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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2000), para. 04

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Bearing in mind that unaccompanied refugee minors are among the most vulnerable refugees and the most at risk of neglect, violence, forced military recruitment, sexual assault and other abuses and therefore require special assistance and care,
Topic(s)
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Persons on the move
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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The situation in Afghanistan (2012), para. 100

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74. Reiterates the necessity of providing Afghan children, especially Afghan girls, with educational and health facilities in all parts of the country, welcomes the progress achieved in the sector of public education, recalls the National Education Strategic Plan as a promising basis for further achievements, encourages the Government of Afghanistan, with the assistance of the international community, to expand those facilities, train professional staff and promote full and equal access to them by all members of Afghan society, including in remote areas, and reiterates further the need to provide vocational training for adolescents;
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2019), para. 155

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(c) Enable migrants to communicate with their families without delay to inform them that they are alive by facilitating access to means of communication along routes and at their destination, including in places of detention, as well as access to consular missions, local authorities and organizations that can provide assistance with family contacts, especially in cases of unaccompanied or separated migrant children, as well as adolescents;
Topic(s)
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Persons on the move
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2017), para. 032

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Emphasizing the relevance of international instruments and United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice related to the treatment of prisoners, in particular women and juveniles,
Topic(s)
  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2016), para. 35

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Underlining that, although the crime of smuggling of migrants may share, in some cases, some common features with the crime of trafficking in persons, Member States need to recognize that they are distinct crimes and that they require separate and complementary legal, operational and policy responses, and recalling further its resolutions 68/179 of 18 December 2013 and 69/167 and 69/187 of 18 December 2014, in which it called upon all Member States to protect and assist migrants, including migrant children and adolescents, and Economic and Social Council resolutions 2014/23 of 16 July 2014 and 2015/23 of 21 July 2015,
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child: the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (2013), para. 048

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(a) To ensure that the right to the highest attainable standard of sexual and reproductive health is fully realized by giving full attention to the sexual and reproductive health needs of children and adolescents, consistent with their evolving capacities, through providing information, education and services, in accordance with the Beijing Platform for Action and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, 3 and the outcomes of their review conferences, on an equitable and universal basis, with their full involvement and the support of the international community, with full respect for their privacy and confidentiality, free of discrimination, and to provide them with youth-friendly and evidence-based comprehensive education, consistent with their evolving capacities, on sexual and reproductive health, human rights and gender equality to enable them to deal in a positive and responsible way with their sexuality;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Youth
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2004), para. 056

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(d) To promote an educational setting that eliminates all barriers that impede the schooling of pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers;
Topic(s)
  • Education
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Infants
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (2016), para. 44

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33. Urges all States parties to the Convention that have not yet done so to make the declarations provided for in articles 21 and 22 of the Convention concerning inter-State and individual communications, to consider the possibility of withdrawing their reservations to article 20, to notify the Secretary-General of their acceptance of the amendments to articles 17 and 18, with a view to enhancing the effectiveness of the Committee against Torture as soon as possible, and to comply strictly with their obligations under the Convention, including, in view of the high number of reports not submitted in time, their obligation to submi t reports in accordance with article 19 of the Convention, and invites States parties to incorporate a gender perspective and information concerning persons who are marginalized and most vulnerable, including children and juveniles and persons with disabilities, when submitting reports to the Committee;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 32

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18. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to report on the situation of accompanied and unaccompanied migrant children, including adolescents, and to include information on the implementation of the present resolution in his report on the protection of migrants requested for its seventieth session;
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2020), para. 24

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7. Expresses grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is adversely affected by unilateral measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women, children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities;
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights in the administration of justice (2013), para. 22

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2. Also takes note with appreciation of the most recent report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the protection of human rights of juveniles deprived of their liberty 15 and the joint report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children on prevention of and responses to violence against children within the juvenile justice system, 16 both submitted to the Human Rights Council;
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2016), para. 11

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Expressing grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women, children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities,
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1995), para. 04

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Bearing in mind that unaccompanied refugee minors are among the most vulnerable refugees and require special assistance and care,
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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. 207

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(b) Supporting the development of crime prevention practices that are focused on juveniles who are at risk of becoming delinquent or who are easy candidates for recruitment by criminal groups, bearing in mind the rights of such juveniles;
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2002), para. 05

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Mindful of the fact that the ultimate solution to the plight of unaccompanied minors is their return to and reunification with their families,
Topic(s)
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1997), para. 12

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2. Expresses its deep concern at the continued plight of unaccompanied refugee minors, and emphasizes once again the urgent need for their early identification and for timely, detailed and accurate information on their number and whereabouts;
Topic(s)
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Persons on the move
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (2017), para. 53

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14. Expresses deep concern at the conditions of the Palestinian prisoners and detainees, including minors, in Israeli jails and detention centres, demands that Israel, the occupying Power, fully respect and abide by its international law obligations towards all Palestinian prisoners and detainees in its custody, and also expresses its concern at the continued extensive use of administrative detention, calls for the full implementation of the agreement reached in May 2012 for a prompt and independent investigation into all cases of death custody, and also calls upon Israel to release immediately all Palestinian prisoners, including Palestinian legislators, detained in violation of international law;
Topic(s)
  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights in humanitarian settings (2018), para. 43

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13. Urges States and encourages other relevant stakeholders, including national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations, to take action at all levels, utilizing a comprehensive human rights-based approach to address the interlinked causes of maternal mortality and morbidity, such as lack of accessible, affordable and appropriate health-care services for all, and of information and education, lack of access to medicine and medical equipment, all types of malnutrition, lack of access to safe drinking water and sanitation, poverty, underdevelopment, human and material shortages facing health-care systems, humanitarian and funding shortages affecting hospitals, technical assistance, capacity-building and training needs, harmful practices, including child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation, early childbearing, gender-based inequalities and all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls, to take concrete measures to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, especially adolescent girls, and to ensure access to accountability for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, including effective reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence, such as the prosecution of sexual and gender-based violence committed in humanitarian settings, while ensuring the meaningful and effective participation of women and girls in the relevant processes;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Humanitarian
  • Water & Sanitation
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2013), para. 11

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Expressing grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women, children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities,
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2002), para. 19

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9. Condemns all acts of exploitation of unaccompanied refugee minors, including their use as soldiers or human shields in armed conflict and their forced recruitment into military forces, and any other acts that endanger their safety and personal security;
Topic(s)
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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The situation in Afghanistan (2014), para. 093

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65. Reiterates the necessity of providing Afghan children, especially Afghan girls, with educational and health facilities in all parts of the country, welcomes the progress achieved in the sector of public education, recalls the National Education Strategic Plan as a promising basis for further achievements, encourages the Government of Afghanistan, with the assistance of the international community, to expand those facilities, train professional staff and promote full and equal access to them by all members of Afghan society, including in remote areas, and reiterates further the need to provide vocational training for adolescents;
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2001), para. 27

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22. Urges States and relevant parties to respect and observe principles of international human rights and humanitarian and refugee law that are of particular relevance to safeguarding the rights of the child and adolescent refugees whose situation is particularly vulnerable to abuse, welcomes in this regard the adoption of the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict 11 and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, 12 and calls upon States to consider signing and ratifying them as a matter of priority;
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 12

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Reaffirming also the fact that all migrant children, including adolescents, are entitled to equal protection by the law and that all persons, regardless of their migration status, are equal before the courts and tribunals and, in the determination of their rights and obligations in a suit at law, are entitled to a fair and public hearing by a competent, independent and impartial tribunal established by law,
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2011), para. 005

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Reaffirming that the general principles of, inter alia, the best interests of the child, non-discrimination, participation and survival and development provide the framework for all actions concerning children, including adolescents,
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Protecting children from bullying (2019), para. 21

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Recognizing that early childhood is a critical stage for cognitive, emotional and behavioural development and that the parent-child relationship is a significant factor in predicting bullying behaviour in adolescents, as well as the existing evidence of a link between domestic violence and bullying in schools,
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2003), para. 006

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Welcoming the outcome of the special session of the General Assembly on children 6 and the firm commitments contained therein to promote and protect the rights of each child — every human being below the age of 18 years, including adolescents,
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph

Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2017), para. 24

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7. Expresses grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women, children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities;
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights in humanitarian settings (2018), para. 31

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1. Urges all States to eliminate preventable maternal mortality and to respect, protect and fulfil sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, in accordance with the Beijing Platform for Action and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and their review conference and outcome documents, and the right to have full control over and decide freely and responsibly on all matters relating to sexuality and sexual and reproductive health, free from discrimination, coercion and violence, including through the removal of legal barriers and the development and enforcement of policies, good practices and legal frameworks that respect bodily autonomy and guarantee universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, evidence-based information and education within a human rights-based approach, including for family planning, safe and effective methods of modern contraception, emergency contraception, universal access to health care, including quality maternal health care, such as skilled birth attendance and emergency obstetric care, safe abortion in accordance with international human rights law and where not against national law, the prevention and treatment of reproductive tract infections, sexually transmitted infections, HIV and reproductive cancers, and the integration of sexual and reproductive health into national health strategies and programmes for all women and girls, including adolescents;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Eritrea (2013), para. 10

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Expressing grave concern further at the reported use of forced labour, including of conscripts and minors in the mining industry,
Topic(s)
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph

Rights of the child (2006), para. 082

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(b) To support adolescents to be able to deal positively and responsibly with their sexuality in order to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS infection and to implement measures to increase their capacity to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS, through, inter alia, the provision of health care, including for sexual and reproductive health, and through prevention education that promotes gender equality;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules) (2011), para. 056

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16. Subsections A and B both provide additional rules for the treatment of juvenile female prisoners. It is important to note, however, that separate strategies and policies in accordance with international standards, in particular the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (the Beijing Rules), 22 the United Nations Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (the Riyadh Guidelines), 23 the United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of Their Liberty 24 and the Guidelines for Action on Children in the Criminal Justice System, 25 need to be designed for the treatment and rehabilitation of this category of prisoners, while institutionalization shall be avoided to the maximum possible extent.
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (2004), para. 17

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9. Urges States parties to comply strictly with their obligations under the Convention, including, in view of the high number of reports not submitted, their obligation to submit reports in accordance with article 19 of the Convention, and invites States parties to incorporate a gender perspective and information concerning children and juveniles when submitting reports to the Committee against Torture;
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (2000), para. 15

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6. Urges States parties to comply strictly with their obligations under the Convention, including their obligation to submit reports in accordance with article 19 of the Convention, in view of the high number of reports not submitted, and invites States parties to incorporate a gender perspective and information concerning children and juveniles when submitting reports to the Committee;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 099

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61 (c). Pledge to eliminate gender inequalities and gender-based abuse and violence, increase the capacity of women and adolescent girls to protect themselves from the risk of HIV infection, principally through the provision of health care and services, including, inter alia, sexual and reproductive health, as well as full access to comprehensive information and education, ensure that women can exercise their right to have control over, and decide freely and responsibly on, matters related to their sexuality, including their sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence, in order to increase their ability to protect themselves from HIV infection, and take all necessary measures to create an enabling environment for the empowerment of women and to strengthen their economic independence, and, in this context, reiterate the importance of the role of men and boys in achieving gender equality;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Traffic in women and girls (1995), para. 09

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Aware of the decision of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, in its resolution 3/2 of 6 May 1994, 9/ to consider the international traffic in minors at its fourth session in the context of its discussion on the question of organized transnational crime,
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 021

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18. Reiterate with profound concern that Africa, in particular sub -Saharan Africa, remains the worst-affected region and that urgent and exceptional action is required at all levels to curb the devastating effects of this epidemic, particularly on women and adolescent girls, and recognize the renewed commitment of African Governments and regional institutions to scale up their own HIV and AIDS responses;
Topic(s)
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph

International cooperation against the world drug problem (2003), para. 44

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19. Also urges all States to make appropriate treatment and rehabilitation accessible to children, including adolescents, dependent on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, inhalants and alcohol;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1995), para. 13

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5. Calls upon the Secretary-General, the High Commissioner, the Department of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat, the United Nations Children’s Fund and other United Nations organizations to mobilize, within existing resources, adequate assistance to unaccompanied minors in the areas of relief, education, health and psychological rehabilitation;
Topic(s)
  • Health
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 09

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Recognizing that undocumented and unaccompanied migrant children, including adolescents, should be promptly placed in the least restrictive setting, for the shortest possible period of time, that is in the best interest of the child and respects their human rights,
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph

Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2015), para. 10

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(b) The continuing imposition and carrying-out of the death penalty against minors and persons who at the time of their offence were under the age of 18, in violation of the obligations of the Islamic Republic of Iran under the Convention on the Rights of the Child 6 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; 2
Topic(s)
  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 122

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62 (j). Commit to eliminating barriers, including stigma and discrimination in health-care settings, to ensure universal access to comprehensive HIV diagnostic s, prevention, treatment, care and support for people living with, at risk of a nd affected by HIV, persons deprived of their liberty, indigenous people, children, adolescents, young people, women, and other vulnerable populations;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Women
  • Youth
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2018), para. 21

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Emphasizing that increased and equal access to quality education for young people, especially adolescent girls, including in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, as well as health care, hygiene and sanitation, dramatically lowers their vulnerability to preventable diseases and infections, in particular HIV and other sexually transmitted infections,
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Social & Cultural Rights
  • Water & Sanitation
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Youth
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph

Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (2019), para. 49

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22. Expresses deep concern at the conditions of the Palestinian prisoners and detainees, including minors, in Israeli jails and detention centres, calls upon Israel to explicitly prohibit torture, including psychological torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, demands that Israel, the occupying Power, fully respect and abide by its international law obligations towards all Palestinian prisoners and detainees in its custody, expresses its concern at the continued extensive use of administrative detention, calls for the full implementation of the agreement reached in May 2012 for a prompt and independent investigation into all cases of death in custody, and calls upon Israel to immediately release all Palestinian prisoners, including Palestinian legislators, detained in violation of international law;
Topic(s)
  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights in humanitarian settings (2018), para. 26

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Recognizing that there are large disparities in maternal mortality and morbidity rates between countries, but also within countries, and between women and girls facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, and noting with concern that the risk of maternal mortality is higher for adolescents and highest for adolescent girls under 15 years of age, and that complications in pregnancy and childbirth are a leading cause of death among adolescent girls in developing countries, which creates the need to address all social, economic and environment determinants of health in order to reduce the aforementioned disparities,
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings (2017), para. 30

