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Conclusion On Children At Risk 2007, para. (b) xii

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[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
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2007
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Children At Risk 2007, para. (b) viii

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[Recognizes that strategies and actions under this operational guidance should be underpinned by the following principles and approaches, amongst others:] The active promotion of gender equality is essential to the protection of girls and boys, particularly those at heightened risk;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2007
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (o) ii

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[Developing medium-term responses for individuals includes partnerships and actions to:] help secure the access of women and girls at risk to justice and reduce impunity, including by advising, accompanying and supporting them through initiatives such as women's legal clinics, local women's associations, witness relocation programmes and mobile courts in remote areas; and
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Humanitarian
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (n) iv

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[Ensuring early identification and immediate response involves partnerships and actions to:] ensure that refugee status determination procedures provide female asylum-seekers with effective access to gender-sensitive procedures and recognize that gender-related forms of persecution in the context of Article 1A (2) of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees may constitute grounds for refugee status.
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (k) iii

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[The empowerment of displaced women and girls is to be enhanced including by partnerships and actions to:] work with the displaced community, including men and boys, to rebuild family and community support systems undermined by conflict and flight and to raise awareness of the rights of women and girls and understanding of gender roles.
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Environment
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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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
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (i) v

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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:] promote gender balance in staff recruitment and take active measures to increase the number of female professionals working in the field;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Environment
  • Gender
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (i) iv

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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:] mainstream age, gender and diversity analysis into all programmes, policies and operations to ensure all can benefit equally from activities and inequality is not perpetuated;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Environment
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (i) ii

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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:] incorporate gender issues into early warning mechanisms, alerts and contingency plans, conduct a rapid situation analysis at the start of a new emergency and integrate gender-based risk analysis into inter-agency assessments;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On International Protection 1998, para. (j)

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Deplores gender-related violence and all forms of discrimination on grounds of sex directed against refugee and displaced women and girls, and calls on States to ensure that their human rights and physical and psychological integrity are protected, and that they are made aware of these rights;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
1998
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 24

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Urges Member States, the United Nations and civil society to include in their development priorities programmes that enable men to support women's access to safe conditions for pregnancy and childbirth, contribute to family planning, prevent sexually transmitted infections and HIV and end violence against women and girls;
Body
Commission on Population and Development
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2011
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Adolescents and youth 2012, para. 16

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Calls upon Governments to take all necessary measures to eliminate all forms of discrimination against girls and young women, to remove all obstacles to gender equality, to promote the empowerment of girls and young women in all aspects of youth development, and to encourage boys and young men to participate fully in all actions towards gender equality;
Body
Commission on Population and Development
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
  • Youth
Year
2012
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (k) ii

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[The empowerment of displaced women and girls is to be enhanced including by partnerships and actions to:] strengthen women's and girls' capacities, including by enabling their access to quality education, including secondary education, in safe school environments and by enhancing food security, livelihood opportunities, freedom of movement and economic independence, including where appropriate through access to labour markets; and
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Adolescents and youth 2012, para. 21

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Calls upon Member States to ensure the right to education of good quality for women and girls, on an equal basis with men and boys, and that they complete a full course of primary education, and to renew their efforts to improve and expand the education of girls and women at all levels, including at the secondary and higher levels, as well as vocational education and technical training, in order to, inter alia, achieve gender equality, the empowerment of women and poverty eradication;
Body
Commission on Population and Development
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
  • Youth
Year
2012
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion on refugees with disabilities and other persons with disabilities protected and assisted by UNHCR 2010, para. (g)

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Encourages States, UNHCR and partners to enable children and youth with disabilities to access appropriate protection, assistance and education, and to ensure the inclusion of women and girls with disabilities, protected and assisted by UNHCR, in programmes to prevent and respond to sexual and gender-based violence and other forms of exploitation;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Humanitarian
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
  • Youth
Year
2010
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion on Protracted Refugee Situations 2009, para. (k)

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Recognizes that protracted refugee situations can increase the risks to which refugees may be exposed and that, in this respect, there is a need to identify and respond effectively to the specific protection concerns of men, women, girls and boys, in particular, unaccompanied and separated children, adolescents, persons with disabilities, and older persons, who may be exposed to heightened risks, including sexual and gender-based violence and other forms of violence and exploitation; and encourages UNHCR and States to pursue age, gender and diversity mainstreaming and participatory approaches with a view to enhancing the safety, well-being and development of refugees and promoting appropriate solutions for them;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Older persons
  • Persons on the move
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
Year
2009
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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General Conclusion On International Protection 1997, para. (t)

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Reaffirms its Conclusions No. 39 (XXXVI), No. 54 (XXXIX), No. 60 (XL), No. 64 (XLI) and No.73 (XLIV), and urges States, UNHCR, and other humanitarian organizations, as appropriate, to take all necessary steps to implement these Conclusions, including through recognizing as refugees women whose claims to refugee status are based upon a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons enumerated in the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol, including persecution through sexual violence or other gender-related persecution; by the integration of activities on behalf of refugee women in every aspect of programme planning and implementation; and by taking action to eliminate incidents of violence against women and girls;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
1997
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 10

