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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2013), para. 22
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- Recognizing also the important role of the family in combating violence against women and girls and the need to support its capacity to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 033
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- 30. Welcome the leadership and commitment shown in every aspect of the HIV and AIDS response by Governments, relevant United Nations agencies and regional and subregional organizations, as well as people living with, at risk of and affected by HIV, political and community leaders, parliamentarians, communities, families, faith-based organizations, scientists, health professionals, donors, the phila nthropic community, the workforce, the private sector, the media and civil society, including women’s and community-based organizations, feminist groups, youth-led organizations, national human rights institutions and human rights defenders, and recognize their contribution to the achievement of Millennium Development Goal 6 on AIDS and implementing the commitments set forth in the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS, 25 and call upon stakeholders, as appropriate, to support Member States in ensuring that country-driven, credible, costed, evidence- based, inclusive, sustainable, gender-responsive and comprehensive national HIV and AIDS strategic plans are funded and implemented as soon as possible with transparency, accountability and effectiveness;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Right to work (2018), para. 21
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- 9. Underscores the equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all human rights, including the right to work, and that equal access to work is pivotal to the full enjoyment of all human rights by women, while recognizing that women are on many occasions subject to discrimination in the context of realizing their rights in that regard on an equal basis with men and are disproportionately exposed to the most precarious working conditions, including work in the informal economy, limited or no legal protection, lower levels of representation in leadership and decision-making positions, lower levels of remuneration and involuntary temporary and part-time employment, and are disproportionately burdened with unpaid care and domestic work within the household and the family, which may constitute on many occasions a barrier to women’s greater involvement in the labour market;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond (2018), para. 12
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- 4. Encourages Member States to promote work-family balance as conducive to the well-being of children, the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, inter alia, through flexible working and leave arrangements, parental leave, affordable, accessible and good quality childcare and initiatives to promote the equal sharing of household responsibilities, including unpaid care work, between men and women;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2019), para. 33
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- 15. Invites the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to improve and increase the participation of women in the political and administrative domains, and notes with appreciation the legislative measures already taken within the framework of the amendments to the Family Code and the law on gender parity;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond (2020), para. 16
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- 8. Also encourages Member States to consider providing universal and gender-sensitive social protection systems, which are key to ensuring poverty reduction, including, as appropriate, targeted cash transfers for families in vulnerable situations, as can be the case of families headed by a single parent, in particular those headed by women, and which are most effective in reducing poverty when accompanied by other measures, such as providing access to basic services, high - quality education and health-care services;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Missing persons (2015), para. 14
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- Recognizing also the importance of addressing the legal situation of missing persons in connection with armed conflict and supporting their family members through national policies that include a gender perspective, as appropriate,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond (2019), para. 15
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- 7. Encourages Member States to consider providing universal and gender- sensitive social protection systems, which are key to ensuring poverty reduction, including, as appropriate, targeted cash transfers for families in vulnerable situations, as can be the case of families headed by a single parent, in particular those head ed by women, and which are most effective in reducing poverty when accompanied by other measures, such as providing access to basic services, high-quality education and health-care services;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2011), para. 49
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- (n) Encouraging the removal of all barriers to women’s access to justice and ensuring that effective legal assistance is provided to all female victims of violence so that they can make informed decisions regarding, inter alia, legal proceedings and issues relating to family law, and also ensuring that victims have access to just and effective remedies for the harm that they have suffered, including through the adoption of national legislation where necessary;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: remedies for women who have been subjected to violence (2012), para. 21
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- 7. Urges States to adopt measures to enhance the awareness of women, and in particular women at known risk of gender-based violence, of their rights, the law and the protection and legal remedies it offers, including by disseminating information on the assistance available to women and families who have experienced violence, and ensuring that timely and appropriate information is available to all women who have been subjected to violence, at all stages of the justice system;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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 (2008), para. 35
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- (p) Removing structural and legal barriers, as well as eliminating stereotypic attitudes, to gender equality at work, promoting equal pay for equal work, and promoting the recognition of the value of women’s unremunerated work, as well as developing and promoting policies that facilitate the reconciliation of employment and family responsibilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Recognizing the contribution of environmental human rights defenders to the enjoyment of human rights, environmental protection andsustainable development (2019), para. 17
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- Alarmed by the increasing rate of killings, violent acts, including gender-based violence, threats, harassment, intimidation, smear campaigns, criminalization, judicial harassment, forced eviction and displacement of environmental human rights defenders, including indigenous and women human rights defenders, and human rights defenders addressing issues relating to land rights, their family members, communities, associates and legal representatives, as reported by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and other special procedures,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Families
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Violence against women migrant workers (2020), para. 79
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- 37. Also encourages Governments to promote coherence between migration, labour and anti-trafficking policies and programmes concerning women migrant workers, based on a human rights, gender-responsive and people-centred perspective, to ensure that the human rights of women migrant workers are protected throughout the migration process and to enhance efforts and increase action to prevent violence against women migrant workers, prosecute perpetrators and protect and support victims and their families;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the International Year of the Family (1996), para. 06
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- 1. Invites Governments to continue their action to build family- friendly societies, inter alia, by promoting the rights of individual family members, in particular gender equality and the protection and development of the child;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) (2016), para. 75
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- 38. Also stresses the importance of policies to address longer-term structural issues, including structural constraints faced by women as economic agents, and to remove any barriers that prevent women from being full participants in the economy, through, inter alia, undertaking legislation and administrative reforms, as appropriate, to give women equal rights with men in political and economic decision-making and access to economic resources and to promote the reconciliation of work and family responsibilities, including through paid maternity and parental leave and the redistribution of the disproportionate work burden of women engaged in unpaid work, including domestic and care work, and encourages the private sector, in accordance with national legislation, to contribute through advancing gender equality by striving to ensure women’s full and productive employment and decent work, equal pay for equal work or work of equal value and equal opportunities, as well as by protecting them against discrimination and abuse in the workplace;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2017), para. 30
