undermined, with the risk of initiating a lifelong downward spiral of deprivation and exclusion.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Harmful Practices
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 130
- Paragraph text
- Seeking redress through the criminal justice system can also be very intimidating, as girls fear that their credibility may be questioned, or that they may be blamed, rather than protected as victims. In countries where discrimination and stigma against sexual violence is high, it is particularly hard for girls to approach police stations or courts, for fear of verbal intimidation and harassment, and of seeing their testimony dismissed.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 18
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- The violence-related targets in the 2030 Agenda are achievable, but measuring progress will need to be supported by sound data and stronger national statistical capacity. Along with the consolidation of knowledge and data on children's exposure to sexual, physical and emotional violence, it is crucial to develop enhanced tools and methodologies that can capture the full magnitude and incidence of all forms of violence against all girls and boys under 18 years of age.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2017, para. 16b
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- [The agenda of the Special Representative has been guided by four strategic priorities: consolidating progress and mainstreaming implementation of the recommendations of the United Nations study; ensuring that violence against children is given prominence on the global agenda; reinforcing regional processes to enhance the protection of children from violence; and addressing emerging concerns. Significant results have been achieved, including:] Enhancing awareness and consolidating knowledge to prevent and respond to violence against children through international expert consultations, the development of research and the release of strategic thematic studies. As noted above, in 2016, two major studies Protecting Children Affected by Armed Violence in the Community and Ending the Torment: Tackling Bullying from the Schoolyard to Cyberspace were released. Previous studies by the Special Representative have addressed violence in schools and in the justice system; restorative justice for children; the rights of girls in the criminal justice system; child-sensitive counselling, and reporting and complaint mechanisms; protection of children from harmful practices; and the opportunities and risks for children associated with information and communications technologies. Child-friendly materials were also produced to inform and empower children concerning their right to freedom from violence, most recently issued in Braille;
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2012, para. 30
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- [Reparations for children and the restoration of children’s rights]: Previous experience with reparations for children, either administrative or court-ordered, has been limited. Past and present initiatives provide useful lessons learned and a sense of the challenges ahead. The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, for example, was the first ad hoc and hybrid court mandated to order reparations to victims, albeit only of a collective and symbolic nature. The Special Court for Sierra Leone had no mandate to award reparations. Instead, the Government established an administrative reparations programme on the basis of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Resource limitations, however, have put a significant strain on the implementation of this reparations process. In Colombia, in the framework of the Justice and Peace Act, the Supreme Court ordered reparations to child victims of forced recruitment in the case against Freddy Rendón Herrera, alias “El Alemán”, who was accused of unlawful recruitment. The Court considered the needs and experience of each victim, in particular girls, to be different, and decided to focus on individual rehabilitation measures rather than collective material reparations.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 56
- Paragraph text
- Urgent efforts remain essential, including to capture the hidden face of violence and address its root causes; to understand perceptions and attitudes, including amongst girls and boys of different ages and social backgrounds; to help identify children at greater risk and effectively support them; and to assess the economic cost of violence and the social return that may be achieved with investment in prevention.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 93
- Paragraph text
- An estimated 526,000 people die violently every year; in the large majority of cases, in non-conflict settings. Young males are at high risk of becoming the victims of homicide owing to their participation in street fighting, street crime, gang membership, possession of arms and other violence-prone activities. Women and girls are predominantly targeted by intimate and gender-based violence and in many nations family-related homicide is the major cause of female deaths.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2012, para. 70
- Paragraph text
- Less than 30 per cent of respondents indicate 18 as the minimum age for marriage, with younger ages and different thresholds for boys and girls prevalent in a large number of countries. This is an area to which the Special Representative has paid special attention, including through the consultation on children's protection from harmful practices (see paras. 17-20 above).
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Harmful Practices
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 14
- Paragraph text
- Countless children involved with the criminal justice system as victims, witnesses or alleged offenders have a history of exposure to violence. At times, the criminal justice system is used as a substitute for weak or non-existent child protection systems that lead to the stigmatization and criminalization of girls and boys at risk, including those who are homeless and poor, those living or working on the street, and those who have fled home as a result of violence.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 35
- Paragraph text
- During the period covered by the present report, important global thematic consultations were held to inform the future development agenda. In Helsinki, Monrovia and Panama City, the consultations devoted to violence and citizen security gave prominent attention to human rights and the elimination of all forms of violence. During the Panama consultation, participants specifically called for the inclusion of distinct goals to safeguard the protection of boys and girls from violence.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Girls
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 129
- Paragraph text
- Those girls face overwhelming challenges at all stages, including significant barriers to seeking justice. Many are unaware of their rights and even fewer have access to safe, effective and child-sensitive counselling, reporting and complaints mechanisms. Furthermore, perpetrators are often people they know and trust, or on whom they depend for their survival and protection, raising additional challenges to reporting incidents and preventing the risk of reprisals.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 123
- Paragraph text
- In some communities, certain incidents of violence reflect harmful beliefs towards particularly marginalized girls, including those with disabilities or albinism, who may be accused of witchcraft. As a result, those girls endure stigmatization and are the victims of serious acts of violence, neglect, abandonment, mutilation and murder.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 65
- Paragraph text
- There are also indications that boys enjoy more and better quality access to the Internet than girls. That pattern is likely to exist in other regions, especially in contexts where girls may experience discrimination in society. At the same time, ICTs may also provide important tools for those girls to obtain information, participate in social and cultural life, and overcome isolation in their communities.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2012, para. 63
- Paragraph text
- In 2011, 22 incidents were reported of children being used by armed groups to carry out suicide attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including one 8-year-old girl and one 9-year-old girl. Some of those children were victim bombers, unknowingly carrying explosive packages.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 126
- Paragraph text
- In many parts of the world, there is a lack of alternative non-custodial measures and community-based programmes tailored to girls' developmental needs. Restorative justice approaches are rare and there is a lack of investment in programmes that promote girls' health and education and long-lasting reintegration.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 55
- Paragraph text
- Adolescent boys are at high risk of homicide because they are more prone to participating in activities such as street fighting, street crime, gang membership and possession of weapons. For girls, the greatest risk is violence from intimate partners.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Boys
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2016, para. 13
- Paragraph text
- There is no time for complacency. Around the world, millions of girls and boys of all ages continue to be exposed to appalling levels of violence, in their neighbourhoods, in their schools, in institutions aimed at their care and protection and within the home.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Girls
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
SRSG on children and armed conflict: Annual report 2014, para. 83
- Paragraph text
- The Special Representative calls upon Member States and civil society to ensure that particular attention is paid to the plight of girls and boys and to promote specific provisions for children in global efforts to end, prevent and respond to sexual violence in conflict.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2011, para. 51
- Paragraph text
- Unfortunately, this unique potential is in marked contrast to the daily reality of millions of children. Within and around educational settings, both girls and boys continue to be exposed to violence, including verbal abuse, intimidation, physical aggression and, in some cases, sexual abuse. At times they are also victims of gang violence and assault.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 22
- Paragraph text
- The most vulnerable children are at the greatest risk of violence, including girls, children with disabilities, children who migrate, children who are confined to institutions, and children whose poverty and social exclusion expose them to deprivation, to neglect and, at times, to the inherent dangers of life on the streets.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 82
- Paragraph text
- The United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-Custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules) provide an important reference in this regard as they address gender-based discrimination in the criminal justice system and call for gender-specific options for diversionary measures and the development of pretrial and sentencing alternatives for girls and women (rule 57).
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 127
- Paragraph text
- As a result, countless girls end up deprived of their liberty, far away from home and family visits, and placed in units together with adult women. They may find themselves in harsh conditions, in overcrowded cells or in solitary confinement. They may be exposed to sexual violence, harassment, invasive body searches and humiliating treatment by staff in detention centres. In some countries, girls may face inhuman sentencing, including flogging, stoning and capital punishment.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2015, para. 90
- Paragraph text
- State policies need to address the root causes of armed violence, including deprivation and social exclusion; undertake gender-sensitive approaches to secure boys' and girls' safety and protection, and the recovery and reintegration of victims; and fight impunity. Special protection measures are also needed for children and young people who try to leave gangs and organized criminal structures, to counter the risks they face and promote long-term options for their reintegration.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Youth
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2013, para. 25
- Paragraph text
- Particularly worrisome is the fact that child trafficking has been on the increase: between 2007 and 2010, 27 per cent of detected victims were children. Of every three child victims, two are girls and one is a boy and, in some regions, children's exposure to this form of violence is particularly high.
- Organe
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Type de document
- SRSG report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in economic and social life with a focus on economic crisis 2014, para. 89
- Paragraph text
- A disproportionate amount of unpaid care work falls on women, limiting women's capacity to engage in paid work. This is evidenced in empirical studies which show that women, whether or not they are in paid employment, spend between twice to four times the amount of hours on care functions than do men. Up to 90 per cent of home care due to illness is performed by women and girls.
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in cultural and family life, with a focus on the family as a cultural space 2015, para. 65
- Paragraph text
- The obligation of the State to protect women and girls' right to equality in the family compels the authorities to prevent discrimination by private actors. Due diligence as a principle of State action should result in a global model of prevention, protection, prosecution, punishment and redress for acts of discrimination and violence against women in cultural and family life.
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in the area of health and safety, with a focus on the instrumentalization of women's bodies 2016, para. 78
- Paragraph text
- Criminalization of behaviour that is attributed only to women is discriminatory per se and generates and perpetuates stigma. The threat of criminal punishment restricts women's access to sexual and reproductive health-care services and information and acts as a deterrent to health-care professionals, thus barring women's and girls' access to health-care services.
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Sports and healthy lifestyles as contributing factors to the right to health 2016, para. 68
- Paragraph text
- These examples reflect deep-seated bias towards men's sport, which diminishes the opportunities for women in sport at all levels. States and other actors must act to shift public consciousness away from a male-dominated sporting culture. States should review their laws, policies and programmes, and amend or repeal those that discriminate against women and girls and prevent them from participating in sport on an equal basis with men.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Violence against indigenous women and girls; rights of indigenous peoples in relation to extractive industries 2012, para. 30
- Paragraph text
- In this connection, the Special Rapporteur would like to mention three specific ways in which indigenous self-determination may be enhanced in the context of combating violence against women and girls. While the following points are, of course, not exhaustive, they provide some reflections on the measures needed by States and indigenous peoples themselves to address concerns in this regard.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
Effective Implementation of the OPSC 2010, para. 54
- Paragraph text
- Early or forced marriage, which is not considered a form of exploitation, makes young girls more vulnerable to mistreatment and exploitation. It often results in their leaving school early and prevents them from acquiring the skills that could make them more independent. When girls flee a marriage, they most often find themselves with no education or source of livelihood, separated from their family environment and, therefore, in a situation of great vulnerability in which one of the sole means of survival is prostitution.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Girls
- Youth
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
Violence against women as a barrier to the effective realization of all human rights 2014, para. 41
- Paragraph text
- Violence against women also works against the achievement of development goals such as education, the focus of Millennium Development Goal 3. The fact that 60 million girls worldwide are assaulted while travelling to and from school prevents many girls from completing their education. Many adolescent girls are also forced to withdraw from school owing to marriage and school-related violence, while sexual violence increases the dropout rates of girls and undermines educational achievement.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
Integrating non-discrimination and equality into the post-2015 development agenda for water, sanitation and hygiene 2012, para. 74
- Paragraph text
- Because menstrual hygiene management has such a strong impact on gender equality, it could be used as a proxy for information about discrimination against women and girls in sanitation and hygiene. Targets and indicators should be crafted to capture the ability of all women and adolescent girls to manage menstruation hygienically and with dignity, supported by amending the relevant household surveys explicitly asking about adequate menstrual hygiene management.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2012
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The right of persons with disabilities to social protection 2015, para. 14
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- Social protection is a fundamental tool for achieving the proposed targets and goals, as mentioned in proposed goal 1 (End poverty in all its forms everywhere), 5 (Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls) and 10 (Reduce inequality within and among countries). In relation to persons with disabilities, goal 1 should be addressed in the short term by mainstreaming disability in all social protection and poverty reduction programmes - a task that remains a global challenge. Social protection should further be used as an important instrument for pursuing other proposed goals in the context of disability, including those of ensuring healthy lives and well-being, guaranteeing inclusive, equitable quality education, promoting lifelong learning and opportunities for all, and promoting full and productive employment and decent work for all. The Addis Ababa Action Agenda highlights the importance of financing sustainable and nationally appropriate social protection systems with a focus on persons with disabilities, among others.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
Mandate, working methods, work plan for the mandate 2015, para. 29
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- The Special Rapporteur will join the disability community in advocating for disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction ahead of the third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, to be held in March 2015, and engage in the process leading to the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016 in the light of article 11 of the Convention, which calls for measures to ensure the protection and safety of persons with disabilities in situations of risk, including situations of armed conflict, humanitarian emergencies and the occurrence of natural disasters. She will also engage in efforts to ensure that the rights of women and girls with disabilities are adequately reflected in the process of the 20-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and its outcome.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
The right of persons with disabilities to participate in decision-making 2016, para. 61
- Paragraph text
- Representative organizations of persons with disabilities should promote the participation of women and girls with disabilities, as well as that of persons with disabilities from all population groups, as active members, in a spirit of pluralism and inclusiveness. While representative organizations of persons with disabilities may have different agendas and different engagement at various levels of government, this multiplicity of interests and strategies should not lead to the exclusion of specific groups of persons with disabilities. Only by embracing its diversity will the disability movement find its strength.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
The right of persons with disabilities to participate in decision-making 2016, para. 100d
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- [The Special Rapporteur offers the following recommendations to assist States in realizing the right of persons with disabilities to participate in decision-making:] Engage with women and girls with disabilities and secure their direct participation in all processes of public decision-making, and guarantee that such participation and consultation is conducted in a safe environment, particularly in processes relating to the development of legislative or policy measures regarding violence and sexual abuse;
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
The right of persons with disabilities to participate in decision-making 2016, para. 58
- Paragraph text
- Because women and girls with disabilities have historically encountered many barriers to participation in public decision-making, due to power imbalances and multiple forms of discrimination, they have had fewer opportunities to establish or join organizations that can represent their needs as women and persons with disabilities. Consequently, despite the widespread human rights violations affecting them, the intersectionality between gender and disability-based issues is still not fully included in the work of the different stakeholders promoting the rights of persons with disabilities or the rights of women. Acknowledging this situation, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities requires States to take all appropriate measures to ensure their full development, advancement and empowerment. States must take steps to eliminate the barriers that prevent their participation in public decision-making and must ensure that all participatory mechanisms and bodies take into account both disability- and gender-related factors and the complex interrelationships between them.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Access to rights-based support for persons with disabilities 2017, para. 20
- Paragraph text
- Support is a normal part of community life, with families serving as the first source of support for everyone. For many persons with disabilities, family support serves as a bridge to access other assistance needed to fully enjoy their human rights. However, when no other options are available and families are the sole source of support, the autonomy of persons with disabilities and their family members is reduced. Those being supported have no choice or control over the assistance they require to pursue their life plans, and questions of overprotection and conflict of interest commonly arise. Families - especially the poorest - are also under significant pressure as unpaid familial support also affects social relationships, income levels and the general well-being of the household. Women and girls are disproportionately affected, as in practice they are the main providers of support within the household, reducing their freedom and choices to pursue their own life plans.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in political and public life with a focus on political transition 2013, para. 86
- Paragraph text
- Women and girls belonging to minority communities, rural and indigenous women, migrant women, refugee women and those seeking asylum, and poor women face discriminatory practices in the implementation of laws on nationality and citizenship. They face prejudicial attitudes as well as structural obstacles which limit access to formal registration of births, marriage, residence and other citizenship documents as well as to relevant information on their rights as citizens. Women who are de facto heads of households, including those who have been abandoned by their husbands, whose divorce is not legally registered, or whose husbands have been forcibly disappeared and do not have death certificates for their husbands , are denied recognition of their status in official documents. Without such access, women from these communities become disproportionately vulnerable in exercising their full and equal rights as citizens.
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in economic and social life with a focus on economic crisis 2014, para. 32
- Paragraph text
- No country has succeeded in closing the gender gap in all aspects of economic and social life. From her first days to her last, a woman's experiences will inevitably be marked by the expectations, beliefs, stereotypes, values, opportunities, roles and responsibilities associated with being female in her culture. While every girl is unique and every woman's life is different, in all societies they share certain aspects of quality of life as a result of living in a gendered and patriarchal reality. Gender discrimination and inequality manifest themselves at all stages of women's life cycle.
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in economic and social life with a focus on economic crisis 2014, para. 51
- Paragraph text
- Domestic workers caring for children, the disabled and ageing people, are a highly vulnerable category of employees, often in the informal sector. About 83 per cent are women or girls, and many are migrant workers. Domestic workers often encounter deplorable working conditions; labour exploitation; extortionate recruitment fees resulting in debt; confiscation of passports; long, unregulated hours of work; lack of privacy; exposure to physical and sexual abuse; and separation from their own families and children. The ILO Domestic Workers Convention (No. 189) calls for States to guarantee decent work for domestic workers, and thus several countries have introduced new protections.
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in economic and social life with a focus on economic crisis 2014, para. 36
- Paragraph text
- Most countries only track enrolment and not completion rates, yet enrolment is an inherently flawed measure of girls' access to education. Attendance is a better measure, as girls' attendance may be cut short due to domestic responsibilities such as cooking, fetching water and firewood, and childcare; lack of adequate sanitation in schools to meet the needs of menstruating girls; early marriage or pregnancy; and gender-based violence and harassment, including in schools. In situations of economic contraction, as households cope with declining household income, girls are more vulnerable to being pulled out of school, with girls experiencing a 29 per cent decrease in primary school completion rates versus 22 per cent for boys.
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in cultural and family life, with a focus on the family as a cultural space 2015, para. 14
- Paragraph text
- Culture, when understood as a macro concept, also includes religion. Religion constitutes an institutionalized aspect of culture, with its own sources of authority that regulate social behaviour. It is often based on the concept of transcendental authority, and most religions have codified normative systems. Change must be wrought within the religious hierarchy of the community and must conform to the religious dogma of the written sources. As a consequence, religions are often a haven against social and cultural change. In all religions, there are movements that resist any change to the patriarchy and the status of women and girls in the family. Conversely, non-gender-based discriminatory practices, including some previously defended in the name of culture and religion, such as slavery, have been delegitimized or abandoned as values and ethics have evolved.
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in cultural and family life, with a focus on the family as a cultural space 2015, para. 31
- Paragraph text
- The family is the basic unit of society and, as such, should be strengthened. It is entitled to receive comprehensive protection and support. The family plays a key role in social development and in the growth and well-being of children, including girls. Women and girls' ability to act and participate in the different aspects of life in society derives mainly from respect for their right to equality with men and boys in the family. In this context, the Working Group deems it essential for families to be formed in such a way that women and girls' right to equality is fully recognized, respected, protected, fulfilled and promoted.
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in the area of health and safety, with a focus on the instrumentalization of women's bodies 2016, para. 75
- Paragraph text
- Overmedicalization may result in reduced access to or affordability of services needed by women and a barrier to developing adequate alternative services which can be competently provided by nurses, midwives or auxiliary nurses, either at clinics or at home. Such "task shifting", particularly in places where there are few qualified doctors, would make services more accessible. Similarly, restricting authorization for the use of contraceptives to a medical practitioner is a barrier to access. Allowing pharmacists to provide contraceptives, including emergency contraceptives, over the counter is essential for effective availability, especially for economically disadvantaged women or adolescent girls.
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in cultural and family life, with a focus on the family as a cultural space 2015, para. 73d (iii)
- Paragraph text
- [According to general recommendation No. 29 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the family is a social and legal construct and, in various countries, a religious construct. It also is an economic construct. The Working Group recommends that States:] Ensure that women, on an equal footing with men, and girls, on an equal footing with boys, have the right to at least half the family property and inheritance in the event of divorce or widowhood. Facilitate the invalidation of any waiver of these rights obtained from a woman as a result of pressure from her family or community;
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in cultural and family life, with a focus on the family as a cultural space 2015, para. 13
- Paragraph text
- The cultural construction of gender is conducive to generalized discrimination against women in all cultures. Discrimination against women and girls cannot, therefore, be considered an essentialist element, present in certain cultures and not in others. Since cultures are neither homogeneous nor unchanging, there are very significant differences between them concerning their stages of development and the extent to which the patriarchy, misogyny and practices that are harmful to women and girls exist within them.
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in the area of health and safety, with a focus on the instrumentalization of women's bodies 2016, para. 70
- Paragraph text
- The stigma and shame generated by stereotypes around menstruation have severe impacts on all aspects of women's and girls' lives, on their dignity and well-being as well as on their right to education and to employment, as they may feel obliged to stay home from school or work every month because of appropriate facilities and hygienic items are not available. Characterizing women's menstrual pain as "neurotic" tends to make women reluctant to seek help, which can delay diagnosis of, for example, the severely disabling disease of endometriosis, in which tissue that normally grows inside the uterus grows in an abnormal anatomical location.
