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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2020), para. 19

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  • Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2020)
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Recognizing that women and girls in rural areas may be particularly vulnerable to violence because of multidimensional poverty and lack of access to social care and protection services and, as applicable, employment opportunities, as well as negative social norms,
Topic(s)
  • Poverty
  • Social & Cultural Rights
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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The causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa (1998), para. 11

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  • The causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa (1998)
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Expressing concern about the serious impact of such socio-economic problems and challenges as increasing poverty, the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome pandemic, and barriers that perpetuate discrimination against women and girls,
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2016), para. 39

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  • Women in development (2016)
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5. Further recognizes the mutually reinforcing links between gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and poverty eradication, as well as the need to elaborate and implement, where appropriate, in consultation with all relevant stakeholders, comprehensive gender-sensitive poverty eradication strategies that address social, structural and macroeconomic issues;
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Poverty
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  • Girls
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2008), para. 19

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  • The girl child (2008)
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Concerned by the increasing number of child-headed households, in particular those headed by orphan girls, including those orphaned by the HIV/AIDS pandemic,
Topic(s)
  • Health
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
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Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) (2018), para. 48

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  • Implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) (2018)
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10. Also calls upon the international community, including Member States, to continue their ambitious efforts to strive for more inclusive, equitable, balanced, stable and development-oriented sustainable socioeconomic approaches to overcoming poverty, and, in view of the negative impact of inequality, including gender inequality, on poverty, emphasizes the importance of structural transformation that leads to inclusive and sustainable industrialization for employment creation and poverty reduction, investing in sustainable agriculture and quality, reli able, sustainable and resilient infrastructure to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all, enhancing interconnectivity and achieving access to energy, and improving access to financial services, as well as promoting decent rural employment, improving access to quality education, promoting quality health care, including through the acceleration of the transition towards equitable access to universal health coverage, advancing gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, expanding social protection coverage, climate change mitigation and adaptation and combating inequality and social exclusion;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Poverty
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  • Girls
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and extreme poverty (2013), para. 29

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  • Human rights and extreme poverty (2013)
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14. Reaffirms the critical role of both formal and informal education in the achievement of poverty eradication and other development goals as envisaged in the Millennium Declaration, in particular basic education and training for eradicating illiteracy, and efforts towards expanded secondary and higher education as well as vocational education and technical training, especially for girls and women, the creation of human resources and infrastructure capabilities and the empowerment of those living in poverty, in this context reaffirms the Dakar Framework for Action adopted at the World Education Forum on 28 April 2000, 17 and recognizes the importance of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization strategy for the eradication of poverty, especially extreme poverty, in supporting the Education for All programmes as a tool to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015;
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2011), para. 18

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  • Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2011)
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1. Recognizes the interlinkages between poverty, malnutrition, lack of or inadequate or inaccessible health services, early childbearing, early marriage of the girl child and gender discrimination as root causes of obstetric fistula, that poverty remains the main social risk factor, that the eradication of poverty is critical to meeting the needs and protecting and promoting the rights of women and girls and that continued urgent national and international action is required to eliminate it;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Health
  • Poverty
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  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2007), para. 18

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  • The right to food (2007)
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4. Expresses its concern 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;
Topic(s)
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and extreme poverty (2019), para. 40

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  • Human rights and extreme poverty (2019)
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15. Reaffirms the critical role of quality education and lifelong learning for all in achieving poverty eradication and other develop ment goals, as envisaged in the 2030 Agenda, in particular free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education and training for eradicating illiteracy, efforts towards expanded secondary and higher education as well as vocational education and technical training, especially for girls and women, the creation of human resources and infrastructure capabilities and the empowerment of those living in poverty, also reaffirms in this context the __________________ Dakar Framework for Action, adopted at the World Education Forum on 28 April 2000, 21 and the Incheon Declaration: Education 2030: Towards inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all, adopted at the World Education Forum 2015, 22 and recognizes the importance of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization strategy for the eradication of poverty, especially extreme poverty, in supporting the Education for All programmes as tools for achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 by 2030;
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Eradicating rural poverty to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2019), para. 11

