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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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A world fit for children 2002, para. 25

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It is vital that national goals for children include targets for reducing disparities, in particular those which arise from discrimination on the basis of race, between girls and boys, rural and urban children, wealthy and poor children and those with and without disabilities.
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2002
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

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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 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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The girl child 2015, para. 34

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Calls upon all States to integrate food and nutritional support with the goal that children, especially girl children, have access at all times to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food requirements for an active and healthy life;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous peoples 2015, para. 13

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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 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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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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The girl child 2011, para. 47

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Urges States, the international community, the relevant United Nations entities, civil society and the international financial institutions to actively support, through the allocation of increased human and financial resources, efforts to end child and forced marriages;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2011
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The girl child 2011, para. 25

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Urges States to complement punitive measures with educational activities designed to promote a process of consensus towards the abandonment of harmful practices such as female genital mutilation and to provide appropriate services for those affected by the practices;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2011
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The girl child 2009, para. 20

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Urges States to complement punitive measures with educational activities designed to promote a process of consensus towards the abandonment of harmful practices such as female genital mutilation and to provide appropriate services for those affected by the practices;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2009
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The girl child 2009, para. 21

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Emphasizing that increased access to education, including in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, for young people, especially girls, dramatically lowers their vulnerability to preventable diseases, in particular HIV infection and sexually transmitted diseases,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Youth
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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The rights of the child 2008, para. 74c

Paragraph text
[Also calls upon all States:] To assess and systematically examine the magnitude, nature and causes of child labour and to strengthen the collection and analysis of data on child labour, giving special attention to specific dangers faced by girls;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2008
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 2007, para. 57o

Paragraph text
[Urges all States:] To ensure that all victims of violence have access to appropriate child-sensitive health and social services; special attention should be paid to the gender-specific needs of girls and boys who are victims of violence;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
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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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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The girl child 2013, para. 42

Paragraph text
Calls upon States to ensure that social protection programmes, including HIV-sensitive programmes, are provided to orphans and other vulnerable children, with particular attention to addressing the needs and vulnerabilities of girl children and protecting their rights;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2013
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The girl child 2013, para. 41

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Calls upon all States to integrate food and nutritional support with the goal that children, especially girl children, have access at all times to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2013
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 2002, para. II.19

Paragraph text
Invites Member States to develop national plans of action, or to strengthen existing ones, in order to achieve the objectives of Education for All so as to ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2002
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Traffic in women and girls 1998, para. 2

Paragraph text
Welcomes national, regional and international efforts to implement the recommendations of the World Congress against Commercial and Sexual Exploitation of Children, and calls upon Governments to take further measures in that regard;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
1998
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The girl child 1998, para. 6c

Paragraph text
[Calls upon all States and international and non-governmental organizations, individually and collectively:] To generate social support for the enforcement of laws on the minimum legal age for marriage, in particular by providing educational opportunities for girls;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
1998
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The girl child 1997, para. 4c

Paragraph text
[Calls upon all States and international and non-governmental organizations, individually and collectively:] To generate social support for the enforcement of laws on the minimum legal age for marriage, in particular by providing educational opportunities for girls;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
1997
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Traffic in women and girls 1996, para. 16

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Welcomes the consideration given to the problem of trafficking in women and girls by the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, and invites the Commission to continue to consider appropriate measures to address this issue;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
1996
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Traffic in women and girls 1996, para. 8

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Urges Governments concerned to support comprehensive practical approaches by the international community to assist women and children victims of transnational trafficking to return home and to be reintegrated in their home societies;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
1996
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The girl child 1996, para. 3b

Paragraph text
[Calls upon all States and international and non-governmental organizations, individually and collectively:] To generate social support for the enforcement of laws on the minimum legal age for marriage, in particular by providing educational opportunities for girls;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
1996
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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