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The right to food, para. 37
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- 8. Recognizes the importance of smallholder and subsistence farmers and peasants in developing countries, including women and local and indigenous communities, in ensuring food security, reducing poverty and preserving ecosystems, and the need to assist their development;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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The right to food, para. 35
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- 6. Expresses its great concern that, while women contribute more than 50 per cent of the food produced worldwide, they also account for 70 per cent of the world’s hungry, that women and girls are disproportionately affected by hunger, food insecurity and poverty, in part as a result of gender inequality and discrimination, that in many countries girls are twice as likely as boys to die from malnutrition and preventable childhood diseases, and that it is estimated that almost twice as many women as men suffer from malnutrition;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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The right to food, para. 18
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- Recognizing further the need to urgently assist some African countries that are facing drought, starvation and famine threats that could affect millions of people, most of whom are women and children, who risk losing their lives,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Humanitarian
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 13
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- Concerned further that indigenous women often suffer from multiple forms of discrimination and poverty which increase their vulnerability to all forms of violence,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 12
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- Concerned also that the adverse impacts of climate change on women and girls, including indigenous women, can be exacerbated by gender inequality, discrimination and poverty,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Economic advancement for women 2005, para. 8
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- Noting further that hundreds of millions of women and girls, worldwide, live in poverty and that the majority live in rural areas where their livelihoods are dependent on subsistence and small-holder agriculture and employment in the informal sector, including forest and common property resources,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Economic advancement for women 2005, para. 4
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- Recalling further General Assembly resolutions 58/142 of 22 December 2003 on women and political participation, 58/206 of 23 December 2003 on women in development and 59/246 of 22 December 2004 on the role of microcredit and microfinance in the eradication of poverty,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The right to food 2017, para. 9
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- Recognizes the importance of smallholder and subsistence farmers and peasants in developing countries, including women and local and indigenous communities, in ensuring food security, reducing poverty and preserving ecosystems, and the need to assist their development;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 1i
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- [Urges States to:] Take concrete measures to provide equal access to justice for indigenous women at all levels, and ensure that indigenous women have equal rights to own land and other property;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 1h
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- [Urges States to:] Comply with and effectively implement all their human rights obligations so as to ensure the full realization and equal enjoyment of the rights of indigenous women;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 1g
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- Respect, preserve and promote, where appropriate, the traditional knowledge of indigenous women with respect to medicine, including the conservation of their vital medicinal plants, animals and minerals;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Health
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 1b
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- [Urges States to:] Support the economic activities of indigenous women, in consultation with them and taking into account their traditional knowledge, so as to improve their situation and development, in particular by enhancing their equal access to productive resources and agricultural inputs, such as land, seeds, financial services, technology, transportation and information;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Gender
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 1a
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- [Urges States to:] Take particular measures to promote and strengthen policies and programmes for indigenous women with their full participation and respect for their cultural diversity, so that they have the opportunities and the possibility of choice in the development process needed to eradicate the poverty that affects them;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 15
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- Emphasizing also that the United Nations has an important and continuing role to play in promoting and protecting the rights of indigenous peoples, and the empowerment of indigenous women and their enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 11
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- Concerned about the extreme disadvantages that indigenous peoples, in particular indigenous women, have typically faced across a range of social and economic indicators and the impediments to their full enjoyment of their rights,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 9
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- Recognizing also that the involvement, perspectives and traditional knowledge of indigenous women make an important contribution to sustainable development and the conservation of biodiversity and natural resources, such as land, forests, water, seeds and coastal seas,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 8
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- Recognizing that a significant number of smallholder farmers and rural entrepreneurs in developing regions are women, including indigenous women, and that they play a vital role in agricultural and rural development, including by enhancing food security and nutrition for their communities and families,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 7
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- Stressing the importance of recognizing the distinct and crucial contribution of indigenous women, their knowledge and their vital roles in diverse local economies to poverty eradication, food security and sustainable development,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 5
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- Recalling its resolution 49/7, entitled “Indigenous women: beyond the ten-year review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action”, which calls upon Governments, intergovernmental agencies, the private sector and civil society to take measures that ensure the full and effective participation of indigenous women in all aspects of society,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 2
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- Reaffirming also that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Optional Protocol thereto, as well as other relevant international human rights instruments, provide a framework for the promotion and protection of the human rights of indigenous women,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 1
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- Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, and the declarations adopted by the Commission on the occasion of the tenth and fifteenth anniversaries of the Fourth World Conference on Women,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 24
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- Urges Member States to elaborate and implement comprehensive gender-sensitive poverty eradication strategies that address social, structural and macroeconomic issues in order to eliminate preventable maternal mortality and morbidity;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Economic advancement for women 2005, para. 20
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- Acknowledging that people living in poverty, particularly women, need better access to financial services, including savings, insurance, remittance transfers, payment services, and credit, and that women have the proven ability to be diligent savers, prudent borrowers and investors and successful entrepreneurs,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Economic advancement for women 2005, para. 5
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- Recalling its agreed conclusions on eradicating poverty, including through the empowerment of women throughout their life cycle, in a globalizing world, and its agreed conclusions on the participation and access of women to the media, and information and communication technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 14
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- Stressing that the HIV epidemic, with its devastating scale and impact on women and girls, is often aggravated by poverty, which requires urgent action across all internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals and the post-2015 development agenda, in all fields and at all levels,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 8
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- Concerned also that the global HIV epidemic disproportionately affects women and girls and reinforces gender inequalities, that the majority of new HIV infections in young people aged 15 to 19 years occur among girls, and also concerned that women and girls bear the disproportionate burden of caring for and supporting people living with and affected by HIV, and that they become more vulnerable to poverty as a result of the epidemic,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 4
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- Reaffirming also the need to eradicate poverty, which can contribute to the vulnerability of women and girls to HIV infection and aggravate the impact of the epidemic by depleting resources and incomes, thereby contributing to inadequate food and nutrition, which leads to poor treatment outcomes, and to impoverishment owing to loss of income and increased health expenditures, and endangers the survival of present and future generations,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 3
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- Encourages States, intergovernmental organizations, the private sector and civil society to take appropriate measures to promote the rights of indigenous peoples, and respect their cultures, lands, territories and resources and their contribution to sustainable development;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 2
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- Encourages States to support the participation of indigenous women in the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also called Rio+20, and in the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly that is to be called the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, to be held in 2014;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Indigenous women: key actors in poverty and hunger eradication 2012, para. 1k
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- [Urges States to:] Collect and disseminate disaggregated data on indigenous women, including those living in rural areas, in order to monitor and improve the impact of development policies and programmes for their well-being;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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