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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 12
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- Concerned about evidence of an increase in the incidence of female genital mutilation being carried out by medical personnel in all regions in which it is practised,
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- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019), para. 19
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- Underscoring the importance of eliminating female genital mutilation as a contribution to the implementation of the range of Sustainable Development Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in particular target 5.3,
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- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2015), para. 10
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- Concerned about evidence of an increase in the incidence of female genital mutilations being carried out by medical personnel in all regions in which they are practised,
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- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2013), para. 31
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- 14. Urges States to allocate sufficient resources to the implementation of policies and programmes and legislative frameworks aimed at eliminating female genital mutilations;
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- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2013), para. 14
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- Deeply concerned that, despite the increase in national, regional and international efforts and the focus on the abandonment of female genital mutilations, the practice continues to exist in all regions of the world,
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- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Iraq (2002), para. 24
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- (f) To abrogate all decrees that prescribe cruel and inhuman punishment or treatment, including mutilation, and to ensure that torture and cruel punishment and treatment no longer occur;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 40
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- 19. Calls upon the international community to strongly support, including through increased financial support, a third phase of the Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Change of the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Children’s Fund, which will run until 2020, as well as national programmes focused on the elimination of female genital mutilation;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2013), para. 06
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- Recalling also the decision of the African Union, adopted in Malabo on 1 July 2011, to support the adoption by the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session of a resolution banning female genital mutilation,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Iraq (2003), para. 33
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- (g) To abrogate all decrees that prescribe cruel and inhuman punishment or treatment, including mutilation, and to ensure that torture and cruel punishment and treatment no longer occur;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2013), para. 10
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- Concerned about evidence of an increase in the incidence of female genital mutilations being carried out by medical personnel in all regions in which they are practised,
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- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 33
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- 9. Calls upon States to take the following immediate and effective measures to eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation:
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- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019), para. 44
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- 23. Also calls upon States to develop unified methods and standards for the collection of data on female genital mutilation, which is underdocumented and underreported, to develop additional indicators to effectively measure progres s in eliminating this practice and to reinforce the sharing of good practices relating to the prevention and elimination of female genital mutilation at the subregional, regional and global levels;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 42
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- 11. Encourages States to consider presenting, during the universal periodic review, relevant recommendations on measures to prevent and eliminate female genital mutilation;
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- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2015), para. 43
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- 24. Acknowledges that intensifying efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations is needed and, in this regard, the importance of giving the issue due consideration in the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda;
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- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 04
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- Recalling its resolutions 27/22 of 26 September 2014, on intensifying global efforts and sharing good practices to effectively eliminate female genital mutilation, and 32/21 of 1 July 2016, on the elimination of female genital mutilation,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2015), para. 34
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- 15. Urges States to allocate sufficient resources to the implementation of policies and programmes and legislative frameworks aimed at eliminating female genital mutilations;
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- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls (2002), para. 42
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- (c) Governments, organizations and individuals that are in a position to do so to contribute to the trust fund that supports the work of the Special Ambassador for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation of the United Nations Population Fund;
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- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019), para. 43
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- 22. Calls upon States to improve the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative disaggregated data, where appropriate, and to collaborate with existing data collection systems, which are crucial for evidence -based legal and policy development, programme design and implementation and the monitoring of the elimination of female genital mutilation;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 24
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- Bearing in mind that States have primary responsibility for preventing and eliminating female genital mutilation and for achieving zero tolerance of the practice,
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- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 45
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- 24. Acknowledges that intensifying efforts is urgently needed for the elimination of female genital mutilation, and in this regard also acknowledges the importance of giving the issue due consideration in the efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 29
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- 8. Calls upon States to ensure that national action plans and strategies on the elimination of female genital mutilation are comprehensive and multidisciplinary in scope and that they include projected timelines for goals and incorporate clear targets and indicators for the effective monitoring, impact assessment and coordination of programmes among all relevant stakeholders and promote their participation, including the participation of affected groups, practising communities and non-governmental organizations, in the development, implementation and evaluation of such plans and strategies;
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- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019), para. 38
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- 17. Calls upon the international community to strongly support, including through increased financial support, a third phase of the Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Change of the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Children’s Fund, which will run until 2020, as well as national programmes focused on the elimination of female genital mutilation;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019), para. 45
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- 24. Urges the international community to fulfil its commitment in supporting developing countries in strengthening the capacity of national statistical offices and data systems to ensure access to high-quality, timely, reliable and disaggregated data, while ensuring national ownership in supporting and tracking progress, in order, inter alia, to inform policy and programming, as well as to monitor progress in the elimination of female genital mutilation;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 36
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- (c) Continue and intensify their efforts to provide information and raise awareness about the harmful effects of female genital mutilation, increase their support for action to eliminate the practice at the community, national and international levels, and organize activities within this framework during the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, with the involvement of religious and traditional authorities;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019), para. 06
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- Recognizing the role of regional and subregional instruments and mechanisms in the prevention and elimination of female genital mutilation, where they exist,
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2010), para. 68
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- 40. Welcomes the commitment of ten United Nations agencies, in their joint statement of 27 February 2008, to continue working towards the elimination of female genital mutilation, by, inter alia, providing technical and financial assistance, and stresses that a common coordinated approach that promotes positive social change at the community, national and international levels could lead to female genital mutilation being abandoned within a generation, with some of the main achievements being obtained by 2015, in line with the Millennium Development Goals;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2015), para. 18
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- Deeply concerned also that a tremendous gap in resources continues to exist and that the shortfall in funding has severely limited the scope and pace of programmes and activities for the elimination of female genital mutilations,
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- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
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- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 21
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- Welcoming the growing global consensus on the need to take appropriate measures to prevent and eradicate female genital mutilation, and considering that this practice cannot be justified on religious or cultural grounds,
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- Harmful Practices
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 36
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- 15. Urges States to allocate sufficient resources to the implementation of policies and programmes and legislative frameworks aimed at eliminating female genital mutilation;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 11
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- Recognizing that female genital mutilation is inherently linked to deep -rooted, negative norms, stereotypes, perceptions and customs that are obstacles to the full enjoyment of human rights,
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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