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Resolution on Population and sustainable development, in particular sustained and inclusive economic growth
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Resolution
- Year
- 2021
- Document code
- E/2022/25
- Date added
- Feb 6, 2024
Document
Resolution on population, food security, nutrition and sustainable development
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Resolution
- Year
- 2021
- Document code
- E/2021/25
- Date added
- Feb 6, 2024
Document
Strengthening the demographic evidence base for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Resolution
- Year
- 2016
- Document code
- E/2016/25
- Date added
- Feb 6, 2024
Document
New trends in migration: demographic aspects
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Resolution
- Year
- 2013
- Document code
- E/2013/25
- Date added
- Feb 6, 2024
Document
Fertility, reproductive health and development
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Resolution
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Document
Health, morbidity, mortality and development
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Resolution
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Document
Assessment of the status of implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Document
The contribution of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development to the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Resolution
- Year
- 2009
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Document
Adolescents and youth
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Resolution
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Document
Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 18
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- Noting with concern that perinatal mortality continues to be alarmingly high in many countries, contributing substantially to the lack of progress in the reduction of child mortality and improved maternal health,
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 6
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the ministerial declaration of the 2009 high-level segment of the Economic and Social Council, on the theme "Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to global public health",
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Adolescents and youth 2012, para. 35
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- Underlines the central role of the global partnership for development and the importance of goal 8 in achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and recognizes that without substantial international support, several of the goals are likely to be missed in many developing countries;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Youth
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Adolescents and youth 2012, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- Also reaffirms its strong commitment to the full implementation of the Programme of Action and the key actions for its further implementation agreed at the five-year review of the Programme of Action, and the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and its Programme of Action;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Youth
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
The contribution of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development to the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals 2009, para. 31
- Paragraph text
- Urges Governments to monitor their progress towards the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the key actions for its further implementation and the Millennium Development Goals at the local and national levels and, in this regard, to make special efforts to strengthen relevant national institutions and mechanisms to generate population data, disaggregated, as appropriate, by sex and age and other categories, as needed for monitoring the improvement of maternal health, the achievement of the target of universal access to reproductive health and progress in empowering women and achieving gender equality and to use these data for the formulation and implementation of population and development policies;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2009
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 23
- Paragraph text
- Expressing deep concern that an estimated 358,000 women died in 2008 from largely preventable complications related to pregnancy and childbirth and that maternal health remains one area constrained by some of the largest health inequities in the world,
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 7
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming that development is a central goal in itself and that sustainable development in its economic, social and environmental aspects constitutes a key element of the overarching framework of United Nations activities,
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 3
- Paragraph text
- Recalling further the outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, "Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals",
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the 2005 World Summit Outcome, including the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals, and the Beijing Platform for Action,
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
The contribution of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development to the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals 2009, para. 33
- Paragraph text
- Requests the Secretary-General to continue assessing and reporting on the full implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the key actions for its further implementation, conducting substantive research on the interrelations between population and development and the negative impacts of the economic and financial crisis on development, including progress towards the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, and considering the synergies between population dynamics, the goals of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals.
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2009
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
The contribution of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development to the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals 2009, para. 6
- Paragraph text
- Further calls upon Governments, in formulating and implementing national development plans, budgets and poverty eradication strategies, to prioritize actions to address challenges relating to the impact of population dynamics on poverty and sustainable development, keeping in mind that universal reproductive health-care services, commodities and supplies, as well as information, education, skill development, national capacity-building for population and development and transfer of appropriate technology and know-how to developing countries are essential for achieving the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Development Goals and can contribute to economic and social development and to poverty eradication;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2009
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 28
- Paragraph text
- Also recognizes that children often form the majority within poor households, and therefore calls upon Governments to develop and implement appropriate social protection measures to provide for the basic needs of children in poor households, especially orphans and vulnerable children;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 27
- Paragraph text
- Recognizes the need to address the economic, social and psychological implications of infertility for individuals, couples and societies as a whole, and encourages Member States and development partners, including through international cooperation and resources, to facilitate access to prevention, required know-how and technologies for more effective and affordable treatment of infertility;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 24
- Paragraph text
- Urges Member States, the United Nations and civil society to include in their development priorities programmes that enable men to support women's access to safe conditions for pregnancy and childbirth, contribute to family planning, prevent sexually transmitted infections and HIV and end violence against women and girls;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 22
- Paragraph text
- Urges Member States to enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses and, in addition, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage, and to raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 21
- Paragraph text
- Calls upon Governments, with the full involvement of young people and with the support of the international community, to give full attention to meeting the reproductive health-care service, information and education needs of adolescents, to enable them to deal in a positive and responsible way with their sexuality;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Youth