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  • Eradicating rural poverty to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2019)
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Recognizing that poverty is a serious impediment to the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, including those living in rural areas, and that the feminization of poverty persists, emphasizing that the eradication of poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, acknowledging the mutually reinforcing links between the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and the eradication of poverty, and stressing the importance of support for countries in their efforts to eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions,
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Poverty
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  • Girls
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and extreme poverty (2017), para. 32

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  • Human rights and extreme poverty (2017)
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8. Also reaffirms the commitment made at the 2005 World Summit to eradicate poverty and promote sustained economic growth, sustainable development and global prosperity for all, including women and girls; 19
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Poverty
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  • Girls
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2011), para. 23

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  • The right to food (2011)
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4. Expresses its concern 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;
Topic(s)
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2016), para. 10

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  • The girl child (2016)
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Deeply concerned also about the extreme vulnerability of children who are heads of households and those raised in child-headed households, particularly girls, who suffer from the lack of adult support and may be particularly vulnerable to poverty, mental and psychosocial trauma and physical vulnerability and may be exceptionally negatively affected by the economic and care burdens placed on them at a young age, which in turn may lead to their having difficulty completing their education and increase their vulnerability to poverty, discrimination, trafficking and physical abuse,
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2004), para. 17

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  • The right to food (2004)
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4. Expresses its concern that women are disproportionately affected by hunger, food insecurity and poverty, in part as a result of gender inequality, 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 suffer from malnutrition as men;
Topic(s)
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Gender
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2017), para. 36

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  • The right to food (2017)
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6. Also expresses its deep 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 a s 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;
Topic(s)
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Literacy Decade: education for all (2011), para. 08

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  • United Nations Literacy Decade: education for all (2011)
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Affirming that the realization of the right to education, especially for girls, contributes to the promotion of human rights, gender equality and the eradication of poverty,
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the outcomes of the United Nations Conferences on Human Settlements and on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) (2019), para. 34

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  • Implementation of the outcomes of the United Nations Conferences on Human Settlements and on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) (2019)
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8. Reaffirms that, by readdressing the way cities and human settlements are planned, designed, financed, developed, governed and managed, the New Urban Agenda 7 will help to end poverty and hunger in all its forms and dimensions, reduce inequalities, promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in order to fully harness their vital contribution to sustainable development, improve human health and well - being, foster resilience and protect the environment;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and extreme poverty (2015), para. 38

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  • Human rights and extreme poverty (2015)
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17. Reaffirms the critical role of both formal and informal education in the achievement of poverty eradication and other development goals, as envisaged in the Millennium Declaration, in particular basic education and training for eradicating illiteracy, efforts towards expanded secondary and higher education as well as vocational education and technical training, especially for girls and women, the creation of human resources and infrastructure capabilities and the empowerment of those living in poverty, reaffirms in this context the Dakar Framework for Action, adopted at the World Education Forum on 28 April 2000, 20
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2006), para. 40

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  • Women in development (2006)
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23. Expresses its concern that the HIV/AIDS pandemic reinforces gender inequalities, that women and girls bear a disproportionate share of the burden imposed by the HIV/AIDS crisis, that they are more easily infected, that they play a key role in care and that they have become more vulnerable to poverty as a result of the HIV/AIDS crisis;
Topic(s)
  • Health
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2015), para. 24

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  • Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2015)
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4. Also calls upon States to ensure the right to education of good quality for women and girls, on an equal basis with men and boys, and to ensure that they complete a full course of primary education, and to renew their efforts to improve and expand girls’ and women’s education at all levels, including at the secondary and higher levels, and including age-appropriate sex education, as well as vocational education and technical training, in order to, inter alia, achieve gender equality, the empowerment of women and girls and poverty eradication;
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2014), para. 18

