Plan International - Girls' Rights Platform - Girls' rights are human rights: Positioning girls at the heart of the international agenda

Plan International - Girls' Rights Platform - Girls' rights are human rights: Positioning girls at the heart of the international agenda

      • About the Platform
      • About the Database
      • Database Help Centre
      • Enter the Database
      • Explore Paragraphs Mentioning Girls
      • Read Full-Length Documents
      • My Saved Paragraphs
    • Advocacy Tools
    • Contact
    • English
    • Français
    • Español
    • Database
    • Sign in
Search Tips
sorted by
  • Title
  • Date added
  • Date modified
  • Legal status
  • Body
  • Document type
  • Means of adoption
  • Field Year
  • Paragraph type
Cards viewTable viewMap view
30 shown of 393 entities

Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 45

Paragraph text
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
Paragraph
View

A world fit for children 2002, para. 40.1

Paragraph text
[To achieve these goals and targets, we will implement the following strategies and actions:] Develop and implement special strategies to ensure that schooling is readily accessible to all children and adolescents, and that basic education is affordable for all families.
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
Year
2002
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings 2017, para. 6

Paragraph text
Calls upon States to promote and protect the right of women and girls to equal access to education through enhanced emphasis on free and quality primary and secondary education, including catch-up and literacy education for those who have not received formal education or have left school early, including because of marriage and/or childbearing, which empowers young women and girls to make informed decisions about their lives, employment, economic opportunities and health, including through scientifically accurate, age-appropriate comprehensive education, relevant to cultural contexts, that provides adolescent girls and boys and young women and men, in and out of school, consistent with their evolving capacities, with information on sexual and reproductive health, gender equality and the empowerment of women, 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 to develop respectful relationships, in full partnership with young persons, parents, legal guardians, caregivers, educators and health-care providers, in order to contribute to ending child, early and forced marriage;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
  • Youth
Year
2017
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Key actions for the further implementation of the Programme of Action of the of the International Conference on Population and Development 1999, para. 73f

Paragraph text
[73. Governments, with the full involvement of young people and with the support of the international community, should, as a priority, make every effort to implement the Programme of Action in regard to adolescent sexual and reproductive health, in accordance with paragraphs 7.45 and 7.46 of the Programme of Action, and should:] (f) Countries should ensure that programmes and attitudes of health-care providers do not restrict the access of adolescents to appropriate services and the information they need, including for the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS and sexual violence and abuse. Countries should, in this context, and in the context of paragraph 73 (e) of the present document, where appropriate, remove legal, regulatory and social barriers to reproductive health information and care for adolescents.
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Declaration / Confererence outcome document
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Youth
Year
1999
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Migrant children and adolescents 2014, para. 9

Paragraph text
Encouraging States to adopt alternatives to detention that take into account the best interests of the child, as a primary consideration, and respect the human rights of migrant children, including adolescents,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

The rights of the child 2002, para. 5

Paragraph text
Welcoming the outcome of the special session of the General Assembly on children and the firm commitments contained therein to promote and protect the rights of each child — every human being below the age of 18 years, including adolescents,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Year
2002
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Traffic in women and girls 1995, para. 9

Paragraph text
Aware of the decision of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in its resolution 3/2 of 6 May 1994 to consider the international traffic in minors at its fourth session in the context of its discussions on the question of organized transnational crime,
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
1995
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Elimination of violence against women 2005, para. 13

Paragraph text
Urges Governments to design and implement programmes to encourage and enable men and adolescent boys to adopt safe, informed and responsible sexual and reproductive behaviour, and to use effectively methods to prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS;
Body
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2005
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 1994, para. 7.44b

Paragraph text
[The objectives are:] To substantially reduce all adolescent pregnancies.
Body
International Conference on Population and Development
Document type
Declaration / Confererence outcome document
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
Year
1994
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 267