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10. Calls upon States to promote the meaningful participation of and active consultation with children and adolescents affected by humanitarian settings, especially girls, on all issues affecting them, and to raise awareness about their rights, including the negative impact of child, early and forced marriage, through safe spaces, forums and support networks that provide girls and boys with information, life skills and leadership skills training and opportunities to be empowered, to express themselves, to participate meaningfully in all decisions that affect them and to become agents of change within their communities;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph

Human rights in the administration of justice (2019), para. 24

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Aware of the need for special vigilance with regard to the specific situation of children, juveniles and women in the administration of justice, in particular while they are deprived of their liberty, and their vulnerability to various forms of violence, abuse, injustice and humiliation,
Topic(s)
  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in digital contexts (2018), para. 41

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(f) Developing and implementing educational programmes and teaching materials, including comprehensive sexuality education, based on full and accurate information, for all adolescents and youth, in a manner consistent with their evolving capacities, with their meaningful participation, with appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians, and with the active involvement of all relevant stakeholders, in order to empower them to safely use and navigate digital technologies, to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women of all ages, to eliminate prejudices and to promote and build decision-making, communication and risk reduction skills for the development of respectful relationships based on gender equality and human rights, as well as teacher education and training programmes for both formal and non-formal education;
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  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
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  • Adolescents
  • Men
  • Women
  • Youth
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2010), para. 11

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Expressing grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women and children, including adolescents,
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  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
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The situation in Afghanistan (2014), para. 053

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29. Welcomes the commitment by the Government of Afghanistan to provide unimpeded access for relevant organizations to all prisons in Afghanistan, emphasizes the importance of ensuring access for relevant organizations, and calls for full respect for relevant international law, including humanitarian law and human rights law, where applicable, including with regard to minors, if detained;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Humanitarian
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  • Adolescents
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2018), para. 36

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7. Also expresses its grave concern that, in some countries, the socioeconomic conditions of family members, particularly women and children, are adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures, imposed and maintained contrary to international law and the Charter, that create obstacles to trade relations among States, restrict movement through various means of transport, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women, children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities;
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation against the world drug problem (2005), para. 08

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Concerned by the increase in the abuse of illicit drugs among children, including adolescents, and young people,
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  • Health
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Youth
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Child, early and forced marriage (2017), para. 31

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12. Urges Governments to respect and protect the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health through the development and enforcement of policies and legal frameworks and the strengthening of health systems, including health information systems, that make universally accessible and available quality, gender-responsive, adolescent-friendly health services, sexual and reproductive health-care services, information and commodities, HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment and care, mental health services and nutrition interventions;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
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Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2020), para. 093

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59. Also encourages Member States, in cooperation with relevant United Nations humanitarian organizations, to ensure that women and girls have access to basic health-care services, including reliable and safe access to sexual and reproductive health-care services and mental health and psychosocial support, from the onset of emergencies, in this regard recognizes that such assistance protects women, adolescent girls and infants from preventable mortality and morbidity that occur in humanitarian emergencies, and calls upon Member States, the United Nations and other relevant actors to give such programmes due consideration;
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  • Health
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Infants
  • Women
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2000), para. 13

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3. Expresses its deep concern at the continued plight of unaccompanied refugee minors, and emphasizes once again the urgent need for their early identification and for timely, detailed and accurate information on their number and whereabouts;
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  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Persons on the move
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 19

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5. Reaffirms the need to effectively promote and protect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all migrant children, including adolescents, regardless of their migration status, and to address international migration through international, regional or bilateral cooperation and dialogue and through a comprehensive and balanced approach, recognizing the roles and responsibilities of countries of origin, transit and destination in promoting and protecting the human rights of migrant children, including adolescents, and avoiding approaches that might aggravate their vulnerability;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying Our Efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS (2011), para. 089

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68. Commit to develop and implement strategies to improve infant HIV diagnosis, including through access to diagnostics at point of care, significantly increase and improve access to treatment for children and adolescents living with HIV, including access to prophylaxis and treatments for opportunistic infections, as well as increased support to children and adolescents through increased financial, social and moral support for their parents, families and legal guardians, and promote a smooth transition from paediatric to young adult treatment and related support and services;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2017), para. 17

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Recognizing, with interest, the Secretary-General’s revised Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030), undertaken by a broad coalition of partners, in support of national plans and strategies that aim for the highest attainable standards of health and well-being, physical, mental and social, at every age, ending maternal and newborn mortality, which is preventable, and noting that this can contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals,
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Infants
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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The negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights (2019), para. 40

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7. Also expresses its grave concern that, in some countries, the socioeconomic conditions of family members, particularly women and children, are adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures, imposed and maintained contrary to international law and the Charter, that create obstacles to trade relations among States, restrict movement through various means of transport, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women, children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities;
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: engaging men and boys in preventing and responding to violence against all women and girls (2017), para. 34

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(d) Ensuring the promotion and protection of the human rights of all women and their sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences, including through the development and enforcement of policies and legal frameworks, and strengthening health systems that make quality comprehensive sexual and reproductive health-care services, commodities, information and education universally accessible and available, including, inter alia, safe and effective methods of modern contraception, emergency contraception, prevention programmes for adolescent pregnancy, maternal health care, such as skilled birth attendance and emergency obstetric care, which will reduce obstetric fistula and other complications of pregnancy and delivery, safe abortion where such services are permitted by national law, and the prevention and treatment of reproductive tract infections, sexually transmitted infections, HIV and reproductive cancers, and recognizing that human rights include the right to have control over and to decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free from coercion, discrimination and violence;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Political declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the fight against tuberculosis (2018), para. 43

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38. Commit to providing special attention to the poor, those who are vulnerable, including infants, young children and adolescents, as well as elderly people and communities especially at risk of and affected by tuberculosis, in accordance with the principle of social inclusion, especially through ensuring strong and meaningful engagement of civil society and affected communities in the planni ng, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the tuberculosis response, within and beyond the health sector; we further acknowledge the link between incarceration and tuberculosis and therefore reaffirm the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) as defined in General Assembly resolution 70/175 of 17 December 2015;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Infants
  • Youth
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Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Sudan (2002), para. 78

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(k) To implement the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners 11 and to continue to give special consideration to imprisoned women and juveniles;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1997), para. 05

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Mindful of the fact that the ultimate solution to the plight of unaccompanied minors is their return to and reunification with their families,
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  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
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Feb 25, 2020
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Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (2018), para. 24

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12. Also welcomes the efforts of the Inter-Parliamentary Union to raise parliamentary support for health, in particular women’s, adolescent and child health and nutrition, and invites the World Health Organization and other relevant agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system to enhance cooperation with the Inter-Parliamentary Union in this regard;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (2018), para. 49

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36. Urges all States parties to the Convention that have not yet done so to make the declarations provided for in articles 21 and 22 of the Convention concerning inter-State and individual communications, to consider the possibility of withdrawing their reservations to article 20, to notify the Secretary-General of their acceptance of the amendments to articles 17 and 18, with a view to enhancing the effectiveness of the Committee against Torture as soon as possible, and to comply strictly with their obligations under the Convention, including, in view of the high number of reports not submitted in time, their obligation to submit reports in accordance wit h article 19 of the Convention, and invites States parties to incorporate a gender perspective and information concerning persons who are marginalized and most vulnerable, including children and juveniles and persons with disabilities, when submitting repo rts to the Committee;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
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Feb 25, 2020
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Protection of migrants (2004), para. 35

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21. Encourages States of origin to promote and protect the human rights of those families of migrant workers which remain in the countries of origin, paying particular attention to children and adolescents whose parents have emigrated, and encourages international organizations to consider supporting States in this regard;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2000), para. 19

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9. Condemns all acts of exploitation of unaccompanied refugee minors, including their use as soldiers or human shields in armed conflict and their forced recruitment into military forces, and any other acts that endanger their safety and personal security;
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  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights in humanitarian settings (2018), para. 09

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Recalling the Secretary-General’s renewed Global Strategy on Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health, and recognizing the important role it can play in reducing preventable maternal mortality and morbidity,
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  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1998), para. 04

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Bearing in mind that unaccompanied refugee minors are among the most vulnerable refugees and the most at risk of neglect, violence, forced military recruitment, sexual assault and other abuses and therefore require special assistance and care,
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  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2017), para. 075

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41. Also reaffirms its previous resolutions on migrant children and adolescents, on the protection of migrants and on violence against woman migrant workers, the resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council on the protection of the human rights of all migrants and the work of the various special mechanisms of the Council that have reported on the situation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of migrants, particularly migrant children;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2004), para. 04

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Bearing in mind that unaccompanied refugee minors are among the most vulnerable refugees and the most at risk of neglect, violence, forced military recruitment, sexual assault, abuse and vulnerability to infectious disease, such as human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, malaria and tuberculosis, and therefore require special assistance and care,
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1998), para. 05

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Mindful of the fact that the ultimate solution to the plight of unaccompanied minors is their return to and reunification with their families,
Topic(s)
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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The situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2016), para. 13

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Strongly alarmed that attacks against schools, schoolchildren and teachers are commonplace, risking losing a generation as a result of the over 2 million out-of- school children and adolescents and the one in three schools being damaged, destroyed or occupied,
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  • Humanitarian
  • Social & Cultural Rights
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: engaging men and boys in preventing and responding to violence against all women and girls (2017), para. 37

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(g) Developing and implementing educational programmes and teaching materials, including comprehensive sexuality education, based on full and accurate information, for all adolescents and youth, in a manner consistent with their evolving capacities, with appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians, with the active involvement of all relevant stakeholders, in order to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women of all ages, to eliminate prejudices and to promote and build decision-making, communication and risk reduction skills for the development of respectful relationships based on gender equality and human rights, as well as teacher education and training programmes for both formal and non-formal education;
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Men
  • Women
  • Youth
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2017), para. 128

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(d) Expresses serious concern about the situation of vulnerability and risk faced by migrants in transit and destination countries, in particular migrant children, including adolescents, who are unaccompanied or separated from their families, who are forced to flee or decide to leave their homelands owing to multip le causes, and calls upon States of origin, transit and destination to work together to find effective and sustainable solutions, including within a framework of solidarity and regional and international cooperation;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2000), para. 09

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Noting the efforts of the High Commissioner to ensure the protection of and assistance to refugees, including children and unaccompanied minors, and that further enhanced efforts need to be exerted to this effect,
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  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Policies and programmes involving youth (2018), para. 26

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10. Calls upon Member States to accelerate efforts to scale up 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;
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
  • Youth
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2016), para. 22

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Emphasizing that increased and equal access to quality education for young people, especially adolescent girls, including in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, as well as health care, hygiene and sanitation, dramatically lowers their vulnerability to preventable diseases and infections, in particular HIV and othe r sexually transmitted infections,
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Water & Sanitation
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Youth
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century (2001), para. 38

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24. We further recognize with great concern that juveniles in difficult circumstances are often at risk of becoming delinquent or easy candidates for recruitment by criminal groups, including groups involved in transnational organized crime, and we commit ourselves to undertaking countermeasures to prevent this growing phenomenon and to including, where necessary, provisions for juvenile justice in national development plans and international development strategies and to including the administration of juvenile justice in our funding policies for development cooperation.
Topic(s)
  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation against the world drug problem (2002), para. 58

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29. Also urges all States to make appropriate treatment and rehabilitation accessible for children, including adolescents, dependent on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, inhalants and alcohol;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2002), para. 14

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4. Stresses the importance of providing adequate resources for programmes of identification and tracing of unaccompanied minors;
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  • Adolescents
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Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2020), para. 039

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14. Reaffirms the right to education on the basis of equal opportunity and non-discrimination, and calls upon States to make primary education compulsory, inclusive and available free to all children, ensuring that all children have equal access to education of good quality, making secondary education generally available and accessible to all, in particular through the progressive introduction of free education, bearing in mind that special measures to ensure equal access, including affirmative action, contribute to achieving equal opportunity and combating exclusion by eliminating social, economic and gender disparities in education and ensuring school attendance, in particular for girls, children with disabilities, pregnant adolescent girls, children living in poverty, indigenous children, children of African descent, persons belonging to ethnic or religious minorities and children in vulnerable or marginalized situations;
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Girls
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Feb 25, 2020
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 21

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7. Urges all States to intensify cooperation with relevant stakeholders in different areas in order to jointly identify positive alternatives to reduce, mitigate and eliminate the causes and structural factors that lead to irregular migration, so as to prevent minors from feeling compelled to migrate from their communities;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Persons on the move
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Eritrea (2012), para. 06

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Expressing grave concern at the use of forced labour, including of conscripts and minors in the mining industry,
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  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Political declaration of the high-level meeting on universal health coverage (2019), para. 41

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28. Take multisectoral action to promote active and healthy lifestyles, including physical activity for the benefit of all people throughout their life course, and ensure a world free from malnutrition in all its forms, where all people are empowered to take responsibility for their own health, supported by public regulatory measures, and have access to safe drinking water and sanitation and safe, sufficient and nutritious food and enjoy diversified, balanced and healthy diets throughout their life course, with special emphasis to the nutrition needs of pregnant and lactating women, women of reproductive age and adolescent girls, and of infants and young children, especially during the first 1,000 days, including, as appropriate, through exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months, with continued breastfeeding to 2 years of age or beyond, with appropriate complementary feeding;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Infants
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2004), para. 10

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Noting the efforts of the High Commissioner to ensure the protection of and assistance to refugees, including children and unaccompanied minors, and that further enhanced efforts need to be exerted to this effect,
Topic(s)
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights in the administration of justice, in particular juvenile justice (2011), para. 44

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25. Requests the High Commissioner to submit an analytical report to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-first session on the protection of human rights of juveniles deprived of their liberty, mindful of all applicable human rights standards and taking into account the work of all relevant human rights mechanisms of the United Nations;
Topic(s)
  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2010), para. 04

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Reaffirming that the general principles of, inter alia, the best interests of the child, non-discrimination, participation and survival and development provide the framework for all actions concerning children, including adolescents,
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2010), para. 62

