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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (q)
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Paragraph text
- Efforts to ensure the progressive implementation of the above-mentioned mechanisms and standards can benefit greatly from partnerships and the development of relevant public policies, supported as appropriate by the international community.
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (j) v
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Paragraph text
- [Secure environments are to be established and strengthened, including by partnerships and actions to:] strengthen justice systems to uphold the rights of women and girls and bring perpetrators of SGBV to justice, combat trafficking and protect victims; and
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (j) ii
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Paragraph text
- [Secure environments are to be established and strengthened, including by partnerships and actions to:] maintain the civilian and humanitarian character of asylum, which is a primary responsibility of host States;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (h)
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Paragraph text
- Recommended preventive strategies to be adopted by States, UNHCR, other relevant agencies and partners may include the identification, assessment and monitoring of risks.
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion On Children At Risk 2007, para. (g) vi
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Paragraph text
- [Recommends that States, UNHCR and other relevant agencies and partners work in close collaboration to prevent children from being put at heightened risk, and respond, as necessary, through the general prevention, response and solution measures listed non-exhaustively below:] Strengthen or promote the establishment of child protection committees, as appropriate, with equal and meaningful participation of girls and boys;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2007
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion On Children At Risk 2007, para. (b) xii
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Paragraph text
- [Recognizes that strategies and actions under this operational guidance should be underpinned by the following principles and approaches, amongst others:] A two-pronged approach comprising: (1) mainstreaming of age, gender and diversity into all UNHCR programmes, policies and operations, and (2) targeted action, to ensure that all children, girls and boys of diverse backgrounds, can enjoy protection on an equal basis; and
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2007
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (l)
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Paragraph text
- Financial and other necessary resources should also be mobilized, as appropriate, including by action to ensure the provision of protection and material assistance and timely durable solutions based on international solidarity, cooperation and burden and responsibility sharing.
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (j) i
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Paragraph text
- [Secure environments are to be established and strengthened, including by partnerships and actions to:] prevent and respond to SGBV in accordance with international standards set out in UNHCR and other relevant guidelines,including through provision of quality health services to address the specific needs of women and girls at risk;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (i) vi
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Paragraph text
- [Identification, assessment and monitoring of risks faced by women and girls in the wider protection environment are to be strengthened by partnerships and actions to:] identify and prevent SGBV and strengthen the capacity of national and local authorities to carry out their protection functions more effectively.
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (a)
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Paragraph text
- Adopts this Conclusion regarding the identification of women and girls at risk, prevention strategies and individual responses and solutions and recommends that UNHCR include a more detailed elaboration of these issues in the UNHCR Handbook on the Protection of Women and Girls.
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. 7
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Paragraph text
- Acknowledging that the challenges involved in securing the protection of women and girls at risk must be addressed in a holistic manner and that protection partnerships with governments, UNHCR, other UN agencies, other international organizations and non-governmental organizations, together with displaced and host communities, are integral to effective identification, responses, monitoring and solutions,
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
General Conclusion On International Protection 1993, para. (v)
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Paragraph text
- Calls upon the High Commissioner to pursue her efforts to ensure the protection of refugee women and girls and reaffirms in this regard its Conclusion No. 64 (XLII) on Refugee Women and International Protection and paragraphs (i) to (k) of Conclusion No. 68 (XLIII);
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1993
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
General Conclusion On International Protection 1991, para. (e)
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Paragraph text
- Encourages UNHCR, both at Headquarters and in the field, actively to promote greater support and understanding of UNHCR's policy and activities on behalf of refugee women, including with UNHCR's implementing partners and all appropriate national or international fora where protection problems of refugee women or girls are at issue;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1991
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Refugee Women and International Protection 1985, para. (i)
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Paragraph text
- Stressed the importance of a more detailed knowledge and understanding of the special needs and problems of refugee women in the international protection field and of gathering statistical, sociological and other data concerning refugee women and girls in order to identify and implement appropriate mechanisms to ensure their effective protection;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1985
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. 4
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Paragraph text
- Recalling that the protection of women and girls is primarily the responsibility of States, whose full and effective cooperation, action and political resolve are required to enable UNHCR to fulfil its mandated functions; and that all action on behalf of women and girls must be guided by obligations under relevant international law, including, as applicable, international refugee law, international human rights law and international humanitarian law,
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion on youth 2016, para. 6b
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Paragraph text
- [Acknowledges that UNHCR programmes are undertaken in accordance with its mandate and international refugee law, and calls on UNHCR, Member States and relevant actors, as appropriate, and with the consent of concerned States, and in accordance with their national law, to:] (b) Address the needs and facilitate the contribution and participation of adolescent girls and young women as partners among UNHCR's youth of concern, with the active involvement of young men and adolescent boys;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Boys
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (p) i
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Paragraph text
- [Recommended longer-term responses and solutions include partnerships and actions to:] promote respect for women's and girls' equal rights to make a free and informed choice to return voluntarily and to their equal access to land and property in the country of origin, and incorporate measures to ensure adequate ongoing assistance and support in the country of origin for those at risk into tripartite voluntary repatriation agreements;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
General Conclusion On International Protection 1992, para. (j)
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirms its Conclusion No. 64 (XLI) on Refugee Women and International Protection, and calls upon the High Commissioner to pursue her efforts to increase public awareness of the rights and protection needs of refugee women and girls, inter alia, through further sensitization of bodies concerned with the status of women, and by promoting and supporting the inclusion of the issue of the rights of refugee women on the international human rights agenda;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1992
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. 9
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming its call to the international community, in cooperation with UNHCR and other international organizations, to mobilize the financial and other resources necessary, including in support of host communities, to ensure the provision of protection and material assistance, and of durable solutions, based on international solidarity, cooperation, burden and responsibility sharing and the understanding that inadequate protection, or inadequate, inappropriate or poorly distributed assistance can increase the risks women and girls face,
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. 2
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Paragraph text
- Recalling that Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on women and peace and security and the subsequent Action Plan (S/2005/636) provide an integrated framework for a consolidated international and UN-wide response to this challenge, that Security Council resolution 1261 (1999) and five subsequent resolutions on children and armed conflict, call on governments, parties to a conflict and other organizations, including UN bodies, to take wide-ranging action to protect children in armed conflict and afterwards, and that Security Council resolutions 1265 (1999), 1296 (2000) and 1674 (2006), similarly call on parties to armed conflict to ensure the protection of affected civilians, including women and children,
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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