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The need for an integrated approach to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development for the full realization of human rights, focusing on the means of implementation, para. 7
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- Recalling that the Sustainable Development Goals seek to build on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what these did not achieve, to realize the human rights of all and to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and that they are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, the social and the environmental,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Question of realization in all countries or economic, social and cultural rights, para. 29
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- 15. Recognizes that the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets seek to, inter alia, realize the human rights of all and to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and that they are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development, namely the economic, social and environmental, calls upon States to implement the 2030 Agenda consistent with the principles of equality and non-discrimination, and in this regard encourages States to consider appropriate measures to promote de facto equality;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Human rights and the environment, para. 33
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- 7 (h) To apply a gender perspective by, inter alia, considering the particular situation of women and girls and identifying gender-specific discrimination and vulnerabilities, and addressing good practices where women and girls act as agents of change in safeguarding and managing sustainably the environment;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Human rights and the environment, para. 15
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- Recognizing further the importance of gender equality, the empowerment of women and the role women play as managers of natural resources and agents of change in safeguarding the environment,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Human rights and the environment, para. 8
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- Recalling also the Paris Agreement, adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in which the parties acknowledged in the preamble that they should, when taking action to address climate change, respect, promote and consider their respective obligations with regard to human rights, the right to health, the rights of indigenous peoples, local communities, migrants, children, persons with disabilities and people in vulnerable situations and the right to development, as well as gender equality, the empowerment of women and intergenerational equity,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Adequate housing as a component of the rights to an adequate standard of living, and the right to non-discrimination in this context, para. 27
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- experiences, including discrimination, violence against women and the disproportionate impact on women of forced evictions, inadequate water and sanitation services and pervasive poverty, and by undertaking legislative and other reforms to realize the equal rights of women and men, as well as girls and boys where applicable, to access economic and productive resources, including land and natural resources, and property and inheritance rights;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2014, para. 6
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- Recalling its resolution 56/2 of 9 March 2012, and mindful of the continuing need to further enhance gender equality and the empowerment of women,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The right to food 2012, para. 6
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- Recognizes the importance of smallholder farmers in developing countries, including women and local and indigenous communities, in ensuring food and nutrition security, reducing poverty and preserving ecosystems, and the need to assist their development;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- 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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The right to food 2016, para. 9
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- Recognizes the importance of smallholder and subsistence farmers in developing countries, including women and local and indigenous communities, in ensuring food security, reducing poverty and preserving ecosystems, and the need to assist their development;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The right to food 2015, para. 8
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- Recognizes the importance of smallholder and subsistence farmers in developing countries, including women and local and indigenous communities, in ensuring food security, reducing poverty and preserving ecosystems, and the need to assist their development;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The right to food 2014, para. 8
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- Recognizes the importance of smallholder and subsistence farmers in developing countries, including women and local and indigenous communities, in ensuring food security, reducing poverty and preserving ecosystems, and the need to assist their development;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 1999, para. 8
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- Also urges Governments, with the assistance of relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to create an environment and conditions that will take care of and support children orphaned by AIDS;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1999
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in agriculture and rural development 1995, para. 10
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- Aware of the need to recognize the importance of an understanding of gender issues within all areas of agricultural, social, economic, environmental and political life in order to achieve a balanced division of roles and responsibilities,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1995
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women and the environment 1992, para. 11
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- Requests the Preparatory Committee for the United/Nations Conference on Environment and Development, at its fourth session, to give full and substantive consideration to the recommendations of the Commission concerning women and the environment, in accordance with General/Assembly resolution 46/167;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1992
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women and the environment 1992, para. 10
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- Recognizing that the cooperation and assistance of as well as the work performed by the non-governmental organizations are efficient mechanisms in the struggle for protecting and preserving the environment and for promoting the full participation of women in the management of the environment,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1992
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Elimination of discrimination against women 2016, para. 14
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- Expressing concern about the disparate impact of poverty, global economic crises, austerity measures, climate change, armed conflict and natural disasters on women’s and girls’ health and well-being,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women in development 2017, para. 44
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- Urges States to promote the integration of a gender perspective into environmental and climate change policies and to strengthen mechanisms and provide adequate resources to ensure the full and equal participation of women in all levels of decision-making on environmental issues, and stresses the need to address the challenges for women and girls posed by climate change;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2014, para. 10
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- Requests the United Nations system, Member States and other stakeholders to continue to promote the inclusion of a gender perspective in their activities, international negotiation processes and consultations as they relate to natural disasters, especially in the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2014, para. 7
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- Requests all relevant United Nations entities, according to their mandates, to ensure that a gender perspective continues to be mainstreamed into all aspects of disaster risk reduction, response and recovery and to report systematically on progress towards such mainstreaming under the United Nations System-wide Action Plan on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2014, para. 5
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- Commends those donors who use a gender marker system in their funding decisions, and encourages Governments and, where appropriate, United Nations entities, civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, and other stakeholders, to use such a system;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2014, para. 4e
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- [Urges Governments and, where appropriate, United Nations entities, civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, and other stakeholders:] To ensure the full enjoyment by women and girls of all human rights in every phase of disaster risk reduction, response and recovery;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2014, para. 4d
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- [Urges Governments and, where appropriate, United Nations entities, civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, and other stakeholders:] To strengthen the capacities, awareness and cooperation of relevant authorities and institutions at all levels to apply a gender-responsive approach to disaster risk reduction, response and recovery;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2014, para. 5
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- Noting that natural disasters can lead to widespread and prolonged displacement, which increases the vulnerability, in particular of women and girls, to gender-based violence and to negative coping strategies, creates barriers to their ability to access education, employment and health-care and other crucial services, and separates them from support networks,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2014, para. 4
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- Recognizing that natural disasters can increase the likelihood of rape and sexual exploitation, domestic violence, unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections and complications regarding sexual and reproductive health, including for pregnant women, who face heightened risks from interrupted access to sexual and reproductive health care,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Gender equality and the empowerment of women in natural disasters 2014, para. 2
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- Reaffirming the commitments regarding women and girls affected by natural disasters in the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, and reaffirming also that the outcomes stressed the need to incorporate a gender perspective into disaster risk reduction, response and recovery strategies,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Mainstreaming gender equality and promoting empowerment of women in climate change policies and strategies 2011, para. 11
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- Encourages Governments to integrate a gender component into their periodic reporting as States Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Mainstreaming gender equality and promoting empowerment of women in climate change policies and strategies 2011, para. 9
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- Encourages Governments to strengthen international cooperation in such areas as training, capacity-building and technology transfer in order to address the challenges faced by women and girls in the context of climate change;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Mainstreaming gender equality and promoting empowerment of women in climate change policies and strategies 2011, para. 5
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- Urges Governments and all other relevant actors, in their efforts in dealing with climate change, to promote women's equal access to education, media and information, communications and technology and to encourage women's equal participation in training and capacity-building;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Mainstreaming gender equality and promoting empowerment of women in climate change policies and strategies 2011, para. 3
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- Also call upon Governments to ensure that sustainable resource management mechanisms, production techniques and infrastructure development in rural and urban areas are, in the context of climate change policies and strategies, gender sensitive;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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