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34. Requests States to ensure that, in all policies and programmes designed to provide comprehensive HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support, particular attention and support is given to the girl child at risk, infected with or affected by HIV, including pregnant girls and young and adolescent mothers, as part of the global effort to scale up significantly towards achieving the goal of universal access to comprehensive prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Infants
  • Women
  • Youth
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2003), para. 045

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16. Also urges all States to make appropriate treatment and rehabilitation accessible for children, including adolescents, dependent on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, inhalants and alcohol;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2016), para. 106

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(u) To develop and implement educational programmes and teaching materials, including comprehensive evidence-based education on human sexuality, based on full and accurate information, for all adolescents and youth, in a mann er consistent with their evolving capacities, with appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians, with the active involvement of all relevant stakeholders, in order to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women of all ages, to eliminate prejudices and to promote and build decision - making, communication and risk reduction skills for the development of respectful relationships based on gender equality and human rights, as well as teacher education and training programmes for both formal and non-formal education;
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Men
  • Women
  • Youth
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa (2005), para. 12

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8. Reiterates the importance of the full and effective implementation of standards and procedures to better address the specific protection needs of refugee children and adolescents and to safeguard rights and, in particular, to ensure adequate attention to unaccompanied and separated children and former child soldiers in refugee settings, as well as in the context of voluntary repatriation and reintegration measures;
Topic(s)
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2005), para. 08

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Expressing its grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women and children, including adolescents,
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern (2016), para. 07

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Acknowledging the work done by the United Nations and its specialized agencies, funds and programmes in relation to the reduction and elimination of preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age, and in that regard notes the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016-2030) and the establishment of the Independent Accountability Panel,
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2014), para. 33

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Emphasizing that increased access to education for young people, especially adolescent girls, including in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, as well as health care, hygiene and sanitation, dramatically lowers their vulnerability to preventable diseases and infections, in particular HIV and other sexually transmitted infections,
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Social & Cultural Rights
  • Water & Sanitation
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Youth
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2007), para. 12

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(d) The statement by the head of the judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran in October 2006 in which he expressed his hope that judges will choose alternative punishments for minors instead of long jail terms for some offences;
Topic(s)
  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Feb 25, 2020
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying Our Efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS (2011), para. 047

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43. Reaffirm the central role of the family, bearing in mind that in different cultural, social and political systems various forms of the family exist, in reducing vulnerability to HIV, inter alia in educating and guiding children, and take account of cultural, religious and ethical factors to reduce the vulnerability of children and young people by ensuring access of both girls and boys to primary and secondary education, including HIV and AIDS in curricula for adolescents, ensuring safe and secure environments, especially for young girls, expanding good quality youth- friendly information and sexual health education and counselling services, strengthening reproductive and sexual health programmes, and involving families and young people in planning, implementing and evaluating HIV and AIDS prevention and care programmes, to the extent possible;
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Rights of the child (2017), para. 078

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44. Also reaffirms that States, in accordance with their obligations under international law, are responsible for promoting and protecting the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all migrants, regardless of their migration status, including accompanied and unaccompanied children, including adolescents, within their territorial jurisdiction, and encourages States to promote natio nal child and adolescent protection systems, in consultation with all sectors of society, including migrant communities, civil society organizations and other relevant actors;
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  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2015), para. 43

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(l) To enhance the participation of men and adolescent boys in the intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula and to further strengthen their involvement as partners, including in the Campaign to End Fistula;
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  • Adolescents
  • Boys
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 117

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62 (e). Promote the development of and access to tailored comprehensive HIV prevention services for all women and adolescent girls, migrants and key populations;
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  • Adolescents
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  • Persons on the move
  • Women
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Rights of the child (2003), para. 038

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9. Calls upon all States and relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, in particular the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund, to pay particular attention to the development of sustainable health systems and social services to ensure the effective prevention of disease, malnutrition, disability and infant and child mortality, including through prenatal and post-natal health care, as well as the provision of necessary medical treatment and health care to all children, taking into consideration the special needs of young children and girls, including prevention of common infectious diseases, the special needs of adolescents, including those relating to reproductive and sexual health and threats from substance abuse and violence, and the particular needs of children living in poverty, children in situations of armed conflict and children in other vulnerable groups, and to strengthen ways of empowering families and communities;
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  • Health
  • Humanitarian
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Youth
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The girl child (2016), para. 54

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32. Requests States to ensure that, in all policies and programmes designed to provide comprehensive HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support, particular attention and support are given to the girl child at risk, living with or affected by HIV, including pregnant girls and young and adolescent mothers and girls with disabilities, and child heads of households, with a view to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3, in particular the target of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030;
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  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
  • Youth
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Rights of the child (2006), para. 081

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(a) To ensure universal access to comprehensive information related to HIV/AIDS prevention by 2010 through education, life skills training for adolescents and the use of child-targeted media and to ensure that this information is relevant, gender- and age-appropriate and timely, engaging the meaningful participation of children and their parents or caregivers in its development and recognizing children as agents of change, to enable them to protect themselves from HIV infection;
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  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
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Rights of the child (2004), para. 048

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22. Calls upon all States to take all appropriate measures to develop sustainable health systems and social services and to ensure access to such systems and services without discrimination and to pay particular attention to adequate food and nutrition to prevent disease and malnutrition, to prenatal and post-natal health care, to the special needs of adolescents, to reproductive and sexual health and to threats from substance abuse and violence, in particular to all vulnerable groups, and calls upon all States parties to take all necessary measures to ensure the right of all children, without discrimination, to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 101

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61 (f). Commit to reducing the number of adolescent girls and young women aged 15 to 24 years newly infected with HIV globally each year to below 100,000 by 2020;
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  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
  • Youth
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2013), para. 28

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(c) To further revisit the revised Islamic Penal Code to make it consistent with its obligation, under article 37 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to abolish executions of minors and persons who at the time of their offence were under the age of 18;
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  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2019), para. 10

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Recognizing further that adolescent girls, in particular those who live in poverty or who are marginalized, are at particular risk of maternal death and morbidity, including obstetric fistula, and concerned that the leading cause of death among girls aged 15 to 19 in many low- and middle-income countries is complications from pregnancy and childbirth and that women aged 30 and older are at increased risk of developing complications and of dying during childbirth,
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  • Health
  • Poverty
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  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
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Literacy for life: shaping future agendas (2019), para. 06

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Deeply concerned that, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 750 million adults, two thirds of whom are women, lack basic literacy skills, that more than 617 million children and adolescents are not achieving minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics and that 262 million children, adolescents and youth worldwide (or 1 in 5) are out of school – a figure that has barely changed over the past five years, 4
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  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
  • Youth
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The rights of the child (1999), para. 88

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2. Calls upon States and United Nations bodies, in recognizing the particular vulnerability of refugee and internally displaced children, to protect both their safety and their developmental needs, including health, education and psycho-social rehabilitation, and expresses its concern about adolescents in refugee camps, in particular girls, who are at risk of gender-based violence and sexual exploitation and abuse;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
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Elimination of discrimination against women and girls (2017), para. 46

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12. Urges States to ensure the promotion, protection and the fulfilment of all human rights and the full and effective implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the outcome documents of their review conferences and of sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights in this context, and to promote, protect and fulfil the right of all women to have full control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality and sexual and reproductive health, free from discrimination, coercion and violence, including through the removal of legal barriers and the development and enforcement of policies, good practices and legal frameworks that respect the right to decide autonomously in matters regarding their own lives and health, including their bodies, and to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health, services, information and education, including for family planning, safe and effective methods of modern contraception, emergency contraception, prevention programmes for adolescent pregnancy, maternal health care, such as skilled birth attendance and emergency obstetric care, safe abortion where not against national law and the prevention and treatment of reproductive tract infections, sexually transmitted infections, HIV and reproductive cancers and the integration of sexual and reproductive health into national strategies and programmes;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
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  • Adolescents
  • Women
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Rights of the child (2005), para. 045

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(f) To enable children, including adolescents, to exercise their right to express their views freely, according to their evolving capacity, and build self-esteem, acquire knowledge and skills, such as those for conflict resolution, decision-making and communication, to meet the challenges of life;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2004), para. 14

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3. Stresses the importance of providing adequate resources for programmes of identification, registration, documentation and tracing of unaccompanied minors and their reunification with their families;
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  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Rights of the child: the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (2013), para. 066

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28. Calls upon States and, where relevant, international organizations, civil society and the private sector to advance the development, strengthening, implementation and promotion of multi-sectoral, cost-effective, population-wide interventions and policies, in particular among children and adolescents, in order to reduce the impact of non- communicable disease risk factors, such as tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and harmful use of alcohol, through the development and implementation of relevant international agreements and strategies, and education, legislative, regulatory and fiscal measures, where appropriate, by involving all relevant sectors, civil society, communities and the private sector, without prejudice to the right of sovereign nations to determine and establish their taxation policies and other policies;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings (2017), para. 09

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Noting the work of the World Health Organization High-level Working Group on the Health and Human Rights of Women, Children and Adolescents,
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 23

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9. Recognizes the importance of coordinating efforts among countries of origin, transit and destination, while also recognizing their roles and their responsibilities to address the irregular migration of unaccompanied children, including adolescents, and to safeguard their human rights, with due consideration for the protection of the best interest of the child;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Political declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the fight against tuberculosis (2018), para. 06

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2. Further reaffirm the 2016 political declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on antimicrobial resistance, as reflected in its resolution 71/3 of 5 October 2016, the 2016 political declaration on HIV and AIDS, adopted in its resolution 70/266 of 8 June 2016, the 2014 outcome document of the high-level meeting of the Assembly on the comprehensive review and assessment of the progress achieved in the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, adopted in its resolution 68/300 of 10 July 2014, and its resolution of 12 December 2017, in which the Assembly decided to hold a high-level meeting on universal health coverage in 2019, and take note of World Health Assembly resolution 69.2 of 28 May 2016, entitled “Committing to implementation of the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health”, 3 and Human Rights Council resolution 33/11 of 29 September 2016 on preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern, 4 and further reaffirm the World Health Organization End TB Strategy, as approved in World Health Assembly resolution 67.1 of 21 May 2014, 5 and its associated targets;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
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Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern (2016), para. 19

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8. Encourages the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in close collaboration with the World Health Organization, to intensify efforts to bring the technical guidance to the attention of the Secretary-General and all United Nations entities with mandates relevant to preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age, including the High-level Working Group on the Health and Human Rights of Women, Children and Adolescents, and to continue dialogue on the issue of preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age with all relevant actors with due regard to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2002), para. 04

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Bearing in mind that unaccompanied refugee minors are among the most vulnerable refugees and the most at risk of neglect, violence, forced military recruitment and sexual assault and therefore require special assistance and care,
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  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Persons on the move
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Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (2006), para. 22

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15. Urges States parties to comply strictly with their obligations under the Convention, including, in view of the high number of reports not submitted in time, their obligation to submit reports in accordance with article 19 of the Convention, and invites States parties to incorporate a gender perspective and information concerning children and juveniles when submitting reports to the Committee against Torture;
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  • Gender
  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Rights of the child (2003), para. 089

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7. Calls upon States to take all appropriate steps to combat the misuse of new information and communication technologies, including the Internet, for trafficking in children and for purposes of all forms of sexual exploitation and abuse, in particular the sale of children, child prostitution, child pornography, child sex tourism, acts of paedophilia and other forms of violence and abuse against children and adolescents, and notes that the use of such technologies can also contribute to preventing and eradicating such phenomena;
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  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Rights of the child (2010), para. 60

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(e) To provide support to children and adolescents to enable them to form and register their own associations and other child- and adolescent-led initiatives, in conformity with national and international law;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Rights of the child (2017), para. 003

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Reaffirming also all of its previous resolutions on the rights of the child, the most recent of which was resolution 70/137 of 17 December 2015, and all other relevant resolutions, including 69/158 of 18 December 2014 on protecting children from bullying and 69/187 of 18 December 2014 on migrant children and adolescents,
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Social & Cultural Rights
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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The girl child (2008), para. 53

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30. Calls upon States to strengthen the capacity of national health systems, and in this regard calls upon the international community to assist national efforts, including by allocation of adequate resources in order to provide essential services needed to prevent obstetric fistula and to treat those cases that occur by providing the continuum of services, including family planning, prenatal and post-natal care, skilled birth attendance, emergency obstetric care and post-partum care, to adolescent girls, including those living in poverty and in underserved rural areas where obstetric fistula is most common;
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  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Girls
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Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (2017), para. 25

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5. Encourages States to prevent the separation of migrant children and adolescents from their families, to establish effective systems in conformity with their international obligations and commitments, and to prioritize family reunification for unaccompanied or separated children with their parents, except when further separation is necessary in the best interests of the child, taking full account of the right of the child to express his or her views freely in matters that affect them and ensuring that applications by the child, or his or her parents, to enter or leave a country for the purpose of family reunification are dealt with in a positive, humane and expeditious manner and entail no adverse consequences for the applicants or family members;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Persons on the move
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 027

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24. Take note of the Secretary-General’s new Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030), which continues to galvanize global efforts to significantly reduce the number of maternal, adolescent, newborn and under-5 child deaths, as a matter of urgent concern;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Infants
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights (2016), para. 19

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Recognizing that there are large disparities in maternal mortality and morbidity rates between countries, but also within countries, and between women with a high and a low income, and between those living in rural as against urban areas, and noting with concern that the risk of maternal mortality is highest for adolescent girls under 15 years of age, and that complications in pregnancy and childbirth are a leading cause of death among adolescent girls in developing countries, and recognizing also that the risk of maternal mortality and morbidity is exacerbated in armed conflict and humanitarian emergencies,
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  • Health
  • Humanitarian
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  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2008), para. 08

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Recognizing further the serious immediate and long-term implications for health, including sexual and reproductive health, as well as increased vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, and the negative impact on psychological, social and economic development, that violence against the girl child and adolescent girls represents for individuals, families, communities and States,
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  • Health
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Girls
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Feb 25, 2020
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World Summit Outcome (2005), para. 126

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(b) Implementing measures to increase the capacity of adults and adolescents to protect themselves from the risk of HIV infection;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
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Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (2017), para. 30

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10. Encourages States to take into consideration the present resolution in the development of the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration, and to consider specific measures to strengthen the rights of migrant children and adolescents, paying particular attention to the specific needs of unaccompanied and separated migrant children;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Rights of the child (2006), para. 029