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 20
- Paragraph text
- Recognizes that the largest generation of adolescents in history is now entering sexual and reproductive life and that their access to sexual and reproductive health information, education and care and family planning services and commodities, including male and female condoms, as well as voluntary abstinence and fidelity are essential to achieving the goals set out in Cairo 17 years ago;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 19
- Paragraph text
- Reiterates the need for Governments to ensure that all women and men and young people have information about and access to the widest possible range of safe, effective, affordable and acceptable methods of family planning, including male and female condoms, and to the requisite supplies, so that they are able to exercise free and informed reproductive choices;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 17
- Paragraph text
- Calls upon Governments to further strive to ensure the complete access to primary school or an equivalent level of education by both girls and boys as quickly as possible, and urges countries to extend education and training to secondary and higher school levels, and to facilitate access to and completion of education at those levels;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 8
- Paragraph text
- Underlines the central role of the global partnership for development and the importance of Goal 8 in achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and recognizes that, without substantial international support, several of the goals are likely to be missed in many developing countries by 2015;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 4
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirms the sovereign right of each country to implement recommendations of the Programme of Action or other proposals in the present resolution, consistent with national laws and development priorities, with full respect for the various religious and ethical values and cultural backgrounds of its people, and in conformity with universally recognized international human rights;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 3
- Paragraph text
- Welcomes the decision of the General Assembly in its resolution 65/234 of 22 December 2010 to extend the Programme of Action and the key actions for its further implementation beyond 2014 and ensure its follow-up in order to fully meet its goals and objectives;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- Also reaffirms its strong commitment to the full implementation of the Programme of Action adopted at the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994, as well as the key actions for the further implementation of the Programme of Action agreed at the five-year review of the Programme of Action, and the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the Programme of Action;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 21
- Paragraph text
- Encouraging States to create a socio-economic environment conducive to the elimination of all child marriages and other unions as a matter of urgency, to discourage early marriage and to reinforce the social responsibilities that marriage entails in their educational programmes,
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Education
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 16
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that the world community has a special responsibility to ensure that all children receive an education of improved quality and that they complete primary school even if it is more difficult to meet educational needs when there is rapid population growth,
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 15
- Paragraph text
- Noting that, owing to declining mortality levels and the persistence of high fertility levels, a large number of developing countries continue to have very large proportions of children and young people in their populations and that these young populations have health, education and employment needs to be met by families, local communities, countries and the international community,
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Youth
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 13
- Paragraph text
- Noting that the decline in fertility levels, reinforced by continued declines in mortality levels, is producing fundamental changes in the age structure of the population of most societies, most notably record increases in the proportion and number of elderly persons, including a growing number of very elderly persons,
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 10
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing further that in the first stage of the demographic transition, when mortality is falling, the proportion of children increases, that in the second stage, when both fertility and mortality are falling, the proportion of adults of working age increases, and that in the third stage, when fertility and mortality reach low levels, only the proportion of older persons increases,
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 8
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the basic right of all couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children and to have the information and means to do so, their right to attain the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health, and their right to make decisions concerning reproduction free of discrimination, coercion and violence, as expressed in human rights documents,
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Children
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 35
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirms the need to develop, make use of, improve and strengthen national health information systems and research capacity with, as appropriate, the support of international cooperation, in order to measure the health of national populations on the basis of disaggregated data, including by age and sex, so that, inter alia, health inequities can be detected and the impact of policies on health equity measured;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 33
- Paragraph text
- Urges Governments to continue to address the environmental causes of ill health and their impact on development by integrating health concerns, including those of the most vulnerable populations, into strategies, policies and programmes for poverty eradication, sustainable development, and climate change adaptation and mitigation;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 32
- Paragraph text
- Further calls upon Governments, with the support of regional and international financial institutions and other national and international actors, to adopt appropriate measures to overcome the negative impacts of the economic and financial crises on health, ensuring that policies maintain commitment to the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 29
- Paragraph text
- Encourages all States to apply measures and procedures for enforcing intellectual property rights in such a manner as to avoid creating barriers to the legitimate trade in medicines and to provide for safeguards against the abuse of such measures and procedures;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 20
- Paragraph text
- Also urges Governments to give increased attention to the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, further taking into account the social and environmental determinants of non-communicable diseases by, inter alia, taking action to implement the World Health Organization Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases and its related Action Plan;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 17
- Paragraph text
- Emphasizes the urgency of combating the main causes of child morbidity and mortality, inter alia, pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria and malnutrition, through vaccination, long-lasting insecticide-treated bednets, nutritional support, improved sanitation, access to safe drinking water, and access to effective medicines and other treatments, while strengthening health systems;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 9
- Paragraph text
- Emphasizes the need to increase the accessibility, availability, acceptability and affordability of health-care services and facilities to all people in accordance with national commitments to provide access to basic health care for all, as well as the need to increase the healthy lifespan and improve the quality of life of all people, and to reduce disparities in life expectancy between and within countries;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 3
- Paragraph text
