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Rights of indigenous peoples 2017, para. 22
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- Reaffirms the importance of effective accountability with regard to violence against indigenous women and girls, including sexual violence, abuse and exploitation, and of taking adequate measures to prevent and eliminate such violence;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Follow up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty third special session of the General Assembly 2012, para. 24
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- Calls upon the United Nations system to continue its efforts towards achieving the goal of gender balance, including with the active support of gender focal points, and requests the Secretary-General to provide an oral report to the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-seventh session and to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session on the improvement of the status of women in the United Nations system, under the item entitled “Advancement of women”, and on progress made and obstacles encountered in achieving gender balance, with recommendations for accelerating progress, and up-to-date statistics, including the number and percentage of women and their functions and nationalities throughout the United Nations system, and information on the responsibility and accountability of the offices of human resources management and the secretariat of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination for promoting gender balance;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in development 2015, para. 27
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- Encourages Member States to adopt and/or review and to fully implement gender-sensitive legislation and policies that reduce, through specifically targeted measures, horizontal and vertical occupational segregation and gender-based wage gaps;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in development 2015, para. 28
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- Recognizing that women and girls are often disproportionately affected by desertification, deforestation, natural disasters and climate change owing to gender inequalities and the dependence of many women on natural resources for their livelihoods,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 39
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- Invites Member States to provide training for law enforcement and border control officials, as well as medical personnel, in identifying potential cases of trafficking in persons for the purpose of organ removal;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 24
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- Urges Governments to develop age-appropriate educational and training programmes and policies aimed at preventing sex tourism and trafficking, giving special emphasis to the protection of young women and children;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 22
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- Urges Governments to strengthen measures to eliminate sex tourism demand, especially for children, through all possible preventive actions, including legislative measures and other relevant policies and programmes;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous peoples 2016, para. 17
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirms the importance of effective accountability with regard to violence against indigenous women and girls, including sexual violence, abuse and exploitation, and of taking adequate measures to combat such violence;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous peoples 2015, para. 13
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirms the importance of effective accountability with regard to violence against indigenous women and girls, including sexual violence, abuse and exploitation, and of undertaking adequate measures to combat such violence;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls 2014, para. 20j
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- [Urges States to continue to develop their national strategies, translating them into concrete programmes and actions and a more systematic, comprehensive, multisectoral and sustained approach, aimed at eliminating all forms of violence against women, including by achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and keeping in view the responsibility of States to exercise due diligence to prevent, protect against and investigate all acts of violence against women, by, for example:] Also ensuring the systematic collection, analysis and dissemination of data disaggregated by sex and age to monitor all forms of violence against women and girls, including on the effectiveness of preventive and protective measures, with the involvement of national statistical offices and, where appropriate, in partnership with other actors, including law enforcement agencies, in order to effectively review and implement laws, policies, strategies and preventive and protective measures, while ensuring and maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of the victims;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls 2014, para. 20v
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- [Urges States to continue to develop their national strategies, translating them into concrete programmes and actions and a more systematic, comprehensive, multisectoral and sustained approach, aimed at eliminating all forms of violence against women, including by achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and keeping in view the responsibility of States to exercise due diligence to prevent, protect against and investigate all acts of violence against women, by, for example:] Taking effective measures, as appropriate, to prevent the requirement for victim consent from becoming an impediment to bringing perpetrators of violence against women and girls to justice, while ensuring that criminal justice processes are gender-sensitive and that appropriate safeguards and measures to protect women facing or subjected to violence, such as restraining and expulsion orders against the perpetrators, testimonial aids and adequate and comprehensive measures for the rehabilitation and reintegration of victims of violence into society, are in place;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Promotion of the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: protecting women human rights defenders 2013, para. 10
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- Further calls upon States to ensure that the promotion and protection of human rights are not criminalized or met with limitations in contravention of their obligations and commitments under international human rights law and that women human rights defenders are not prevented from enjoying universal human rights owing to their work, including by ensuring that all legal provisions, administrative measures and policies affecting women human rights defenders, including those aimed at preserving public morals, are clearly defined, determinable, non-retroactive and compatible with relevant provisions of international human rights law;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in development 2013, para. 11
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- Recognizing that men and women workers should have equal access to education, skills, health care, social security, fundamental rights at work, social and legal protections, including occupational safety and health, and decent work opportunities,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in development 2013, para. 7
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- Welcoming the strengthening of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) in respect of its structures, capacities, the implementation of the regional architecture, and experience on how to achieve its mandate,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in development 2013, para. 52
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- Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventieth session a report on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution, including on integrating a gender perspective into national development strategies;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in development 2013, para. 23
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- Encourages Member States to adopt and/or review and to fully implement gender-sensitive legislation and policies that reduce, through specifically targeted measures, horizontal and vertical occupational segregation and gender-based wage gaps;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Trafficking in women and girls 2012, para. 19
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- Recognizing further the importance of exploring the link between migration and trafficking in persons in order to further efforts to protect women migrant workers from violence, discrimination, exploitation and abuse,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women and political participation 2011, para. 8
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- Also encourages States to appoint women to posts within all levels of their Governments, including, where applicable, bodies responsible for designing constitutional, electoral, political or institutional reforms;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in development 2011, para. 20
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- Encourages Member States to adopt and/or review and to fully implement gender-sensitive legislation and policies that reduce, through specifically targeted measures, horizontal and vertical occupational segregation and gender-based wage gaps;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas 2009, para. 4
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- Invites the Commission on the Status of Women to continue to pay due attention to the situation of rural women in the consideration of its priority themes;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2009
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Violence against women migrant workers 2009, para. 9
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- Recognizing that women migrant workers are important contributors to social and economic development, and underlining the value and dignity of their labour, including the labour of domestic workers,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2009
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Trafficking in women and girls 2008, para. 5
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- Recalling also the report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime entitled “Trafficking in Persons: Global Patterns” of April 2006 and the attention paid in it to the situation of trafficked women and girls,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2008
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas 2007, para. 3
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- Invites the Commission on the Status of Women to continue to pay due attention to the situation of rural women in the consideration of its priority themes;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2007
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The girl child 2007, para. 14
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- Deeply concerned also that female genital mutilation is an irreparable, irreversible harmful practice that affects more than 130 million women and girls alive today, and that each year a further 2 million girls are at risk of undergoing the harmful procedure,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2007
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 2006, para. 41d
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- [Calls upon all States:] To consider ratifying or acceding to the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas 2005, para. 3
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- Invites the Commission on the Status of Women to continue to pay due attention to the situation of rural women in the consideration of its priority themes;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Protection of migrants 2005, para. 14
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- Deeply concerned at the manifestations of violence, racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance and inhuman and degrading treatment against migrants, especially women and children, in different parts of the world,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in development 2005, para. 8
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- Requests Governments to ensure the full and equal participation of women in decision-making and in policy formulation and implementation at all levels so that their priorities, skills and potentials can be adequately reflected in national policies;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Violence against women migrant workers 2005, para. 8
- Paragraph text
- Noting the tendency of many migrant women to be employed in the informal economy and in less skilled work compared with that of men, which puts those women at greater risk of abuse and exploitation,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Trafficking in women and girls 2004, para. 9
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- Invites Governments to strengthen international cooperation aimed at preventing and combating corruption and the laundering of proceeds derived from trafficking, including for purposes of commercialized sexual exploitation;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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