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  • The girl child (2014)
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Deeply concerned also about the vulnerability of children raised in child- headed households, in particular the girl child, who suffer from the lack of adult support and may be particularly vulnerable to poverty, mental and psychosocial trauma and physical vulnerability owing to, inter alia, food insecurity and poor nutrition, limited access to safe water and adequate sanitation, and communicable and non-communicable diseases,
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Health
  • Poverty
  • Water & Sanitation
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
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Feb 25, 2020
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Policies and programmes involving youth: youth in the global economy – promoting youth participation in social and economic development (2008), para. 096

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  • Policies and programmes involving youth: youth in the global economy – promoting youth participation in social and economic development (2008)
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37. Trafficking in women and girls for prostitution and sexual slavery increases the vulnerability of young women to HIV/AIDS infection and is linked to the widespread feminization of poverty, sex tourism, sweatshops and other detrimental consequences of globalization. Governments should devise, enforce and strengthen effective youth-sensitive measures to combat, eliminate and prosecute all forms of trafficking in women and girls, including for sexual and economic exploitation, as part of a comprehensive anti-trafficking strategy within wider efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls.
Topic(s)
  • Health
  • Poverty
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
  • Youth
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) (2018), para. 19

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  • Implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) (2018)
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Deeply concerned that poverty acts as a serious impediment to the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and that the feminization of poverty persists, stressing the importance of giving women equal rights with men to economic resources, including access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, credit, inheritance, natural resources and appropriate new technology, reaffirming that women play a critical role in development, contribute to structural transformation and are key co ntributors to the economy and to combating poverty and inequalities and that their full, effective and equal participation in decision-making and the economy is vital in order to achieve sustainable development and significantly enhance economic growth and productivity, recognizing that the economic and social losses due to a lack of progress in achieving gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment are significant and that it is therefore critical that our policies and actions are not just gender- responsive but actively seek to advance the goal of gender equality and women ’s and girls’ empowerment, and reaffirming that gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls will make a crucial contribution to progress in realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and are critical factors in the eradication of poverty,
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Poverty
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2011), para. 19

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  • Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2011)
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2. Stresses the need to address the social issues that contribute to the problem of obstetric fistula, such as early marriage of the girl child, early pregnancy, lack of access to sexual and reproductive health, lack of or inadequate education of women and girls, poverty and the low status of women and girls;
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Health
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2019), para. 44

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  • The right to food (2019)
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6. Also expresses its deep 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 an d preventable childhood diseases, and that it is estimated that almost twice as many women as men suffer from malnutrition;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2018), para. 30

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  • The girl child (2018)
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5. Also urges States to improve the situation of girl children living in poverty, including extreme poverty, deprived of adequate food and nutrition, water and sanitation facilities, with limited or no access to basic physical and mental health- care services, shelter, education, participation and protection;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Poverty
  • Social & Cultural Rights
  • Water & Sanitation
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
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Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Literacy Decade: education for all (2007), para. 07

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  • United Nations Literacy Decade: education for all (2007)
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Affirming that the realization of the right to education, especially for girls, contributes to the promotion of gender equality and the eradication of poverty,
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2020), para. 47

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  • The right to food (2020)
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6. Also expresses its deep 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;
Topic(s)
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Education as a tool to prevent racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (2013), para. 12

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  • Education as a tool to prevent racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (2013)
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Affirming that the realization of the right to education, including for girls and persons belonging to vulnerable groups, contributes to the eradication of poverty and of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
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Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2016), para. 11

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  • The girl child (2016)
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Deeply concerned further that, in situations of poverty, armed conflict, climate-related and other hazards, natural disasters, disease outbreaks and other humanitarian emergencies, the incidence of child -headed households increases and makes girl children particularly vulnerable to pov erty, physical and sexual violence and abuse, and discrimination, thus limiting their potential for full development,
Topic(s)
  • Environment
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Humanitarian
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
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Feb 25, 2020
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