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(d) Designing and implementing programmes to provide social services and support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular by enabling them to continue and complete their education;
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  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Social & Cultural Rights
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  • Adolescents
  • Infants
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Feb 25, 2020
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The situation in Afghanistan (2012), para. 064

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41. Welcomes the commitment by the Government of Afghanistan to provide unimpeded access for relevant organizations to all prisons in Afghanistan, emphasizes the importance of ensuring access for relevant organizations, and calls for full respect for relevant international law, including humanitarian law and human rights law, where applicable, including with regard to minors, if detained;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Humanitarian
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  • Adolescents
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The situation in Afghanistan (2010), para. 081

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67. Reiterates the necessity of providing Afghan children, especially Afghan girls, with educational and health facilities in all parts of the country, welcomes progress achieved in the sector of public education, recalls the National Education Strategic Plan as a promising basis for further achievements, and reiterates further the need to provide vocational training for adolescents;
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  • Education
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
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Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2014), para. 26

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(c) To further revisit the revised Islamic Penal Code to make it consistent with its obligation, under article 37 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to abolish executions of minors and persons who at the time of their offence were under the age of 18;
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  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2017), para. 09

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Recognizing further that adolescent girls are at particular risk of maternal death and morbidity, including obstetric fistula, and concerned that the leading cause of death among girls aged 15 to 19 in many low- and middle-income countries is complications from pregnancy and childbirth and that women aged 30 and older are at increased risk of developing complications and of dying during c hildbirth,
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  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2009), para. 09

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Recognizing further the serious immediate and long-term implications for health, including sexual and reproductive health, as well as increased vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, and the negative impact on psychological, social and economic development, that violence against the girl child and adolescent girls represents for individuals, families, communities and States,
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Girls
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Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2017), para. 14

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Concerned that 1 million girls under 15 give birth every year, and that the risk of maternal mortality is highest for adolescent girls under 15 years of age,
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  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Girls
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Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2019), para. 37

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7. Urges States to promote and protect sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, in accordance with the Beijing Platform for Action and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the outcome documents of their review conferences, and to respect, protect and fulfil the right of every woman to have full control over and decide freely and responsibly on all matters relating to her sexuality and sexual and reproductive health, free from discrimination, coercion and violence, including through the removal of legal barriers and the development and enforcement of policies, good practices and legal frameworks that respect bodily autonomy and guarantee universal access to sexual and reproductive health, services and evidence- based information and education, including for family planning, safe and effective methods of modern contraception, emergency contraception, prevention programmes for adolescent pregnancy, maternal health care, such as skilled birth assistance and emergency obstetric care, safe abortion where not against national law, and the prevention and treatment of reproductive tract infections, sexually transmitted infections, HIV and reproductive cancers, and through the integration of sexual and reproductive health into national health strategies and programmes;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2015), para. 23

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7. Expresses grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well- being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women, children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities;
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  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 16

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2. Calls upon countries of origin, transit and destination to facilitate family reunification as an important objective in order to promote the welfare and the best interest of migrant children, including adolescents, as applicable under national law, due process and the relevant provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child 2 and the Optional Protocols thereto, 18 and to comply with the consular notification and access obligations set forth in the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 7 so that States may provide child-friendly consular assistance, as appropriate, including legal assistance;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights in the administration of justice (2015), para. 20

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Aware of the need for special vigilance with regard to the specific situation of children, juveniles and women in the administration of justice, in particular while they are deprived of their liberty, and their vulnerability to various forms of violence, abuse, injustice and humiliation,
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  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1999), para. 09

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Noting the efforts of the High Commissioner to ensure the protection of and assistance to refugees, including children and unaccompanied minors, and noting that further efforts need to be exerted to this effect,
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  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2003), para. 095

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13. Also calls upon States to identify best practices and to take all appropriate national, bilateral and multilateral measures, to allocate resources for the development of long-term policies, programmes and practices, to collect comprehensive and disaggregated gender-specific data and, while reaffirming the right of children, including adolescents, to express themselves freely, to facilitate the participation of child victims of sexual exploitation, taking into account their age and maturity, in the development of strategies to end the sale of children and their organs, sexual exploitation and abuse, including the use of children for pornography, prostitution and acts of paedophilia, and to combat existing markets;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2019), para. 051

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18. Calls upon States to scale up scientifically accurate and 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, and with appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians, with the best interests of the child as their basic concern, with information on sexual and reproductive health and HIV prevention, gender equality and women’s empowerment, human rights, physical, psychological and pubertal development and power in relationships between women and men, to enable them to build self-esteem and foster informed decision-making, communication and risk- reduction skills and to develop respectful relationships, in full partnership with young people, parents, legal guardians, caregivers, educators and health-care providers, in order to, inter alia, enable them to protect themselves from HIV infection and other risks;
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  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
  • Youth
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Rights of the child (2007), para. 105

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(b) To ensure a continuum of care from pregnancy through childhood, recognizing that maternal, newborn and child health are inseparable and interdependent, and that the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals must be based on a strong commitment to the rights of women, children and adolescents;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Infants
  • Women
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Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2019), para. 093

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59. Also encourages Member States, in cooperation with relevant United Nations humanitarian organizations, to ensure that women and girls have access to basic health-care services, including reliable and safe access to sexual and reproductive health-care services and mental health and psychosocial support, from the onset of emergencies, in this regard recognizes that such assistance protects women, adolescent girls and infants from preventable mortality and morbidity that occur in humanitarian emergencies, and calls upon Member States, the United Nations and other relevant actors to give such programmes due consideration;
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  • Health
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Infants
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2000), para. 05

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Mindful of the fact that the ultimate solution to the plight of unaccompanied refugee minors is their return to and reunification with their families,
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  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (2016), para. 12

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Deeply concerned at the fact that migrant children and adolescents who are in vulnerable situations when attempting to cross international borders without the required travel documents may be exposed to serious human rights violations and abuses that can threaten their physical, emotional and psychological health and well-being, and may also be exposed to crimes and human rights abuses, including theft, kidnapping, extortion, physical abuse, smuggling and trafficking in persons, including forced labour, and sexual exploitation and abuse, during their journeys,
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  • Movement
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Policies and programmes involving youth (2018), para. 25

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9. Emphasizes the role of quality health education and literacy in improving health outcomes over a lifetime, and in this regard encourages its promotion by Member States among young people, including through evidence-based education and information strategies and programmes, both in and out of school, and through public campaigns, and to increase the access of youth to affordable, safe, effective, sustainable and youth-friendly health-care services and social services, safe drinking water and adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene, without discrimination, by paying special attention to and raising awareness regarding sports a nd physical activity, nutrition, including eating disorders, obesity, mental health and well -being, the prevention, control and effects of communicable and non-communicable diseases, the prevention of adolescent pregnancies, and sexual and reproductive health care, and recognizes the need to develop safe, affordable and youth-friendly counselling and substance abuse prevention programmes;
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  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Youth
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2004), para. 13

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2. Expresses its deep concern at the continuing plight of unaccompanied refugee minors, and emphasizes once again the urgent need for their early identification and for timely, detailed and accurate information on their number and whereabouts;
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  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Persons on the move
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Human rights in the administration of justice (2000), para. 07

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Aware of the need for special vigilance with regard to the vulnerable situation of children and juveniles, as well as women and girls, in detention,
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2015), para. 13

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Recognizing the need to raise awareness among men and adolescent boys and, in this context, to fully engage men and community leaders as strategic partners and allies in the efforts to address and eliminate obstetric fistula,
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  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Men
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 13

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Aware that the risks related to irregular migration faced by children, including adolescents, can have a negative impact on the enjoyment of their economic, social and cultural rights, as well as their political and civil rights and their rights as set forth in the Convention on the Rights of the Child,
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  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2008), para. 052

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(c) To support adolescents to be able to deal positively and responsibly with their sexuality in order to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS infection and to implement measures to increase their capacity to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS through, inter alia, the provision of health care, including for sexual and reproductive health, and through preventive education that promotes gender equality;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2002), para. 09

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Noting the efforts of the High Commissioner to ensure the protection of and assistance to refugees, including children and unaccompanied minors, and that further enhanced efforts need to be exerted to this effect,
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  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2019), para. 12

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Expressing grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well- being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women, children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities,
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  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Consequences of child, early and forced marriage (2019), para. 15

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Deeply concerned by the impact of deep-rooted and intersecting gender inequalities, patriarchal values, discriminatory gender norms, stereotypes, perceptions and customs that are among the primary causes of child, early and forced marriage, as well as other forms of sexual and gender-based violence against women and girls, and deeply concerned also that poverty, insecurity, lack of access to education and health services, and adolescent pregnancy are also among the drivers of this harmful practice, and that it remains common in rural areas, in humanitarian settings and among the poorest communities,
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  • Harmful Practices
  • Humanitarian
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2019), para. 24

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7. Expresses grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well - being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women, children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities;
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  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights in humanitarian settings (2018), para. 33

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3. Calls upon States to pay special attention to the particular situation of adolescent girls in humanitarian settings who may have to assume adult responsibilities and are exposed to higher risks of sexual and gender-based violence, child, early and forced marriage and trafficking, and are likely to be denied education, skills training, safe employment opportunities and access to sexual and reproductive health-care services and information, and to face isolation, discrimination and stigma, mental health issues and risk- taking behaviour;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
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Feb 25, 2020
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Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights in humanitarian settings (2018), para. 12

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Taking note also of the report and the recommendations of the High-level Working Group on the Health and Human Rights of Women, Children and Adolescents, 1 the cooperation framework between the World Health Organization and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and that between the Office of the High Commissioner and the United Nations Population Fund, and also of the draft articles on the protection of persons in the event of disasters, adopted by the International Law Commission, 2
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Sudan (2000), para. 50

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(k) To implement the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners 8 and to give special consideration to imprisoned women and juveniles;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1998), para. 21

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16. Urges States and relevant parties to respect and observe principles of international human rights, humanitarian and refugee law that are of particular relevance to safeguarding the rights of child and adolescent refugees, and, noting the particular vulnerability of refugee children to being forcibly exposed to the risks of injury, exploitation and death in connection with armed conflict, urges all States and concerned parties to take all possible measures to protect child and adolescent refugees, including, in particular, from all forms of violence, exploitation and abuse, and to prevent their separation from their families;
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  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2018), para. 12

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9. Expresses serious concern at the alarmingly high frequency of the imposition and carrying-out of the death penalty by the Islamic Republic of Iran, in violation of its international obligations, including the imposition of the death penalty against minors and persons who at the time of their offence were under the age of 18, and executions undertaken for crimes that do not qualify as the most serious cri mes, on the basis of forced confessions or against persons who at the time of their offence were under the age of 18, in violation of both the Convention on the Rights of the Child 6 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 expresses concern at the continuing disregard for internationally recognized safeguards, including executions undertaken without notification to the prisoner ’s family members or legal counsel, and calls upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to abolish, in law and in practice, public executions, which are contrary to the 2008 directive seeking to end this practice issued by the former head of the judiciary;
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  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
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Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2010), para. 73

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(r) To encourage and enable children affected by natural and man-made disasters and complex emergencies, in particular adolescents, to participate in analysing their situations and future prospects in crisis, post-crisis and transition processes, while ensuring that such participation is in accordance with their age, maturity and evolving capacities and is consistent with the best interests of the child and recognizing that appropriate care needs to be taken to protect children from exposure to situations that are likely to be traumatic or harmful;
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  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2017), para. 14

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Recognizing the need to raise awareness among men and adolescent boys and, in this context, to fully engage men and community leaders as strategic partners and allies in the efforts to address and eliminate obstetric fistula,
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  • Gender
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Men
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2005), para. 010

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1. Reaffirms that the general principles of, inter alia, the best interests of the child, non-discrimination, participation and survival and development provide the framework for all actions concerning children, including adolescents;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Feb 25, 2020
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Protection of migrants (2006), para. 37

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15. Encourages States of origin to promote and protect the human rights of those families of migrant workers that remain in the countries of origin, paying particular attention to children and adolescents whose parents have emigrated, and encourages international organizations to consider supporting States in this regard;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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The rights of the child (2001), para. 037

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7. Calls upon all States and relevant bodies and organizations of the United Nations system, in particular the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund, to pay particular attention to the development of sustainable health systems and social services to ensure the effective prevention of diseases, malnutrition, disabilities and infant and child mortality, including through prenatal and post-natal health care, as well as the provision of necessary medical treatment and health care to all children, taking into consideration the special needs of young children and girls, including prevention of common infectious diseases, the special needs of adolescents, including those relating to reproductive and sexual health and threats from substance abuse and violence, and the particular needs of children living in poverty, children in situations of armed conflict and children in other vulnerable groups, and to strengthen ways of empowering families and communities;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Youth
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Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2016), para. 28

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6. Calls upon States, with the support, where appropriate, of international organizations, civil society and non-governmental organizations, to develop policies and programmes, giving priority to formal, informal and non-formal education programmes, including age-appropriate sex education with appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians, that support girls and adolescent girls and enable them to acquire relevant and adequate knowledge and information in a manner consistent with their evolving capacities, develop self-esteem and take responsibility for their own lives, and to place special focus on programmes to educate women and men, especially parents, about the importance of girls’ physical and mental health and well-being and the need to develop and maintain respectful relationships between girls and boys;
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  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (2016), para. 09

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Taking note of the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of migrants in transit, 2 in which the Office analysed the human rights situation of migrants in transit, highlighted human rights concerns and made recommendations aimed at addressing critical protection gaps for migrants in transit, including unaccompanied children and adolescents, and women and girls,
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2018), para. 047

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Underlining that Member States need to recognize that the crime of smuggling of migrants and the crime of trafficking in persons are distinct crimes and require separate and complementary legal, operational and policy responses, and recalling its resolutions 69/187 of 18 December 2014 and of 17 December 2015, in which it called upon all Member States to protect and assist migrants, including migrant children and adolescents, and Economic and Social Council resolutions 2014/23 of 16 July 2014 and 2015/23 of 21 July 2015,
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2003), para. 041