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Encourages Governments to prioritize universal access to sexual and reproductive health as part of health systems strengthening to eliminate preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and to take action at all levels to address the interlinked root causes of sexual and reproductive ill health, unintended pregnancy, complications arising from unsafe abortion, and maternal mortality and morbidity, including poverty, malnutrition, harmful practices, lack of accessible and appropriate health-care services, information and education, and gender inequality, taking into account people living in the most vulnerable situations, including persons with disabilities, displaced and refugee populations and irregular migrants, and paying particular attention to achieving gender equality and eliminating all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls, with the full involvement of men;
Body
Commission on Population and Development
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2011
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Fertility, reproductive health and development 2011, para. 6

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Urges Governments, in order to ensure 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, to, inter alia, protect and promote full respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms regardless of age and marital status, including by eliminating all forms of discrimination against girls and women, working more effectively to achieve equality between women and men in all areas of family responsibility and in sexual and reproductive life, empowering women and girls, promoting and protecting the right of women and girls to education at all levels, providing young people with comprehensive education on human sexuality, on sexual and reproductive health, on gender equality and on how to deal positively and responsibly with their sexuality, enacting and enforcing laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses, ensuring the right of women to have control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence, combating all forms of violence against women, including harmful traditional and customary practices such as female genital mutilation, developing strategies to eliminate gender stereotypes in all spheres of life and achieving gender equality in political life and decision-making, which would contribute to the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Development Goals;
Body
Commission on Population and Development
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Families
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2011
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 12

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Urges Governments, in order to ensure 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, to, inter alia, protect and promote the full respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms regardless of age and marital status, including by eliminating all forms of discrimination against girls and women; working more effectively to achieve equality between women and men in all areas of family responsibility and in sexual and reproductive life; empowering women and girls, promoting and protecting women's and girls' right to education at all levels; providing young people with comprehensive education on human sexuality, on sexual and reproductive health, on gender equality and on how to deal positively and responsibly with their sexuality; enacting and enforcing laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses; ensuring the right of women to have control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence; combating all forms of violence against women, including harmful traditional and customary practices such as female genital mutilation; developing strategies to eliminate gender stereotypes in all spheres of life and achieving gender equality in political life and decision-making, which would contribute to the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Development Goals;
Body
Commission on Population and Development
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Families
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2010
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 11

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Emphasizes that advances in health depend, among other factors, on the promotion and protection of all human rights, the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women, and the elimination of gender-based discrimination, especially by ensuring equal opportunities for women and men in education, employment and access to social services, including health services; by instituting zero tolerance regarding violence against women and girls, including harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation or cutting; by preventing child and forced marriage; and by ensuring women's and men's access to the means to determine the number and spacing of their children;
Body
Commission on Population and Development
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2010
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Assessment of the status of implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 2014, para. 16

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Emphasizes that, in order to realize and capitalize on demographic dividend, it is essential to increase and sustain investment in women and youth, especially education for girls, maternal, newborn and child health, and to meet the unmet needs of women for family planning, as well as in job creation, and that a well-trained and healthy workforce together with appropriate economic reforms and policies will result in high return on investment for the growing working-age population;
Body
Commission on Population and Development
Document type
Declaration / Confererence outcome document
Topic(s)
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Infants
  • Women
  • Youth
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Assessment of the status of implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 2014, para. 13

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Expresses deep concern about the pervasiveness of gender-based violence, in particular violence against women and girls, and reiterates the need to further intensify efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls and harmful practices, including child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation, and recognizes that violence against women and girls is one of the obstacles to achieving the empowerment of women and that women's poverty and lack of political, social and economic empowerment, as well as their marginalization, may result from their exclusion from social policies for and the benefits of sustainable development and can place them at increased risk of violence;
Body
Commission on Population and Development
Document type
Declaration / Confererence outcome document
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Harmful Practices
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Assessment of the status of implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 2014, para. 9

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Urges Governments to address existing gaps in the implementation of the Programme of Action, including in such areas as respect for, and protection, promotion and fulfilment of, human rights, and gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, as well as unequal progress in achieving universal and equitable access to health services, including for sexual and reproductive health, and newborn and child health, uneven progress in health conditions and life expectancy, and the elimination of violence and discrimination without distinction of any kind;
Body
Commission on Population and Development
Document type
Declaration / Confererence outcome document
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Infants
  • Women
Year
2014
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. 19

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Calls upon Governments to strengthen initiatives that increase the capacities of women and adolescent girls to protect themselves from the risk of HIV infection, principally through the provision of health care and health services, including for sexual and reproductive health, in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, and that integrate HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support, including voluntary counselling and testing and prevention education that promotes gender equality;
Body
Commission on Population and Development
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2009
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. 7

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Urges Governments, in order to ensure 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, to, inter alia, protect and promote the full respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms regardless of age and marital status, including by eliminating all forms of discrimination against girls and women, working more effectively to achieve equality between women and men in all areas of family responsibility and in sexual and reproductive life, empowering women and girls, promoting and protecting women's and girls' right to education at all levels, providing young people with comprehensive education on human sexuality, on sexual and reproductive health, on gender equality and on how to deal positively and responsibly with their sexuality, enacting and enforcing laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses, ensuring the right of women to have control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence, combating all forms of violence against women, including harmful traditional and customary practices such as female genital mutilation, developing strategies to eliminate gender stereotypes in all spheres of life and achieving gender equality in political life and decision-making, which would contribute to the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Development Goals;
Body
Commission on Population and Development
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Families
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2009
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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