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Contribution to the implementation of the joint commitment to effectively addressing and countering the world drug problem with regards to human rights, para. 24

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4. Calls upon States to mainstream a gender perspective into and ensure the involvement of women in all stages of the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of drug policies and programmes, and to develop and disseminate gender-sensitive and age-appropriate measures that take into account the specific needs and circumstances faced by women and girls with regard to the world drug problem, bearing in mind that targeted interventions that are based on the collection and analysis of data, including age- and gender-related data, can be particularly effective in meeting the specific needs of drug-affected populations and communities;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2018
Date added
Sep 17, 2019
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, para. 63

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40. Expresses deep concern for the more than 6 million internally displaced persons and 5 million refugees in the region fleeing the violence in the Syrian Arab Republic, welcomes the efforts of neighbouring countries to host Syrian refugees, acknowledges the socioeconomic consequences of the presence of large-scale refugee populations in those countries, and urges the international community to provide urgent financial support to enable the host countries to respond to the growing humanitarian needs of Syrian refugees, including the particular needs of women and girls, while emphasizing the principle of burden-sharing;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2018
Date added
Sep 17, 2019
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, para. 32

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12. Strongly condemns all acts of sexual violence, including rape, which have disproportionately affected women and girls throughout the conflict in the Syrian Arab
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Humanitarian
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2018
Date added
Sep 17, 2019
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Equality and non-discrimination of persons disabilitiesand the right of persons with disabilities to access to justice, para. 44

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6. Also urges States to take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination on the basis of gender and/or impairment by any person, organization or private enterprise, ensuring access to justice and accountability mechanisms and remedies for the effective implementation and enforcement of laws aimed at preventing and eliminating discrimination and violence against women and girls with disabilities;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
Year
2018
Date added
Sep 17, 2019
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Equality and non-discrimination of persons disabilitiesand the right of persons with disabilities to access to justice, para. 43

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5. Urges States to take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women and girls with disabilities and to promote gender equality in order to ensure the equal enjoyment of their rights, in particular to equality and non-discrimination and access to justice on an equal basis with others;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
Year
2018
Date added
Sep 17, 2019
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Equality and non-discrimination of persons disabilitiesand the right of persons with disabilities to access to justice, para. 33

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4 (e) Taking all appropriate measures to eliminate all situations of gender-based discrimination against women and girls with disabilities of all ages, who face an increased vulnerability to violence, abuse, discrimination and negative stereotyping;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • 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. 50

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26(d) Mainstream prevention of and protection from sexual exploitation and abuse, child, early and forced marriage, female genital mutilation and violence against children, including sexual and gender-based violence, into emergency and humanitarian responses, and address the underlying factors that make children, especially girls, particularly vulnerable to these practices;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
  • Humanitarian
  • Violence
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. 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;
Body
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. 27

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9. Strongly condemns the recruitment and use of children in violation of applicable international law, and calls upon States to take all feasible measures to implement effective measures for the rehabilitation and physical and psychological recovery of those who have been so recruited or used and for their reintegration into society, in particular through educational measures, taking into account the rights and specific needs of girls;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
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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Question of realization in all countries or economic, social and cultural rights, para. 29

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15. Recognizes that the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets seek to, inter alia, realize the human rights of all and to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and that they are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development, namely the economic, social and environmental, calls upon States to implement the 2030 Agenda consistent with the principles of equality and non-discrimination, and in this regard encourages States to consider appropriate measures to promote de facto equality;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Environment
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2018
Date added
Sep 17, 2019
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The right to food, para. 36

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7. Encourages all States to mainstream a gender perspective in food security programmes and to take action to address de jure and de facto gender inequality and discrimination against women, in particular where such inequality and discrimination contribute to the malnutrition of women and girls, including by taking measures to ensure the full and equal realization of the right to food and ensuring that women and girls have equal access to social protection and resources, including income, land and water, and their ownership, and full and equal access to health care, education, science and technology, to enable them to feed themselves and their families, and in this regard stresses the need to empower women and to strengthen their role in decision-making;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2018
Date added
Sep 17, 2019
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The right to food, para. 35

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6. Expresses its great concern that, while women contribute more than 50 per cent of the food produced worldwide, they also account for 70 per cent of the world’s hungry, that women and girls are disproportionately affected by hunger, food insecurity and poverty, in part as a result of gender inequality and discrimination, that in many countries girls are twice as likely as boys to die from malnutrition and preventable childhood diseases, and that it is estimated that almost twice as many women as men suffer from malnutrition;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2018
Date added
Sep 17, 2019
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Human rights and the environment, para. 33

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7 (h) To apply a gender perspective by, inter alia, considering the particular situation of women and girls and identifying gender-specific discrimination and vulnerabilities, and addressing good practices where women and girls act as agents of change in safeguarding and managing sustainably the environment;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Environment
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2018
Date added
Sep 17, 2019
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Mandate of the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism, para. 21

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4. Requests the Independent Expert to integrate a gender perspective throughout the work of the mandate and to pay specific attention to the challenges and needs of women and girls in order to address the multiple, intersecting and aggravated forms of discrimination faced by women and girls with albinism;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
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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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2016, para. 5

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Further calls upon all governments to ensure a just and equitable world for women and girls, including through partnering with men and boys, as an important strategy for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls;
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2011, para. 23

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Welcomes the decision of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to scale up a gender-sensitive response to HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in order to address the vulnerabilities of women and girls to HIV infection;
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2011
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Ending female genital mutilation 2010, para. 14

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Further urges States to develop social and psychological support services and care and to take measures to improve health, including sexual and reproductive health, in order to assist women and girls who are subjected to female genital mutilation;
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2010
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2010, para. 23

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Welcomes the decision of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to scale up a gender-sensitive response to HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in order to address the vulnerabilities of women and girls to HIV infection;
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2010
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2009, para. 24

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Welcomes the decision of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to scale up a gender-sensitive response to HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in order to address the vulnerabilities of women and girls to HIV infection;
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2009
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2008, para. 23

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Welcomes the decision of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to scale up a gender-sensitive response to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in order to address the vulnerabilities of women and girls to HIV infection;
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2008
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Forced marriage of the girl child 2007, para. 6b

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[Invites non-governmental organizations and other civil society actors:] (b) To continue to increase coordination and cooperation in addressing forced marriage of the girl child, and to present their observations and conclusions to Governments;
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
Year
2007
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;
Body
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 2005, para. 2

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Also stresses that gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are fundamental elements in the reduction of their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, and emphasizes that the advancement of women and girls is key to reversing the pandemic;
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2005
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2004, para. 11

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Emphasizes the need for the rapid scaling up of programmes for treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV and to encourage men to participate with women in programmes designed to prevent mother-to-child transmission;
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2004
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2004, para. 2

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Stresses also that gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are fundamental elements in the reduction of their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, and emphasizes that the advancement of women and girls is key to reversing the pandemic;
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2004
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2003, para. 1

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Stresses that gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are fundamental elements in the reduction of their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, and emphasizes that the advancement of women and girls is key to reversing the pandemic;
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2003
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2000, para. 9

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Encourages Governments to recognize the challenges facing girls and women, particularly older women, who are primary caregivers for people living with HIV/AIDS, and to provide them with the necessary economic and psychosocial support;
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Older persons
  • Women
Year
2000
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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