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Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, para. 51

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21. Expresses deep concern at the conditions of the Palestinian prisoners and detainees, including minors, in Israeli jails and detention centres, calls upon Israel to explicitly prohibit torture, including psychological torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, demands that Israel, the occupying Power, fully respect and abide by its international law obligations towards all Palestinian prisoners and detainees in its custody, expresses its concern at the continued extensive use of administrative detention, calls for the full implementation of the agreement reached in May 2012 for a prompt and independent investigation into all cases of death in custody, and calls upon Israel to immediately release all Palestinian prisoners, including Palestinian legislators, detained in violation of international law;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Year
2018
Date added
Sep 17, 2019
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures, para. 39

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7. Also expresses its grave concern that, in some countries, the socioeconomic conditions of family members, particularly women and children, are adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures, imposed and maintained contrary to international law and the Charter, that create obstacles to trade relations among States, restrict movement through various means of transport, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women, children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
Year
2018
Date added
Sep 17, 2019
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The rights of the child 2008, para. 24f

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[Calls upon States:] To design and implement programmes to provide social services and support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular by enabling them and also the adolescent fathers to continue and complete their education;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Infants
Year
2008
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 2007, para. 26f

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[Calls upon States:] To design and implement programmes to provide social services and support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular by enabling them and also the adolescent fathers to continue and complete their education;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Infants
Year
2007
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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ICCPR - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966, para. 2b

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(b) Accused juvenile persons shall be separated from adults and brought as speedily as possible for adjudication.
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
International treaty
Topic(s)
  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
Year
1966
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 12

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Concerned also that women and adolescent girls have unequal access to health resources, including sexual and reproductive health-care services, for the prevention of HIV infection and treatment of and care and support for people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS,
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 2008, para. 11

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Also urges all States in particular to strengthen the participation of children and adolescents in planning and implementation relating to matters that affect them, such as health, environment, education, social and economic welfare and protection against violence, abuse and exploitation;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Social & Cultural Rights
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Year
2008
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 2007, para. 14

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Also urges all States in particular to strengthen the participation of children and adolescents in planning and implementation relating to matters that affect them, such as health, environment, education, social and economic welfare and protection against violence, abuse and exploitation;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Social & Cultural Rights
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Year
2007
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Protection of the family: contribution of the family to the realization of the right to an adequate standard of living for its members, particularly through its role in poverty eradication and achieving sustainable development 2015, para. 19

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Recognizes that stable, supportive and nurturing family relationships, supported by communities and, where available, professional services, can provide a vital shield against substance abuse, particularly among minors;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of the child 2004, para. 7

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Taking note of the issuance by the Committee on the Rights of the Child of general comment No. 3 (2003) on HIV/AIDS and the rights of the child, general comment No. 4 (2003) on adolescent health and development in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and general comment No. 5 (2003) on general measures of implementation of the Convention (arts. 4, 42 and 44, para. 6),
Body
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Year
2004
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 2008, para. 49

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Also welcomes the convening of the World Congresses against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents, including the Third World Congress, held from 25 to 28 November 2008 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, aimed at stimulating debate and mobilizing the efforts of the international community to eradicate the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Year
2008
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 2008, para. 24c

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[Calls upon States:] To support adolescents to be able to deal positively and responsibly with their sexuality in order to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS infection and to implement measures to increase their capacity to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS through, inter alia, the provision of health care, including for sexual and reproductive health, and through preventive education that promotes gender equality;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Year
2008
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 2007, para. 26c

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[Calls upon States:] To support adolescents to be able to deal positively and responsibly with their sexuality in order to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS infection and to implement measures to increase their capacity to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS through, inter alia, the provision of health care, including for sexual and reproductive health, and through preventive education that promotes gender equality;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Year
2007
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 2006, para. 21f

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[Also calls upon all States:] To enable children, including adolescents, to exercise their right to express their views freely, according to their evolving capacity, and build self-esteem, acquire knowledge and skills, such as those for conflict resolution, decision-making and communication, to meet the challenges of life;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 2006, para. 4

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Reaffirming the outcome documents of the special session of the General Assembly on children, entitled “A world fit for children”, and the commitments contained therein to promote and protect the rights of each child, every human being below the age of 18 years, including adolescents, and of all major United Nations conferences, and the integration of child rights issues into the outcome documents of all major United Nations conferences, special sessions and summits,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of the child 2005, para. 19a

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[Calls upon all States:] To ensure the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health of all children without discrimination, to develop sustainable health systems and social services, to ensure access to such systems and services without discrimination, and to pay particular attention to adequate food and nutrition to prevent disease and malnutrition, to prenatal and post-natal health care, to special needs of adolescents, to reproductive and sexual health and to threats from substance abuse and violence;
Body
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Year
2005
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 32

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Encourages Member States to work in partnership with the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, convened by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and its partners, so as to mobilize and support a wide range of national actors, including women's groups and networks of women living with HIV, in order to ensure that national HIV and AIDS programmes are better able to respond to the specific needs and vulnerabilities of women, girls and adolescents;
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 9

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Expressing deep concern that more than 350,000 women and adolescent girls still die every year from largely preventable complications related to pregnancy or childbirth, that adolescent girls face a higher risk of complications and death and that the average annual percentage decline in the global maternal mortality ratio still falls short of the figure of 5.5 per cent required to achieve the first target of Millennium Development Goal 5,
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2012
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 2015, para. 6

