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Servile marriage 2012, para. 99

Document type
Special Procedures' report
Paragraph text
In many countries with a legal minimum age for marriage, there are also exceptions for girls below that age. Where exceptions exist, rigorous procedures must be put in place to ensure that the marriage is in the child's best interests. Private and public institutions must be required to systematically consider how children's rights and interests are affected by their decisions and actions.
Body
Special Procedures: Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2012
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of indigenous women and girls 2015, para. 79d

Document type
Special Procedures' report
Paragraph text
[Recommendations to Member States] [With regard to violence against indigenous women and girls, Member States should:] Ensure that all forms of violence against women, including female genital mutilation and child marriage, are included as violations within criminal law;
Body
Special Procedures: Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Harmful Practices
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Harmful practices (joint General Recommendation with CEDAW) 2014, para. 69f

Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Paragraph text
[The Committees recommend that the States parties to the Conventions:] Engage men and boys in creating an enabling environment that supports the empowerment of women and girls.
Body
Treaty bodies: CRC - Committee on the Rights of the Child
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Harmful practices (joint General Recommendation with CRC) 2014, para. 69f

Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Paragraph text
[The Committees recommend that the States parties to the Conventions:] Engage men and boys in creating an enabling environment that supports the empowerment of women and girls.
Body
Treaty bodies: CEDAW - Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Harmful practices (joint General Recommendation with CEDAW) 2014, para. 60

Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Paragraph text
The Committees recommend that the States parties to the Conventions ensure that any efforts undertaken to tackle harmful practices and to challenge and change underlying social norms are holistic, community based and founded on a rights-based approach that includes the active participation of all relevant stakeholders, especially women and girls.
Body
Treaty bodies: CRC - Committee on the Rights of the Child
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Harmful practices (joint General Recommendation with CRC) 2014, para. 60

Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Paragraph text
The Committees recommend that the States parties to the Conventions ensure that any efforts undertaken to tackle harmful practices and to challenge and change underlying social norms are holistic, community based and founded on a rights-based approach that includes the active participation of all relevant stakeholders, especially women and girls.
Body
Treaty bodies: CEDAW - Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Harmful practices (joint General Recommendation with CEDAW) 2014, para. 81b

Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Paragraph text
[The Committees recommend that the States parties to the Conventions:] Ensure that awareness-raising programmes provide accurate information and clear and unified messages from trusted sources about the negative impact of harmful practices on women, children, in particular girls, their families and society at large. Such programmes should include social media, the Internet and community communication and dissemination tools;
Body
Treaty bodies: CRC - Committee on the Rights of the Child
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Harmful practices (joint General Recommendation with CRC) 2014, para. 81b

Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Paragraph text
[The Committees recommend that the States parties to the Conventions:] Ensure that awareness-raising programmes provide accurate information and clear and unified messages from trusted sources about the negative impact of harmful practices on women, children, in particular girls, their families and society at large. Such programmes should include social media, the Internet and community communication and dissemination tools;
Body
Treaty bodies: CEDAW - Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and young women with disabilities 2017, para. 60

Document type
Special Procedures' report
Paragraph text
Girls and young women with disabilities have the same sexual and reproductive health and rights as other girls and young women. However they encounter significant obstacles in exercising and accessing those rights, including stigma and stereotypes, restrictive legislation and a lack of child- and disability-appropriate information and services. Moreover, poverty and/or social exclusion deprive them of the necessary knowledge to develop healthy relationships and increase the risk of sexual abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, unintended pregnancies and harmful practices. Grave human rights violations such as forced sterilization, forced abortion and forced contraception are frequent, and the violence experienced by girls and young women with disabilities remains largely invisible.
Body
Special Procedures: Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
  • Youth
Year
2017
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Gender perspectives on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment 2016, para. 74c

Document type
Special Procedures' report
Paragraph text
[With regard to harmful practices, the Special Rapporteur calls upon States to:] Implement and enforce uniform laws that prohibit child marriage before the age of 18, with no exceptions on the basis of parental consent or personal status laws; extend the prohibition to cover traditional and religious marriages; provide appropriate assistance to women and girls living in forced marriages, including by helping women leave the marriage with a share of matrimonial assets, custody of children and the right to remarry; and provide support to victims' dependents and members of immediate families;
Body
Special Procedures: Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Eliminating discrimination against women in the area of health and safety, with a focus on the instrumentalization of women's bodies 2016, para. 99

