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Commodities (2014), para. 13
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- Recognizing the adverse impact of excessive price volatility of commodities, especially on women and girls,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2017), para. 12
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- Deeply concerned about discrimination against women and girls and the violation and abuse of their human rights, which often result in reduced access to education and nutrition, compromising their physical and mental he alth and well- being and their enjoyment of the rights, opportunities and benefits of childhood and adolescence compared with boys, and often in their being subjected to various forms of cultural, social, sexual and economic exploitation and to violence and harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage, which can increase the risk of obstetric fistula,
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2016), para. 19
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- Expressing deep concern about the pervasiveness of violence against women and girls,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace (2017), para. 36
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- 7. Further encourages Member States to leverage sport and physical education policies and programmes to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of discrimination against women and girls (2017), para. 12
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- Recognizing also that discrimination against women and girls is inherently linked to deep-rooted gender stereotypes, that discriminatory attitudes, behaviours, norms, perceptions, customs and harmful practices have direct negative implications for the status and treatment of women and girls, and that gender-biased environments impede the implementation of legislative and normative frameworks that guarantee gender equality and prohibit discrimination against women and girls,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and extreme poverty (2007), para. 22
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- 8. Reaffirms further the critical role of both formal and informal education in the achievement of poverty eradication and other development goals as envisaged in the Millennium Declaration, in particular basic education and training for eradicating illiteracy, and efforts towards expanded secondary and higher education as well as vocational education and technical training, especially for girls and women, the creation of human resources and infrastructure capabilities and the empowerment of those living in poverty, and in this context reaffirms the Dakar Framework for Action adopted at the World Education Forum in 2000 11 and recognizes the importance of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization strategy for the eradication of poverty, especially extreme poverty, in supporting the Education for All programmes as a tool to achieve the millennium development goal of universal primary education by 2015;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Trafficking in women and girls (2017), para. 60
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- 23. Encourages the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the World Tourism Organization and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultu ral Organization to promote their global campaign urging travellers to support the fight against trafficking in persons, especially women and girls;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- 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. 46
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- (d) Taking practical and concrete steps, in law and in practice, to create a safe and enabling environment where women and girls can easily report incidents of violence and receive post-gender-based violence care, including by providing men and women, particularly law enforcement officials, health-care providers and other first responders, with human rights training to ensure services that are women-centred, responsive to trauma and free from discrimination or stigmatization, and that prevent re-victimization;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2005), para. 21
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- 11. Emphasizes also the importance of men and boys taking joint responsibility with women and girls in the promotion of gender equality, taking into account the agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-eighth session on 12 March 2004; 6
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2009), para. 16
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- 4. Calls upon States to take all necessary measures to ensure the right of women and girls to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, including sexual and reproductive health, and develop sustainable health systems and social services, with a view to ensuring access to such systems and services without discrimination, while paying special attention to adequate food and nutrition, water and sanitation, family planning information, increasing knowledge and awareness and securing appropriate prenatal and post-natal care for the prevention of obstetric fistula;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and indigenous peoples (2012), para. 15
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- 6. Stresses the need to pay particular attention to the rights and special needs of indigenous women and girls, as set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including in the process of protecting and promoting indigenous peoples languages and culture;
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Education for sustainable development in the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2020), para. 12
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- Acknowledging also the importance of adopting science, technology and innovation strategies as integral elements of national sustainable development strategies to help to strengthen knowledge-sharing and collaboration and the importance of scaling up investments in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and digital literacy education and enhancing technical, vocational and tertiary education, distance education and training and of ensuring equal access for women and girls and encouraging their participation therein,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 35
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- 14. Also calls upon States to develop unified methods and standards for the collection of data on all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls, especially forms that are underdocumented, harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, to develop additional indicators to effectively measure progress in eliminating the practice and to reinforce the sharing of good practices relating to the prevention and elimination of the practice at the subregional, regional and global levels;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Question of human rights in Afghanistan (2002), para. 48
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- (g) Respect for the effective and equal access of women and girls to the facilities necessary to protect their right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2016), para. 20
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- 4. Also expresses concern at the abuses and violations perpetrated against girls and women, including sexual and gender-based violence, child, early and forced marriage, and female genital mutilation, and abuses and violations committed against children, including the unlawful recruitment and use of child soldiers, killing and maiming, rape and other sexual and gender-based violence, and abductions, and emphasizes the need for accountability and justice for all such violations and abuses;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Working towards the elimination of crimes against women and girls committed in the name of honour (2005), para. 21
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- (b) To continue to intensify efforts to prevent and eliminate crimes against women and girls committed in the name of honour, which take many different forms, by using legislative, administrative and programmatic measures;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- 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. 27
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- 2. Condemns in the strongest possible terms all forms of violence against women and girls, including sexual and gender-based violence, perpetrated through the use of digital technologies;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2020), para. 46
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- (j) To protect women and girls from being physically threatened or assaulted, including from sexual violence, while collecting household water and when accessing sanitation facilities outside their home or practising open defecation and urination, including through promoting safe public spaces and improving the security and safety of women and girls through gender-responsive rural and urban planning and infrastructure;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2019), para. 175
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- (e) Apply measures that address the particular vulnerabilities of women, men, girls and boys, regardless of their migration status, who have become or are at risk of becoming victims of trafficking in persons and other forms of exploitation, by facilitating access to justice and safe reporting without fear of detention, deportation or penalty, focusing on prevention, identification, appropriate protection and assistance, and addressing specific forms of abuse and exploitation;
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls (2016), para. 25
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- 8. Encourages Member States to criminalize, prosecute and punish rape and other forms of sexual and gender-related violence against women and girls committed in all situations, including situations of conflict, taking into account international standards, and urges, where appropriate, relevant stakeholders to support the development and strengthening of the capacities of national institutions, in particular law enforcement, judicial and health systems, and of local civil society networks to provide sustainable assistance and access to justice to women and girls affected by gender-related violence;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2010), para. 52
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- 24. Further urges States to involve girls, including girls with special needs, and their representative organizations, in decision-making processes, as appropriate, and to include them as full and active partners in identifying their own needs and in developing, planning, implementing and assessing policies and programmes to meet those needs;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- 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 (2015), para. 012
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- Recalling all its relevant resolutions, including resolution 68/191 of 18 December 2013, on taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls, and recognizing the key role of the criminal justice system in preventing and responding to gender-related killing of women and girls, including by ending impunity for such crimes,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Violence against women migrant workers (2020), para. 54
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- 12. Urges States to adopt or develop and implement legislation and policies, in accordance with their commitments and obligations under international law, to prevent and respond to gender-related killing of women and girls, including femicide, while taking into account the particular difficulties faced by women migrant workers in accessing justice;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Traffic in women and girls (2001), para. 36
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- 17. Invites Governments, once again, with the support of the United Nations, to formulate training manuals for law enforcement and medical personnel and judicial officers who handle cases of trafficked women and girls, taking into account current research and materials on traumatic stress and gender-sensitive counselling techniques, with a view to sensitizing them to the special needs of victims;
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Global efforts for the total elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (2011), para. 06
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- Convinced that racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance manifest themselves in a differentiated manner for women and girls and may be among the factors leading to a deterioration in their living conditions, poverty, violence, multiple forms of discrimination and the limitation or denial of their human rights, and recognizing the need to integrate a gender perspective into relevant policies, strategies and programmes of action against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance in order to address multiple forms of discrimination,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Literacy Decade: education for all (2002), para. 09
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- Acknowledging the activities undertaken at the national and regional levels for the Education for All 2000 assessment of progress towards achieving the goals of education for all, and stressing further the need to redouble efforts in order to meet the basic needs of people of all age groups, in particular girls and women,
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities (2018), para. 12
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- Recognizing that young women and girls belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities may often face particular challenges, and underlining in this context the importance of taking a gender-sensitive approach when considering measures to promote and protect the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities,
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promoting human rights through sport and the Olympic ideal (2018), para. 41
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- 4. Invites States and national, regional and international sports organizations to, where appropriate, implement new or strengthen existing programmes that provide more opportunities and facilitate barrier-free access to sport for all, in particular for children and youth, persons with disabilities, and women and girls, and substantially increase opportunities for women’s participation and leadership in all areas of sport, and in this regard encourages States to leverage sport and physical education policies and programmes to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2010), para. 31
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- 13. Reaffirms that States have an obligation to exercise due diligence to prevent violence against women and girls, provide protection to the victims and investigate, prosecute and punish the perpetrators of violence against women and girls, and that failure to do so violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment of their human rights and fundamental freedoms, calls upon Governments to elaborate and implement laws and strategies to eliminate violence against women and girls, encourages and supports men and boys in taking an active part in the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence, encourages increased understanding among men and boys of how violence harms girls, boys, women and men and undermines gender equality, encourages all actors to speak out against any violence against women, and in this regard welcomes the Secretary-General’s campaign “UNiTE to End Violence against Women” and the United Nations Development Fund for Women social mobilization and advocacy platform “Say NO to violence against women”;
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2018), para. 67
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- 42. Strongly calls upon States and the international community to create an environment in which the well-being of the girl child is ensured, inter alia, by cooperating, supporting and participating in global efforts towards the full and timely realization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development 6 and of all other relevant internationally agreed development goals, in particular for the eradication of poverty at the global, regional and country levels, recognizing that strengthened availability and effective allocation of resources are required at all levels in this regard, and reaffirming that investment in children, particularly girls, and the realization of their rights are among the most effective ways to eradicate poverty;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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