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Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas (2010), para. 45
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- 9. Invites Governments, relevant international organizations and the specialized agencies to continue to observe the International Day of Rural Women annually, on 15 October, as proclaimed in its resolution 62/136;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of discrimination against women (2012), para. 05
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- Recalling also Commission on Human Rights resolutions 2000/13 of 17 April 2000, 2001/34 of 23 April 2001 and 2003/22 of 22 April 2003, and Human Rights Council resolutions 6/30 of 14 December 2007, on integrating the human rights of women throughout the United Nations system, and 12/17 of 2 October 2009 and 15/23 of 1 October 2010, on the elimination of discrimination against women,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Scope, modalities, format and organization of the high-level meeting on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women (2019), para. 20
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- 11. Encourages Member States to consider including in their national delegations heads of national mechanisms for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, as appropriate, as well as representatives such as parliamentarians, representatives of civil society and other relevant stakeholders;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in protection (2011), para. 17
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- 5. Underscores that States have the primary responsibility for protecting women and girls facing violence and, in this regard, urges States:
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: efforts to combat human trafficking in supply chains of businesses (2013), para. 43
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- 12. Calls upon all States to continue to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, and to consider responding favourably to the mandate holder’s requests to visit their countries and to provide all necessary information related to the mandate to enable the mandate holder to fulfil the duties of the mandate effectively;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Plans of action for the implementation of the Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century (2002), para. 228
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- (f) Assist Member States, upon request, in utilizing the Model Strategies and Practical Measures on the Elimination of Violence against Women in the Field of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. 12
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (1998), para. 07
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- 1. Welcomes the appointment of the Director of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, and takes note with appreciation of the work done by the previous Acting Director;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation in the fight against transnational organized crime: assistance to States in capacity-building with a view to facilitating the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto (2003), para. 02
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- Recalling its resolution 55/25 of 15 November 2000, by which it adopted the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and its resolution 55/255 of 31 May 2001, by which it adopted the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (2008), para. 06
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- Recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993, 0F 1 in which the Conference reaffirmed that the human rights of women and the girl child were an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal human rights,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2009), para. 08
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- Reaffirming that gender mainstreaming is a globally accepted strategy for promoting the empowerment of women and achieving gender equality by transforming structures of inequality, and reaffirming also the commitment to actively promote the mainstreaming of a gender perspective in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political, economic and social spheres, as well as the commitment to strengthen the capabilities of the United Nations system in the area of gender equality,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2018), para. 39
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- 14. Urges States to strengthen efforts to urgently eradicate all forms of discrimination against women and girls, and calls upon all States, the United Nations system and civil society to take measures to address the obstacles that continue to affect the achievement of the goals set forth in the Beijing Platform for Action, 9 as contained in paragraph 33 of the further actions and initiatives, 22 including reviewing remaining laws that discriminate against women and girls in order to modify or abolish them and, where appropriate, strengthening national mechanis ms to implement inclusive policies and programmes for the girl child and, in some cases, to enhance coordination among responsible institutions for the realization of the human rights of girls, including access to justice, fighting impunity for perpetrator s of and ensuring the availability of appropriate penalties for crimes of sexual violence committed against the girl child, and to mobilize all necessary resources and support in order to achieve those goals;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementing the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and FundamentalFreedoms through providing a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders and ensuring their protection (2020), para. 30
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- 6. Continues to express particular concern about systemic and structural discrimination, violence and harassment faced by women human rights defenders of all ages, including sexual and gender-based violence as well as defamation and smear campaigns, both online and offline, and reiterates its strong call upon States to take appropriate, robust and practical steps to protect women human rights defenders and to integrate a gender perspective into their efforts to create a safe and enabling environment for the defence of human rights;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Development Fund for Women (2002), para. 03
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- Recalling also the Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women, 1 which recognizes the special role of the Fund in the promotion of the empowerment of women and calls upon the Fund to review and strengthen its work programme in the light of the Platform for Action, focusing on the political and economic empowerment of women,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Future operation of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (2004), para. 09
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- 3. Stresses the critical importance of voluntary financial contributions by Member States to the United Nations Trust Fund for the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women to enable it to carry out its mandate;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls (2002), para. 23
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- (a) To ratify or accede to, if they have not yet done so, the relevant human rights treaties, in particular the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 3 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to consider signing and ratifying or acceding to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 21 and to respect and implement fully their obligations under any such treaties to which they are parties;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2008), para. 40
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- 23. Encourages the international community, the United Nations system, the private sector and civil society to continue to provide the necessary financial resources to assist national Governments in their efforts to meet the development targets and benchmarks agreed upon at the World Summit for Social Development, the Fourth World Conference on Women, the International Conference on Population and Development, the Millennium Summit, the International Conference on Financing for Development, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the Second World Assembly on Ageing, the twenty-third and twenty-fourth special sessions of the General Assembly and other relevant United Nations conferences and summits;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Preparations for the special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” (2000), para. 28
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- 19. Recommends that the major portion of the three weeks scheduled for the forty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women in March 2000 be allocated to the Commission acting as the preparatory committee for the special session of the General Assembly.