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12. Urges States to give particular emphasis to the prevention of HIV infection in young children and strengthen efforts to prevent adolescents and women from becoming HIV-infected, inter alia, by including HIV/AIDS prevention in educational curricula and educational programmes consistent with the epidemiology of the diseases in each State, and by supporting wide-scale voluntary HIV testing and counselling programmes for pregnant women, together with services for HIV- infected pregnant women to reduce the risk of transmitting the virus from infected pregnant women to their children;
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  • Education
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Infants
  • Women
  • Youth
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Feb 25, 2020
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 125

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63 (b). Commit to strengthening measures at the international, regional, national, and local and community levels to prevent crimes and violence against, and victimization of, people living with, at risk of and affected by HIV and foster social development and inclusiveness, integrating such measures into overall law enforcement efforts and comprehensive HIV policies and programmes as key to reaching the global AIDS fast-track targets and the Sustainable Development Goals, and reviewing and reforming, as needed, legislation that may create barriers or reinforce stigma and discrimination, such as age of consent laws, laws related to HIV non-disclosure, exposure and transmission, policy provisions and guidelines that restrict access to services among adolescents, travel restrictions and mandatory testing, including of pregnant women, who should still be encouraged to take the HIV test, to remove adverse effects on the successful, effective and equitable delivery of HIV prevention, treatment care and support progra mmes to people living with HIV;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of American States (2000), para. 08

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Welcoming also resolution AG/RES.1733 (XXX-O/00), adopted by the General Assembly of the Organization of American States at its thirtieth regular session, by which it declared 2001 as the Inter-American Year of the Child and the Adolescent, and related efforts in the Americas to address emerging issues for children in the twenty-first century, during lead-up to the special session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in 2001 for follow-up to the World Summit for Children,
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Feb 25, 2020
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Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (2010), para. 064

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(a) Persons under the age of 18 years who are deprived of their liberty by decision of a judicial or administrative authority as a result of being alleged as, accused of or recognized as having infringed the law, and whose situation is covered by the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice 5F 6 and the United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of Their Liberty; 6F 7
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  • Civil & Political Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1996), para. 13

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6. Calls upon the Secretary-General, the High Commissioner, the Department of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat, the United Nations Children’s Fund and other United Nations organizations and international organizations to mobilize adequate assistance to unaccompanied minors in the areas of relief, education, health and psychological rehabilitation;
Topic(s)
  • Health
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration of the High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development (2014), para. 22

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19. Recognize the particular vulnerabilities, circumstances and needs of adolescents and young migrants, as well as their potential to build social, economic and cultural bridges of cooperation and understanding across societies;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Movement
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Persons on the move
  • Youth
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 08

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Aware that the migration of accompanied and unaccompanied children, including adolescents, may be the result of diverse causes and factors, such as poverty, crisis situations, lack of social and economic opportunities in their communities of origin, the death of one or both parents, the search for family reunification, all forms of violence and lack of personal safety,
Topic(s)
  • Movement
  • Poverty
  • Social & Cultural Rights
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
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Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2013), para. 006

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Reaffirming that the general principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, including, inter alia, the best interests of the child, non-discrimination, participation and survival and development, provide the framework for all actions concerning children, including adolescents,
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Consequences of child, early and forced marriage (2019), para. 35

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7. Further 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, have left school early or were forced to leave school because of, inter alia, marriage, pregnancy and/or childbirth, on re-entry policies and on vocational training and skills development, which empower young women and girls subjected to child, early and forced marriage 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;
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
  • Youth
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights (2016), para. 27

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3. Urges States and encourages other relevant stakeholders, including national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations, to take action at all levels, utilizing a human rights-based approach to address the interlinked causes of maternal mortality and morbidity, such as lack of accessible, affordable and appropriate health-care services for all, and of information and education, poverty, all types of malnutrition, harmful practices, including child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation, early childbearing, gender inequalities and all forms of discrimination and violence against women, and to pay particular attention to eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, especially adolescent girls, while ensuring the meaningful and effective participation of women and girls in the relevant processes;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2008), para. 032

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14. Also urges all States in particular to strengthen the participation of children and adolescents in planning and implementation relating to matters that affect them, such as health, environment, education, social and economic welfare and protection against violence, abuse and exploitation;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Social & Cultural Rights
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2020), para. 070

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(j) Designing and implementing programmes to provide pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers with education, including access to quality education, social services and support, to enable them to continue and complete their education, care for their children and protect them from discrimination, as well as to ensure healthy and safe pregnancy;
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Infants
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (2016), para. 21

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7. Notes the request made by the Advisory Committee at its sixteenth session to extend the time schedule envisaged to allow for better informed work by, inter alia, taking into account the work currently under way by the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the Committee on the Rights of the Child, which is scheduled to be finalized at the end of 2016, and requests the Advisory Committee to submit a final report on the global issue of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-sixth session;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Persons on the move
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2011), para. 10

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Recognizing further the serious immediate and long-term implications for health, including sexual and reproductive health, as well as increased vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, and the negative impact on psychological, social and economic development that violence against the girl child and adolescent girls represents for individuals, families, communities and States,
Topic(s)
  • Health
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Girls
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2020), para. 084

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(l) Ensuring that adolescents and young people leaving alternative care receive appropriate support in preparing for the transition to independent living, including support in gaining access to employment, education, training, housing and psychological support, participating in rehabilitation with their families where that is in their best interest, and gaining access to after-care services consistent with the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Youth
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 121

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62 (i). Encourage Member States to strengthen national social and child protection systems to ensure that, by 2020, 75 per cent of people living with, at risk of and affected by HIV who are in need benefit from HIV-sensitive social protection, including cash transfers and equal access to housing, and support programmes for children, in particular for orphans and street children, girls and adolescents living with, at risk of and affected by HIV, as well as their families and caregivers, including through the provision of equal opportunities to support the development of children to their full potential, especially through equal access to early child development services, trauma and psychosocial support and education, as they transition through adolescence, and the creation of safe and non-discriminatory learning environments, supportive legal systems and protections, includ ing civil registration systems;
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Girls
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2006), para. 011

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1. Reaffirms that the general principles of, inter alia, the best interests of the child, non-discrimination, participation and survival and development provide the framework for all actions concerning children, including adolescents;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Rights of the child (2007), para. 029

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(c) Taking all necessary measures to ensure the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and developing sustainable health systems and social services, ensuring access to such systems and services without discrimination, paying special attention to adequate food and nutrition, to the special needs of adolescents and to reproductive and sexual health, and securing appropriate prenatal and post-natal care for mothers, including measures to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Social & Cultural Rights
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Infants
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2000), para. 24

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19. Urges States and relevant parties to respect and observe principles of international human rights, humanitarian and refugee law that are of particular relevance to safeguarding the rights of child and adolescent refugees, notes the particular vulnerability of refugee children to being forcibly exposed to the risks of injury, exploitation and death, in particular in the context of armed conflict, and to abduction with a view to their forced participation in military activities, and urges all States and concerned parties to take all possible measures to protect child and adolescent refugees, including, in particular, from all forms of violence, exploitation and abuse and forced military service, and to prevent their separation from their families;
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  • Movement
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 06

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Concerned by the fact that migrant children, including adolescents, in particular those in an irregular situation, may be exposed to serious human rights violations and abuses at various points in their journey, which can threaten their physical, emotional and psychological well-being in the countries of origin, transit and destination, and that many irregular migrant children, including adolescents, may not be aware of their rights and may be exposed to crimes and human rights abuses committed by transnational criminal organizations and common criminals, including theft, kidnapping, extortion, threats, trafficking in persons, including forced labour, child labour, sexual abuse and exploitation, physical harm and death,
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  • Movement
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Policies and programmes involving youth (2020), para. 35

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10. Emphasizes the role of quality health education and literacy in improving health outcomes over a lifetime, and in this regard encourages its promotion by Member States among young people, including through evidence-based education and information strategies and programmes, both in and out of school, and through public campaigns, and to increase the access of youth to affordable, safe, effective, sustainable and appropriate youth-friendly health-care services and social services, safe drinking water and adequate and equitable sanitation and hygien e, by paying special attention to and raising awareness regarding sports and physical activity, nutrition, including eating disorders, obesity, mental health and well-being, the prevention, control and effects of communicable and non-communicable diseases, the prevention of adolescent pregnancies, and sexual and reproductive health care, and recognizes the need to develop safe, affordable and youth-friendly counselling and substance abuse prevention programmes;
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  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Youth
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Child, early and forced marriage (2017), para. 24

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5. Also calls upon States to promote the meaningful participation of and active consultation with children and adolescents, especially girls, on all issues affecting them and to raise awareness about their rights, including the negative impact of child, early and forced marriage, through safe spaces, for ums and support networks that provide girls and boys with information, life skills and leadership skills training and opportunities to be empowered, to express themselves, to participate meaningfully in all decisions that affect them and to become agents o f change within their communities;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
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  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
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The situation in Afghanistan (2014), para. 054

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30. Welcomes the commitment by the Government of Afghanistan to provide unimpeded access for relevant organizations to all prisons in Afghanistan, emphasizes the importance of ensuring access for relevant organizations, and calls for full respect for relevant international law, including humanitarian law and human rights law, where applicable, including with regard to minors, if detained;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Humanitarian
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  • Adolescents
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Situation of human rights in Eritrea (2012), para. 13

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(c) The forced conscription of citizens for indefinite periods of national service, which could amount to forced labour, the alleged coercion of minors into the military and the mining industry, as well as the intimidation and detention of family members of those suspected of evading national service in Eritrea;
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  • Movement
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
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The situation in Afghanistan (2010), para. 047

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35. Emphasizes the importance of ensuring access for relevant organizations to all prisons in Afghanistan, and calls for full respect for relevant international law, including humanitarian law and human rights law, where applicable, including with regard to minors, if detained;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Humanitarian
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  • Adolescents
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2010), para. 07

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(b) The continuing high incidence and increase in the rate of executions carried out in the absence of internationally recognized safeguards, including public executions and executions of juveniles;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
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Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2015), para. 013

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Emphasizing the relevance of international instruments and United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice related to the treatment of prisoners, in particular women and juveniles,
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  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
  • Women
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Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (2017), para. 09

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Taking note with appreciation of the work of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, especially the reports in which the mandate holder addressed the human rights of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents, in particular his report on the human rights of migrants on a 2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility, presented to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-fifth session, 3
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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The situation in Afghanistan (2016), para. 102

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68. Reiterates the necessity of providing Afghan children, especially Afghan girls, with educational and health facilities in all parts of the country, welcomes the progress achieved in the sector of public education, recalls the National Education Strategic Plan as a promising basis for further achievements, encourages the Government of Afghanistan, with the assistance of the international community, to expand those facilities, train professional staff and promote full and equal access to them by all members of Afghan society, including in remote areas, and reiterates further the need to provide vocational training for adolescents;
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  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying Our Efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS (2011), para. 106

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82. Commit to strengthen national social and child protection systems and care and support programmes for children, in particular for the girl child, and adolescents affected by and vulnerable to HIV, as well as their families and caregivers, including through the provision of equal opportunities to support the development to their full potential of orphans and other children affected by and living with HIV, especially through equal access to education, the creation of safe and non-discriminatory learning environments, supportive legal systems and protections, including civil registration systems, and the provision of comprehensive information and support to children and their families and caregivers, especially age-appropriate HIV information, to assist children living with HIV as they transition through adolescence, consistent with their evolving capacities;
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  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
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Rights of the child (2005), para. 035

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18. Calls upon all States to take all necessary measures to ensure the right of the child, without discrimination, to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to develop sustainable health systems and social services, to ensure access to such systems and services without discrimination and to pay particular attention to adequate food and nutrition to prevent disease and malnutrition, to prenatal and post-natal health care, to the special needs of adolescents and to reproductive and sexual health;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 046

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42. Note with alarm the slow progress in reducing new infections and the limited scale of combination prevention programmes, emphasizing that each country should define the specific populations that are key to its epidemic and response, based on the local epidemiological context, and note with grave concern that women and adolescent girls, in particular in sub-Saharan Africa, are more than twice as likely to become HIV-positive than boys of the same age, and noting also that many national HIV prevention, testing and treatment programmes provide insufficient access to services for women and adolescent girls, migrants and key populations that epidemiological evidence shows are globally at higher risk of HIV, specifically people who inject drugs, who are 24 times more likely to acquire HIV than adults in the general population, sex workers, who are 10 times more likely to acquire HIV, men who have sex with men, who are 24 times more likely to acquire HIV, transgender people, who are 49 times more likely to be living with HIV, and prisoners, who are 5 times more likely to be living with HIV than adults in the general population;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
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Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2019), para. 050

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Underlining that Member States need to recognize that the crime of smuggling of migrants and the crime of trafficking in persons are distinct crimes and require separate and complementary legal, operational and policy responses, and recalling its resolutions 69/187 of 18 December 2014 and of 17 December 2015, in which it called upon all Member States to protect and assist migrants, including migrant children and adolescents, and Economic and Social Council resolutions 2014/23 of 16 July 2014 and 2015/23 of 21 July 2015,
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2018), para. 53

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7. Urges States to promote and protect sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, in accordance with the Beijing Platform for Action and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the outcome documents of their review conferences, and to respect, protect and fulfil the right of every woman to have full control over and decide freely and responsibly on all matters relating to her sexuality and sexual and reproductive health, free from discrimination, coercion and violence, including through the removal of legal barriers and the development and enforcement of policies, good practices and legal frameworks that respect bodily autonomy and guarantee universal access to sexual and reproductive health, services, evidence-based information and education, including for family planning, safe and effective methods of modern contraception, emergency contraception, prevention programmes for adolescent pregnancy, maternal health care, such as skilled birth assistance and emergency obstetric care, safe abortion in accordance with international human rights law and where not against national law, the prevention and treatment of reproductive tract infections, sexually transmitted infections, HIV and reproductive cancers and the integration of sexual and reproductive health into national health strategies and programmes;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Women
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1999), para. 05

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Mindful of the fact that the ultimate solution to the plight of unaccompanied minors is their return to and reunification with their families,
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  • Movement
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
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Human rights in the administration of justice (2015), para. 25

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2. Also takes note with appreciation of the reports of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the protection of human rights of juveniles deprived of their liberty 18 and on access to justice for children and the joint report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children on prevention of and responses to violence against children within the juvenile justice system, 20 submitted to the Human Rights Council;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (2015), para. 25

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16. Also encourages Member States to promote the implementation of the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules), 16 as well as the United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty; 13
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
  • Women
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Human rights in the administration of justice, in particular juvenile justice (2011), para. 17

