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Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls (2016), para. 17
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- Remaining alarmed by the high level of impunity with regard to gender-related killing of women and girls and the fact that violence against women and girls is among the least prosecuted and punished crimes in the world,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Scope, modalities, format and organization of the high-level meeting on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women (2019), para. 20
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- 11. Encourages Member States to consider including in their national delegations heads of national mechanisms for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, as appropriate, as well as representatives such as parliamentarians, representatives of civil society and other relevant stakeholders;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls (2015), para. 37
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- 1. Stresses that “violence against women” means any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women and girls, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life, and also notes the economic and social harm caused by such violence;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in protection (2011), para. 17
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- 5. Underscores that States have the primary responsibility for protecting women and girls facing violence and, in this regard, urges States:
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Draft outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly of September 2005 (2005), para. 089
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- 44. We reaffirm our commitment to support developing country efforts to ensure that all children have access to and complete free and compulsory primary education of good quality, to eliminate gender inequality and imbalance and to renew efforts to improve girls’ education. We also commit ourselves to continuing to support the efforts of developing countries in the implementation of the Education for All initiative, including with enhanced resources of all types through the Education for All fast-track initiative in support of country-led national education plans.
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2013), para. 22
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- Recognizing also the important role of the family in combating violence against women and girls and the need to support its capacity to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Information and communications technologies for sustainable development (2020), para. 30
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- Noting with great concern the fact that a gender digital divide persists in women’s access to and use of information and communications technologies, including in education, employment and other areas of economic and social development, and in this regard welcoming the many initiatives that focus on access, skills and leadership to promote the equal participation of women and girls in the digital age, such as the International Girls in ICT Day of the International Telecommunication Union and the Global Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital Age, known as the Equals Partnership,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Information and communications technologies for development (2015), para. 48
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- 4. Acknowledges the importance of investing in closing the gender gap in information and communications technologies by making them affordable and accessible, including in regard to access to broadband as a tool for the empowerment of women and girls and the exercise of their full range of human rights, access to information, access to markets, networking and increased opportunities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- 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. 11
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- Cognizant that the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets contained in the 2030 Agenda are aimed at realizing the human rights of all, leaving no one behind and reaching those furthest behind first by, inter alia, achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, and that the achievement of all the Goals and targets may contribute to the realization of the rights of the child,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2016), para. 39
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- 5. Further recognizes the mutually reinforcing links between gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and poverty eradication, as well as the need to elaborate and implement, where appropriate, in consultation with all relevant stakeholders, comprehensive gender-sensitive poverty eradication strategies that address social, structural and macroeconomic issues;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Trafficking in women and girls (2017), para. 55
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- 18. Urges Governments to devise, enforce and strengthen effective gender- and age-sensitive measures to combat and eliminate all forms of trafficking in women and girls, including for sexual and economic exploitation, as part of a comprehensive anti-trafficking strategy that integrates a human rights perspective, and to draw up, as appropriate, national action plans in this regard;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of female genital mutilation (2018), para. 07
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- Welcoming the commitment made by States to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 4 and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, 5 adopted as the outcome document of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International migration and development (2015), para. 30
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- 16. Recognizes that women and girls account for almost half of all international migrants at the global level, and also recognizes the need to address the special situation and vulnerability of migrant women and girls by, inter alia, incorporating a gender perspective into policies and strengthening national laws, institutions and programmes to combat gender-based violence, including trafficking in persons and discrimination against women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Trafficking in women and girls (2019), para. 59
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- 20. Further urges Governments, in cooperation with intergovernmental, non-governmental and private sector organizations, to support and allocate resources to strengthen preventive action, in particular education for women and men, as well as for girls and boys, on human rights, gender equality, self-respect and mutual respect, and campaigns carried out in collaboration with civil society and the private sector to increase public awareness of the issue at the national and grass -roots levels, including awareness-raising campaigns against human trafficking and slavery, including modern slavery, targeted at groups that are at increased risk of becoming victims of human trafficking, as well as at those who may fuel the demand that contributes to human trafficking;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence (2017), para. 04
