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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 19
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- Further urges Governments, where they have not yet done so, to institute and ensure the transparent and effective enforcement of laws and access to redress mechanisms to protect women and girls from child, early and forced marriage and marital rape;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 26
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- Urges Governments, the donor community and relevant entities of the United Nations system to support the development of capacities of women's organizations for HIV and AIDS programme development and implementation and to streamline funding procedures and requirements that will facilitate resource flows to community-level services;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 8
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- Encourages Governments and other relevant stakeholders to scale up efforts to address the vulnerability of women and girls to HIV in situations of armed conflict and post-conflict, humanitarian emergencies and natural disasters, including prevention of sexual and gender-based violence and continuous provision of antiretroviral treatment;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 23
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- Encourages Member States to consider implementing the recommendations of the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health to strengthen information on reproductive, maternal and child health, to track resources for women's and children's health and to strengthen oversight and transparency;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 19
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- Acknowledging that cervical cancer kills around 250,000 women each year, many of childbearing age, and that the vast majority of the deaths and suffering could be averted with highly effective and low-cost screen and treat approaches and through vaccination against the human papilloma virus,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts 2004, para. 10
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- Further requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission on the Status of Women at its fiftieth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, taking into account the information provided by States and relevant international organizations;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts 1995, para. 1
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- Recognizing the fact that the main objective of the Nairobi Forward- looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, adopted by the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women, was to promote the achievement of equality, development and peace,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in development 1993, para. 13
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- Aware of the need for women, as agents and beneficiaries of development, to be empowered to define their own means of development, as well as of the need to guarantee them access to services, such as education, health, maternity and child care and credit, among others, in order to fully integrate women into the development process,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 1993
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- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in development 1992, para. 12
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- Aware of the need for women, as agents and beneficiaries of development, to be empowered to define their own means of development, as well as of the need to guarantee them access to services, such as education, health, maternity and child care and credit, among others, in order to fully integrate women into the development process,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 1992
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 31
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- Expressing concern about the slow pace of progress in improving maternal, newborn and child health and the inadequate resources for their health, and noting the continuing inequalities among and within Member States, the lack of appreciation of the impact of maternal, newborn and child health on sustainable socio-economic development and the continuing need to address gender inequalities,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 18
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- Noting with concern that maternal and child health is inextricably linked to the risk of non-communicable diseases and associated risk factors, specifically given that prenatal malnutrition and low birth weight create a predisposition to obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes later in life and that conditions such as maternal obesity and gestational diabetes are also associated with an increased risk of contracting non-communicable diseases,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts 2001, para. 7
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- Expressing its strong belief that the rapid and unconditional release of women and children taken hostage in areas of armed conflict will promote the implementation of the noble goals enshrined in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”,
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2001
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts 2001, para. 4
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- Welcoming the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action by the Fourth World Conference on Women and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, including the provisions regarding violence against women and children,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2001
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts 1995, para. 4
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- Expressing its strong belief that the rapid and unconditional release of women and children who have been taken hostage in areas of armed conflict will promote the implementation of the noble goals of the Nairobi Forward- looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women before the opening of the Fourth World Conference on Women, to be held in Beijing from 4 to 15 September 1995;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 30
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- Encourages the United Nations to continue to support national monitoring and evaluation mechanisms in the context of the “three ones” principles, to enable the production and dissemination of comprehensive and timely information on the gender dimension of the epidemic, including through the collection of data disaggregated by sex, age, disability, marital status and geographical location, and to raise awareness about the need to address the critical intersection between gender inequality and HIV and AIDS, and encourages Member States to report on the relevant indicators for the global AIDS response progress reporting system;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 29
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- Requests the Secretariat and co-sponsors of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and other United Nations agencies, funds and programmes responding to the HIV and AIDS epidemic, as well as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and other international organizations, to mainstream a gender and human rights perspective throughout their HIV- and AIDS-related operations, including policy, planning, monitoring and evaluation, that includes sex- and age-disaggregated indicators, and to ensure that programmes and policies are developed and adequately resourced to address the specific needs of women and girls;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 10
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- Emphasizes the need to strengthen policy and programme linkages and coordination between HIV and AIDS and sexual and reproductive health, and their inclusion in national development plans, and the need to design gender-based policies aimed at social and economic equality, including poverty reduction strategies and sector-wide approaches, where they exist, as a necessary strategy for fighting the HIV epidemic and mitigating its impact on the population, which could result in more relevant and cost-effective interventions with greater impact;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 22
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- Calls upon those Member States that have made commitments to advance the Secretary-General's Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health, undertaken by a broad coalition of partners in support of national plans and strategies, to implement their commitments to significantly reduce the number of maternal, newborn and under-age-five deaths, as a matter of immediate concern, including, as appropriate, by scaling up a priority package of high-impact interventions and integrating efforts in such areas as health, education, gender equality, water and sanitation, poverty reduction and nutrition, and encourages those States that have not yet done so to consider making such commitments;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts 2004, para. 4
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- Reaffirming the commitments made in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, as well as in the outcome document of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” and the outcome document of the special session of the Assembly on children entitled “A world fit for children”, including the provisions therein regarding violence against women and children,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in development 1994, para. 13
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- Calls upon Governments, donor countries and relevant international organizations to take further coordinated measures to facilitate the access of women, particularly poor rural and urban women, to basic education and health and child-care facilities;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 1994
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in development 1994, para. 14
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- Aware be empowered to define their own means of development, as well as of the need to guarantee them access to such services as education, health, maternity and child care and credit so that they may be fully integrated into the development process,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 1994
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in development 1992, para. 13
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- Calls upon Governments, donor countries and relevant international organizations to take further coordinated measures to facilitate the access of women, particularly rural and urban poor women, to basic education and health and child-care facilities;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 1992
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 3
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- Further reaffirms the commitment, as set out in the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and in Millennium Development Goal 5, to achieve universal access to reproductive health by 2015, which encompasses integrating this goal into strategies to attain internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, aimed at reducing maternal mortality, improving maternal health, reducing child mortality, promoting gender equality and empowering women, combating HIV and AIDS and eradicating extreme poverty and hunger;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 11
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- Expressing concern that each year approximately 15 million to 20 million women of childbearing age worldwide, including adolescent girls, suffer from often preventable maternal morbidity, disabilities, injuries and illnesses connected with pregnancy and childbirth, including as a result of early pregnancy, early childbearing and other high-risk conditions, such as uterine prolapse, obstetric fistulas, stress incontinence, hypertension, haemorrhoids, perineal tears, urinary tract infections and severe anaemia, and that, as a result of these conditions, women suffer serious physical, economic, psychological and social consequences that affect their well-being,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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