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in the area of health and safety, with a focus on the instrumentalization of women's bodies 2016, para. 100
- Paragraph text
- Women's access to health services in many countries is not autonomous, affordable and effective, elements which are essential for States to respect, protect and fulfil women's and girls' rights to life, health, privacy, equality and human dignity. A major barrier is lack of affordability as a result of exclusion from insurance for treatments specifically needed by women and girls or exclusion of groups of women such as migrants. Non-affordability severely discriminates against women living in poverty. Barriers also include restrictive legislative requirements, biased and stigmatized provision of services and conscientious objection to providing services.
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in the area of health and safety, with a focus on the instrumentalization of women's bodies 2016, para. 99
- Paragraph text
- The Working Group found that instrumentalization and politicization of women's biological functions in many countries subjects legislation and policies regarding women's and girls' health and safety to patriarchal agendas, especially regarding reproductive and sexual health and mental health. The Working Group found manifestations in all regions of instrumentalization, taboos regarding menstruation and breastfeeding and stereotypes which result in harmful practices such as female genital mutilation or which have a negative impact on women's body image, leading to their seeking invasive cosmetic procedures.
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in the area of health and safety, with a focus on the instrumentalization of women's bodies 2016, para. 105d (iii)
- Paragraph text
- [The Working Group recommends that States:] Adopt a holistic approach towards women's health and safety by looking at their full life cycle from childhood to old age as interconnected phases with distinct considerations and needs, and in this regard: Allow pregnant girls and adolescents to terminate unwanted pregnancies, as a measure of equality and health, so that they can complete their school education and protect them from the high risk to life and health, including from obstetric fistula, in continuing to bring a pregnancy to term;
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 47
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- Specific resources must be ensured to address the root causes of the exclusion from education of girls, those living in poverty or with disabilities, ethnic and linguistic minorities, migrants, and other marginalized and disadvantaged groups. Specific measures targeting important obstacles to education must be considered, including the abolition of school fees and the provision of subsidies for other costs, such as textbooks, uniforms and transportation. Temporary special measures to provide financial support to such groups through affirmative action have a normative basis in international human rights treaties. Particular attention must be paid to the principles of transparency and accountability in the management of education budgets.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
Financing education and update on education in emergencies 2011, para. 5
- Paragraph text
- Resource constraints, however, remain a major barrier to the realization of the right to education. Prospects for achieving the targets of millennium development goals 2 (Ensuring that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling) and 3 (Eliminating gender disparity in all levels of education no later than 2015) are bleak on account of a dearth of resources. The assessment prepared for the 2010 High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals underlined the need for scaling up budgets and providing enhanced resources to accelerate progress in meeting those targets. The Education for All Global Monitoring Reports in recent years have consistently pointed to insufficient funding for education. More recently, public expenditure cuts as a consequence of the global financial crisis have threatened to decrease support to the education sector, possibly jeopardizing recent advances. For instance, 7 of 18 low-income countries reduced spending on education in 2009; those countries alone had 3.7 million children out of school.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
Report on the Post-2015 Education Agenda 2013, para. 64
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- The Special Rapporteur would like to note that the illustrative goal proposed in the report of the High-level Panel related to women's empowerment seems to be a regression as compared to the second Millennium Development Goal to promote gender equality, including in access to primary and secondary and technical education. Achieving a girl's right to education as a priority is an absolute requirement, as historically women have suffered from injustice, and girls and women constitute a majority of those who remain deprived of education.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
Women’s right and the right to food 2013, para. 41
- Paragraph text
- Certain investments can significantly reduce the burden that household chores impose on women. In rural areas, such measures include the provision of water services and afforestation projects to reduce the time spent fetching water and fuelwood. In both rural and urban areas, measures would include the establishment or strengthening of child-care services and care for the elderly or persons with illness/disability. By reducing the time poverty of women, their economic opportunities would expand, since it would be easier for them to seek employment outside the household; access incomes and increase their economic independence, which, in turn, would strengthen their bargaining position within the household. In order for such opportunities to be seized, access to education for girls and life-long training must be improved and societal perceptions of gender roles which discriminate against women must be changed. Improved education and employment prospects are mutually reinforcing, as the demand for education (investment in human capital) will increase in proportion to increase in the demand for a qualified female workforce.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Poverty
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
Vision of the mandate 2014, para. 29
- Paragraph text
- As farm labourers, vendors and unpaid care workers, women are responsible for food preparation and production in many countries and regions throughout the world and play a vital role in food security and nutrition. However, women and girls continue to be disproportionately affected by poverty and malnutrition. Women in rural areas are particularly affected, as female-headed households continue to grow, exceeding 30 per cent in some developing countries, with women owning only 2 per cent of agricultural land and with limited access to productive resources. In many low-income countries, women are the backbone of the rural economy and 79 per cent of economically active women in the least developed countries consider agriculture as their primary source of income. Agrarian land reform legislation often discriminates against women by entitling only men over a certain age to land ownership while women's entitlement only applies in cases where they are household heads. Such discriminatory practices prevent women in many countries from asserting their economic independence and being able to feed themselves and their families.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Food & Nutrition
- Poverty
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
Gender perspectives on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment 2016, para. 67
- Paragraph text
- Adequate redress requires States to investigate, prosecute and punish perpetrators and inform the public of results. States must ensure that judicial procedures and rules of evidence are gender responsive; that equal weight is afforded to the testimony of women, girls, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons; and that the introduction of discriminatory evidence and the harassment of victims and witnesses are strictly prohibited. The standards established by international courts should serve as an example for domestic courts to follow, for instance by implementing institutional gender-balance requirements and prohibiting the admission of evidence regarding the victims' prior sexual conduct in cases of sexual, domestic and other gender-based violence.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- LGBTQI+
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Gender perspectives on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment 2016, para. 70o
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- [With regard to women, girls, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons in detention, the Special Rapporteur calls on all States to:] When the detention of children with their mothers in prison is unavoidable,implement effective safeguards, including regular monitoring and review of every case to ensure that the children are never treated like prisoners; ensure that the full range of the children's needs, whether medical, physical, psychological or educational, including living conditions that are adequate for a child's development, are guaranteed in practice;
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- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- LGBTQI+
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Integrating a gender perspective in the right to food 2016, para. 89
- Paragraph text
- Closing the gender gap in agriculture requires development of gender sensitive policies. Ensuring land rights and reinforcing the rights of girls and women to education, social protection and increasing women's participation in decision making in a meaningful manner is critical for enhancing women's vital role in advancing agricultural development and food security. Increasing women's access to and control over assets has been shown to have positive effects on important human development outcomes including household food security, child nutrition, education, and women's own wellbeing and status within the home and community. Moreover, providing women with essential tools and resources does not require a major investment of resources but can have a huge impact on the formal economy. Respecting, protecting and fulfilling women's rights will inevitably fix broader problems in food systems in general and can help communities achieve improved development outcomes.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Integrating a gender perspective in the right to food 2016, para. 15
- Paragraph text
- The reasons behind the failure to women's access to adequate food can arguably be linked to two structural disconnects which exist at the crossroads between Women's Rights and the Right to Food. The first disconnect refers to the failure in international law to fully endow women with their right to food. In the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) and the ICESCR, the right to food is accorded to himself and his family. Although the ICESCR General Comment 12 and other documents have underscored the non-discriminatory intention of the right to food, the archaic language of patriarchy taints the UDHR and treaty language. Concurrently the economic and social rights of the ICESCR are generally reviewed in CEDAW, but not the right to food, which is indirectly touched upon only through a call for rural women. In CEDAW, as in the Convention of the Rights of Child (CRC), food access and adequacy for adult women and teenage girls are addressed only on behalf of pregnant and breastfeeding females .
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Integrating a gender perspective in the right to food 2016, para. 66
- Paragraph text
- In rural areas, women and girls spend the majority of their time engaged in subsistence farming and in the collection of water and fuel. As a result of flooding, droughts, fires and mudslides, these tasks become more difficult. Water shortages and depletion of forests require women and girls to walk longer distances to collect water and wood. In Senegal and Mozambique, women spend 17.5 and 15.3 hours respectively each week collecting water. In Nepal, girls spend an average of five hours per week on this task. In rural Africa and India, 30 percent of women's daily energy intake is spent in carrying water. Depletion of land and water resources may place additional burdens on women's labour and health as they struggle to make their livelihoods in a changing environment.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Environment
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Criminalisation of sexual and reproductive health 2011, para. 64
- Paragraph text
- States that implement and enforce criminal or other laws to restrict access to sexual and reproductive health information actively reduce access to information and therefore do not meet their obligation to respect the right to health. As a consequence of such laws and the stigma they generate, third parties, such as teachers, publishers, or booksellers may also deny women and girls access to necessary sexual and reproductive health materials. The obligation of States to fulfil the right to health requires that they develop strategies to ensure that comprehensive sexual and reproductive health education and information is provided to everyone, especially women and young girls.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
Criminalisation of sexual and reproductive health 2011, para. 25
- Paragraph text
- The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed that legal grounds largely shape the course for women with an unplanned pregnancy towards a safe or an unsafe abortion. As legal restrictions primarily influence whether abortion is safe or not, more unsafe abortions are likely to occur in legal regimes that are more restrictive of abortion. The rate of unsafe abortions and the ratio of unsafe to safe abortions both directly correlate to the degree to which abortion laws are restrictive and/or punitive. Unsafe abortions are estimated to account for nearly 13 per cent of all maternal deaths globally. A further 5 million women and girls suffer short- and long-term injuries due to unsafe abortions, including haemorrhage; sepsis; trauma to the vagina, uterus and abdominal organs; cervical tearing; peritonitis; reproductive tract infections; pelvic inflammatory disease and chronic pelvic pain; shock and infertility.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
Right to health in conflict situations 2013, para. 48
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- Conflict may also result in children adopting new roles and responsibilities, which may increase their vulnerability to sexual violence and exploitation. Health facilities in conflict often lack child-appropriate services for survivors of sexual violence, particularly for boys. Exposure to sexual violence increases the risk of further violations for girls. For example, marriage to the perpetrator is often seen as a means of "protecting a girl's honour". However, forcing survivors of sexual violence to marry their attackers re-victimizes them and results in the legitimization of the actions of the perpetrator and social acceptance of sexual violence (see A/66/657-S/2012/33).
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
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- Special Procedures' report
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- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
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- 2013
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Right to health in early childhood - Right to survival and development 2015, para. 32
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- While welcoming this important paradigm shift towards embracing the right to healthy development, the Special Rapporteur is concerned that in the draft sustainable development goals, and in other documents, there is a tendency to address human rights, including the human rights of children, selectively. For example, while welcoming the proposed goal 5.2 to "eliminate violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres", he wishes to highlight that no form of violence against children, including boys, should be accepted.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2015
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Report of the SR on the right to health and Agenda 2030 2016, para. 46
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- Equally, such environments exacerbate barriers to health services and result in a range of adverse consequences for poor and marginalized populations. For example, laws criminalizing drug use may drive people who use drugs from life-saving harm reduction services (target 3.3/3.5). Restrictive and punitive drug policies can deprive people suffering from pain of their right to palliative care. Laws criminalizing abortion or restricting the provision of sexual and reproductive information or services put women and girls at increased risk of pregnancy-related complications and maternal mortality (target 3.2/3.7/Goal 5) (see A/HRC/32/32).