- Recognizes that health and poverty are interlinked and that achieving the health-related goals is central to sustainable development, and encourages Governments to give priority attention to the health-related Millennium Development Goals at the upcoming High-level Plenary Meeting of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 2
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirms its strong commitment to the full implementation of the Programme of Action adopted at the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994, as well as the key actions for the further implementation of the Programme of Action agreed at the five-year review of the Programme of Action, and the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the Programme of Action;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 24
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming that good public health is better achieved through a combination of good public health policies, including multisectoral policies that stress better nutrition, safe drinking water, hygiene, sanitation and sustainable urbanization and that effectively combat major risk factors,
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 23
- Paragraph text
- Concerned about the persistence of health inequities, both among and within countries, and gender disparities that have resulted in detrimental health and mortality outcomes and are impeding the improvement of health among women, and noting that such inequities result from economic and social determinants that can be addressed by heeding the recommendations formulated by the Commission on Social Determinants of Health,
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 22
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing further that the emergence of non-communicable diseases is imposing a heavy burden on society, one with serious social and economic consequences, and that there is a need to respond to cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases, which represent a leading threat to human health and development,
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 20
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that communicable diseases, which have been prioritized by the Millennium Development Goals, such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, as well as other communicable diseases and neglected tropical diseases, pose severe risks for the entire world and serious challenges to the achievement of development goals,
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 17
- Paragraph text
- Emphasizing that achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals is essential to socio-economic development and poverty eradication, concerned by the relatively slow progress in achieving them, especially in reducing maternal mortality, and mindful that special consideration should be given to the situation in the least developed countries and in Africa,
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 16
- Paragraph text
- Noting that, as reported by the World Health Organization, the causes of maternal death, in order of prevalence worldwide, include severe bleeding (haemorrhage), infections, complications due to unsafe abortion, high blood pressure in pregnancy (eclampsia), obstructed labour, and other direct causes, accounting for an estimated 80 per cent of maternal mortality worldwide, as well as other indirect causes,
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 14
- Paragraph text
- Emphasizing that poverty is a major common denominator in health-related issues and is responsible for the serious worsening, above all in developing countries, of the main health indicators, deterioration of living standards, shortening of the average life expectancy and persistence of, and in some cases, the increase in preventable diseases and deaths, particularly of children,
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2010
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- Aug 19, 2019
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Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 9
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- Taking note of the decision of the Economic and Social Council to devote the high-level segment of its substantive session of 2010 to the theme "Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to gender equality and the empowerment of women",
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- Commission on Population and Development
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- Resolution
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
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- 2010
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- Aug 19, 2019
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Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 7
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- Welcoming also the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem, adopted at the high-level segment of the fifty-second session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, held in Vienna from 11 to 20 March 2009,
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- Commission on Population and Development
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- Resolution
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
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- All
- N.A.
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- 2010
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- Aug 19, 2019
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Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 2
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- Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the 2005 World Summit Outcome, as well as General Assembly resolution 60/265 of 30 June 2006 on the follow-up to the development outcome of the 2005 World Summit, including the Millennium Development Goals and the other internationally agreed development goals,
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- Commission on Population and Development
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
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- N.A.
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- 2010
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- Aug 19, 2019
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Adolescents and youth 2012, para. 34
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- Encourages the United Nations agencies, the international community and civil society, as well as the private sector, to promote and support the implementation of the adolescent and youth development agenda and to strengthen international cooperation and the exchange of information on effective policies, programmes and activities as a matter of priority;
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- Commission on Population and Development
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Youth
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- 2012
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- Aug 19, 2019
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Adolescents and youth 2012, para. 33
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- Invites a wide range of relevant stakeholders, including families, teachers, religious, traditional and community leaders, and community-based organizations, to play positive roles to promote adolescent and youth development, maximize the impact of information, education and communication activities and social media, and mobilize public opinion in support of actions to improve the well-being of young people and their ability to exercise their human rights;
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- Commission on Population and Development
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Youth
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- 2012
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- Aug 19, 2019
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Adolescents and youth 2012, para. 32
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- Encourages Governments to improve information in order to enable young people to make better use of their opportunities to participate in decision-making, to develop and strengthen opportunities for young people to learn their rights and responsibilities, promoting their social and political participation and removing obstacles that affect their full contribution to society, and to promote and support youth associations, volunteer groups and entrepreneurship;
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- Commission on Population and Development
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- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Youth
- Year
- 2012
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- Aug 19, 2019
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