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Reaffirming also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the outcome document of the twenty-seventh special session of the General Assembly on children, entitled “A world fit for children”, recalling the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, the Declaration on Social Progress and Development, the Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, the Declaration on the Right to Development, the Declaration of the commemorative high-level plenary meeting devoted to the follow-up to the outcome of the special session on children, held in New York from 11 to 13 December 2007, the outcome document, entitled “The future we want”, adopted at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June 2012, and the outcome document of the third Global Conference on Child Labour, held in Brasilia from 8 to 10 October 2013, and recalling also the World Congresses against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents, the Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development and the World Education Forum 2015, held in Incheon, Republic of Korea, from 19 to 22 May 2015,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Ethnic minorities
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto: situation of women and girls with disabilities 2017, para. 18

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Also calls upon States to accelerate efforts to scale up scientifically accurate age-appropriate comprehensive education that provides adolescent girls and young women with disabilities, in and out of school, in a manner consistent with their evolving capacities, with appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians, with information in accessible and alternative communication formats on sexual and reproductive health, gender equality and women’s empowerment, human rights, physical, psychological and pubertal development and power in relationships between women and men, to enable them to build self-esteem and informed decision-making, communication and risk reduction skills and develop respectful relationships, in full partnership with young people, parents, legal guardians, caregivers, educators and health-care providers;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
  • Youth
Year
2017
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of the child 2005, para. 20f

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[Calls upon all States:] To enable children, including adolescents, to exercise their right to express their views freely, the views of the child being given due weight in accordance with age and maturity of the child;
Body
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Year
2005
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of the child 2005, para. 20b

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[Calls upon all States:] To design and implement programmes to provide social services and support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular to enable them to continue and complete their education;
Body
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Infants
Year
2005
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of the child 2004, para. 17d

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[Calls upon all States:] To promote an educational setting that eliminates all barriers that impede the schooling of pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers;
Body
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Infants
Year
2004
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of the child 2004, para. 17c

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[Calls upon all States:] To design and implement programmes to provide social services and support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular to enable them to continue and complete their education;
Body
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Infants
Year
2004
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of the child 2004, para. 15

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Calls upon all States to take all appropriate measures to develop sustainable health systems and social services and to ensure access to such systems and services without discrimination, and to pay particular attention to adequate food and nutrition to prevent disease and malnutrition, to prenatal and post natal health care, to special needs of adolescents, to reproductive and sexual health and to threats from substance abuse and violence, in particular to all vulnerable groups, and calls upon all States parties to take all necessary measures to ensure the right of all children, without discrimination, to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health in accordance with article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the World Health Organization's definition of health;
Body
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Year
2004
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 35

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Stresses the importance of Governments in ensuring that young men and women have access to information and education, including peer education and youth-specific HIV prevention education, including comprehensive evidence-based education for human sexuality, based on full and accurate information, for all adolescents and youth, in a manner consistent with their evolving capacities, with the appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians, with the involvement of children, adolescents, youth, communities, educators and health-care providers, that builds informed decision-making, communication and risk reduction skills, develops self-esteem and promotes respectful relationships, as well as services necessary for behaviour change, so as to enable them to develop the life skills required to reduce their vulnerability to HIV infections and reproductive ill health;
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
  • Youth
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 31

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Stresses the importance of Governments, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and other United Nations specialized agencies, funds and programmes developing and implementing strategies to improve infant HIV diagnosis, including through access to diagnostics at point of care, significantly increasing and improving access to treatment for children and adolescents living with HIV, including access to prophylaxis and treatments for opportunistic infections, and promoting a smooth transition from paediatric to adult treatment and related support and services, while taking into account the need to put in place programmes focused on delivering services to HIV-negative children born to women living with HIV, as they are still at high risk of morbidity and mortality;
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Infants
  • Women
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 11

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Urges Governments to strengthen initiatives that would increase the capacities of women and adolescent girls to protect themselves from HIV infection, principally through the provision of health-care services, including for sexual and reproductive health, and that integrate HIV prevention, treatment, care and support and include voluntary counselling and testing, including through effective HIV prevention education that takes into account the epidemiological and national context, while also recognizing the importance of reducing risk-taking behaviour, and encouraging responsible sexual behaviour, including abstinence and fidelity, correct and consistent use of condoms and equality between men and women within a culturally and gender-sensitive framework;
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 9

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Emphasizes the significance of maternity, motherhood and the role of parents in the family and in the upbringing of children and that the upbringing of children requires the shared responsibility of parents, legal guardians, women and men, and society as a whole, and recognizes the need for age-appropriate, evidence-based and comprehensive sex education in order to help prepare young people to deal positively and responsibly with their sexuality and to navigate issues such as marriage, childbearing, sexually transmitted infections and HIV, and complications of pregnancy and childbirth, in particular the high risk connected to early sexual relations, early pregnancy and early childbearing, as well as the need to improve the referral and access of adolescents to quality, comprehensive, integrated, accessible and youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health-care services, including family planning;
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Men
  • Women
  • Youth
Year
2012
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 11

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Expressing concern that each year approximately 15 million to 20 million women of childbearing age worldwide, including adolescent girls, suffer from often preventable maternal morbidity, disabilities, injuries and illnesses connected with pregnancy and childbirth, including as a result of early pregnancy, early childbearing and other high-risk conditions, such as uterine prolapse, obstetric fistulas, stress incontinence, hypertension, haemorrhoids, perineal tears, urinary tract infections and severe anaemia, and that, as a result of these conditions, women suffer serious physical, economic, psychological and social consequences that affect their well-being,
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2012
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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