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The right to mental health 2017, para. 93b
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- [To ensure that social and underlying determinants for the promotion of mental health for all are addressed, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Take immediate action to develop public policies which, in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals, address mental health and holistic development in early childhood and adolescence, prioritizing promotion and psychosocial interventions;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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SRSG on violence against children: Annual report 2014, para. 131
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- The Special Representative will continue to mobilize support to consolidate these important efforts and will address priority areas of concern. They include violence against children as a distinct concern in the global development agenda, prevention of violence in early childhood, and protection of children and adolescents affected by community and armed violence and organized crime.
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- Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children
- Document type
- SRSG report
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Integrating non-discrimination and equality into the post-2015 development agenda for water, sanitation and hygiene 2012, para. 76c (vii)
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- [Against this background, the Special Rapporteur recommends the following:] Recommendations regarding data sources and methodology: Targets and indicators should be crafted to ensure that women and adolescent girls can manage menstruation hygienically and with dignity, including by specific questions in relevant household surveys about adequate menstrual hygiene management.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Joint report with SRSG Violence against Children on child-sensitive complaint mechanisms 2011, para. 104
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- Important international and regional human rights standards provide a sound framework for the development of strong, safe and effective counselling, reporting and complaint mechanisms to address incidents of violence against children. As agreed upon at the Third World Congress against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents, these mechanisms should be set up in all countries by 2013.
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- Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Impact of the criminalization of migration on the protection and enjoyment of human rights 2010, para. 81
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- The detention of children and adolescents through border control measures, such as interception at sea, should be addressed through a child protection approach. Similarly, migration authorities responsible for the mistreatment of children should be held fully accountable.
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Impact of the criminalization of migration on the protection and enjoyment of human rights 2010, para. 77c
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- [States are particularly encouraged to:] Consider creating regularization options for persons who may not fall under the international refugee regime but who may need to have their human rights protected and consider granting legal residence to children and adolescent victims of abuse and exploitation as a durable solution, in line with the best interests of the child;
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- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 114c
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- [In connection to substance use and drug control, the Special Rapporteur recommends that Governments:] Use the right to health framework to pursue strategies to prevent drug use among adolescents through evidence-based interventions as well as accurate and objective educational programmes and information campaigns.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 114a
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- [In connection to substance use and drug control, the Special Rapporteur recommends that Governments:] Close without delay all drug detention centres for adolescents, ensure the provision of prevention, harm reduction and dependence treatment services, without discrimination, and allocate a budget sufficient for the progressive realization of the right to health;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 113c
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- [In connection to sexual and reproductive health rights, the Special Rapporteur recommends that Governments:] Ensure that sexual and reproductive health services are welcoming, adolescent-friendly, non-judgemental and guarantee privacy and confidentiality;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 113a
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- [In connection to sexual and reproductive health rights, the Special Rapporteur recommends that Governments:] In line with target 5.6 of the Sustainable Development Goals, adopt or integrate a comprehensive sexual and reproductive health policy for all adolescents into national strategies and programmes in order to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 112d
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- [In connection to mental health, the Special Rapporteur recommends that Governments:] Ensure independent monitoring of mental health facilities providing services for adolescents with mental health conditions, including psychosocial and intellectual disabilities, so that standards set by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities are progressively implemented.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 112b
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- [In connection to mental health, the Special Rapporteur recommends that Governments:] Develop a system of adolescent mental health services that is mainstreamed into the community-based infrastructure of health, education and social welfare sectors;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 112a
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- [In connection to mental health, the Special Rapporteur recommends that Governments:] In line with target 3.4 of the Sustainable Development Goals, formulate and implement a national adolescent mental health policy enabling the development of a spectrum of preventive and curatives services, in consultation with adolescents, that is sensitive to their rights and needs;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 111k
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- [In this connection, the Special Rapporteur recommends that Governments:] Take the measures necessary to support families, including through training and services, to increase the abilities of parents to raise children and adolescents in a competent and confident manner and reinforce skills to manage situations in a non-violent way;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Families
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 111j
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- [In this connection, the Special Rapporteur recommends that Governments:] Protect adolescents from violence and neglect, including in family settings, by, inter alia, upholding their right to confidential services and counselling without parental consent;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Families