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2018), para. 16
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- 3. Welcomes the progress made towards the principles of a future democratic federal union during the Twenty-first Century Panglong Conference in May 2017 and the signing by the New Mon State Party and the Lahu Democratic Union of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement on 13 February 2018, bringing the number of signatories to the Agreement to 10, while expressing concern at the violations of the Agreement against signatory groups and the use of the Unlawful Associations Act to arrest members of ethnic and religious minorities on an arbitrary basis, and calls for further steps, including an immediate end to the violence and of all violations and abuses of international human rights law and violations of international humanitarian law, as applicable, in northern Myanmar, the granting of immediate, safe and unhindered humanitarian access, including to areas controlled by ethnic armed groups, in particular in Kachin and Shan States, and enhanced efforts to reach out to those ethnic armed groups that have not yet signed the Agreement, and the pursuit of an inclusive and comprehensive national political dialogue that ensures the full and effective participation of women and young people, as well as civil society, with the objective of achieving lasting peace;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons (2013), para. 25
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- Welcoming also the signing, ratification and accession by a number of Member States in the period from 2010 to 2012 to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, which brings the number of parties to 172, and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, which brings the number of parties to 153,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (2019), para. 35
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- 15. Urges the Venezuelan authorities to adopt appropriate measures to address reported acts of violence and harassment, sexual violence against women and girls in detention in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which includes accounts of physical, sexual and verbal abuse, threats and intimidation, the sexual exploitation of women and girls for food, protection and privileges, and the ill-treatment, torture and denial of rights of women human rights defenders, nurses, teachers and civil servants, women political prisoners and detainees in detention centres;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Organization of the 2008 comprehensive review of the progress achieved in realizing the Declaration ofCommitment on HIV/AIDS and the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS (2008), para. 17
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- 8. Also requests the President of the General Assembly, following appropriate consultations with Member States, to draw up, no later than 31 March 2008, a list of other relevant civil society representatives, in particular associations of people living with HIV, non-governmental organizations, including organizations of women and young people, girls and boys and men, faith-based organizations and the private sector, especially pharmaceutical companies and representatives of labour, including on the basis of the recommendations of the Joint Programme and taking into account the principle of equitable geographical representation, and to submit the list to Member States for consideration on a no-objection basis for a final decision by the Assembly on participation in the high-level meeting, including panel discussions;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2011), para. 40
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- 12. Urges multilateral donors, and invites international financial institutions, within their respective mandates, and regional development banks to review and implement policies to support national efforts to ensure that a higher proportion of resources reaches young women and girls, in particular in rural and remote areas;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Right to work (2017), para. 07
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- Acknowledging the work of the treaty bodies, in particular the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, in relation to the right to work,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Violence against women migrant workers (2010), para. 24
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- 3. Takes note of the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on violence against women, its causes and consequences entitled “Political economy of women’s human rights”, submitted to the Council at its eleventh session, 11F 12 in particular her elaboration in that report of the current issues of the exploitation and violence that women migrants face in the context of the current global economic trends and crises;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2020), para. 43
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- 26. Reaffirms the request of the Human Rights Council that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights organize a workshop on the impact of the application of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights by the affected populations, in particular their socioeconomic impact on women and children, in the States targeted;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2012), para. 23
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- 10. Encourages the Government of the Federal Republic of Somalia to develop, with the assistance of the Independent Expert, a human rights post-transition road map with benchmarks and timelines to promote and protect all human rights, including, inter alia, the right to water and sanitation, the right to health care and the right to education and other basic needs of vulnerable people, such as internally displaced persons, women, returnees, children, minorities and journalists;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the International Year of Human Rights Learning (2014), para. 11
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- 1. Reaffirms its conviction that every woman, man, youth and child can realize his or her full human potential by, inter alia, learning about the comprehensive framework of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the ability to act on that knowledge in order to ensure the effective realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2004), para. 14
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- 4. Reaffirms its decision that the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the Commission on the Status of Women, in accordance with their respective mandates and with General Assembly resolutions 48/162 of 20 December 1993 and 57/270 B of 23 June 2003 and other relevant resolutions, constitute a three-tiered intergovernmental mechanism that plays the primary role in overall policy-making and follow-up and in coordinating the implementation and monitoring of the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to a nationality: women and children (2012), para. 24
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- 10. Calls upon States to ensure that effective and appropriate remedies are available to all persons, in particular women and children, whose right to a nationality has been violated, including restoration of nationality and expedient provision of documentary proof of nationality by the State responsible for the violation;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences (2011), para. 02
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- Reaffirming Commission on Human Rights resolution 1994/45 of 4 March 1994, in which the Commission decided to appoint a special rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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