Paragraph text
The International Conference on Population and Development recognized, in paragraph 7.3 of the Programme of Action, that "full attention should be given to the promotion of mutually respectful and equitable gender relations and particularly to meeting the educational and service needs of adolescents to enable them to deal in a positive and responsible way with their sexuality", taking into account the rights of the child to access to information, privacy, confidentiality, respect and informed consent, as well as the responsibilities, rights and duties of parents and legal guardians to provide, in a manner consistent with the evolving capacities of the child, appropriate direction and guidance in the exercise by the child of the rights recognized in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and in conformity with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. In all actions concerning children, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration. Support should be given to integral sexual education for young people with parental support and guidance that stresses the responsibility of males for their own sexuality and fertility and that help them exercise their responsibilities.
Body
Fourth World Conference on Women
Document type
Declaration / Confererence outcome document
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
  • Youth
Year
1995
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2016, para. 8

Paragraph text
Recognizing that children and adolescents are more likely to be lost to care and that those on antiretroviral medication are less likely than adults to reach viral load suppression and that there are many challenges in diagnosing and treating infants, children and adolescents,
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Infants
  • Women
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Traffic in women and girls 1996, para. 6

Paragraph text
Welcoming the decision of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in its resolution 3/2 of 6 May 1994 30/ to consider the international traffic in minors at its fourth session, in the context of its discussion on the question of organized transnational crime,
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
1996
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights 2016, para. 7

Paragraph text
Welcoming the convening of the high-level plenary meeting on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants, held in New York on 19 September 2016,
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Rights of the child: Omnibus resolution 2012, para. 1

Paragraph text
Reaffirms that the general principles of, inter alia, the best interests of the child, non-discrimination, participation and survival and development provide the framework for all actions concerning children, including adolescents;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Year
2012
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 2000, para. 32

Paragraph text
Achievements. Some progress was made in primary and, to a lesser extent, secondary and tertiary education for girls, owing to the creation of a more gender-sensitive school environment, improved educational infrastructure, increased enrolment and retention, support mechanisms for pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, increased non-formal education opportunities and enhanced attendance at science and technology classes. Increased attention was given to the health of the girl child, including the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents. An increasing number of countries introduced legislation to ban female genital mutilation and imposed heavier penalties on those involved in sexual abuse, trafficking and all other forms of exploitation of the girl child, including for commercial ends. A recent achievement has been the adoption of the optional protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on involvement of children in armed conflict and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Declaration / Confererence outcome document
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Gender
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2000
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Rights of the child: Omnibus resolution 2008, para. 23d

Paragraph text
[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 Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Year
2008
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Rights of the child: Omnibus resolution 2008, para. 23b

Paragraph text
[Calls upon all States:] To design and implement programmes to provide social services to and support for pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular to enable them to continue and complete their education;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Infants
Year
2008
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Rights of the child: Omnibus resolution 2008, para. 1

Paragraph text
Reaffirms that the general principles of, inter alia, the best interests of the child, non-discrimination, participation and survival and development provide the framework for all actions concerning children, including adolescents;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Year
2008
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Rights of the child 2016, para. 83

Paragraph text
Also expresses its concern about the high level of impunity enjoyed by traffickers and their accomplices, as well as other members of organized crime entities, and in this context the denial of rights and justice to migrant children, including adolescents, who have suffered from abuse;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Child, early and forced marriage 2016, para. 8

Original document
  • Child, early and forced marriage
Paragraph text
Calls upon States to promote and protect the right of women and girls to equal access to education through enhanced emphasis on free and quality primary and secondary education, including catch-up and literacy education for those who have not received formal education or have left school early, including because of marriage and/or childbearing, which empowers young women and girls to make informed decisions about their lives, employment, economic opportunities and health, including through scientifically accurate, age-appropriate comprehensive education, relevant to cultural contexts, that provides adolescent girls and boys and young women and men, in and out of school, consistent with their evolving capacities, with information on sexual and reproductive health, gender equality and the empowerment of women, 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 to develop respectful relationships, in full partnership with young persons, parents, legal guardians, caregivers, educators and health-care providers, in order to contribute to ending child, early and forced marriage;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
  • Youth
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