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
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- Special Procedures' report
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
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- 2016
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 39
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- Adolescent girls, adolescents with disabilities, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex adolescents, adolescents living in institutions and adolescents from communities with a proliferation of unregulated weapons or experiencing armed conflict are among those particularly vulnerable to violence. The risks for girls include, for example, exposure to sexual violence and exploitation, forced and early marriage, honour killings and abusive practices often carried out in health-care settings, such as forced sterilization and forced abortion for girls with disabilities, and forced virginity testing.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Girls
- LGBTQI+
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- 2016
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 87
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- AIDS is the second most common cause of death among adolescents globally. Worldwide, adolescents in key population groups, including gay and bisexual boys, transgender adolescents, adolescents who exchange sex for money, goods or favours and adolescents who inject drugs, are also at a higher risk of HIV infection. Adolescent girls in high-HIV burden countries are particularly vulnerable, making up 75 per cent of new infections in Africa in 2013, with gender inequality, harmful traditional practices and punitive age of consent laws identified as drivers of the epidemic. These sectors and groups face a disproportionately high risk of experiencing stigma, discrimination, violence, rejection by families, criminalization and other human rights violations when seeking sexual and reproductive health services, including denial of access to health-care services, such as HIV testing, counselling and treatment.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
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- Special Procedures' report
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Boys
- Girls
- LGBTQI+
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- 2016
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 86
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- Adolescents with disabilities are frequently subjected to forced medical treatment, including sterilization, abortion and contraception, which can constitute torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Girls with disabilities in particular experience alarmingly disproportionate levels of physical and sexual violence, frequently without any means of redress or access to justice. Many health-care providers hold inaccurate, stereotypical views about individuals with disabilities, including assumptions that they are asexual, which serves to deny them access to sexual and reproductive health information, services and goods, as well as comprehensive sexuality education.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Année
- 2016
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 94
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- The Special Rapporteur deplores the imposition of treatments to try to change sexual orientation and gender identity, including forced sex assignment surgeries for intersex youth, forced sterilizations and abortions for girls with disabilities, the use of surgery and hormone therapy to stunt the growth of children with developmental disabilities and remove their reproductive organs, and the pathologizing of transgender identity and same-sex attraction as psychiatric disorders. States should eliminate such practices and to repeal all laws criminalizing or otherwise discriminating against individuals on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity and expression. There is a need to reform and update national health information systems to include human rights concepts and variables such as lesbian, gay, bisexual and intersex status.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- LGBTQI+
- Persons with disabilities
- Année
- 2016
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Sports and healthy lifestyles as contributing factors to the right to health 2016, para. 64
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- Women constitute half of the world's population and are a highly heterogeneous group; health risks are not shared equally among all women. Overweight and obesity are increasingly prevalent among adolescent girls from highly urbanized areas, certain ethnic minorities, and those living with disabilities. Moreover, adolescent girls are particularly vulnerable to anxiety and depressive disorders, in comparison to boys. Accordingly, there is a significant need to engage at-risk women and girls in physical activity and sport, particularly at points when activity levels are most likely to drop steeply.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Boys
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
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Women and their right to adequate housing 2012, para. 26
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- Women's right to equality in matters of inheritance is also relevant within the context of Sharia law, the application of which particularly affects women in the Middle East and North Africa. While Sharia law generally supports women's rights to acquire, hold, use, administer and dispose of property, women and girls receive a lesser share than their male counterparts when it comes to matters of inheritance (generally half of what a male in the same position would be entitled to receive). Customary practices and traditional structures can also contribute to further aggravating the situation. A prime example is that women are often forced, due to social pressures, to renounce their already reduced share of the inheritance in favour of male members of the family. In order to discourage this practice, in the occupied Palestinian territory, the Deputy Supreme Judge of Palestine of the Head of the Upper Council of Sharia Jurisdictions issued a notice in 2011 in which he instructed relevant authorities to apply certain conditions before legalizing a woman's renunciation of her inheritance share, including that at least four months pass after a person's death before a renunciation of inheritance can be registered. The notice also instructs the relevant authorities to verify the real value of the inheritance share, relying on an official report by three experts authorized by the municipality or local council. This new protocol is aimed at helping women to retain their inheritance shares and protecting women from losses as a result of reduced valuations of those shares.
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- Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Civil & Political Rights
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2012
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 46
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- The issue of violence against women is indivisibly linked to the categories of rights discussed above. In fact, the endemic violations of collective, civil and political, and economic, social and cultural rights can be seen as constituting a form of structural violence against indigenous women and girls. Structural violence results in women being victimized by the realities of the circumstances of their everyday life and routinely excluded from the rights and resources otherwise guaranteed to citizens. Structural violence is interlinked and mutually reinforcing with other forms of violence, as discussed below.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2015
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 35
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- Abuses of indigenous people's cultural rights are endemic, owing to a sustained unwillingness on the part of many States to celebrate indigenous culture or to promote the use of indigenous languages in schools as part of the cultural diversity of citizens within their borders. That has a cross-cutting effect on the rights of indigenous women and children. Lack of respect for indigenous cultures is evident across all violations of indigenous peoples and is a fundamental part of the experiences of indigenous women and girls. The commodification of the cultures and cultural heritage of indigenous peoples is a common experience for many indigenous peoples. For example, indigenous territories have been declared World Heritage Sites without their free, prior and informed consent, thereby turning them into tourist areas. In most cases, the people who reap the biggest benefits are foreign or national travel and tour agencies or hotel owners. In those cases, indigenous women often end up as menial employees or entertainers for tourists. At worst, prostitution is encouraged and criminal syndicates promote trafficking of indigenous women and girls.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2015
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 60b
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- [Compelled by economic need, armed conflict and denial of self-determination and land rights in the context of major economic development projects, many indigenous peoples migrate from their home communities in rural areas to urban centres. Indigenous women and girls who leave their communities are highly vulnerable to trafficking, which can lead to multiple violations of their human rights, including severe economic and sexual exploitation and sexual violence. There are also cases of indigenous women being targeted by organized traffickers within their own communities. Reports of trafficking of indigenous women and children include the following:] In a number of Asian countries, including Cambodia, India, Nepal and Thailand, indigenous women are trafficked from their communities into domestic servitude or forced prostitution;
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2015
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 78g
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- [Recommendations to Member States] [With regard to civil and political rights, Member States should:] Within the context of the implementation of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the development of national action plans on human rights and business, ensure that judicial mechanisms are the primary means by which corporate violations of the rights of women and girls are remedied; and avoid legitimizing voluntary, private forms of remedy that do not provide effective access to justice for violations of the rights of women;
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2015
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Looking forward: addressing new challenges and consolidating gains 2011, para. 66
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- The Human Rights Council resolution 14/6 extending this mandate, requests the Special Rapporteur to "integrate a gender perspective throughout the work of the mandate, and to give special consideration to the human rights of internally displaced women and children, as well as of other groups with special needs, such as older persons, persons with disabilities and severely traumatized individuals affected by internal displacement, and their particular assistance, protection and development needs". As part of carrying out this aspect of the mandate, a special focus will be given to exploring more specifically the situation of internally displaced women and girls, including in various types of internal displacement situations.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Année
- 2011
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Internally displaced women: progress, challenges and the way ahead 2013, para. 34
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- Despite myriad training, guidelines and manuals, displaced women and girls continue to be subject to egregious levels of sexual violence. In some situations, sexual violence or other forms of gender-based violence is used as a deliberate tactic to instil terror, and force displacement, or to discourage IDPs from demanding their rights. Beyond being a significant cause of displacement and a grievous human rights violation in its own right, SGBV or the perceived risk of it can also curtail women's access to a range of rights and services.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Movement
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Année
- 2013
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Achieving durable solutions for internally displaced persons in urban settings 2014, para. 29
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- Flight to urban areas following conflict or disaster in another part of the country is also a common feature of internal displacement today. Urban areas may promise more safety than rural areas as a result of the anonymity and invisibility that one can acquire there. For example, there are girls in Abidjan who were victims of sexual violence in places of displacement in rural areas or who became pregnant during displacement and moved to the city. A primary reason for flight to urban areas is family links, but the hope of finding alternative livelihoods is also a factor that influences the flight of internally displaced persons, who often lose their original livelihoods through displacement. Similarly, education opportunities and better services, such as special health care, regularly lead to flight to urban areas and peripheries. Urban areas may therefore allow internally displaced persons to better maintain their coping mechanisms and resilience, albeit at low levels.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2014
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Human rights of migrants in the post-2015 development agenda 2014, para. 68c
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- [Targets should focus on:] Ending all violence, including in the workplace, against women and girls, including migrants, irrespective of their status and circumstances;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Année
- 2014
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Labour exploitation of migrants 2014, para. 50
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- Migrant domestic workers, the majority of whom are women and girls, are extremely vulnerable to violence and abuse. ILO Convention 189 on decent work for domestic workers clearly recognizes domestic work as work. However, in many countries, domestic workers are not recognized as "workers", and thus not protected by labour law. As a consequence, they have no labour rights, no annual leave, no established working hours and no minimum salary. They are sometimes also excluded from rights relating to social security laws. Some countries rely on domestic work to be regulated by the work contract only, rather than by law. However, it is difficult for migrant domestic workers to claim their rights when their work is frequently considered informal, and not regulated by law. If the employer has diplomatic immunity, this renders the domestic worker even more vulnerable, due to the possible scope of the employer's immunity from criminal prosecution and civil claims.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Année
- 2014
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Servile marriage 2012, para. 64
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- Described below are forms of servile marriage that women and girls experience.
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- Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2012
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Internally displaced women: progress, challenges and the way ahead 2013, para. 75b
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- [The Special Rapporteur makes the following recommendations:] Humanitarian and development organizations: [Given the importance of the mobilization of IDW to protection, assistance and long-term empowerment:] Promote training opportunities for IDW and girls, to strengthen their capacity to organize and advocate on multiple levels;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2013
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Comprehensive, rights-based and child-centred care, recovery and reintegration programmes 2015, para. 68
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- Care, recovery and reintegration programmes must incorporate a gender perspective, taking into account the different needs and opportunities of boys, girls and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex children. While emphasis is often placed on female child victims, there is a growing need for assistance and protection of boys and children who identify as transgender and therefore also a need to establish specialized care, recovery and reintegration programmes for those children. For instance, in the United States, the Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime supports the development of specialized services for boys and men as well as programmes for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons to ensure that their needs are met and that they are identified as victims.
