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Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls (2016), para. 17
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- Remaining alarmed by the high level of impunity with regard to gender-related killing of women and girls and the fact that violence against women and girls is among the least prosecuted and punished crimes in the world,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2014), para. 117
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- (i) To contribute to the prevention and elimination of the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography by adopting a holistic approach, addressing the contributing factors, including underdevelopment, poverty, economic disparities, inequitable socioeconomic structures, dysfunctional families, lack of education, urban-rural migration, gender discrimination, criminal or irresponsible adult sexual behaviour, child sex tourism, organized crime, armed conflicts and trafficking in children;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Health
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2013), para. 089
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- (q) To take measures to eliminate gender-based violence against and sexual exploitation and trafficking of indigenous children, and to actively involve indigenous peoples and their communities in the efforts towards the elimination of these practices;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations (2018), para. 28
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- 12. Welcomes the determination of the Secretary-General to implement fully the United Nations policy of zero tolerance of sexual exploitation and abuse;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls (2015), para. 37
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- 1. Stresses that “violence against women” means any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women and girls, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life, and also notes the economic and social harm caused by such violence;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: efforts to combat human trafficking in supply chains of businesses (2013), para. 26
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- (b) To strengthen the enforcement of their labour laws and, in particular, to specifically train and increase awareness of labour inspectors and other competent authorities in addition to allocating adequate resources so that they have the capacity to identify victims of trafficking during labour inspections of establishments where trafficked persons are likely to be exploited, including in small or informal establishments;
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of and assistance to Palestinian children (2003), para. 6
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- Expressing its condemnation of all acts of violence resulting in extensive loss of human life and injuries, including among Palestinian children,
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2019), para. 126
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- (c) Improve regulations on public and private recruitment agencies in order to align them with international guidelines and best practices, and prohibit recruiters and employers from charging or shifting recruitment fees or related costs to migrant workers in order to prevent debt bondage, exploitation and forced labour, including by establishing mandatory, enforceable mechanisms for effective regulation and monitoring of the recruitment industry;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- 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. 17
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- 5. Underscores that States have the primary responsibility for protecting women and girls facing violence and, in this regard, urges States:
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: efforts to combat human trafficking in supply chains of businesses (2013), para. 43
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- 12. Calls upon all States to continue to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, and to consider responding favourably to the mandate holder’s requests to visit their countries and to provide all necessary information related to the mandate to enable the mandate holder to fulfil the duties of the mandate effectively;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons (2014), para. 17
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- Recalling further Human Rights Council resolution 23/5 of 13 June 2013, entitled “Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: efforts to combat human trafficking in supply chains of businesses”, 9 and other relevant resolutions of the Council on trafficking in persons,
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Plans of action for the implementation of the Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century (2002), para. 228
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- (f) Assist Member States, upon request, in utilizing the Model Strategies and Practical Measures on the Elimination of Violence against Women in the Field of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. 12
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons (2014), para. 03
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- Reiterating its concern that, despite sustained measures taken at the international, regional and national levels, trafficking in persons remains one of the grave challenges facing the international community, which also impairs the enjoyment of human rights and needs a more concerted collective and comprehensive international response,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1998), para. 42
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- 20. Encourages the acceleration of the peaceful, orderly and phased return of refugees and displaced persons, including to areas where they would be in the ethnic minority, strongly condemns all acts of intimidation, violence and killings, including those acts designed to discourage the voluntary return of refugees and displaced persons, and demands that such acts be investigated and prosecuted;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka (2014), para. 15
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- Expressing serious concern at the continuing reports of violations of human rights in Sri Lanka, including sexual and gender-based violence, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, torture and violations of the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, threats to judicial independence and the rule of law, as well as intimidation of and reprisals against human rights defenders, members of civil society, lawyers and journalists,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation Organization (2016), para. 37
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- 33. Acknowledges the ongoing efforts of the States members of the Economic Cooperation Organization to strengthen regional cooperation to combat drugs and organized crime, including the establishment of a police mechanism, a regiona l judicial and legal cooperation mechanism and the Economic Cooperation Organization regional centre for the cooperation of anti-corruption agencies and ombudsmen, and invites the relevant organizations of the United Nations system and other international organizations, including the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, to assist and support those efforts;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and capacity-building for Yemen in the field of human rights (2016), para. 20