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Aware of the need for special vigilance with regard to the specific situation of children, juveniles and women in the administration of justice, in particular while deprived of their liberty, and their vulnerability to violence, abuse, injustice and humiliation,
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  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: engaging men and boys in preventing and responding to violence against all women and girls (2017), para. 09

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Taking note of the work of the High-level Working Group on the Health and Human Rights of Women, Children and Adolescents,
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2014), para. 11

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(c) The continuing imposition and carrying-out of the death penalty against minors and persons who at the time of their offence were under the age of 18, in violation of the obligations of the Islamic Republic of Iran under the Convention on the Rights of the Child 6 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; 2
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  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (2017), para. 32

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12. Invites the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, in accordance with their mandates, to continue to give due consideration to the situation of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and the impact of this issue on the full enjoyment of their human rights, and to continue to report thereon;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 17

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3. Underlines that children, including adolescents, should not be subject to arbitrary arrest or detention based solely on their migration status and that the deprivation of liberty of migrant children and adolescents should be a measure of last resort, under conditions that respect the human rights of each child and in a manner that takes into account, as a primary consideration, the best interest of the child;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1996), para. 12

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5. Condemns all acts of exploitation of unaccompanied refugee minors, including their use as soldiers or human shields in armed conflict and their recruitment in military forces, and any other acts that endanger their safety and personal security;
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  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Political declaration of the third high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (2018), para. 53

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(c) Taking concrete steps, where relevant, towards eliminating the marketing, advertising and sale of alcoholic products to minors;
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  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
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  • Adolescents
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Literacy for life: shaping future agendas (2017), para. 06

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Deeply concerned that, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 758 million adults lack basic literacy skills, that, of the world’s 650 million primary-school-age children, at least 250 million, many of whom are from disadvantaged backgrounds, are not acquiring basic skills in reading and mathematics, that an estimated 124 million children and adolescents worldwide remain out of school, especially in rural areas, and that these challenges are distributed in an uneven manner across countries and populations,
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  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (2017), para. 18

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Recognizing that, for the full and harmonious development of a child’s personality, he or she should grow up in a family environment and in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding, and, therefore, that States of origin, destination and, where appropriate, transit should, as applicable under national law, facilitate family reunification as an important objective in order to promote the welfare and the best interests of migrant children, including adolescents,
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Movement
  • Social & Cultural Rights
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Persons on the move
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Rights of the child (2008), para. 050

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(a) To take all necessary measures to ensure the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to develop sustainable health systems and social services, ensuring access to such systems and services without discrimination, paying special attention to adequate food and nutrition and combating disease and malnutrition, to access to safe drinking water and sanitation, to the special needs of male and female adolescents and to reproductive and sexual health, and securing appropriate prenatal and post-natal care for mothers, including measures to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and in this context to realize millennium development goals 4, 5 and 6;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Water & Sanitation
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Infants
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (2010), para. 083

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41. States are encouraged to adopt measures for the integral protection and guarantee of rights during pregnancy, birth and the breastfeeding period, in order to ensure conditions of dignity and equality for the adequate development of the pregnancy and the care of the child. Therefore, support programmes should be provided to future mothers and fathers, particularly adolescent parents, who have difficulty exercising their parental responsibilities. Such programmes should aim at empowering mothers and fathers to exercise their parental responsibilities in conditions of dignity and at avoiding their being induced to surrender their child because of their vulnerability.
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Infants
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Feb 25, 2020
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Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (2017), para. 13

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Taking note with appreciation of the report submitted by the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee at the present session on the study on the global issue of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights, 4 in which the Committee defines the areas, reasons and cases in which this issue arises in the world, and the way in which human rights are threatened and violated, and makes recommendations for the consideration of States on how to protect the human rights of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents,
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Rights of the child (2007), para. 033

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(g) Designing and implementing programmes to provide social services and support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular by enabling them to continue and complete their education;
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  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Social & Cultural Rights
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  • Adolescents
  • Infants
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Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2018), para. 06

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3. Acknowledges proposed or adopted legislative and administrative changes in the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the new Code of Criminal Procedure, the Criminal Procedure Bill in respect of Juveniles and Children, the amendment to the Anti-Narcotics Law regarding penalties for drug-related offences and the Citizens’ Rights Charter, which, if properly implemented, would address some human rights concerns;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Feb 25, 2020
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Political declaration of the high-level meeting on universal health coverage (2019), para. 40

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27. Prioritize health promotion and disease prevention, through public health policies, good governance of health systems, education, health communication and health literacy, as well as safe, healthy and resilient cities, enabling people, throughout their life course, including, among others, adolescents, to have increased knowledge to take informed health decisions and improve health-seeking behaviour;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2017), para. 44

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(l) Enhancing the participation of men and adolescent boys in the intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula and further strengthening their involvement as partners, including in the global Campaign to End Fistula;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Girls
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2004), para. 21

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10. Calls upon the Secretary-General, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat, the United Nations Children’s Fund, other United Nations organizations and other international organizations to mobilize adequate assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors in the areas of relief, education, recreational activities, health and psychological rehabilitation;
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  • Health
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 14

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Recognizing that States, in accordance with their obligations under international law, are responsible for promoting and protecting the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all migrants, regardless of their migration status, including accompanied and unaccompanied children, including adolescents, within their territorial jurisdiction, and encouraging States to promote national child and adolescent protection systems, in consultation with all sectors of society, including migrant communities, civil society organizations and other relevant actors,
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights in the administration of justice (1998), para. 02

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Recalling its resolution 50/181 of 22 December 1995, and taking note of Commission on Human Rights resolution 1996/32 of 19 April 1996 1 and decision 1997/106 of 11 April 1997 on human rights in the administration of justice, particularly with respect to children and juveniles in detention,
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2017), para. 038

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Underlining that Member States need to recognize that the crime of smuggling of migrants and the crime of trafficking in persons are distinct crimes and require separate and complementary legal, operational and policy responses, and recalling its resolutions 69/187 of 18 December 2014 and of 17 December 2015, in which it called upon all Member States to protect and assist migrants, including migrant children and adolescents, and Economic and Social Council resolutions 2014/23 of 16 July 2014 and 2015/23 of 21 July 2015,
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Political declaration of the high-level meeting on universal health coverage (2019), para. 58

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45. Provide adequate, predictable, evidence-based and sustainable finances, while improving their effectiveness, to support national efforts in achieving universal health coverage, in accordance with national contexts and priorities, through domestic, bilateral, regional and multilateral channels, including international cooperation, financial and technical assistance, considering the use of traditional and innovative financing mechanisms such as, inter alia, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents and the United Nations trust fund for human security, within their respective mandates, as well as partnerships with the private sector and other relevant stakeholders, recognizing that health financing requires global solidarity and collective effort;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 11

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Reaffirming that, when exercising their sovereign right to enact and implement migration and border security measures, States have the duty to comply with their obligations under international law, including international human rights law, in order to ensure full respect of the human rights of migrant children, including adolescents,
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Draft outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals (2010), para. 181

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(b) Significantly intensifying prevention efforts and increasing access to treatment by scaling up strategically aligned programmes aimed at reducing the vulnerability of persons more likely to be infected with HIV, combining biomedical, behavioural and social and structural interventions, and through the empowerment of women and adolescent girls so as to increase their capacity to protect themselves from the risk of HIV infection and through the promotion and protection of all human rights. Prevention programmes should take into account local circumstances, ethics and cultural values, including information, education and communication in languages most understood by local communities and should be respectful of cultures, with the aim of reducing risk-taking behaviours and encouraging responsible sexual behaviour, including abstinence and fidelity; expanded access to essential commodities, including male and female condoms and sterile injecting equipment; harm-reduction efforts related to drug use; expanded access to voluntary and confidential counselling and testing; safe blood supplies; and early and effective treatment of sexually transmitted infections, and should promote policies that ensure effective prevention and accelerate research and development into new tools for prevention, including microbicides and vaccines;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2014), para. 73

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39. Requests States to ensure that, in all policies and programmes designed to provide comprehensive HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support, particular attention and support are given to the girl child at risk, living with or affected by HIV, including pregnant girls and young and adolescent mothers and girls with disabilities, and child heads of households, with a view to achieving Millennium Development Goal 6, in particular to halt and begin to reverse by 2015 the spread of HIV;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
  • Youth
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Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS (2006), para. 34

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30. Pledge to eliminate gender inequalities, gender-based abuse and violence; increase the capacity of women and adolescent girls to protect themselves from the risk of HIV infection, principally through the provision of health care and services, including, inter alia, sexual and reproductive health, and the provision of full access to comprehensive information and education; ensure that women can exercise their right to have control over, and decide freely and responsibly on, matters related to their sexuality in order to increase their ability to protect themselves from HIV infection, including their sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence; and take all necessary measures to create an enabling environment for the empowerment of women and strengthen their economic independence; and in this context, reiterate the importance of the role of men and boys in achieving gender equality;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1998), para. 18

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8. Condemns all acts of exploitation of unaccompanied refugee minors, including their use as soldiers or human shields in armed conflict and their forced recruitment into military forces, and any other acts that endanger their safety and personal security;
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  • Movement
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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The girl child (2018), para. 43

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18. Urges all States to enact, uphold and strictly enforce laws and policies aimed at preventing and ending child, early and forced marriage and protecting those at risk and to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the informed, free and full consent of the intending spouses, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage, to raise the minimum age for marriage, engage all relevant stakeholders, including girls, where necessary, and ensure that these laws are well known, to further develop and implement holistic, comprehensive and coordinated policies, plans of action and programmes and to support already married girls and adolescents and ensure the provision of viable alternatives and institutional support, especially educational opportunities for girls, to ensure the survival, protection, development and advancement of the girl child in order to promote and protect the full enjoyment of her human rights and to ensure equal opportunities for girls, including by making such plans an integral part of her total development process;
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  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
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The girl child (2018), para. 36

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11. Calls upon States, with the support, where appropriate, of international organizations, civil society and non-governmental organizations, to develop policies and programmes, giving priority to formal, informal and non-formal education programmes, including scientifically accurate and 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, and with appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians, with information on sexual and reproductive health and HIV prevention, gender equality and women’s empowerment, 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, inter alia, enable them to protect themselves from HIV infection and other risks;
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  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
  • Youth
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Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto: situation of women and girls with disabilities (2018), para. 41

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18. Also calls upon States to accelerate efforts to scale up scientifically accurate age-appropriate comprehensive education that provides adolescent girls and young women with disabilities, in and out of school, in a manner consistent with their evolving capacities, with appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians, with information in accessible and alternative communication formats on sexual and reproductive health, gender equality and women’s empowerment, 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 develop respectful relationships, in full partnership with young people, parents, legal guardians, caregivers, educators and health-care providers;
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  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
  • Youth
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Declaration of the commemorative high-level plenary meeting devoted to the follow-up to the outcome of the special session on children (2008), para. 7

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5. As we welcome the voices and the views of children, including adolescents, heard at the commemorative plenary meeting, we strive to strengthen their participation in the decisions that affect them, in accordance with their age and maturity.
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  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying Our Efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS (2011), para. 058

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53. Pledge to eliminate gender inequalities and gender-based abuse and violence, increase the capacity of women and adolescent girls to protect themselves from the risk of HIV infection, principally through the provision of health care and services, including, inter alia, sexual and reproductive health, as well as full access to comprehensive information and education, ensure that women can exercise their right to have control over, and decide freely and responsibly on, matters related to their sexuality, including their sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence, in order to increase their ability to protect themselves from HIV infection, and take all necessary measures to create an enabling environment for the empowerment of women and to strengthen their economic independence, and, in this context, reiterate the importance of the role of men and boys in achieving gender equality;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Women
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Consequences of child, early and forced marriage (2019), para. 36

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8. Calls upon States to ensure that married and/or pregnant adolescents and young mothers, as well as single mothers, can continue and complete their education, and in this regard design, implement and, where applicable, revise educational policies to allow them to remain in and return to school, providing them with access to health-care and social services and support, including childcare and breastfeeding facilities and crèches, and to education programmes with accessible locations, flexible schedules and distance education, including e-learning, and bearing in mind the important role and responsibilities of fathers, including young fathers, in this regard;
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  • Education
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Infants
  • Women
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2018), para. 12

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Expressing grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women, children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities,
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  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
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Consequences of child, early and forced marriage (2019), para. 23

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Expressing concern that child, early and forced marriage is underrecognized and underreported, and often coincides with impunity and a lack of accountability and access to justice, particularly at the community level, and that the persistence of child, early and forced marriage, like other harmful practices, places women and girls at greater risk of being exposed to and encountering multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence throughout their lives, including domestic and intimate partner violence, marital rape and sexual, physical and psychological violence, and reinforces the lower status of girls and adolescent girls in society,
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  • Harmful Practices
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
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Rights of the child (2010), para. 35

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17. Welcomes the Third World Congress against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 25 to 28 November 2008, and the Rio de Janeiro Declaration and Call for Action to Prevent and Stop Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Rights of the child (2010), para. 57

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(b) To designate, establish or strengthen relevant governmental structures for children, including, where appropriate, ministers in charge of children’s issues and independent ombudspersons for children, have mechanisms in place for allowing and promoting the involvement and participation of children in the formulation and implementation of public policies, in particular those designed to meet national goals and targets for children and adolescents, and ensure adequate and systematic training in the rights of the child for professional groups working with and for children;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Social & Cultural Rights
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 31

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17. Also calls upon States to combat xenophobia, racism and discrimination of any kind against migrants, specifically children, including adolescents, and further calls upon States to take appropriate measures to prevent, investigate and punish all human rights violations and abuses experienced by migrants within their territory and to take appropriate steps to help facilitate such measures in response to abuses outside their territory, in cooperation with other States and all other relevant stakeholders, according to their international commitments and their national legislation;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 22

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8. Encourages all States to address the irregular migration of children, including adolescents, as a multicausal phenomenon, giving priority at all times to the personal safety and physical, emotional and psychological integrity of migrant children, including adolescents, keeping in mind the different needs of boys and girls and adolescent women and men in these situations;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1995), para. 09

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1. Expresses its deep concern at the plight of unaccompanied refugee minors and emphasizes the need for their early identification and for timely, detailed and accurate information on their number and whereabouts;
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  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Persons on the move
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The girl child (2014), para. 46