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- Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- LGBTQI+
- Année
- 2015
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Sale of children for the purpose of forced labour 2016, para. 30
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- The sale of children for the purpose of forced labour in domestic work is a widespread phenomenon. Domestic work can amount to a form of forced labour, depending on the nature of the employment relationship, which can make children heavily dependent on their employer. That type of employment relationship leads to ambiguous informal arrangements and a lack of clear contractual conditions, which paves the way for dependency, abuse and harmful working conditions. Among child domestic workers, live-in workers are the most exploited. Over 17 million children are engaged in domestic work, of which almost two thirds are estimated to be in child labour, either because they are below the legal minimum working age or working in conditions which represent the worst forms of child labour. Most of them are girls.
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- Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2016
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Study on illegal adoptions 2017, para. 36
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- Gender discrimination and violence based on moral and religious constructs regarding the social or marital status of the mother have been a key driver of illegal adoptions in several countries. In Ireland, the so-called mother and baby homes, which were managed by Catholic organizations, and other maternity institutions, were established in the 1920s to deal with unmarried pregnant women and girls and operated until the 1990s. Conditions in those institutions were deplorable and cases of violence against the women were common (e.g. abuse of expectant mothers, forced labour, neglect and detention). Before the 1952 Adoption Act, most children born out of wedlock were placed in foster care, "boarded out" or informally adopted. After passage of the Act, children were put up for formal adoption. Consent was improperly induced or forcibly obtained and documents, including illegal birth registrations, were falsified on a large scale. Furthermore, there were cases of intercountry adoptions, in particular to the United States of America, which often resulted from the same illegal practices.
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- Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Harmful Practices
- Movement
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Infants
- Women
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Tackling the demand for the sexual exploitation of children 2016, para. 39
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- At this intermediate level of the demand, there is a much more significant presence of women. Indeed, according to recent figures on trafficking from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 28 per cent of persons convicted for trafficking in persons were women and that proportion rose to 38 per cent for those having entered into contact with the criminal justice system. Female traffickers were more frequently involved in the trafficking of girls and in particular in recruitment for sexual exploitation. Women are strongly represented among facilitators, since a key element of that role in the demand process is to build a relationship of trust and lure children into sexual exploitation.
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- Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
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Challenges and lessons in combating contemporary forms of slavery 2013, para. 10
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- Servile marriage and domestic servitude are two forms of contemporary slavery that disproportionately affect women and girls. In a previous report, the Special Rapporteur defined servile marriage as an arrangement "in which a spouse is reduced to a commodity over whom any or all the powers of ownership are attached" (A/HRC/21/41, summary). Practices such as polygamy and "bride price", especially when coupled with the prevalence of domestic violence, are possible indicators of servile marriage. Women's bodies are directly tied to a family's honour in many cultures, and if a girl refuses to marry, "she can be subject to character assassination or kidnapping by the man or his family to force her into marriage or to rape her" (ibid., para. 71). There is little to no legal protection for women in these situations in many countries. Some countries have gone so far as to enact legislation that acquits perpetrators of rape if they marry their victim. If a woman enters into a servile marriage, she essentially becomes a slave to her husband and his family.
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- Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
Child slavery in the artisanal mining and quarrying sector 2011, para. 52
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- Children working in the mines and quarries are vulnerable to physical, sexual, moral and social harm. Artisanal mining and quarrying is inherently informal and illegal -as either it costs too much to get the legal permit to mine or there is no need to get a permit as the law is not enforced. These "frontier communities" are riddled with violence, crime, trafficking in young girls and women for sexual exploitation, prostitution, drug and alcohol use (ibid.). There have been reports that children are given drugs so that they are able to fearlessly extract minerals underground or underwater. Children also take drugs and alcohol in the belief that it makes them stronger and as a result of peer pressure. The drug abuse (particularly amphetamines and marijuana) and alcohol (commercial and/or local brew) destroy their health and keep them in the vicious circle of poverty. Children who arrive alone to work in this sector are even more vulnerable to abuses (see A/HRC/18/30/Add.2).
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- Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Poverty
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. 19
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- In the western and central parts of Tamil Nadu, a high number of adolescent girls reportedly work as bonded labourers under the sumangali scheme in textile mills and garment factories, which is a major hub in the global knitwear sector that supplies international brands. The majority of these workers are reported to belong to Dalit communities and are aged between 14 and 18 years. Debt bondage is also reported in power loom workshops located in the Tiruppur region of Tamil Nadu, which produce woven cloth both for domestic manufacturers and for global suppliers. Those affected by debt bondage in this region are reported to include members of Dalit communities and other poor communities and to include both men and women. Furthermore, some non-agricultural industries in which debt bondage among children is reported to exist include carpet weaving, beedi making, silk production, silk sari production, the brick kilns and stone quarries.
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- Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Trafficking in persons in conflict and post-conflict situations 2016, para. 66
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- In addition, the nature and forms of trafficking in persons associated with conflict are highly gendered. For example, abduction into military forces affects males and females differently. Men and boys are typically forced into soldiering while women and girls are generally forced into support roles, and they typically face much greater risk of sexual assault as either a primary purpose or an additional manifestation of their exploitation. As previously noted, sexual enslavement, a practice exacerbated by situations of conflict, is highly gendered in that it disproportionately affects women and girls. Other forms of trafficking-related exploitation particular to or especially prevalent in conflict, including forced and temporary marriage, are highly gendered in their motivation and impact, which underscores the importance of a gender analysis in all trafficking prevention efforts and responses.
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Année
- 2016
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Trafficking in persons in conflict and post-conflict situations 2016, para. 31
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- It is estimated that 10 to 30 per cent of children in fighting forces are female. Girls who are forcibly recruited or abducted into military service typically face forced domestic labour and sexual violence and exploitation such as forced marriage and/or sexual slavery (see paras. 32-35 below). It is important to acknowledge that while violence and exploitation are often defining aspects of the female experience of conflict, this is not always the case. Young women and girls have also been involved in trafficking by deceiving other girls and boys into joining armed conflict, using the Internet and social media.
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Année
- 2016
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Trafficking in persons in conflict and post-conflict situations 2016, para. 40
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- In the post-conflict climate, the vulnerability of women and girls to trafficking-related exploitation is heightened by their relative lack of access to resources, education, personal documentation and protection. In fact it is common for societies to experience a rise in trafficking for sexual exploitation (for example, forced prostitution) as well as other forms of gender-based violence, such as rape and domestic violence, after a conflict has formally come to an end. However, these crimes are underreported due, inter alia, to stigmatization of survivors and inadequate services for them. Moreover, the demand for cheap labour in the aftermath of crises, when countries and businesses start to rebuild, could also lead to trafficking. This was experienced by Ukrainian construction workers who were trafficked for labour exploitation in Iraq.
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
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Trafficking in persons in conflict and post-conflict situations 2016, para. 68f
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- [All States, whether a source, transit or destination country of women and girls trafficked for sexual exploitation in conflict and-post conflict areas, should:] Ensure that issues concerned with sexual and other forms of gender-based violence, including human trafficking, are incorporated into peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction processes and support women's full and equal participation in decision-making, especially when this relates to trafficking issues in conflict situations, in line with the general guidelines and recommendations of the Global Study on the Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325.
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
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Reparations to women who have been subjected to violence 2010, para. 45
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- The inclusion of gross violations against women in the list of wrongdoings that will trigger reparations has to be underpinned by the notion that the same violations may entail different harms for men and women, but also for women and girls from cultural minorities. For instance, harms emanating from sexual violence - including the contraction of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, undesired pregnancies, complications due to often unsafe abortions, unwanted children, loss of reproductive capacity, fistulas and vaginal injuries, and multiple psychological disorders - are always compounded with social stigmatization and ostracism by the family and/or community, subsequent emotional distress, loss of status and the possibility to marry or have a male protector, and access communal resources. None of the reparations programmes in the post-conflict or post-authoritarian scenario has explicitly referred to forms of reproductive violence (such as forced impregnation, forced abortion or forced sterilization) as separate categories. Explicit recognition and visibility of various forms of violence and the ensuing harm is required for responsive reparation programmes.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
Reparations to women who have been subjected to violence 2010, para. 70
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- Another instance of discriminatory practices, resulting in historical injustices, is that of assimilation policies instituted in countries, which led to many aboriginal or indigenous children being taken away from their families, communities and cultures and placed in foster care or residential schools. There have been some initiatives to provide compensation to survivors, including monetary compensation, truth-telling, therapeutic services and acts of commemoration and reconciliation. However, gender differences have generally not been taken into account and, as a consequence, there has not been special recognition of or compensation for girls for consequences of sexual abuse, such as pregnancy resulting from rape or forced abortion.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
Continuum of violence against women from the home to the transnational sphere: the challenges of effective redress 2011, para. 18
- Paragraph text
- These developments led the General Assembly, the Human Rights Council and the Security Council to pass resolutions that focus particularly on violence against women and girls. The General Assembly and the Human Rights Council have, for example, increasingly identified inequality and discrimination, including gender-based violence, as violations of human rights of women and girls. Resolutions adopted by these organs have increasingly referred to the heightened risk of gender-based violence for women who suffer multiple forms of discrimination and have identified "power imbalances and structural inequality between men and women" as root causes of violence against women. In the context of peace and security, the Security Council, through resolutions 1325 (2000) and 1820 (2008), has called for special measures to protect women and girls from gender-based violence in situations of armed conflict.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 16