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- 17. Invites the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to improve and increase the participation of women in the political and administrative domains, and notes with appreciation the legislative measures already taken in the framework of the amendments to the Family Code and of the law on the parity of men and women;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2019), para. 33
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- (e) To support substantive gender equality and women’s and girls’ rights, including within families, through long-term awareness-raising initiatives, including for men and boys, especially education and public awareness-raising, including in the media and online, through the incorporation of curricula on all women’s and girls’ rights into teacher training courses, including on the prevention of sexual and gender-based violence, and by ensuring universal access to evidence-based comprehensive sexuality education;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Families
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in protection (2011), para. 24
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- (h) To adopt measures to enhance the awareness of women, and in particular women at known risk of gender-based violence, of their rights, the law and the protection and legal remedies it offers, including by disseminating information on the assistance available to women and families who have experienced violence, and ensuring that timely and appropriate information is available to all women who have been subjected to violence, at all stages of the justice system;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation against the world drug problem (2006), para. 33
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- (d) To consider strengthening and implementing broadly based prevention and treatment programmes and to ensure that such programmes adequately address the gender-specific barriers that limit access for young girls and women, taking into account all attendant circumstances, including social and clinical histories, in the context of education, the family and the community, as appropriate;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2018), para. 08
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- Recalling that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, that gender equality must be promoted in a comprehensive and systematic manner, and that persistent discrimination within families and societies has a debilitating impact on the equal enjoyment of human rights by women and girls in all aspects of life, and affirming that no State can be indifferent to the violations of human rights anywhere in the world,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Missing persons (2019), para. 15
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- Bearing in mind that the question of missing persons entails consequences not only for the victims themselves, but also for their families, especially women, children and older persons, and in this regard recognizing the importance of addressing the legal situation of missing persons in connection with armed conflict and supporting their family members through national policies that include a gender perspective, as appropriate,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Agriculture development and food security (2013), para. 38
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- 16. Calls for closing the gender gap in access to productive resources in agriculture, noting with concern that the gender gap persists for many assets, inputs and services, and stresses the need to invest in and strengthen efforts to meet the basic needs of rural women, including needs relating to their food and nutritional security and that of their families, and to promote adequate standards of living for them as well as decent conditions for work and access to local, regional and global markets;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond (2018), para. 04
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- Recognizing also that the objectives of the International Year of the Family and its follow-up processes, especially those relating to family policies in the areas of poverty, work-family balance and intergenerational issues, with attention given to the rights and responsibilities of all family members, can contribute to ending poverty, ending hunger, ensuring a healthy life and promoting well-being for all at all ages, promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all, ensuring better education outcomes for children, achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and eliminating all forms of violence, in particular against women and girls, as part of an integrated comprehensive approach to development,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2013), para. 39
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- 17. Calls upon States, with the support of United Nations entities, to fully engage men and boys, as well as families and communities, as agents of change in preventing and condemning violence against women and girls and to develop appropriate policies to promote the responsibility of men and boys in eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Families
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2017), para. 17
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- 4. Also recognizes the challenges related to the enjoyment of all human rights that older persons face in different areas and that those challenges require in-depth analysis and action to address protection gaps, and calls upon all States to promote and ensure the full realization of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for older persons, including by progressively taking measures to combat age discrimination, neglect, abuse and violence, to provide social protection, access to food and housing, health care, employment, legal capacity and access to justice and to address issues related to social integration and gender inequality, bearing in mind the crucial importance of intergenerational family interdependence, solidarity and reciprocity for social development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls (2015), para. 30
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing also the important role of the family in combating violence against women and girls and the need to support its capacity to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2013), para. 38
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- 16. Stresses that States should take all possible measures to empower and protect women against all forms of violence, to inform them of their human rights, including by disseminating information on the assistance available to women and families who have experienced violence and ensuring that timely and appropriate information is available to all women who have been subjected to violence, including at all stages of the justice system, and to inform everyone of women’s rights and of the existing penalties for violating those rights;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Preparations for and observance of the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family (2014), para. 20
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- 8. Encourages Member States, in cooperation with relevant stakeholders and in accordance with national plans and policies, to strengthen provisions for parental leave, extend flexible working arrangements for employees with family responsibilities, promote gender equality and the empowerment of women, enhance paternal involvement in family responsibilities and support a wide range of quality childcare arrangements, including investing in quality early childhood care and education, in order to improve work-family balance;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Eliminating rape and other forms of sexual violence in all their manifestations, including in conflict and related situations (2008), para. 16
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- Strongly condemning all acts of violence against women and girls, whether these acts are perpetrated by the State, by private persons or by non-State actors, calling for the elimination of all forms of gender-based violence in the family, within the general community, and where perpetrated or condoned by the State, and stressing the need to treat all forms of violence against women and girls as a criminal offence, punishable by law,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 34
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- 18. Recommends that Member States increase efforts to raise awareness of the Madrid Plan of Action and identify key priority areas for its implementation, including empowering older persons and promoting their rights, bearing in mind the crucial importance of intergenerational family interdependence, solidarity and reciprocity for social development, raising awareness of ageing issues and building national capacities, as well as promoting and supporting initiatives to advance a positive public image of older persons and their multiple contributions to their families, communities and societies and working with the regional commissions, as needed, and enlisting the help of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat in seeking increased attention for ageing issues;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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