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 111i
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- [In this connection, the Special Rapporteur recommends that Governments:] Protect from interference and harm by non-State actors and third parties, including private service providers, by ensuring that they do not compromise the availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of health-care and other relevant services, facilities and goods for adolescents;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 111g
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- [In this connection, the Special Rapporteur recommends that Governments:] Ensure that adolescents' health-care and other service providers, including social workers and educators, do not obstruct access to health facilities, goods and services by addressing discriminatory and stigmatizing attitudes and behaviours through information and awareness-raising campaigns;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 111f
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- [In this connection, the Special Rapporteur recommends that Governments:] Ensure that health services are delivered in such a way as to respect adolescents' rights to privacy and confidentiality, address their different cultural needs and expectations and comply with ethical standards;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 111e
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- [In this connection, the Special Rapporteur recommends that Governments:] Guarantee that health systems are responsive to the whole spectrum of health and psychosocial needs of adolescents, and ensure an integrated, multisectoral approach across social, child protective and education sectors;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 111d
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- [In this connection, the Special Rapporteur recommends that Governments:] Adopt a human rights framework for adolescent health, ensuring that health plans and strategies prioritize a holistic approach addressing underlying and social determinants and balancing curative service provision with investment in the resilience and autonomy of adolescents;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 111c
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- [In this connection, the Special Rapporteur recommends that Governments:] Ensure the quality and timely collection of appropriately disaggregated data to inform public policy, and make the reality and needs of adolescents visible;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 111b
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- [In this connection, the Special Rapporteur recommends that Governments:] Remove all legal barriers to health facilities, goods and services, such as consent laws that unduly infringe upon the rights of adolescents to be heard and to be taken seriously and, ultimately, upon their right to make autonomous decisions;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 111a
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- [In this connection, the Special Rapporteur recommends that Governments:] Meet their core obligation to recognize adolescents as rights holders by respecting their evolving capacities and their right to participate in the design, delivery and evaluation of all policies and services affecting their health and well-being;
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 110
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- The Special Rapporteur would like to link his recommendations with the global call to double investment in adolescence as a major precondition of successfully attaining the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 109
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- Policies and services supporting families are a very important part of the efforts by States to ensure that adolescents thrive and grow up as healthy and responsible adults. These policies should respect and protect the human rights of all individual members of family and should exclude measures that undermine the rights of individual members of the family, including adolescents.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Families
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Right to health of adolescents 2016, para. 106
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- Investing in the right to health of adolescents offers huge potential to capitalize on positive investments in early years, while providing the opportunity to ameliorate the impact of negative early experiences and building resilience to mitigate future harm.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Report of the SR on the right to health and Agenda 2030 2016, para. 103s
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- [As a matter of priority, the Special Rapporteur recommends that:] Member States comply with obligations under the right-to-health framework to address violence, using modern public health interventions, especially regarding children and adolescents, and to that end, adopt legal and policy measures to eliminate all forms of violence against children;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Activities of the Working Group 2014, para. 56
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- The Working Group emphasizes the need for philosophical and legal changes to juvenile justice systems, which currently maximize penalties and lead to the increased entry of juveniles into the adult criminal justice system, thereby resulting in the institutionalization of young people of African descent, instead of using alternative methods and solutions.
- Body
- Working Group of experts on people of African descent
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Youth
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women and health 1999, para. 31b
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- [States parties should also, in particular:] Ensure the removal of all barriers to women's access to health services, education and information, including in the area of sexual and reproductive health, and, in particular, allocate resources for programmes directed at adolescents for the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS;
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- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Document type
- General Comment / Recommendation
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Women
- Year
- 1999
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Comprehensive child protection systems 2011, para. 86
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- In the Rio de Janeiro Declaration and Call for Action to Prevent and Stop Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents it was recommended that a comprehensive framework be established by 2013 to harmonize and facilitate coordination and cooperation at the national, regional and international levels among all relevant stakeholders, including child-led organizations, to enable and support concrete actions to prevent and stop the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents.
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- Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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