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

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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
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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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Adolescents and youth 2012, para. 35

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Underlines the central role of the global partnership for development and the importance of goal 8 in achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and recognizes that without substantial international support, several of the goals are likely to be missed in many developing countries;
Body
Commission on Population and Development
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Youth
Year
2012
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Adolescents and youth 2012, para. 2

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Also reaffirms its strong commitment to the full implementation of the Programme of Action and the key actions for its further implementation agreed at the five-year review of the Programme of Action, and the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and its Programme of Action;
Body
Commission on Population and Development
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Youth
Year
2012
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Elimination of violence against women 2005, para. 13

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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
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Refugee Children and Adolescents 1997, para. (e)

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Calls upon all States to participate constructively in the negotiations on an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts with the aim of an early agreement on the text.
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Year
1997
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Refugee Children and Adolescents 1997, para. (b) v

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[Urges States and concerned parties to take all possible measures to protect child and adolescent refugees, inter alia, by:] ensuring access to education, and the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience and religion;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Year
1997
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Refugee Children 1989, para. (g)

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Requested the High Commissioner to continue to give special attention to the needs of unaccompanied minors and inform the Executive Committee at its next session of the details of existing programmes and any difficulties encountered in their implementation;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Year
1989
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of the child: Omnibus resolution 2012, para. 1

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

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

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[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
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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
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Rights of the child 2016, para. 83

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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
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Child, early and forced marriage 2016, para. 8

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  • Child, early and forced marriage
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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
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The rights of the child 2009, para. 17

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

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

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

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

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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
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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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Elimination of violence against women 2005, para. 10

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Urges Governments to strengthen initiatives that would increase the capacities of women and adolescent girls to protect themselves from the risk of HIV infection, principally through the provision of health care and health services, including for sexual and reproductive health, and through prevention education and campaigns that promote gender equality within a culturally and gender sensitive framework, taking into account the recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur;
Body
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2005
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Elimination of violence against women 2004, para. 10

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Urges Governments to strengthen initiatives that would increase the capacities of women and adolescent girls to protect themselves from the risk of HIV infection, principally through the provision of health care and health services, including for sexual and reproductive health, and through prevention education that promotes gender equality within a culturally and gender sensitive framework;
Body
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2004
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Children At Risk 2007, para. (c) ii

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Calls on States, UNHCR and other relevant agencies and partners to put in place modalities, as appropriate, for early and continuous identification of children at heightened risk. Risk factors that put children in a situation of heightened risk can include both risks in the wider protection environment and risks resulting from individual circumstances, taking into account the cumulative effects of being exposed to several risk factors, such as:] Individual risk factors, including, but not limited to: unaccompanied and separated children, particularly those in child-headed households as well as those accompanied by abusive or exploitative adults; stateless children; adolescents, in particular girl mothers and their children; child victims of trafficking and sexual abuse, including pornography, pedophilia and prostitution; survivors of torture; survivors of violence, in particular sexual and gender-based violence and other forms of abuse and exploitation; children who get married under the age specified in national laws and/or children in forced marriages; children who are or have been associated with armed forces or groups; children in detention; children who suffer from social discrimination; children with mental or physical disabilities; children living with or affected by HIV and AIDS and children suffering from other serious diseases; and children out of school;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2007
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Protection Safeguards in Interception Measures 2003, para. (b)

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Encourages States to generate and share more detailed information on interception, including numbers, nationalities, gender and numbers of minors intercepted, as well as information on State practice, having due consideration for security and data protection concerns subject to the domestic laws and international obligations of those States;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
Year
2003
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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