The rights of the child 2012, para. 5

Paragraph text
Reaffirming that the general principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, including, inter alia, the best interests of the child, non-discrimination, participation and survival and development, provide the framework for all actions concerning children, including adolescents,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Year
2012
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

The rights of the child 2011, para. 4

Paragraph text
Reaffirming that the general principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, including, inter alia, the best interests of the child, non-discrimination, participation and survival and development, provide the framework for all actions concerning children, including adolescents,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Year
2011
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

The rights of the child 2009, para. 17

Paragraph text
Welcomes the Third World Congress against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 25 to 28 November 2008, and the Rio de Janeiro Declaration and Call for Action to Prevent and Stop 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
2009
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

The rights of the child 1998, para. I.7

Paragraph text
Welcomes the increased attention given by the Committee to the realization of the highest attainable standards of health and access to health care, and also welcomes World Health Assembly resolution WHA51.22 of 16 May 1998 on the health of children and adolescents;
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Year
1998
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

The girl child 2017, para. 20

Paragraph text
Emphasizing that increased and equal access to quality education for young people, especially adolescent girls, including in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, as well as health care, hygiene and sanitation, dramatically lowers their vulnerability to preventable diseases and infections, in particular HIV and other sexually transmitted infections,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Water & Sanitation
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Youth
Year
2017
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights 2017, para. 12

Paragraph text
Invites the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, in accordance with their mandates, to continue to give due consideration to the situation of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and the impact of this issue on the full enjoyment of their human rights, and to continue to report thereon;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Year
2017
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights 2017, para. 10

Paragraph text
Encourages States to take into consideration the present resolution in the development of the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration, and to consider specific measures to strengthen the rights of migrant children and adolescents, paying particular attention to the specific needs of unaccompanied and separated migrant children;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Year
2017
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights 2017, para. 17

Paragraph text
Recognizing that, for the full and harmonious development of a child’s personality, he or she should grow up in a family environment and in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding, and, therefore, that States of origin, destination and, where appropriate, transit should, as applicable under national law, facilitate family reunification as an important objective in order to promote the welfare and the best interests of migrant children, including adolescents,
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Movement
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Persons on the move
Year
2017
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights 2017, para. 8

Paragraph text
Taking note with appreciation of the work of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, especially the reports in which the mandate holder addressed the human rights of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents, in particular his report on the human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility, presented to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-fifth session,
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Year
2017
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

Elimination of discrimination against women and girls 2017, para. 12

Paragraph text
Urges States to ensure the promotion, protection and the fulfilment of all human rights and the full and effective implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the outcome documents of their review conferences and of sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights in this context, and to promote, protect and fulfil the right of all women to have full control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality and sexual and reproductive health, free from discrimination, coercion and violence, including through the removal of legal barriers and the development and enforcement of policies, good practices and legal frameworks that respect the right to decide autonomously in matters regarding their own lives and health, including their bodies, and to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health, services, information and education, including for family planning, safe and effective methods of modern contraception, emergency contraception, prevention programmes for adolescent pregnancy, maternal health care, such as skilled birth attendance and emergency obstetric care, safe abortion where not against national law and the prevention and treatment of reproductive tract infections, sexually transmitted infections, HIV and reproductive cancers and the integration of sexual and reproductive health into national strategies and programmes;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Women
Year
2017
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
View

30 shown of 393 entities

30 more 300 more
  • Uwazi is developed by Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems

    uwazi
  •  
  • Plan International - Girls' Rights Platform - Girls' rights are human rights: Positioning girls at the heart of the international agenda
  •  
  • Database
  • Admin Login
Filters
    •  0
    •  393
  • Legal status
  • Body
  • Document type
  • Means of adoption
  • Topic(s)
    ANDOR
  • Person(s) affected
    ANDOR
  • From:
    To:
  • Paragraph type

Search text

Type something in the search box to get some results.

    Table of contents

     

    No Table of Contents

    Table of Contents allows users to navigate easier throught the document.

      No References

      References are parts of this document related with other documents and entities.

      No Relationships

      Relationships are bonds between entities.

      0 selected
        Upload a ZIP or CSV file. Import instructions