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- The killings can be active or direct, with defined perpetrators, but they can also be passive or indirect. The direct category includes: killings as a result of intimate-partner violence; sorcery/witchcraft-related killings; honour-related killings; armed conflict-related killings; dowry-related killings; gender identity- and sexual orientation-related killings; and ethnic- and indigenous identity-related killings. The indirect category includes: deaths due to poorly conducted or clandestine abortions; maternal mortality; deaths from harmful practices; deaths linked to human trafficking, drug dealing, organized crime and gang-related activities; the death of girls or women from simple neglect, through starvation or ill-treatment; and deliberate acts or omissions by the State.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 80
- Paragraph text
- In the case of India, international attention has been drawn to the vast divergence in the country's natural gender ratio, with estimates that in 2003 100 million women were "missing" from its population. It is estimated that one million selective female foetal abortions occur annually in India. There is no official statistical data available on female infanticide, but in the state of Kerala, it is estimated that about 25,000 female newborns are killed every year. The preadolescent mortality rate of girls under 5 years old was 21 per cent higher than for boys of the same age in India. Violence, as well as nutritional and deliberate medical neglect by girls' parents, was cited as the main causes of death.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Girls
- Infants
- Women
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 81
- Paragraph text
- Female infanticide in China goes back as far 2000 B.C. Girls were the main victims of infanticide, especially so in times of poverty and famine. A study suggested that the estimated number of missing girls in the twentieth century in China between 1900 and 2000 is 35.59 million, representing 4.65 per cent of its population. An analysis of the most recent data from China shows that while the sex ratio at birth is more skewed in rural areas, the ratios in large cities increased in 2005 compared to 2000. These findings suggest that son preference is still a strong influence, and is increasingly being acted upon by those living in cities.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Poverty
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
Violence against women: Twenty years of developments to combat violence against women 2014, para. 17
- Paragraph text
- The 2013 conclusions highlight the prevention of and response to all forms of violence against women and girls, including sexual and gender-based violence, in armed conflict and post-conflict situations, including through investigation, prosecution and punishment of perpetrators to end impunity; removal of barriers to women's access to justice; the establishment of complaint and reporting mechanisms; the provision of support to victims and survivors; affordable and accessible health-care services; reintegration measures; and steps to increase women's participation in conflict resolution and peacebuilding processes and post-conflict decision-making.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
Stigma and the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation 2012, para. 22
- Paragraph text
- Stigmatization often results in lack of access to water and sanitation and poor hygiene standards. The lack of access to essential services is a symptom, while the root causes lie in stigmatization. Only through an understanding of these causes will it be possible to implement effective measures to improve access to services. Stigma is often closely linked to perceptions of uncleanliness, untouchability and contagion. In many instances, stigmatized people are perceived as "dirty", "filthy" and "smelly", affecting for instance homeless populations, menstruating women and girls, Roma communities, Dalits or women suffering from obstetric fistula. Individuals who find themselves stigmatized because of the perception that they are "dirty" or "contagious" may be socially ostracized and be denied access to water, sanitation and hygiene services, hence reinforcing the stereotype of uncleanliness and prolonging a vicious circle. It is not their inherent condition to live in filthy and poor conditions; it is a position imposed by society that uses stigma as a tool to create, perpetuate and justify marginalization and inequality.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2012
Paragraphe
Sustainability and non-retrogression in the realisation of the rights to water and sanitation 2013, para. 50
- Paragraph text
- What emerges from the above is a pattern of neglect of the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalized groups in society across planning, institutional responsibilities and resource allocation. Disadvantaged groups can often be identified along ethnic, geographic, and socioeconomic divides (see, for example, A/HRC/18/33/Add.4, para. 79). Indigenous peoples, Dalits and Roma are among such groups facing discrimination with whom the Special Rapporteur has met during the course of her mandate. Moreover, there are vast gender inequalities - in many poor communities, the task of collecting water overwhelmingly falls to women and girls (see, for example, A/HRC/15/31/Add.3 and Corr.1, para. 22). Persons with disabilities are also disproportionately represented among those lacking access to water and sanitation (A/HRC/15/55, para. 21). Neglect can occur for a variety of reasons: groups and individuals may experience stigmatization, they may live in remote areas making serving them costly, or politicians may be indifferent to their needs.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
Different levels and types of services and the human rights to water and sanitation 2015, para. 24
- Paragraph text
- Use of hygiene facilities and services must be available at a price that is affordable to all people. The main costs, other than for installation, are associated with supplying water, soap and cleaning products for hand-washing, food hygiene, home hygiene and washing clothes, and for sanitary napkins or other products required for menstrual hygiene. Paying for these services must not limit people's capacity to acquire other basic goods and services guaranteed by human rights, such as food, housing, health services and education. Assistance should be provided to households or individuals who are unable to afford soap and cleaning products, or sanitary products for women and girls.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
Common violations of the human rights to water and sanitation 2014, para. 62
- Paragraph text
- People may be deliberately excluded from the use of existing facilities, for instance through societal rules preventing Dalits from using water fountains or not allowing women and girls or other individuals to use an existing toilet in the household. Inordinate amounts of time spent by women and girls carrying water have major impacts on access to paid employment and education. Measures to address such practices could seek to alleviate that burden, for instance by making water collection over long distances unnecessary by providing direct access, while challenging the stereotypes which lead to that task being assigned to women.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
Gender equality in the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation 2016, para. 40
- Paragraph text
- According to international human rights law, States must allocate their maximum available resources to the progressive realization of human rights, paying particular attention to the rights and needs of the most marginalized segments of the population. Progressive policies and plans will be rendered worthless, however, without a proper budget. A gender analysis supports Governments in making better budget-related choices by highlighting existing gender inequalities and the impact of public expenditures on women and girls. States should promote gender mainstreaming in budgeting activities for water sanitation and hygiene, and increase women's participation in budgeting processes. Specialized units throughout government can be tasked with oversight.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Gender equality in the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation 2016, para. 20
- Paragraph text
- Practices and beliefs are different in every culture, but generally menstruation is considered to be something unclean or impure and contact between men and women during menstruation is viewed as something that should be avoided. Girls and women are sometimes not allowed to use the same toilets as men or are barred from certain locations. Girls all over the world grow up with the idea that menstruation is something they should hide and not speak about - an embarrassing event associated with shame. This powerful stigma and taboo surrounding menstruation translates into fear of leaking or staining clothes. Worldwide, women and girls prefer to hide the fact that they are menstruating. Data collected in Senegal shows that, owing to shame, menstrual material, once washed, is mainly dried in secluded, private and dark locations, such as tiled rooms or even under pillows, instead of in direct sunlight, which would reduce the risk of infection by ensuring that pathogens do not grow.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Gender equality in the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation 2016, para. 28
- Paragraph text
- In addition to risking physical violence, women and girls may also experience sanitation-related psychosocial stress, including fear of sexual violence. Women and girls who have limited access to sanitation facilities experience environmental barriers when they engage in water, sanitation and hygiene practices, including carrying water, managing menstruation, defecating and bathing, that contribute to that kind of stress. Examples include the fear of encountering snakes and mosquitos when walking to a defecation site, or the stress caused by social norms that view the fact of being seen by men while bathing as negative, among other issues. A better understanding of the range of causes of stress and adaptive behaviours is needed to inform context-specific, gender-sensitive water and sanitation interventions.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Gender equality in the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation 2016, para. 47
- Paragraph text
- Human rights law requires that a sufficient number of sanitation facilities be available with associated services to ensure that waiting times are not unreasonably long. Many public facilities have an identical number of stalls for men and women, although in practice women and girls often have to wait in long lines to use the toilet, while men have much quicker access. The clothes women tend to wear and have to take off using the toilet require more time than for men, and women spend time assisting children using the toilet. Some States have adopted legislation in which equality requires a ratio of two women's cubicles for every cubicle provided for men.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Service regulation and human rights to water and sanitation 2017, para. 45
- Paragraph text
- Regulatory standards should prioritize access to both water and sanitation facilities in public places in sufficient numbers; in institutional facilities, including hospitals, schools, public transport hubs, prisons, and places of detention, at the workplace and in rented housing, taking into consideration the special needs of, inter alia, women and girls; and in relation to those without a permanent dwelling, including homeless people and nomadic communities. Regulation should separate access to water and sanitation services from land tenure, often an obstacle to accessing these services in informal settlements.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and young women with disabilities 2017, para. 31
- Paragraph text
- Other medical procedures or interventions that are often performed without the free and informed consent of girls and young women with disabilities include forced contraception and forced abortion. Contraception is often used to control menstruation at the request of health professionals or parents. Moreover, while the contraceptive needs of girls and young women with disabilities are the same as those without disabilities, they receive contraception more often by way of injection or through intrauterine devices rather than orally, as it is less burdensome for families and service providers. In addition, girls and young women with disabilities are frequently pressured to end their pregnancies owing to negative stereotypes about their parenting skills and eugenics-based concerns about giving birth to a child with disabilities. During official country visits, the Special Rapporteur has received information about compulsory regular gynaecological checks and the use of forced abortion in institutions as a way to contain the institution’s population.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and young women with disabilities 2017, para. 2
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- In her thematic reports, the Special Rapporteur has underscored the importance of ensuring a gender perspective in all interventions related to persons with disabilities, stressing the significant additional barriers that women and girls with disabilities encounter that can prevent them from the full enjoyment of their rights. As international and national efforts on the rights of persons with disabilities have too often failed to take into account a gender perspective, it is urgent that the multifaceted discrimination, marginalization and compounded human rights violations that women and girls with disabilities face in most societies be addressed (see A/HRC/28/58, para. 19 (d)).
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and young women with disabilities 2017, para. 14
- Paragraph text
- The adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities represented a major milestone towards the full and effective enjoyment of sexual and reproductive health and rights by girls and young women with disabilities. Embracing the basic principles of human rights, the Convention moves away from medical and paternalistic approaches towards a human rights-based approach to the sexual and reproductive health and rights of persons with disabilities. The Convention challenges all forms of substituted decision-making in the exercise of sexual and reproductive health and rights (see arts. 12 and 25); prohibits harmful and discriminatory practices against persons with disabilities in all matters related to marriage, family, parenthood and relationships, including the right to retain their fertility and to decide on the number and spacing of their children (see art. 23); calls to end all forms of exploitation, violence and abuse, including their gender-based aspects (see art. 16); and promotes access to quality sexual and affordable reproductive health care and programmes (see art. 25).