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- 4. Calls upon the Government of Yemen to take further measures to protect civilians, and to ensure the continued efforts of effective investigation by the national commission, in order to, inter alia, end impunity;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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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International cooperation in the fight against transnational organized crime: assistance to States in capacity-building with a view to facilitating the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto (2003), para. 02
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- Recalling its resolution 55/25 of 15 November 2000, by which it adopted the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and its resolution 55/255 of 31 May 2001, by which it adopted the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2017), para. 06
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- Condemning the grave deterioration of the human rights situation and the indiscriminate or deliberate targeting of civilians as such, in violation of international humanitarian law, and acts of violence that foment sectarian tensions,
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2019), para. 016
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- Recognizing the importance of international, regional and bilateral multi-stakeholder partnerships and initiatives to advance the effective protection and promotion of the rights of the child and the elimination of violence against children,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Protecting children from bullying (2019), para. 21
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- Recognizing that early childhood is a critical stage for cognitive, emotional and behavioural development and that the parent-child relationship is a significant factor in predicting bullying behaviour in adolescents, as well as the existing evidence of a link between domestic violence and bullying in schools,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2015), para. 064
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- 12. Encourages all States to have national and local action plans for crime prevention in order to take into account, in a comprehensive, integrated and participatory manner, inter alia, factors that place certain populations and places at higher risk of victimization and/or of offending and to ensure that such plans are based on the best available evidence and good practices, stresses that crime prevention should be considered an integral element of strategies to foster social and economic development in all States, and in this regard welcomes Economic and Social Council resolution 2014/21 of 16 July 2014 on strengthening social policies as a tool for crime prevention;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2018), para. 39
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- 14. Urges States to strengthen efforts to urgently eradicate all forms of discrimination against women and girls, and calls upon all States, the United Nations system and civil society to take measures to address the obstacles that continue to affect the achievement of the goals set forth in the Beijing Platform for Action, 9 as contained in paragraph 33 of the further actions and initiatives, 22 including reviewing remaining laws that discriminate against women and girls in order to modify or abolish them and, where appropriate, strengthening national mechanis ms to implement inclusive policies and programmes for the girl child and, in some cases, to enhance coordination among responsible institutions for the realization of the human rights of girls, including access to justice, fighting impunity for perpetrator s of and ensuring the availability of appropriate penalties for crimes of sexual violence committed against the girl child, and to mobilize all necessary resources and support in order to achieve those goals;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementing the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and FundamentalFreedoms through providing a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders and ensuring their protection (2020), para. 30
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- 6. Continues to express particular concern about systemic and structural discrimination, violence and harassment faced by women human rights defenders of all ages, including sexual and gender-based violence as well as defamation and smear campaigns, both online and offline, and reiterates its strong call upon States to take appropriate, robust and practical steps to protect women human rights defenders and to integrate a gender perspective into their efforts to create a safe and enabling environment for the defence of human rights;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2015), para. 18
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- Bearing in mind that impunity for attacks against journalists remains one of the greatest challenges to the safety of journalists and that ensuring accountability for crimes committed against journalists is a key element in preventing future attacks,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (2016), para. 024
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- 11. Also requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue to provide technical assistance to facilitate the ratification and implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption, 7 the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto 8 and the international counter-terrorism instruments;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation against the world drug problem (2005), para. 08
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- Concerned by the increase in the abuse of illicit drugs among children, including adolescents, and young people,
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Draft outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the appraisal of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons (2017), para. 32
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- 25. We will promote partnerships and engage the business community and civil society, including non-governmental organizations, in developing and implementing sustainable initiatives to prevent and combat trafficking in persons in supply chains, taking into account the views and experiences of trafficked persons in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating such initiatives, and encourage businesses to support efforts to combat trafficking in persons. We urge the Secretary -General to ensure that all United Nations procurement is free from trafficking in persons.
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Jerusalem (2011), para. 08
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- Expressing its grave concern further about the continuing Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes and the eviction of numerous Palestinian families from East Jerusalem neighbourhoods, as well as other acts of provocation and incitement, including by Israeli settlers, in the city,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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