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12. Calls upon States, with the support of relevant stakeholders, including the private sector, civil society, non-governmental organizations and community- based organizations, as appropriate, to take all measures necessary to ensure the right of girls to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, including sexual and reproductive health, and to develop sustainable health systems, strengthen existing ones to ensure primary health care with an integrated HIV response and make them more accessible to adolescent girls;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Girls
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2015), para. 11

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Expressing grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women, children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities,
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  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 037

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33. Note with deep concern that the HIV epidemic remains a paramount health, development, human rights and social challenge inflicting immense suffering on countries, communities and families throughout the world, that since the beginning of the epidemic there have been an estimated 76 million HIV infections and that 34 million people have died from AIDS, that AIDS is the leading cause of death among women and adolescent girls of reproductive age (ages 15–49) globally, that about 14 million children have been orphaned owing to AIDS, and that 6,000 new HIV infections occur every day, mostly among people in developing countries, and note with alarm that, among the 36.9 million people living with HIV, more than 19 million people do not know their status;
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  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
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Rights of the child: the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (2013), para. 050

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(c) To ensure confidentiality and informed consent in the provision of health care and services, in particular with regard to sexual and reproductive health, to children and adolescents according to their evolving capacities;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Rights of the child (2013), para. 082

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(j) To ensure that indigenous children have access to the same range, quality and standard of free or affordable, gender-sensitive, culturally sensitive and age-appropriate health care and programmes as provided to other children and adolescents, including in the area of sexual and reproductive health, and to take measures, in consultation with indigenous peoples, to eliminate child and maternal mortality and malnutrition and to develop measures to support those services inside their communities;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Social & Cultural Rights
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Ethnic minorities
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The situation in Afghanistan (2010), para. 046

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33. Emphasizes the importance of ensuring access for relevant organizations to all prisons in Afghanistan, and calls for full respect for relevant international law, including humanitarian law and human rights law, where applicable, including with regard to minors in detention;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Humanitarian
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  • Adolescents
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 115

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62 (c). Commit to accelerating efforts to scale up 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 and HIV prevention, gender equality and women’s empowerment, 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 develop respectful relationships, in full partnership with young persons, parents, legal guardians, caregivers, educators and health-care providers, in order to enable them to protect themselves from HIV infection;
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  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
  • Youth
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Feb 25, 2020
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Education for sustainable development in the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2020), para. 06

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Noting with concern that, despite the considerable progress on education access and participation over the past years, 262 million children and youth aged 6 to 17 were still out of school in 2017, more than half of children and adolescents are not meeting minimum proficiency standards in reading and mathematics and, while rapid technological changes present opportunities and challenges, the learning environment, the capacities of teachers and the quality of education have not kept pace, and refocused efforts are needed to improve learning outcomes for the full life cycle, especially for women, girls and people in vulnerable situations, 1
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  • Education
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
  • Youth
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Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (2017), para. 15

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Expressing serious concern about the vulnerability of and risks faced by migrants in countries of transit and destination, in particular children, including adolescents, who are unaccompanied or separated from their families, who are forced to flee or decide to leave their homelands owing to multiple causes and who travel alone migratory routes, regardless of their migratory status, since they may be exposed to serious human rights violations and abuses that can threaten their physical, emotional and psychological well-being, and may also be exposed to crimes and human rights abuses committed by transnational criminal organizations or gangs, including crimes such as theft, kidnapping, extortion, physical abuse, the sale of and trafficking in persons, forced labour, and sexual abuse and exploitation,
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  • Movement
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Rights of the child (2010), para. 62

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(g) To ensure the equal participation of girls, including adolescents, on the basis of non-discrimination and in partnership with boys, including adolescents, in the development of strategies and the implementation of action aimed at achieving gender equality, development, non-violence and peace;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
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  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Girls
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Rights of the child (2008), para. 017

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1. Reaffirms that the general principles of, inter alia, the best interests of the child, non-discrimination, participation and survival and development provide the framework for all actions concerning children, including adolescents;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 106

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61 (k). Commit to developing and to strengthening, in all countries, national policies, norms and measures directly aimed at awareness, prevention and punishment of all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls, as well as to developing policies aimed at the prevention of sexual violence and comprehensive care for children and adolescents sexually abused;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
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Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (2017), para. 31

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11. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, within the framework of the preparations for the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration and in accordance with General Assembly resolutions 71/1 and 71/280 of 6 April 2017, to provide inputs submitted to the Human Rights Council by the Office of the High Commissioner for the forthcoming stocktaking meeting and to engage with Members States and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration to help to identify, through a human rights-based approach, concrete measures and best practices to improve the human rights situation of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2000), para. 14

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4. Stresses the importance of providing adequate resources for programmes of identification and tracing of unaccompanied refugee minors;
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  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Persons on the move
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Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (2016), para. 19

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5. Decides to convene at its thirty-fifth session a panel discussion on the theme, “Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights”, the objective of which will be to identify challenges and best practices by countries of origin, transit and destination and possible joint efforts at all levels to protect the human rights of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents, and requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to liaise with States and all stakeholders, including relevant United Nations bodies, agencies, funds and programmes, treaty bodies, special procedures of the Human Rights Council, national human rights institutions and civil society, with a view to facilitating their participation in the panel discussion;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 24

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10. Encourages States to protect and provide assistance to migrant children, including adolescents, within their jurisdiction, including victims of national and transnational organized crime, including through the implementation of gender- responsive programmes and policies that provide for protection and access to medical, psychosocial and legal assistance, as necessary, and urges them to prosecute perpetrators and abusers;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Health
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2009), para. 11

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Expressing its grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women and children, including adolescents,
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child: a holistic approach to the protection and promotion of the rights of children working and/or living on the street (2011), para. 18

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Deeply concerned also about children, including adolescent girls, working and/or living on the street, facing violence, including sexual exploitation, HIV infection and other serious health problems, substance use and early pregnancies, and about the situation of children born on the street,
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  • Health
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
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Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2014), para. 09

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Recognizing that education, adequate health care, nutrition, skills development and combating discrimination and violence against girls, inter alia, are all necessary for the empowerment of the girl child, in this regard recalling the agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-seventh session, 18 which highlight the intrinsic linkages between empowerment of the girl child and the prevention and elimination of violence, and Commission on Population and Development resolution 2012/1 of 27 April 2012, 19 which highlights actions concerning development and the human rights of adolescents and youth, and further recalling the importance of mainstreaming a gender perspective across the United Nations system in relation to the girl child,
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
  • Youth
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa (2006), para. 11

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7. Reiterates the importance of the full and effective implementation of standards and procedures, including the monitoring and reporting mechanism outlined in Security Council resolution 1612 (2005) of 26 July 2005, to better address the specific protection needs of refugee children and adolescents and to safeguard rights and, in particular, to ensure adequate attention to unaccompanied and separated children and children affected by armed conflict, including former child soldiers in refugee settings, as well as in the context of voluntary repatriation and reintegration measures;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2016), para. 34

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12. Calls upon States to strengthen the capacity of national health systems, and in this regard invites the international community to assist national efforts , upon request, including by allocating adequate resources in order to provide the essential services needed to prevent obstetric fistula and to treat those cases that occur by providing the continuum of services, including family planning, prenatal and postnatal care, skilled birth attendance, emergency obstetric care and po st-partum care, to adolescent girls, including those living in poverty and in underserved rural areas where obstetric fistula is most common;
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  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Girls
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Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2008), para. 48

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25. Requests States to ensure that, in all policies and programmes designed to provide comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support, particular attention and support is given to the girl child at risk, infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS, including pregnant girls and young and adolescent mothers, as part of the global effort to scale up significantly towards achieving the goal of universal access to comprehensive prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Infants
  • Women
  • Youth
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Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Rwanda (2000), para. 28

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22. Encourages the continuing efforts of the Government of Rwanda to reduce the prison population by releasing minors, elderly prisoners, prisoners suffering from terminal illnesses and suspects with incomplete files who were detained for their alleged involvement in genocide and other abuses of human rights, and reaffirms the urgent need to complete a dossier for every detainee with a view to identifying those who should be formally charged and those who should be released immediately, early or conditionally;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
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Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2006), para. 08

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Expressing its grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well- being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women and children, including adolescents,
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 29

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15. Encourages States to establish effective safeguards, where applicable, between public service providers, such as providers of child services and other social services, and immigration enforcement authorities in order to better ensure the human rights of migrant children, including adolescents;
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  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Movement
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity (2014), para. 11

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Emphasizing the relevance of international instruments and United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice related to the treatment of prisoners, in particular women and juveniles,
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  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (2004), para. 19

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8. Condemns all acts of exploitation of unaccompanied refugee minors, including their use as soldiers or human shields in armed conflict and their forced recruitment into military forces, and any other acts that endanger their safety and personal security;
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  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 143

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65 (b). Work towards reducing the number of new infections in children and young adolescents (under the age of 15) by 95 per cent in Asia and the Pacific to 1,900, in Eastern Europe and Central Asia to fewer than 100, in Eastern and Southern Africa to 9,400, in Latin America and the Caribbean to fewer than 500, in the Middle East and North Africa to fewer than 200, in Western and Central Africa to 6,000, and in Western and Central Europe and North America to fewer than 200 among children;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Youth
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Feb 25, 2020
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Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights (2016), para. 07

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Taking note of the Secretary-General’s renewed Global Strategy on Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health, and recognizing the important role it may play in reducing preventable maternal mortality and morbidity,
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  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (2010), para. 077

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36. Special attention should be paid, in accordance with local laws, to the provision and promotion of support and care services for single and adolescent parents and their children, whether or not born out of wedlock. States should ensure that adolescent parents retain all rights inherent to their status both as parents and as children, including access to all appropriate services for their own development, allowances to which parents are entitled, and their inheritance rights. Measures should be adopted to ensure the protection of pregnant adolescents and to guarantee that they do not interrupt their studies. Efforts should also be made to reduce the stigma attached to single and adolescent parenthood.
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2017), para. 109

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72. Calls upon countries of origin, transit and destination to facilitate family reunification as an important objective in order to promote the welfare and the best interests of migrant children, including adolescents, as applicable under national law, due process and the relevant provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocols thereto, and to comply with the consular notification and access obligations set forth in the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 46 so that States may provide child-friendly consular assistance, as appropriate, including legal assistance;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Persons on the move
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Promoting the practical application of the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) (2018), para. 11

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Bearing in mind the need for vigilance with regard to the specific situation of children, juveniles and women in the administration of justice, in particular while they are deprived of their liberty, as called for in the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (the Beijing Rules), 8 the United Nations Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency (the Riyadh Guidelines), 9 the United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty 10 and the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Wo men Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules), 11
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
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Protection of the human rights of migrants: strengthening the promotion and protection of the human rights of migrants, including in large movements (2016), para. 17

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Expressing serious concern at the situation of vulnerability and risk faced by migrants in transit, in particular unaccompanied migrant children, including adolescents, or children who have been separated from their families, who are forced to or decide to leave their homelands owing to multiple causes,
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 20

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6. Calls upon States, the international community and other relevant stakeholders to address the irregular migration of children, including adolescents, from a human rights and a humanitarian perspective, taking into account the principle of the best interest of the child while promoting and protecting their human rights and fundamental freedoms, and calls upon States parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child to adopt measures to give effect to the rights enshrined therein;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights in the administration of justice, including juvenile justice (2017), para. 20

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Reaffirming that the best interests of the child must be a primary consideration in all decisions concerning the deprivation of liberty and, in particular, that depriving children and juveniles of their liberty should be used only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time, in particular before trial, and the need to ensure that, if they are arrested, detained or imprisoned, children should be separated from adults to the greatest extent feasible, unless it is considered in the child’s best interest not to be,
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  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1995), para. 12

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4. Condemns all acts of exploitation of the unaccompanied refugee minors, including their use as soldiers or human shields in armed conflict and their recruitment in military forces, and any other acts that endanger their safety and personal security;
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  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2007), para. 08

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Expressing its grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women and children, including adolescents,
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  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2011), para. 11

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Expressing grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women and children, including adolescents,
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Women
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Rights of the child (2007), para. 012

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1. Reaffirms that the general principles of, inter alia, the best interests of the child, non-discrimination, participation and survival and development provide the framework for all actions concerning children, including adolescents;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (2018), para. 48

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21. Expresses deep concern at the conditions of the Palestinian prisoners and detainees, including minors, in Israeli jails and detention centres, calls upon Israel to explicitly prohibit torture, including psychological torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, demands that Israel, the occupying Power, fully respect and abide by its international law obligations towards all Palestinian prisoners and detainees in its custody, expresses its concern at the continued extensive use of administrative detention, calls for the full implementation of the agreement reached in May 2012 for a prompt and independent investigation into all cases of death in custody, and calls upon Israel to immediately release all Palestinian prisoners, including Palestinian legislators, detained in violation of international law;
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  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1997), para. 04

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Bearing in mind that unaccompanied refugee minors are among the most vulnerable and at risk of neglect, violence, forced military recruitment, sexual assault and other abuses and therefore require special assistance and care,
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  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2006), para. 38

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23. Requests Member States to ensure that, in preventing and addressing HIV/AIDS, particular attention and support is given to the girl child infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS, including adolescent mothers;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Infants
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Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2017), para. 21

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Noting global initiatives and partnerships to assist countries in the implementation of the commitments of the 2030 Agenda, inter alia, the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016-2030), the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, the Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage, the Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting, the High Time to End Violence against Children initiative, Alliance 8.7 to eradicate forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking and child labour, the Global Partnership for Education, the Global Education First Initiative, the Global Alliance for reporting progress on promoting peaceful, just and inclusive societies, the We Protect Global Alliance to End Child Sexual Abuse Online, and the Fast-Track strategy to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, and tools such as the technical guidance on the application of a human rights-based approach to the implementation of policies and programmes to reduce and eliminate preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age, 2 1. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; 3
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  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Infants
  • Women
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2019), para. 48

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(n) Enhancing the participation of men and adolescent boys in the intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula and further strengthening their involvement as partners, including in the global Campaign to End Fistula;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Girls
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Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child: the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (2013), para. 042

