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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 61
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- 30. Decides to continue its consideration of the question of the rights of the child in accordance with its programme of work and its resolutions 7/29 of 28 March 2008 and 19/37 of 23 March 2012, and to focus its next annual full-day meeting on the theme “Empowering children with disabilities for the enjoyment of their human rights, including through inclusive education”, and requests the High Commissioner to prepare a report on
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 54
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- 26(h) Create quality and meaningful child-friendly and gender-sensitive spaces to provide nurturing environments where children have access to play, recreation, leisure and
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 52
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- 26(f) Provide age-appropriate and gender-sensitive mental health and psychosocial support tailored to children in the context of humanitarian situations, based on respect for human rights and for their dignity, integrity and autonomy, to prevent and address distress, fear and trauma and to help to build their resilience; in particular, where a child has been a victim of violence or exploitation or has acquired an injury or disability, adopt durable solutions to ensure that the child has access to long-term care and protection, including health care, psychosocial support, social services and education, including human rights education, vocational training and life skills education;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 48
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- 26(b) Promote child-centred innovation, empowering children to be agents of positive change and building their resilience through the development of innovative child-centred participatory approaches, encourage children to be involved in their own protection, and support them in developing self-protective skills;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 47
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- 26(a) Conduct child-inclusive planning and assess child protection needs and vulnerabilities when making age-, disability- and gender-sensitive provisions for emergency preparedness, humanitarian response and assistance;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 45
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- 25. Calls upon States to promote the meaningful participation of and active consultation with children and adolescents affected by humanitarian situations on all issues affecting them, and to raise awareness about their rights through safe spaces, forums and support networks that provide children with information, life skills and leadership skills training and opportunities to be empowered, to express themselves and to participate meaningfully, consistent with their evolving capacities, during and after an emergency;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 44
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- 24. Encourages States, local authorities, the United Nations system, regional organizations and civil society, and invites donors and other assisting countries, to address the vulnerabilities and capacities of children, particularly girls, through gender-responsive programming, including with regard to sexual and reproductive health and the means to prevent and respond to sexual and gender-based violence, various forms of exploitation and neglect, and harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage, during emergencies and in post-disaster environments, and through the allocation of resources in their disaster risk reduction, response and recovery efforts, in coordination with the Governments of affected countries;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 41
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- 21. Calls upon States to respect, protect and fulfil the right of all children to education, including through increased emphasis on inclusive and quality education, and to promote school enrolment and retention among girls and children in vulnerable situations, such as children with disabilities, including in secondary school;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 40
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- 20. Urges States, in accordance with their obligations under relevant provisions of international human rights law, including the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, to promote the availability, quality, accessibility and acceptability of health-care services;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 38
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- 18. Calls upon States to ensure that all decision-making and assessments regarding children in the context of humanitarian situations are age-, gender- and disability-sensitive, and that civil registration and vital statistics are an integral part of humanitarian assessments;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 37
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- 17. Urges States, with the collaboration of relevant stakeholders and considering their obligation to ensure to the maximum extent possible the survival and development of the child, to take all measures necessary to ensure that no child is denied access to humanitarian assistance and to meet the needs of children in the context of humanitarian situations, including protection from all forms of violence, exploitation and abuse, including sexual and gender-based violence, the provision of safe drinking water and sanitation, food, shelter and health-care services, including with regard to immunization, nutrition, mental and psychological support and sexual and reproductive health-care services, rehabilitation and education;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 23
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- 5. Urges States to provide age-, disability- and gender-sensitive humanitarian assistance, including specialized child protection services, to children in the context of humanitarian situations, including refugee and displaced children, that takes into account the particular vulnerabilities and specific protection needs of children, including those who have been forced to flee violence, who have suffered persecution, who are the primary caregivers of families, who have disabilities or who are unaccompanied or separated;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 19
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- 2. Calls upon States to take all measures necessary to ensure the enjoyment by children of all their human rights, without discrimination of any kind, including in the context of humanitarian situations;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Promoting human rights through sport and the Olympic ideal, para. 42
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- 4. Invites States and national, regional and international sports organizations to, where appropriate, implement new or strengthen existing programmes that provide more opportunities and facilitate barrier-free access to sport for all, in particular for children and youth, persons with disabilities, and women and girls, and substantially increase opportunities for women’s participation and leadership in all areas of sport, and in this
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2018
- Date added
- Sep 17, 2019
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Preventing and eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace 2017, para. 2c
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- [Encourages Member States to:] Take measures to educate children from a young age regarding the importance of treating all people with dignity and respect and that sexual harassment is an abuse of human rights and offends the dignity of all persons;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of the child 2002, para. 12e
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- [Reaffirming paragraph 15 of its resolution 2000/85,] [Calls upon all States:] To take all appropriate measures, especially educational measures, to further promote the responsibility of both parents in the education, development and raising of children;
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- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Year
- 2002
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2006, para. 40
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- Recommends that the 2006 follow-up meeting take measures to ensure the inclusion of gender-equality perspectives throughout its deliberations and that it pay attention to the situation of women and girls infected and affected by HIV/AIDS;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2000, para. 3
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- Urges Governments to take all necessary measures to strengthen women's economic independence and to protect and promote their human rights and fundamental freedoms in order to allow them to better protect themselves from HIV infection;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2000
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 1999, para. 3
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- Urges Governments to take all necessary measures to strengthen women's economic independence, to protect and promote their human rights and fundamental freedoms in order to allow them to better protect themselves from HIV infection;
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- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 1999
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality 2016, para. 19
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- Stresses that the arbitrary deprivation of nationality places children in a situation of increased vulnerability to human rights violations;
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The right to a nationality: Women and children 2012, para. 7
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- Also urges States to grant nationality to foundlings found in their territory in the absence of proof that the foundling is not a national of the State where found;
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The girl child 2015, para. 34
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- Calls upon all States to integrate food and nutritional support with the goal that children, especially girl children, have access at all times to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food requirements for an active and healthy life;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 2013, para. 47
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- Calls upon all States to protect, in law and in practice, the inheritance and property rights of orphans, paying particular attention to underlying gender-based discrimination, which may interfere with the fulfilment of these rights;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 2012, para. 9
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- Recalls the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, contained in the annex to its resolution 64/142 of 18 December 2009, as a set of orientations to help to inform policy and practice, and encourages States to take them into account;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 2012, para. 7
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- Reaffirms paragraphs 9 to 11 of its resolution 63/241 of 24 December 2008, and calls upon States to ensure the enjoyment by all children of all their civil, political, cultural, economic and social rights without discrimination of any kind;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 2011, para. 7
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- Reaffirms paragraphs 9 to 11 of its resolution 63/241 of 24 December 2008, and calls upon States to ensure the enjoyment by all children of all their civil, political, cultural, economic and social rights without discrimination of any kind;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 2010, para. 9
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- Welcomes the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, contained in the annex to its resolution 64/142 of 18 December 2009, as a set of orientations to help to inform policy and practice, and encourages States to take them into account;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 2009, para. 33f
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- [Calls upon all States:] To ensure that funding for the participation of children is considered in resource allocation and that policies and programmes to facilitate the participation of children are institutionalized and fully implemented;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2009
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 2009, para. 32
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- Recognizes that the full enjoyment of the right of the child to be heard and to participate requires adults to adopt an appropriate child-centred attitude, listening to children and respecting their rights and individual points of view;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2009
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights of the child 2004, para. 21e
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- [Also calls upon all States:] To harness the rapidly evolving information and communication technologies to support education at an affordable cost, including open and distance education, while reducing inequality in access and quality;
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Children
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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