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and young women with disabilities 2017, para. 20
- Paragraph text
- Dominant patriarchal assumptions of a woman’s role as primarily that of a wife and mother also hinder girls and young women with disabilities from living healthy sexual and reproductive lives. Because girls and young women with disabilities are perceived to be less likely to become, or be capable of becoming, spouses, mothers or caregivers, families often pay less attention to them than to other family members, thereby deepening gender inequalities. Likewise, the prevalent societal idea of beauty affects many girls and young women with disabilities, who see themselves as unattractive and unworthy. The prevalence of such models and views can have a deeply rooted impact on girls and young women with disabilities, as they may perceive themselves as incapable of fulfilling those models and views, creating a hard-to-break cycle of low expectations and relegation by their families and society. Some young women with disabilities report that stigma about disability makes them willing to accept a partner who might mistreat them.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and young women with disabilities 2017, para. 27
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- The prevalence of sexually transmitted infections among youth with disabilities, including girls and young women with disabilities, is of concern. Evidence shows that children and youth with disabilities have a similar or increased risk for contracting sexually transmitted infections compared with other youth, while girls with disabilities experience higher rates than boys with disabilities. However, youth with disabilities, including girls, are less likely to receive information about the prevention of HIV/AIDS or to be given condoms or other methods to prevent sexually transmitted diseases. Evidence suggests, for example, that HIV testing is lower among youth with disabilities (men and women) than among the general population. Generally, girls and young women with disabilities are not the target of prevention campaigns on sexually transmitted infections and cancers. The issue is particularly serious for those who are deaf or deaf-blind, who are traditionally excluded from all mainstream information.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and young women with disabilities 2017, para. 35
- Paragraph text
- Evidence on sexual and gender-based violence against girls and young women with disabilities is robust. Studies from across the globe show that they are at increased risk of violence, abuse and exploitation compared with those without disabilities, and with boys and young men with disabilities. Overall, children with disabilities are almost four times more likely to experience violence than children without disabilities. However, the risk is consistently higher in the case of deaf, blind and autistic girls, girls with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities and girls with multiple impairments. Belonging to a racial, religious or sexual minority, or being poor, also increases the risk factor for sexual abuse for girls and young women with disabilities. Humanitarian crises and conflict and post-conflict settings generate additional risks of sexual violence and trafficking that affect girls with disabilities.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and young women with disabilities 2017, para. 42
- Paragraph text
- Sexual and reproductive health care must be provided for free or at an affordable cost to all girls and young women with disabilities, including access to products and medicines. Universal health coverage can increase their access to quality sexual and reproductive health care. Social protection systems also help to address the additional costs that girls and young women with disabilities face when accessing sexual and reproductive health care, and to facilitate support services for those who might need it (see A/70/297, paras. 4-9, and A/HRC/34/58, para. 68). States must also ensure that girls and young women with disabilities benefit from the same range and quality of sexual and reproductive health services and programmes as other women and girls.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and young women with disabilities 2017, para. 60
- Paragraph text
- Girls and young women with disabilities have the same sexual and reproductive health and rights as other girls and young women. However they encounter significant obstacles in exercising and accessing those rights, including stigma and stereotypes, restrictive legislation and a lack of child- and disability-appropriate information and services. Moreover, poverty and/or social exclusion deprive them of the necessary knowledge to develop healthy relationships and increase the risk of sexual abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, unintended pregnancies and harmful practices. Grave human rights violations such as forced sterilization, forced abortion and forced contraception are frequent, and the violence experienced by girls and young women with disabilities remains largely invisible.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Vulnerabilities of children to sale, trafficking and other forms of exploitation in situations of conflict and humanitarian crisis 2017, para. 26
- Paragraph text
- In addition to being a means for advancing their criminal endeavours, the sexual exploitation of children is further used by violent extremist groups to generate revenue, as part of the shadow economy of conflict and terrorism, through trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation, sexual slavery and the extortion of ransoms from desperate families. In some circumstances, girls are themselves treated as the “wages of war”, being gifted as a form of in-kind compensation or payment to fighters, who are then entitled to resell or exploit them as they wish. Such strategies are also believed to be a way of recruiting, rewarding and retaining fighters.
- Organe
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 84
- Paragraph text
- The submissions received from civil society organizations on the adequacy of the existing legal framework represent a great diversity of responses. These views, together with those of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and regional mechanisms, have been an extremely enriching contribution to the debate on the adequacy of the legal framework on violence against women. Almost all submissions emphasized the role of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women as a dynamic, living instrument that encompasses violence against women as a form of discrimination against women and the progressive interpretation of the Convention through the adoption of successive general recommendations on violence against women by the Committee, as well as other related subjects, such as the core obligations on States to implement the Convention, access to justice (general recommendation No. 33 (2015) on women’s access to justice) and the rights of women and girls in conflict and post-conflict situations (general recommendation No. 30 (2013) on women in conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations), along with all the other general recommendations. A significant number of submissions pointed out that the lack of a specific global treaty on gender-based violence against women had important symbolic value and further indicated that a new treaty could have an important role in galvanizing implementation at the State level. That symbolic value and potential to act as a catalyst for change was particularly compelling in the broader Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions, which were the only ones that did not have a specific regional treaty on violence against women.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 96d
- Paragraph text
- [The Special Rapporteur makes the following specific recommendations:] States should prioritize implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular Goal 5 (gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls), including by developing indicators on target 5.2 (elimination of violence against women) on femicide, shelters and protection orders, and support national plans to implement all of the Goals in a gender-responsive manner. The Sustainable Development Goal process must not, however, derogate from the obligation of States to respect, protect and fulfil women’s human rights in all fields of life, in accordance with existing international human rights law in customary law and treaty obligations. An independent monitoring mechanism should be integrated into this process;
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in cultural and family life, with a focus on the family as a cultural space 2015, para. 18
- Paragraph text
- The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Committee on the Rights of the Child have noted that harmful practices affecting women and girls are deeply rooted in social attitudes according to which women and girls are regarded as inferior to men and boys based on stereotyped roles. They highlight the gender dimension to violence and indicate that sex- and gender-based attitudes and stereotypes, power imbalances, inequalities and discrimination perpetuate the widespread existence of practices that often involve violence or coercion. They maintain that the nature and prevalence of these practices vary according to region and culture. These practices cause serious harm to every aspect of the lives of the women and girls who fall victim to them and include incest, female genital mutilation, early and/or forced marriage, so-called "honour crimes", dowry-related violence, neglect of girls, extreme dietary restrictions, virginity tests, servitude, stoning, violent initiation rites, widowhood practices and female infanticide. The obligations set out in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child form the basis for the elaboration of a global strategy to eliminate harmful practices, which should be well defined, rights-based, have local relevance and comprise legal, economic and social support measures combined with proportional political engagement and State responsibility at all levels.
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Harmful Practices
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in economic and social life with a focus on economic crisis 2014, para. 37
- Paragraph text
- Ensuring girls' education may require protecting their families against economic shocks and incentivizing parents to keep their girls in school. Cash transfer programmes, for example, have assisted families in return for committing to keeping their girls and boys in school and attending regular health checks, or by providing a stipend to girls who agree to delay marriage until they complete secondary education. Such programmes have been successful in decreasing girls' dropout rates.
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Education
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Families
- Girls
- Année
- 2014
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Eliminating discrimination against women in cultural and family life, with a focus on the family as a cultural space 2015, para. 73c (iii)
- Paragraph text
- [The Working Group recommends that States:] Guarantee women's de jure and de facto right to equality in family diversity: Establish appropriate solutions, remedies and redress to ensure respect for the rights and well-being of women and girls living in the forms of marriage referred to above, including the possibility for them to leave such marriages with their share of the matrimonial assets, custody of their children and the right to remarry;
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2015
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Normative action for quality education 2012, para. 52
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- The physical environment requirements can include aspects such as the presence of basic facilities (sanitation, separate toilets for girls, ramp for persons with disabilities) and adequate infrastructure (lighting, acoustic, safety and security, communication facilities). Facilities and equipment in schools must be appropriate in terms of instruction needs, health and sanitation, safety and management. Specific norms are required for infrastructure for technical and vocational education.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Année
- 2012
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Gender perspectives on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment 2016, para. 19
- Paragraph text
- Women and girls are at particular risk of sexual assault by male prisoners and prison staff, including rape, insults, humiliation and unnecessary invasive body searches. Added to the trauma of sexual abuse is the particular stigmatization women in these situations face, for instance for having engaged in extramarital sexual relations or due to the risk of pregnancy or of sexual abuse leading to the inability to have children. Sexual humiliation may occur when male guards watch female prisoners in intimate moments such as dressing or showering. The risk of sexual and other forms of violence can arise during transfers to police stations, courts or prisons, and particularly where male and female prisoners are not separated or when male staff transport female prisoners. Separating male and female detainees and ensuring that female detainees are supervised by female guards and prison officials are key safeguards against abuse. Rule 81 of the Nelson Mandela Rules mandates that male staff must not enter a women's institution unless they are accompanied by a female officer. Many States nevertheless fail to adhere to this and other unambiguous requirements. Abuses can occur even when female and male living quarters within an institution are separate, for instance when women's access to such basic necessities as fresh water is circumscribed by their exclusive availability in male quarters (CAT/OP/BEN/1). Furthermore, authorities' failure to prevent inter-prisoner violence amounts to torture or ill-treatment (A/HRC/13/39/Add.3).
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
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Gender perspectives on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment 2016, para. 70f
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- [With regard to women, girls, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons in detention, the Special Rapporteur calls on all States to:] Provide for non-custodial means of protection, such as shelters and other community-based alternatives, and guarantee that the placement of women in detention centres for protection - only where necessary and expressly requested by the woman in question - will be temporary, subject to supervision and competent authorities and never continued against their will;
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- LGBTQI+
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Torture, ill-treatment and coercion during interviews/ Universal protocol for non-coercive, ethically sound, evidence-based and empirically founded interviewing practices 2016, para. 79
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- Given that particular groups are more vulnerable during questioning, the protocol should contain specific provisions for, among others, children, women and girls, persons with disabilities, persons belonging to minorities or indigenous groups and non-nationals, including migrants (regardless of migration status), refugees, asylum seekers and stateless persons. The vulnerability of persons should be promptly identified for special consideration of their needs to be reflected in the conduct of interviews and implementation of additional safeguards.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Gender perspectives on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment 2016, para. 45
- Paragraph text
- Forced sterilization is an act of violence and a form of social control, and violates a person's right to be free from torture and ill-treatment. Full, free and informed consent of the patient herself is critical and can never be excused on the basis of medical necessity or emergency when obtaining consent is still possible (A/HRC/22/53). Gender often intersects with other characteristics such as race, nationality, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, age and HIV status to render women and girls at risk of torture and other ill-treatment in the context of sterilization (CAT/C/CZE/CO/4-5, A/HRC/29/40/Add.2) The European Court of Human Rights found that the sterilization of a Roma woman who consented to the procedure only during delivery by caesarean section violated the prohibition of torture and ill-treatment. Documented practices that may violate the prohibition of torture and ill-treatment include Government-sponsored family planning initiatives targeting economically disadvantaged and uneducated women that shortcut the process of obtaining consent, sterilization certificates required by employers and coerced sterilization of HIV-positive women in some States. Despite the fundamental rights enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, women and girls with disabilities are also particularly vulnerable to forced sterilization and other procedures such as imposed forms of contraception and abortion, especially when they are labelled "incompetent" and placed under guardianship (A/67/227).