Document type
Special Procedures' report
Paragraph text
The Working Group found that instrumentalization and politicization of women's biological functions in many countries subjects legislation and policies regarding women's and girls' health and safety to patriarchal agendas, especially regarding reproductive and sexual health and mental health. The Working Group found manifestations in all regions of instrumentalization, taboos regarding menstruation and breastfeeding and stereotypes which result in harmful practices such as female genital mutilation or which have a negative impact on women's body image, leading to their seeking invasive cosmetic procedures.
Body
Special Procedures: Working Group on discrimination against women and girls
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Harmful practices (joint General Recommendation with CEDAW) 2014, para. 73d

Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Paragraph text
[The Committees recommend that the States parties to the Conventions:] Conduct specialized awareness and training programmes for health-care providers working with immigrant communities to address the unique health-care needs of children and women who have undergone female genital mutilation or other harmful practices and provide specialized training also for professionals within child welfare services and services focused on the rights of women and the education and police and justice sectors, politicians and media personnel working with migrant girls and women.
Body
Treaty bodies: CRC - Committee on the Rights of the Child
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Harmful practices (joint General Recommendation with CEDAW) 2014, para. 55f

Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Paragraph text
[The Committees recommend that the States parties to the Conventions adopt or amend legislation with a view to effectively addressing and eliminating harmful practices. In doing so, they should ensure:] That a minimum legal age of marriage for girls and boys, with or without parental consent, is established at 18 years. When a marriage at an earlier age is allowed in exceptional circumstances, the absolute minimum age must not be below 16 years, the grounds for obtaining permission must be legitimate and strictly defined by law and the marriage must be permitted only by a court of law upon the full, free and informed consent of the child or both children, who must appear in person before the court;
Body
Treaty bodies: CRC - Committee on the Rights of the Child
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Rights of rural women 2016, para. 34

Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Paragraph text
States parties should take steps to prevent and prohibit child and/or forced marriage among rural women and girls, including through the reform and enforcement of laws prohibiting such practices in rural areas, media campaigns, particularly aimed at raising the awareness of men, the provision of school-based prevention programmes, including comprehensive age-appropriate sexual and reproductive health education, as well as the provision of social and health services for rural married girls and girls at risk of child and/or forced marriage. In addition, States parties should discourage and prohibit the practice of polygamy, which may be more common in rural areas.
Body
Treaty bodies: CEDAW - Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Rights of rural women 2016, para. 23

Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Paragraph text
In line with general recommendation No. 31 (2014) on harmful practices, States parties should eliminate harmful practices, including child and/or forced marriage, female genital mutilation and the inheritance of ancestral debt, which negatively affect the health, well-being and dignity of rural women and girls. They should eliminate discriminatory stereotypes, including those that compromise the equal rights of rural women to land, water and other natural resources. In this regard, States parties should adopt a range of measures, including outreach and support programmes, awareness-raising and media campaigns, in collaboration with traditional leaders and civil society, to eliminate harmful practices and stereotypes.
Body
Treaty bodies: CEDAW - Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Harmful practices (joint General Recommendation with CRC) 2014, para. 73d

Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Paragraph text
[The Committees recommend that the States parties to the Conventions:] Conduct specialized awareness and training programmes for health-care providers working with immigrant communities to address the unique health-care needs of children and women who have undergone female genital mutilation or other harmful practices and provide specialized training also for professionals within child welfare services and services focused on the rights of women and the education and police and justice sectors, politicians and media personnel working with migrant girls and women.
Body
Treaty bodies: CEDAW - Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

Harmful practices (joint General Recommendation with CRC) 2014, para. 55f

Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Paragraph text
[The Committees recommend that the States parties to the Conventions adopt or amend legislation with a view to effectively addressing and eliminating harmful practices. In doing so, they should ensure:] That a minimum legal age of marriage for girls and boys, with or without parental consent, is established at 18 years. When a marriage at an earlier age is allowed in exceptional circumstances, the absolute minimum age must not be below 16 years, the grounds for obtaining permission must be legitimate and strictly defined by law and the marriage must be permitted only by a court of law upon the full, free and informed consent of the child or both children, who must appear in person before the court;
Body
Treaty bodies: CEDAW - Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph

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