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Refugee Women 1989, para. (c)
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- Called for the reinforcement of preventive measures and for States and concerned agencies to strengthen their support of UNHCR's protection activities relating to refugee women, inter alia, by providing resettlement places for women at risk;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1989
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The contribution of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development to the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals 2009, para. 31
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- Urges Governments to monitor their progress towards the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the key actions for its further implementation and the Millennium Development Goals at the local and national levels and, in this regard, to make special efforts to strengthen relevant national institutions and mechanisms to generate population data, disaggregated, as appropriate, by sex and age and other categories, as needed for monitoring the improvement of maternal health, the achievement of the target of universal access to reproductive health and progress in empowering women and achieving gender equality and to use these data for the formulation and implementation of population and development policies;
- Body
- Commission on Population and Development
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2009
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (q)
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- 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
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- 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
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- [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
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- 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
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- [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
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- 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)
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- 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
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Refugee Women and International Protection 1990, para. (b)
- Paragraph text
- Invites UNHCR to develop comprehensive guidelines on the protection of refugee women as a matter of urgency in order to give effect to its policy on refugee women as contained in document A/AC.96/754.
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1990
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Refugee Women 1989, para. (k)
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- Encouraged the High Commissioner to share his experience in this sector with other United Nations agencies and strongly supported him in taking a lead role in presenting the situation of refugee women at the Thirty-fourth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women in 1990;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1989
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Refugee Women 1989, para. (d)
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- Noted UNHCR's intention to include the subject of refugee women on the agenda of the Sub- Committee of the Whole on International Protection of the Forty-first Session of the Executive Committee, and on the Sub-Committee on Administrative and Financial matters under the item "Major Trends";
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1989
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Refugee Women 1989, para. (a)
- Paragraph text
- Expressed appreciation for the Report on Refugee Women (A/AC.96/727) and commended the Office of the High Commissioner on progress towards promoting the participation of refugee women as agents as well as beneficiaries in the planning and implementation of protection and assistance programmes;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1989
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Refugee Women and International Protection 1985, para. (j)
- Paragraph text
- Requested the High Commissioner to report regularly to members of the Executive Committee on the needs of refugee women, and on existing and proposed programmes for their benefit;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1985
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Refugee Women and International Protection 1985, para. (f)
- Paragraph text
- Noted with satisfaction the measures already undertaken by UNHCR to address the protection problems of refugee women and to ensure that they are adequately protected;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1985
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Refugee Women and International Protection 1985, para. (b)
- Paragraph text
- Welcomed further the recommendations regarding the situation of refugee and displaced women adopted by the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women held in Nairobi (Kenya) in July 1985;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1985
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (l)
- 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
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- 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
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- [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
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- 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
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- [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
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- 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)
- 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
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
General Conclusion On International Protection 2005, para. (b)
- Paragraph text
- Recalls paragraph (o) of its Conclusion No. 99 (LV); notes the need for UNHCR to continue efforts to strengthen its protection presence in the field, including in particular female protection staff; and continues to call upon States to extend their support in this regard through the timely and predictable provision of resources;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
General Conclusion On International Protection 2001, para. (i)
- Paragraph text
- Stresses the importance of according special attention to the protection needs of vulnerable refugees, including women, children and the elderly, in the application of the international refugee instruments and related protection standards;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2001
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
General Conclusion On International Protection 1994, para. (ff)
- Paragraph text
- Calls on the High Commissioner to ensure UNHCR's active participation in the 1995 World Conference on Women and its Regional Preparatory Conferences in order that the situation of refugee women remain high on the international agenda of women's issues;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1994
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
General Conclusion On International Protection 1993, para. (y)
- Paragraph text
- Requests the High Commissioner, given the diversity and persistent character of certain obstacles hampering the protection of refugee women and refugee children, in consultation with the Chairman of the Executive Committee, to convene an informal working group of the Committee to examine these obstacles, as well as review options and propose concrete measures to overcome them;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1993
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
General Conclusion On International Protection 1993, para. (v)
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- 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
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- 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 1992, para. (k)
- Paragraph text
- Encourages the High Commissioner to ensure that specific attention to refugee women's issues becomes an integral part of refugee protection and requests her also to ensure that the protection situation of both refugee women and of refugee children is included in the plan of work for forthcoming meetings of the Sub-Committee of the Whole on International Protection;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1992
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
General Conclusion On International Protection 1991, para. (e)
- 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
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- 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 1990, para. (a)
- Paragraph text
- [Urges States, relevant United Nations organizations, as well as non-governmental organizations, as appropriate, to ensure that the needs and resources of refugee women are fully understood and integrated, to the extent possible, into their activities and programmes and, to this end, to pursue, among others, the following aims in promoting measures for improving the international protection of refugee women:]
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1990
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Refugee Women 1989, para. (i)
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- Encouraged the High Commissioner in his development of training materials and courses to increase awareness of the specific needs and potential of refugee women and his initiative to involve nongovernmental organizations in this training; called upon him to expand this area in the future with a view to improved programme and project planning and in particular to further develop components to address the special protection concerns of refugee women;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1989
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Refugee Women 1988, para. 11
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- Requested the High Commissioner to provide, at the fortieth session of the Executive Committee, a detailed progress report on the implementation of the Office's policies and programmes for refugee women, including an evaluation of the effectiveness of the UNHCR internal guidelines relating to the international protection of refugee women;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1988
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
General Conclusion On International Protection 1986, para. (l)
- Paragraph text
- Recalled its Conclusion No. 39 on Refugee Women and International Protection and called upon the High Commissioner to continue to give due attention to the specific protection needs of refugee women and to continue to report to the Executive Committee on this matter;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1986
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Refugee Women and International Protection 1985, para. (i)
- 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
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- 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
Refugee Women and International Protection 1985, para. (h)
- Paragraph text
- Recommended that States, individually, jointly and in co-operation with UNHCR, redefine and reorient existing programmes and, where necessary, establish new programmes to meet the specific problems of refugee women, in particular to ensure the safeguard of their physical integrity and safety, and their equality of treatment. Women refugees should participate in the formulation and implementation of such programmes;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1985
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph