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Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) (2016), para. 24
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- Recognizing the importance of supporting countries in their efforts to eradicate poverty and promote the empowerment of the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including women, children and youth, indigenous peoples, older persons, persons with disabilities, migrants, refugees and internally displaced persons,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Movement
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (2005), para. 18
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- 9. Urges Governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to contribute to the voluntary fund for the Second Decade established by the Secretary-General, and invites indigenous organizations and private institutions and individuals to do likewise;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2013), para. 089
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- (q) To take measures to eliminate gender-based violence against and sexual exploitation and trafficking of indigenous children, and to actively involve indigenous peoples and their communities in the efforts towards the elimination of these practices;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Midterm comprehensive review of the implementation of the International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”, 2005–2015 (2010), para. 15
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- 7. Stresses the importance of the full involvement of all relevant stakeholders, including women, children, older persons, persons with disabilities, indigenous people and other local communities, in the implementation of the Decade at all levels, including its midterm comprehensive review;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and indigenous peoples (2017), para. 02
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- Recalling all relevant General Assembly, Commission on Human Rights and Human Rights Council resolutions on human rights and indigenous peoples,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2006), para. 21
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- 8. Acknowledges that many indigenous organizations and representatives of indigenous communities have expressed in different forums their deep concerns over the obstacles and challenges for their full enjoyment of the right to food, and calls upon States to take special actions to combat the root causes of the disproportionately high level of hunger and malnutrition among indigenous peoples and the continuous discrimination against them;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2007), para. 26
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- (b) To ensure full respect for the right to due process of law, including the right to counsel and access to counsel by those detained, in criminal justice proceedings and, in particular, to ensure a fair and public hearing by a competent, independent and impartial tribunal established by law, to end harassment, intimidation and persecution of defence lawyers and legal defenders and to ensure equality before the law and the equal protection of the law without any discrimination in all instances, including for members of religious, ethnic, linguistic or other minority groups, officially recognized or otherwise;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Freedom of religion or belief (2016), para. 10
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- Recalling that States have the primary responsibility to promote and protect human rights, including the human rights of persons belonging to relig ious minorities, including their right to exercise their religion or belief freely,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (2004), para. 07
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- Welcoming further the reports of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, submitted to the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-eighth 1 and fifty-ninth sessions,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (1994), para. 23
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- 14. Decides to continue the examination of the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the situation of minority groups, such as the Baha’is, during its forty-ninth session, under the item entitled "Human rights questions" in the light of additional elements provided by the Commission on Human Rights and the Economic and Social Council.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Freedom of religion or belief (2018), para. 09
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- Deeply concerned at continuing acts of intolerance and violence based on religion or belief against individuals, including persons belonging to religious communities and religious minorities around the world,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2018), para. 16
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- 3. Welcomes the progress made towards the principles of a future democratic federal union during the Twenty-first Century Panglong Conference in May 2017 and the signing by the New Mon State Party and the Lahu Democratic Union of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement on 13 February 2018, bringing the number of signatories to the Agreement to 10, while expressing concern at the violations of the Agreement against signatory groups and the use of the Unlawful Associations Act to arrest members of ethnic and religious minorities on an arbitrary basis, and calls for further steps, including an immediate end to the violence and of all violations and abuses of international human rights law and violations of international humanitarian law, as applicable, in northern Myanmar, the granting of immediate, safe and unhindered humanitarian access, including to areas controlled by ethnic armed groups, in particular in Kachin and Shan States, and enhanced efforts to reach out to those ethnic armed groups that have not yet signed the Agreement, and the pursuit of an inclusive and comprehensive national political dialogue that ensures the full and effective participation of women and young people, as well as civil society, with the objective of achieving lasting peace;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (2003), para. 25
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- (d) To continue to pay special attention to extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions of children and to allegations concerning violations of the right to life in the context of violence against participants in demonstrations and other peaceful public manifestations or against persons belonging to minorities;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2018), para. 33
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- 8. Urges Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to continue to contribute to the Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues, the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations Indigenous Peoples’ Partnership, invites indigenous organizations and private institutions and individuals to do likewise, and notes the importance of accessibility, accountability, transparency and balanced geographical distribution in the management of these funds;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Effective promotion of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (2009), para. 22
- Original document
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- 10. Calls upon the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to promote, within her mandate, the implementation of the Declaration, to continue to engage in a dialogue with Governments for that purpose and to regularly update and disseminate widely the United Nations Guide for Minorities;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Combating defamation of religions (2008), para. 22
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- 6. Notes with deep concern the intensification of the campaign of defamation of religions and the ethnic and religious profiling of Muslim minorities in the aftermath of the tragic events of 11 September 2001;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine (2019), para. 14
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- Welcoming the reports of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation in Ukraine, of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, and of the human rights assessment mission of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and the High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, in which they stated that violations and abuses of human rights continued to take place in Crimea and pointed to the sharp deterioration of the overall human rights situation,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2016), para. 18
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- Concerned about the extreme disadvantages that indigenous peoples have typically faced across a range of social and economic indicators and about the impediments to their full enjoyment of their rights,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2014), para. 23
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- Recalling its resolution 65/198 , by which it decided to expand the mandate of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations so that it could assist representatives of indigenous peoples’ organizations and communities to participate in sessions of the Human Rights Council and of human rights treaty bodies, on the basis of diverse and renewed participation and in accordance with relevant rules and regulations, including Economic and Social Council resolution 1996/31 of 25 July 1996, and urged States to contribute to the Fund,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (2001), para. 23
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- (a) To give increased priority and resources to improving the conditions of indigenous people, with particular emphasis on the needs of those people in developing countries, including through the preparation of specific programmes of action for the implementation of the goals of the Decade, within their areas of competence;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories (2005), para. 16
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- 4. Reaffirms its concern about any activities aimed at the exploitation of the natural resources that are the heritage of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories, including the indigenous populations, in the Caribbean, the Pacific and other regions, and of their human resources, to the detriment of their interests, and in such a way as to deprive them of their right to dispose of those resources;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and indigenous peoples: mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples (2019), para. 07
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- (b) To gather, request, receive and exchange information and communications from all relevant sources, including Governments, indigenous peoples and their communities and organizations, on alleged violations and abuses of the rights of indigenous peoples;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2020), para. 20
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- Reiterating the responsibility of transnational corporations and other business enterprises to respect all human rights, while recognizing the specific challenges that may be faced by indigenous peoples, and all applicable laws and international principles and to operate transparently and in a socially and environmentally responsible manner, and emphasizing the need to refrain from negatively affecting the well -being of indigenous peoples and to take further action towards corporate responsibility and accountability, including the prevention, mitigation and remediation of human rights abuses, in line with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework, 13
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and mass exoduses (2004), para. 15
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- 2. Strongly deplores ethnic and other forms of intolerance as one of the major causes of forced migratory movements, and urges States to take all necessary steps to ensure respect for human rights, especially the rights of persons belonging to minorities;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2013), para. 05
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- Recalling its resolution 59/174 of 20 December 2004 on the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (2005–2014) and its resolution 60/142 of 16 December 2005 on the Programme of Action for the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People, in which it adopted “Partnership for action and dignity” as the theme for the Second Decade,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Freedom of religion or belief (2019), para. 23
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- 7. Recalls that States have an obligation to exercise due diligence to prevent, investigate and punish acts of violence, intimidation and harassment against a person or a group of persons belonging to a religious minority, regardless of the perpetrator, and that failure to do so may constitute a human rights violation;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and indigenous peoples (2018), para. 02
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- Recalling all relevant General Assembly, Commission on Human Rights and Human Rights Council resolutions on human rights and indigenous peoples,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) (2016), para. 040
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- 27. Reiterates its invitation to Member States and Habitat Agenda partners to formulate and implement sustainable urban development policies that promote just, resilient and inclusive cities and human settlements, considering the contributions of all relevant stakeholders, with a particular focus on the needs of women and those who are most vulnerable, including children and youth, older persons, persons living with disability, rural-to-urban migrants, internally displaced persons and indigenous peoples;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (1994), para. 28
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- 16. Invites Governments, competent United Nations bodies and specialized agencies and other intergovernmental institutions, including financial institutions, to consider providing additional resources to finance the attachment of suitable staff, including indigenous staff, to the Centre for Human Rights on a regionally balanced basis;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2018), para. 15
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- 2. Calls upon all actors to consolidate the democratic transition with full respect for the rule of law and human rights by bringing all national institutions, including the military, under civilian control, and to ensure the recognition of all ethnic and religious minorities and their equitable inclusion in the political process;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (Addis Ababa Action Agenda) (2015), para. 129
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- 117. We will encourage knowledge-sharing and the promotion of cooperation and partnerships between stakeholders, including between Governments, firms, academia and civil society, in sectors contributing to the achievement of the sustainable development goals. We will promote entrepreneurship, including through supporting business incubators. We affirm that regulatory environments that are open and non-discriminatory can promote collaboration and further our efforts. We will also foster linkages between multinational companies and the domestic private sector to facilitate technology development and transfer, on mutually agreed terms, of knowledge and skills, including skills trading programmes, in particular to developing countries, with the support of appropriate policies. At the same time, we recognize that traditional knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous peoples and local communities can support social well-being and sustainable livelihoods and we reaffirm that indigenous peoples have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions.
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Question of Guam (2018), para. 21
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- Cognizant of the efforts made by the Guam Commission on Decolonization to promote in the Territory the holding of a plebiscite on self-determination and to advance its education campaign on each of the three political status options, and recalling that more than 11,000 native inhabitants have been registered in the Guam decolonization registry to vote in the plebiscite,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2018), para. 51
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- 26. Underscores the need to ensure equal protection of the law and equality before the courts for indigenous women and girls at all levels and, to that end, the importance of providing systematic gender-sensitivity training, as appropriate, for police and security forces, prosecutors, judges and lawyers, integrating gender considerations into security sector reform initiatives, developing protocols and guidelines and enhancing or putting in place appropriate accountability measures for adjudicators;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and indigenous peoples (2019), para. 36
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- 20. Welcomes the contribution of the universal periodic review to the realization of the rights of indigenous peoples, encourages effective follow-up to accepted review recommendations concerning indigenous peoples, and invites States to include, as appropriate, information on the situation of the rights of indigenous peoples, including measures taken to pursue the objectives of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples during the review;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Working group of the Commission on Human Rights to elaborate a draft declaration in accordance with paragraph 5 of General Assembly resolution 49/214 of 23 December 1994 (2007), para. 097
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- 2. Indigenous individuals have an equal right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. States shall take the necessary steps with a view to achieving progressively the full realization of this right.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Convention on Biological Diversity (2002), para. 12
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- 7. Welcomes the decision of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity regarding its programme of work for forest biological diversity, and encourages the parties to and the secretariat of the Convention to cooperate with the United Nations Forum on Forests, inter alia, with regard to respecting, preserving and maintaining the knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities embodying traditional lifestyles, in accordance with article 8 (j) and related provisions of the Convention;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Literacy Decade: education for all (2009), para. 25
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- 13. Calls upon Member States, in the implementation of the International Plan of Action 1 in the second half of the Decade, to give adequate attention to the cultural diversity of minorities and indigenous peoples;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Harmony with Nature (2020), para. 26
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- Recognizing the work undertaken by civil society, academia, scientists, local communities and indigenous peoples with regard to signalling the precariousness of life on Earth, as well as their efforts, along with those of Governments and private sector organizations, to devise more sustainable models and methods for production and consumption,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (2000), para. 22
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- (e) Contributing, together with other donors, to the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations in order to assist indigenous representatives in participating in the Working Group on Indigenous Populations of the Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, 7 the open-ended inter- sessional working group charged with developing a draft declaration on the rights of indigenous people and the re-established open-ended inter-sessional ad hoc working group on the possible establishment of a permanent forum for indigenous people in the United Nations system;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Effective promotion of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (2016), para. 26
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- 9. Calls upon States to integrate the promotion and protection of the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, as well as effective non-discrimination and equality for all, into strategies for the prevention and resolution of conflicts involving these minorities, while ensuring their full and effective participation in the design, implementation and evaluation of such strategies;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2018), para. 04
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- Reaffirming also the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, held in New York on 22 and 23 September 2014, 6 in which Heads of State and Government, ministers and representatives of Member States reiterated the important and continuing role of the United Nations in promoting and protecting the rights of indigenous peoples, recalling the inclusive preparatory process for the high-level plenary meeting, including the comprehensive engagement of the representatives of indigenous peoples, and welcoming and reaffirming the commitments, measures and efforts undertaken by States, the United Nations system, indigenous peoples and other actors in its implementation,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2016), para. 38
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- 18. Encourages the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund and other relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, in accordance with their mandates, to carry out research and evidence -gathering on the prevalence of suicide among indigenous youth and children and good practices on its prevention and to consider developing, as appropriate, strategies or policies, consistent with national priorities, in cooperation with Member States, to tackle it, including through consultation with indigenous peoples, in particular indigenous youth organizations;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2013), para. 21
- Original document
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- 5. Urges Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to continue to contribute to the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations and the Trust Fund for the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People, and invites indigenous organizations and private institutions and individuals to do likewise;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2014), para. 28
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (e) To eliminate, in law and in practice, all forms of discrimination and other human rights violations against persons belonging to religious, ethnic, linguistic or other minorities, recognized or otherwise;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2014), para. 26
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- 2. Takes note of the outcome document of the Global Indigenous Preparatory Conference for the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, 12 held in Alta, Norway, in June 2013, and other proposals made by indigenous peoples, and recommends that the four themes identified in the outcome document be taken into account when considering the specific themes for the round-table and interactive panel discussions for the World Conference, and that the Alta outcome document, as well as other proposals made by indigenous peoples, be taken into account when preparing the outcome document of the World Conference;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and indigenous peoples (2019), para. 17
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- Paragraph text
- 1. Acknowledges the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the rights of indigenous peoples, 6 and requests the High Commissioner to continue to submit to the Human Rights Council an annual report on the rights of indigenous peoples containing information on the relevant developments in human rights bodies and mechanisms and the activities undertaken by the Office of the High Commissioner at headquarters and in the field that contribute to the promotion of, respect for and the full application of the provisions of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and follow up on the effectiveness of the Declaration;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (1995), para. 13
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- Recognizing the importance of consultation and cooperation with indigenous people in planning and implementing the programme of activities for the Decade, the need for adequate financial support from the international community, including support from within the United Nations and the specialized agencies, and the need for adequate coordination and communication channels,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict: breaking the link between the illicit transaction of rough diamonds and armed conflict as a contribution to prevention and settlement of conflicts (2018), para. 33
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- 10. Welcomes the five special forums arranged by the 2017 Chair of the Kimberley Process to canvass broader matters pertinent to the diamond trade, which included discussions of diamond supply chain equity, indigenous peoples and mining in Australia, alluvial and artisanal diamond mining, synthetics, sustainability reporting and the harnessing of new technologies, including bloc kchain technology;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Working group of the Commission on Human Rights to elaborate a draft declaration in accordance with paragraph 5 of General Assembly resolution 49/214 of 23 December 1994 (2007), para. 086
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- 2. Indigenous peoples deprived of their means of subsistence and development are entitled to just and fair redress.
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Effective promotion of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (2016), para. 29
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 12. Recognizes that women and girls belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities can be exposed to both gender-based violence and violence on the grounds of their belonging to minorities in conflict and post-conflict situations, urges States to take special measures to protect them from all forms of violence, including rape and other forms of sexual violence, and stresses the importance of their empowerment;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Measures to combat contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (2000), para. 29
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- 10. Expresses its profound concern about and condemnation of manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance against as well as stereotyping of migrant workers and members of their families, persons belonging to minorities and members of vulnerable groups in many societies;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Families
- Persons on the move
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Scope, modalities, format and organization of the high-level meeting on universal health coverage (2019), para. 20
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- (d) The President of the General Assembly may invite parliamentarians, local governments, the heads or senior representatives of relevant United Nations entities, including the World Bank, development partners, civil society, the private sector, academia, medical associations, indigenous leadership and community organizations to serve as speakers on the panels, taking into account gender equity, level of development and geographical representation;
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- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (1994), para. 22
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- 10. Appeals to the specialized agencies, regional commissions, financial and development institutions and other relevant organizations of the United Nations system to increase their efforts to take into special account the needs of indigenous people in their budgeting and in their programming;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar (2018), para. 20
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- 2. Strongly condemns all violations and abuses of human rights in Myanmar, as set out in the report of the fact-finding mission, 1 including widespread, systematic and gross human rights violations and abuses committed in Rakhine State, including the presence of elements of extermination and deportation and systematic oppression and discrimination, which may amount to persecution and to the crime of apartheid, also strongly condemns the disproportionate response of the military and the security forces, deplores the serious deterioration of the security, human rights and humanitarian situation, the exodus of more than 723,000 Rohingya Muslims and other minorities into Bangladesh and the subsequent depopulation of northern Rakhine State, and calls upon the Myanmar authorities to ensure that those responsible for violations of international law, including human rights violations and abuses, are held accountable;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and the environment (2017), para. 15
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- Recognizing also that degradation and loss of biodiversity often result from and reinforce existing patterns of discrimination, and that environmental harm can have disastrous, and at times geographically dispersed, consequences on the quality of life of indigenous peoples, local communities, peasants and others who rely directly on the products of forests, rivers, lakes, wetlands and oceans for their food, fuel and medicine, resulting in further inequality and marginalization,
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- Environment
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Effective promotion of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (2006), para. 13
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- 3. Reaffirms the obligation of States to ensure that persons belonging to minorities may exercise fully and effectively all human rights and fundamental freedoms without any discrimination and in full equality before the law, as proclaimed in the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, 4 and draws attention to the relevant provisions of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, 5 including the provisions on forms of multiple discrimination;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Measures to combat contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (1997), para. 09
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- Taking note of the final report on freedom of opinion and expression submitted to the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities at its forty-fourth session by the Special Rapporteurs Mr. Louis Joinet and Mr. Danilo Turk, in which the Special Rapporteurs concluded that, under international law, racism is not an opinion but an offence, 4
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and indigenous peoples (2018), para. 23
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- 10. Welcomes the proposal by the Expert Mechanism to the Human Rights Council that further efforts be made to facilitate the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in the work of the Council, in particular the dialogue with the Expert Mechanism and the Special Rapporteur and in the annual half-day discussion on the rights of indigenous peoples, and also welcomes the encouragement of the General Assembly to the relevant United Nations bodies, in accordance with their respective rules of procedure, to facilitate the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions in relevant meetings on issues affecting them;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
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- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2014), para. 31
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- 7. Stresses the need to strengthen the commitment of States and the entities of the United Nations system to mainstream the promotion and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples into the development agenda at the national, regional and international levels, and encourages giving due consideration to the rights of indigenous peoples in the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2017), para. 16
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- 13. Also calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the judicial and security branches, to create and maintain, in law and in practice, a safe and enabling environment in which an independent, diverse and pluralistic civil society can operate free from hindrance and insecurity, urges the Islamic Republic of Iran to end widespread and serious restrictions, in law and in practice, on the right to freedom of expression, opinion, association and peaceful assembly, both online and offline, including by ending the harassment, intimidation and persecution of political opponents, human rights defenders, women’s and minority rights activists, labour leaders, students’ rights activists, academics, film-makers, journalists, bloggers, social media users, media workers, religious leaders, artists, lawyers and persons belonging to recognized and unrecognized religious minorities and their families, and further calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to release persons arbitrarily detained for the legitimate exercise of these rights, to consider rescinding unduly harsh sentences, including the death penalty and long-term internal exile, for exercising such fundamental freedoms and to end reprisals against individuals, including for cooperating with the United Nations human rights mechanisms;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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