- 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
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Looking forward: addressing new challenges and consolidating gains 2011, para. 68
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- Women and girls can be especially vulnerable to forcible displacement, are at further risk during the displacement phase itself, and often remain exposed to serious human rights violations even once they have ostensibly found a solution to their displacement. This continuous vulnerability often stems from their pre-existing situation, as well as the more general social and economic status of women in the country and the community.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
Enjoyment of the rights to health and adequate housing by migrants 2010, para. 82
- Paragraph text
- In view of the specific health risks to which migrant women and girls are exposed, the gender dimension often involved in migration and the structural power relationships which frequently govern women's access to health care, States should provide adequate, appropriate and specialized medical assistance to migrant women and girls. States of origin should also provide free or affordable gender-sensitive pre-departure information and training programmes which raise migrant women's and girls' awareness of potential risks to their health.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
Irregular migration and criminalization of migrants, protection of children in the migration process and the right to housing and health of migrants 2011, para. 32
- Paragraph text
- The protection of the child during migration demanded the consideration of issues related to irregular migration, since they affected the child's enjoyment of human rights. The protection of children during migration necessarily implied a gender dimension, since women and girls accounted for almost half of international migrants, and girls migrating either on their own or accompanied are vulnerable to sexual violence and gender-based human rights violations.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Movement
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
The importance of social protection measures in achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 2010, para. 47
- Paragraph text
- Rights-based social protection systems can support progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by, inter alia, promoting women's participation in economic activities, increasing their participation in the workforce, providing them with income security in old age and improving nutritional levels and food security, as well as girls' access to education. If women cannot, on an equal basis with men, benefit from development, participate in the labour market and participate in public decision-making, the achievement of the Goals will be seriously compromised.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Année
- 2010
Paragraphe
Minorities and discrimination based on caste and analogous systems of inherited status 2016, para. 102
- Paragraph text
- Outside South Asia, information on caste-affected women and girls is scarce. In Japan, a survey by the Buraku Liberation League revealed that Buraku women experienced discrimination in a wide range of areas, including marriage, employment and health care, and approximately 30 per cent had suffered from sexual violence. In Mauritania, Haratine women are reported to be at greater risk of violence, in both the public and private spheres, and to suffer from high levels of sexual violence, including rape and marital rape, domestic violence and sexual assault.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on minority issues
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Joint report with SRSG Violence against Children on child-sensitive complaint mechanisms 2011, para. 82
- Paragraph text
- According to Child Helpline International, representing helplines from over 100 countries, violence is one of the main reasons for which children contact helplines. In its 2010 International Report on Violence against Children, the organization recorded more than 250,000 incidents of violence and abuse amongst the 62 helplines contributing to its survey. Most reports concerned children aged 10-15 years old, in particular girls. Physical abuse and bullying are most reported on, followed by neglect, sexual abuse and emotional violence.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2011
Paragraphe
Reflection on a 6-year tenure as Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography 2014, para. 26
- Paragraph text
- Child marriage remains widespread in many countries, despite the adoption of domestic legal frameworks forbidding it. Child marriage is rooted in unequal gender status and power relations in society. In many cases, it can be regarded as a form of sale of children. The requirement to provide a dowry for younger girls can be an incentive for parents to arrange to marry their daughters at an early age. Child marriage can be used as a means to settle family debts or provide economic security to families.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
Children deprived of their liberty from the perspective of the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2015, para. 78
- Paragraph text
- Children in detention should be provided throughout the day with a full programme of education, sport, vocational training, recreation and other purposeful out-of-cell activities. This includes physical exercise for at least two hours every day in the open air, and preferably for a considerably longer time. Girls should under no circumstances receive less care, protection, assistance and training, including equal access to sport and recreation.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
Agenda setting of the work of the Special Rapporteur 2015, para. 19
- Paragraph text
- The mandate's work has confirmed that girls and boys are trafficked for a variety of reasons, including for purposes of sexual exploitation, such as in prostitution and in the production of child pornography. Furthermore, they are trafficked for forced and exploitative labour in farms and factories and on fishing boats, for forced criminal activities, for forced and organized begging, and for domestic servitude in private households. While much trafficking of children involves movement across international borders, many countries experience the phenomenon of internal child trafficking.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
Trafficking in persons in conflict and post-conflict situations 2016, para. 38
- Paragraph text
- In the post-conflict climate, the vulnerability of women and girls to trafficking-related exploitation is heightened by their relative lack of access to resources, education, documentation in their own name and protection. While trafficking-related exploitation is part of conflict, it is common for societies to experience a rise in trafficking for sexual exploitation (e.g., for forced prostitution) as well as other forms of gender-based violence, such as rape and domestic violence, after a conflict has formally come to an end.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Violence against women: Twenty years of developments to combat violence against women 2014, para. 40
- Paragraph text
- Inter-agency efforts to combat violence against women include activities by the Inter-agency Network on Women and Gender Equality, United Nations Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict, the Inter-agency Task Force on Women, Peace and Security, the Inter-agency Task Force on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, the Inter-agency Task Force on Adolescent Girls and the Inter-agency Working Group of the Secretary-General's campaign, UNiTE to End Violence against Women.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Adolescents
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2014
Paragraphe
Modalities for the establishment of femicides/gender-related killings watch 2016, para. 59
- Paragraph text
- The Special Rapporteur notes that other categories with regard to the victim that would be valuable to track for such initiatives would be whether she was a woman human rights defender, whether she was homeless, her sexual orientation, whether she was an indigenous woman or girl and the mental health of the perpetrator (e.g., depression or threats to commit suicide).
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Health
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and young women with disabilities 2017, para. 38
- Paragraph text
- States can take a number of measures to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and young women with disabilities, including by reviewing their legal and policy frameworks; taking concrete measures in the areas of education and information, access to justice, accessibility, non-discrimination and participation; and by allocating specific budgets for their implementation.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and young women with disabilities 2017, para. 62a
- Paragraph text
- [The Special Rapporteur makes the following recommendations to States:] Recognize by law the sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and young women with disabilities, and remove all legal barriers that prevent them from accessing sexual and reproductive health information, goods and services, including legislation that limits their right to make autonomous decisions;
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and young women with disabilities 2017, para. 62b
- Paragraph text
- [The Special Rapporteur makes the following recommendations to States:] Prohibit by law the forced sterilization of girls and young women with disabilities, as well as other compulsory or involuntary practices affecting their sexual and reproductive health and rights, and ensure adequate procedural safeguards to protect their right to free and informed consent;
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Gender equality in the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation 2016, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- Many of the challenges to achieving gender equality in access to water, sanitation and hygiene are well documented: where water is not available in the home, women and girls are primarily responsible for water and hygiene at the household level and bear the greatest burden for collecting water. Other challenges related to inequality include access to sanitation, menstrual hygiene and toilets for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people and an increased risk of gender-based violence.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- LGBTQI+
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and young women with disabilities 2017, para. 53
- Paragraph text
- States must recognize the existing layers of identities within the disability community in order to adequately address the inequalities and intersectional discrimination experienced by girls and young women with disabilities. States should consider developing and implementing policies and practices targeting the most marginalized groups of girls and young women with disabilities (e.g., those with multiple or severe impairments and deaf-blind girls and young women) in order to accelerate or achieve de facto equality.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and young women with disabilities 2017, para. 26
- Paragraph text
- Girls and young women with disabilities face unique challenges with regard to the management of menstrual hygiene. The absence of appropriate sanitation facilities in schools, including separate, accessible and sheltered toilets, in addition to the lack of education, resources and support for menstrual hygiene, compromise their ability to properly manage their hygiene and make them especially prone to diseases. Consequently, many girls and young women with disabilities stay at home or are sent to special schools, reinforcing their exclusion from comprehensive sexuality education.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Année
- 2017
Paragraphe
Discussion on "Recognition through Education, Cultural Rights and Data Collection" 2013, para. 55
- Paragraph text
- The right to education is not enjoyed equally by all; millions of girls, boys, women and men of African descent suffer disproportionately from unequal access to quality education. Failure to ensure equal access to education robs people of their opportunity to reach their full human potential and to contribute to the development of their own communities and society at large.
- Organe
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Année
- 2013
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in cultural and family life, with a focus on the family as a cultural space 2015, para. 73c (vi)
- Paragraph text
- [The Working Group recommends that States:] Guarantee women's de jure and de facto right to equality in family diversity: Prohibit and punish domestic violence, including incest and marital rape, and provide measures to protect women and girls who are victims of such violence, such as protection orders and shelters;
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
Gender perspectives on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment 2016, para. 70d
- Paragraph text
- [With regard to women, girls, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons in detention, the Special Rapporteur calls on all States to:] Review laws, criminal procedures and judicial practices to ensure that they take full account of women's backgrounds, including histories of prior abuse, mental health problems and substance abuse, and parental and other caretaker responsibilities in the allocation of sentences and sentence planning;
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- LGBTQI+
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Gender equality in the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation 2016, para. 77h
- Paragraph text
- [In line with the above, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Ensure that regulations require that the specific needs of women and girls are incorporated into the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of water and sanitation facilities, taking into consideration the special needs of women and girls made more vulnerable by disability and age. Regulators should monitor whether such regulations are well interpreted, implemented and effective;
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Water & Sanitation
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe
Mandate, working methods, work plan for the mandate 2015, para. 19d
- Paragraph text
- [The Special Rapporteur will be guided by the following overarching considerations in all aspects of her work:] Gender sensitivity. In the view of the Special Rapporteur, international and national efforts on disability have to a certain degree failed to systematically take into account a gender perspective; she therefore aims to pay special attention to gender sensitivity in her work, considering, in the first instance, the multifaceted discrimination and marginalization and the compounded violations of human rights that women and girls with disabilities face in most societies, as well as other persons or groups who may experience discrimination due to their sex or disability.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Personnes concernées
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in cultural and family life, with a focus on the family as a cultural space 2015, para. 8
- Paragraph text
- The legal rights of women and girls to equality and non-discrimination in cultural and family life, established in 1948 by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and by international human rights law, are often restricted in national laws and in practice, including in cultural practice. The Working Group emphasizes that, in accordance with international human rights law, States have an obligation to adopt appropriate measures with a view to eliminating all forms of discrimination against women and girls in laws, cultural practices and the family, whether perpetrated by State agents or private actors.
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in cultural and family life, with a focus on the family as a cultural space 2015, para. 73a (iii)
- Paragraph text
- [The Working Group recommends that States:] Establish a national legal framework recognizing gender equality in cultural and family life, in accordance with regional and international standards: (iii) Develop national strategies to eradicate cultural practices that discriminate against women and girls, as well as gender stereotypes, through awareness-raising campaigns, educational and informational programmes and stakeholder mobilization. Engage men, as appropriate, in prevention and protection efforts in respect of gender-based discrimination and violence;
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Personnes concernées
- Families
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Année
- 2015
Paragraphe
Eliminating discrimination against women in the area of health and safety, with a focus on the instrumentalization of women's bodies 2016, para. 108i
- Paragraph text
- [The Working Group recommends that States:] Provide age-appropriate, comprehensive and inclusive sexuality education based on scientific evidence and human rights, for girls and boys, as part of the mandatory school programmes. Sexuality education should give particular attention to gender equality, sexuality, relationships, gender identity, including non-conforming gender identities, and responsible parenthood and sexual behaviour to prevent early pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections;
- Organe
- Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Personnes concernées
- Boys
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
Paragraphe