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14. Urges States to develop and strengthen, according to national priorities and within their specific contexts, comprehensive policies and strategies that address the promotion of mental health during all stages of childhood and adolescence, including infancy and early childhood, and paying particular attention to children in high-risk situations, through actions to enhance protective factors and to address risk factors, including violence at the community, family and individual levels, as well as through the prevention of mental disability, and early identification, care, support, treatment, recovery and reintegration of children and adolescents with mental disability;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Feb 25, 2020
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 25

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11. Recognizes the need for international cooperation to address, in a holistic and comprehensive manner, the challenges of irregular migration of children, including adolescents, so as to ensure safe, orderly and regular migration, with full respect for human rights;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Political Declaration of the Comprehensive High-level Midterm Review of the Implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011–2020 (2016), para. 036

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23. We recognize that qualified and skilled human resources can make important contributions to sustainable development in the least developed countries. While much progress has been made towards achieving education for all at the primary and secondary levels, much more remains to be done to ensure that the over 24 million children of primary school age not in school and the over 22 million out-of-school adolescents of lower secondary school age in the least developed countries have access to quality education. Strengthened efforts by the least developed countries and their development partners are also needed to ensure that education is of good quality and that it provides all learners with the skills needed to access employment and decent work.
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  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2004), para. 004

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Reaffirming that the general principles of, inter alia, the best interests of the child, non-discrimination, participation and survival and development provide the framework for all actions concerning children, including adolescents,
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Social & Cultural Rights
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations (2018), para. 41

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25. Calls upon States to promote the meaningful participation of and active consultation with children and adolescents affected by humanitarian situations on all issues affecting them, and to raise awareness about their rights through safe spaces, forums and support networks that provide children with information, life skills and leadership skills training and opportunities to be empowered, to express themselves and to participate meaningfully, consistent with their evolving capacities, during and after an emergency;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Humanitarian
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Rights of the child (2013), para. 032

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12. Expresses deep concern about the rising levels of non-communicable diseases, particularly cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes and their risk factors, especially tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption, as well as childhood obesity, and their impacts on the health of children and adolescents, and recognizes the need to strengthen health and social support systems, including by providing child-centred care taking into account that children are the cornerstone of a whole-of-life approach to primary prevention and risk factor management, as well as to adopt multisectoral approaches to address the issue;
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  • Health
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2014), para. 11

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Expressing grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particul ar consequences for women, children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities,
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2010), para. 70

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(o) To provide support to girls, including adolescents, if needed, to voice their views and for their views to be given due weight, and adopt measures to eliminate gender stereotypes that undermine and place severe limitations on girls in the enjoyment of their right to be heard;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Social & Cultural Rights
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  • Adolescents
  • Girls
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Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2020), para. 038

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13. Calls upon States to scale up scientifically accurate and 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, and with appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians, with the best interests of the child as their basic concern, with information on sexual and reproductive health and HIV prevention, gender equality and women’s empowerment, human rights, physical, psychological and pubertal development and power in relationships between women and men, to enable them to build self-esteem and foster informed decision-making, communication and risk- reduction skills and to develop respectful relationships, in full partnership with young people, parents, legal guardians, caregivers, educators and health-care providers, in order to, inter alia, enable them protect themselves from HIV infection and other risks;
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  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
  • Youth
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Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (2019), para. 34

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14. Expresses grave concern at the disproportionate and differentiated impact of the crisis in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on the human rights of women and girls, the lack of comprehensive health-care services and the insufficient provision of underlying determinants of health, including water and adequate nutrition, the deterioration of immunization and preventative health programmes, and accounts of increased rates in maternal mortality, adolescent pregnancy, malnutrition and preventable diseases;
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  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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The protection of human rights in the context of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquiredimmunodeficiencysyndrome (AIDS) (2011), para. 47

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13. Calls upon States to address as a priority the vulnerabilities faced by children and adolescents affected by and living with HIV, providing those children and their families with support and rehabilitation, including social and psychological rehabilitation and care, including pediatric services and medicines, and intensifying efforts to develop early diagnosis tools, child-friendly medicine combinations and new treatments for children, particularly for infants living in resource-limited settings, and building, where needed, and supporting social security systems that protect them;
Topic(s)
  • Health
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Infants
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1997), para. 18

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8. Calls upon the Secretary-General, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Department of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat, the United Nations Children's Fund and other United Nations organizations and international organizations to mobilize adequate assistance to unaccompanied minors in the areas of relief, education, health and psychological rehabilitation;
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  • Health
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2016), para. 32

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10. Calls upon States, with the support of relevant stakeholders, including the private sector, civil society, non-governmental organizations and community- based organizations, as appropriate, to take all measures nece ssary to ensure the right of girls to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, including sexual and reproductive health, and to develop sustainable health systems, strengthen existing ones to ensure primary health care with an integrated HIV response and make them more accessible to adolescent girls;
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  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Girls
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Feb 25, 2020
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The rights of the child (2001), para. 040

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10. Urges States to give particular emphasis to the prevention of HIV infection in young children and strengthen efforts to prevent adolescents and women from becoming HIV-infected, inter alia, by including HIV/AIDS prevention in educational curricula and educational programmes consistent with the epidemiology of the diseases in each State, and by supporting wide-scale voluntary HIV testing and counselling programmes for pregnant women, together with services for HIV-infected pregnant women to reduce the risk of transmitting the virus from HIV/AIDS-infected pregnant women to their children;
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Infants
  • Women
  • Youth
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Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2013), para. 08

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(c) The failure to abolish the execution of minors and persons who at the time of their offence were under the age of 18, in violation of the obligations of the Islamic Republic of Iran under the Convention on the Rights of the Child 6 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; 2
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  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (2017), para. 22

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2. Urges States to give primary consideration at all times to the best interests of the child, particularly with regard to children in transit or crossing borders, and when formulating policies on integration, return or family reunification, to carry out individualized, comprehensive best-interest assessments to identify the protection needs of migrant children and adolescents, particularly unaccompanied and separated children, and to carry out early and prompt assessments of victims of violence, exploitation and abuse who may qualify for refugee status or other forms of protection;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2017), para. 12

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Expressing grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is adversely affected by unilateral coercive measures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, with particular consequences for women, children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities,
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1999), para. 20

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9. Condemns all acts of exploitation of unaccompanied refugee minors, including their use as soldiers or human shields in armed conflict and their forced recruitment into military forces, and any other acts that endanger their safety and personal security;
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  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2020), para. 073

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38. Encourages Governments to end all forms of malnutrition, including the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons;
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  • Food & Nutrition
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (2016), para. 04

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Recalling also all previous resolutions of the General Assembly on the protection of the human rights of migrants, in particular those relating to the situation of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents, such as Assembly resolution 69/187 of 18 December 2014, Human Rights Council resolutions on the protection of the human rights of migrants, in particular resolution 29/12 of 1 July 2015, the work of various special mechanisms of the Council that have reported on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of migrants, Commission on Population and Development resolution 2013/1 of 26 April 2013, entitled “New trends in migration: demographic aspects” and the Declaration of the High- level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, adopted on 3 October 2013,
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2007), para. 031

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(e) Supporting adolescents to be able to deal positively and responsibly with their sexuality in order to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS infection and implementing measures to increase their capacity to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS through, inter alia, the provision of health care, including for sexual and reproductive health, and through preventive education that promotes gender equality;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
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Feb 25, 2020
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Consequences of child, early and forced marriage (2019), para. 37

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9. Urges Governments to respect, protect and fulfil the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including the right to sexual and reproductive health, through the development and enforcement of policies and legal frameworks and the strengthening of health systems, including health information systems, that make universally accessible, acceptable and available quality, gender-responsive, adolescent-friendly health services, sexual and reproductive health-care services, information, education and commodities, HIV and AIDS prevention, testing, treatment and care, mental health services and psychosocial support, and nutrition interventions and prevention, treatment of and care for obstetric fistula and other obstetric complications by providing the continuum of services, including family planning, prenatal and postnatal care, skilled birth attendance, emergency obstetric care and post-partum care;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
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Feb 25, 2020
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Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (2017), para. 05

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Recalling also all previous resolutions of the General Assembly on the protection of the human rights of migrants, in particular those relating to the situation of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents, such as resolutions 69/187 of 18 December 2014 and 71/177 of 19 December 2016, the Human Rights Council resolutions on the protection of the human rights of migrants, in particular resolutions 9/5 of 16 September 2008, 12/6 of 12 October 2009, 29/12 of 2 July 2015, 33/7 of 29 September 2016 and 35/17 of 22 June 2017, Commission on Population and Development resolution 2013/1 of 26 April 2013, entitled “New trends in migrations: demographic aspects”, and the Declaration of the High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, adopted on 3 October 2013,
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2014), para. 22

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6. Expresses grave concern that, in some countries, the situation of children is adversely affected by unilateral coercive me asures not in accordance with international law and the Charter that create obstacles to trade relations among States, impede the full realization of social and economic development and hinder the well-being of the population in the affected countries, wit h particular consequences for women, children, including adolescents, the elderly and persons with disabilities;
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
  • Women
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Feb 25, 2020
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The situation in Afghanistan (2009), para. 074

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62. Reiterates the necessity of providing Afghan children, especially Afghan girls, with educational and health facilities in all parts of the country, welcomes progress achieved in the sector of public education, recalls the National Education Strategic Plan as a promising basis for further achievements, and reiterates further the need to provide vocational training for adolescents;
Topic(s)
  • Education
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
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Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child: the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (2013), para. 045

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16. Recalls the need to adopt strategies, to prevent and to address the harmful use of alcohol and illicit substances with a holistic and human rights perspective, and to provide information, education and counselling on the effects of substance abuse, but also the importance of family and school support for its prevention and the treatment, rehabilitation and reintegration of children and adolescents with substance abuse issues;
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Protection of migrants (2005), para. 38

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19. Encourages States of origin to promote and protect the human rights of those families of migrant workers which remain in the countries of origin, paying particular attention to children and adolescents whose parents have emigrated, and encourages international organizations to consider supporting States in this regard;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Families
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Integrating sport into youth crime prevention and criminal justice strategies (2020), para. 16

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Stressing that the rehabilitation and social reintegration of persons deprived of their liberty as a result of criminal conduct are among the essential aims of the criminal justice system and that the Nelson Mandela Rules and other relevant standards and norms, in particular the Beijing Rules and the United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty, 13 recommend that authorities not only offer programmes related to education, vocational training and work, as well as other forms of assistance that are appropriate and available, including those of a remedial, moral, spiritual, social and health- and sports-based nature, but also pay special attention to young prisoners in this regard,
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Youth
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2005), para. 041

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(b) To design and implement programmes to provide social services and support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular by enabling them to continue and complete their education;
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  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Infants
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (2016), para. 06

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Taking note also of the work of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, especially the reports in which the mandate holder addressed the human rights of migrant children and adolescents, and inviting States to give due consideration to the recommendations contained therein, and of the work of the Committee on the Rights of the Child with regard to the treatment of unaccompanied and separated children outside their country of origin, including in its general comment No 6 (2005) on the topic, and the general discussion held by the Committee in 2012 on the rights of all children in the context of international migration,
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2009), para. 07

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(b) The continuing high incidence of executions carried out in the absence of internationally recognized safeguards, including public executions and executions of juveniles;
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
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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. 206

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(a) Giving timely assistance to juveniles in difficult circumstances in order to prevent them from resorting to crime;
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  • Adolescents
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United Nations Model Strategies and Practical Measures on the Elimination of Violence against Children in the Field of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (2015), para. 010

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Stressing that the right for all to have access to justice and the provision that child victims or witnesses of violence and children and juveniles in conflict with the law are entitled to the same legal guarantees and protection as are accorded to adults, including all fair trial guarantees, form an important basis for strengthening the rule of law through the administration of justice,
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  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Violence
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
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Feb 25, 2020
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 129

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63 (f). Commit to promoting laws and policies that ensure the enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for children, adolescents and young people, particularly those living with, at risk of and affected by HIV, so as to eliminate the stigma and discrimination that they face;
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Youth
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Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2016), para. 35

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13. Urges all States to enact, uphold and strictly enforce laws and policies aimed at preventing and ending child, early and forced marriage and protecting those at risk and to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the informed, free and full consent of the intending spouses, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage, to raise the minimum age for marriage, engage all relevant stakeholders, including girls, where necessary, and ensure that these laws are well known, to further develop and implement holistic, comprehensive and coordinated policies, plans of action and programmes and to support already married girls and adolescents and ensure the provision of viable alternatives and institutional support, especially educational opportunities for girls, to ensure the survival, protection, develo pment and advancement of the girl child in order to promote and protect the full enjoyment of her human rights and to ensure equal opportunities for girls, including by making such plans an integral part of her total development process;
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
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  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
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Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors (1998), para. 12

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2. Expresses its deep concern at the continued plight of unaccompanied refugee minors, and emphasizes once again the urgent need for their early identification and for timely, detailed and accurate information on their number and whereabouts;
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  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 10

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Encouraging States to adopt alternatives to detention that take into account the best interests of the child, as a primary consideration, and respect the human rights of migrant children, including adolescents,
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights (2017), para. 08

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Taking note of the reports submitted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the panel discussion on unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights held at the thirty-fifth session of the Human Rights Council 1 and on the promotion and protection of the human rights of migrants in the context of large movements, submitted to the Council at its thirty-third session, 2
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  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
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Feb 25, 2020
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Migrant children and adolescents (2015), para. 27

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13. Underlines that the principle of the best interest of the child should guide legislation, policies and practices relating to children, regardless of their status, including in the context of migration, and calls upon States to carry out individualized, comprehensive assessments of the status and protection needs of migrant children, including adolescents, as well as to carry out early and prompt assessments of victims of violence who may qualify for refugee status or other forms of protection;
Topic(s)
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Organization of the 2016 high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS (2016), para. 15

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4. Encourages Member States to include in their national delegations to the high-level meeting representatives such as parliamentarians, mayors of cities significantly affected by HIV/AIDS, representatives of civil society, including non-governmental organizations and organizations and networks representing people living with HIV, women, adolescents and young persons, orphans, migrants, community organizations and faith-based organizations and the private sector
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
  • Youth
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Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2015), para. 25

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(b) To further revisit the revised Islamic Penal Code to make it consistent with its obligation, under article 37 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to abolish executions of minors and persons who at the time of their offence were under the age of 18;
Topic(s)
  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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