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- Recalling further all other relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Security Council, specifically those on women and peace and security and on children and armed conflict, and the Economic and Social Council, as well as those of the Human Rights Council and the Commission on the Status of Women, and relevant resolutions and processes of specialized agencies of the United Nations system on the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The fight against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and thecomprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (2003), para. 08
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- Convinced that racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance reveal 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,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- 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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Women in development (2018), para. 08
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- Reaffirming the importance of supporting Agenda 2063, adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union, as well as its 10-year plan of action, as a strategic framework for ensuring a positive socioeconomic transformation in Africa within the next 50 years, its continental programme, embedded in the resolutions of the General Assembly on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, 7 and regional initiatives, which promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- 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. 175
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- (d) Taking action at all levels to address the interlinked root causes of maternal mortality and morbidity, such as poverty, malnutrition, harmful practices, lack of accessible and appropriate health-care services, information and education and gender inequality, and paying particular attention to eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Organization of la Francophonie (2019), para. 68
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- 37. Welcomes the implementation of the agreement between the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN -Women) and the International Organization of la Francophonie, as well as their cooperation, in particular in such areas as women’s participation in political decision-making and in economic, social and cultural life, advocacy for the equality of women and men, the integration of gender equality into sustainable development and combating violence and sexual exploitation and abuse against women and girls, and invites the two institutions to strengthen their cooperation in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Entrepreneurship for development (2013), para. 17
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- 9. Also recognizes the value of teaching entrepreneurial skills at all levels of education, ensuring the full and equal participation of women and girls, and encourages entrepreneurship education through skills development, capacity- building, training programmes and business incubators;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Literacy Decade: education for all (2011), para. 08
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- Affirming that the realization of the right to education, especially for girls, contributes to the promotion of human rights, gender equality and the eradication of poverty,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2006), para. 20
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- 4. Urges all Governments and the United Nations system to strengthen efforts bilaterally and with international organizations and private-sector donors in order to achieve the goals of the World Education Forum, 16 in particular that of eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005, and to implement the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative as a means of reaching this goal, and reaffirms the commitment contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration 6 in this regard;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2018), para. 14
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- Expressing concern at persistent gender gaps and the increase in gender segregation by sector in the labour market, created by discrimination based on patriarchal social norms, showing that women have substantially fewer opportunities than men to participate meaningfully in the economy and in decision-making processes at all levels and areas, to have control over assets, including land, are more likely to be unemployed or underemployed, to be paid less for equal work or work of equal value, and to be engaged in precarious work with limited legal and social protections, and that women and girls undertake a disproportionate share of unpaid care and domestic work,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2018), para. 50
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- 22. Urges all Governments to eliminate discrimination against women and girls in the field of education and to ensure their safe and equal access to, and encourage their participation in, all levels of education, including technical, vocational, tertiary and non-formal education and training, including in the fields of business, trade, administration, information and communications technologies, science, technology, engineering and mathematics and other new technologies, to eliminate gender inequalities at all levels and to eradicate poverty and allow women ’s full and equal contribution to, and equal opportunity to benefit from, development;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- 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
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- 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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Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in digital contexts (2018), para. 51
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- (f) Ensuring that all actors involved in or attempting to commit violence against women and girls are held accountable and brought to justice, taking into account the multi- jurisdictional and transnational nature of violence against women and girls in digital contexts;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond (2018), para. 12
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- 4. Encourages Member States to promote work-family balance as conducive to the well-being of children, the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, inter alia, through flexible working and leave arrangements, parental leave, affordable, accessible and good quality childcare and initiatives to promote the equal sharing of household responsibilities, including unpaid care work, between men and women;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) (2018), para. 19
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- Deeply concerned that poverty acts as a serious impediment to the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and that the feminization of poverty persists, stressing the importance of giving women equal rights with men to economic resources, including access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, credit, inheritance, natural resources and appropriate new technology, reaffirming that women play a critical role in development, contribute to structural transformation and are key co ntributors to the economy and to combating poverty and inequalities and that their full, effective and equal participation in decision-making and the economy is vital in order to achieve sustainable development and significantly enhance economic growth and productivity, recognizing that the economic and social losses due to a lack of progress in achieving gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment are significant and that it is therefore critical that our policies and actions are not just gender- responsive but actively seek to advance the goal of gender equality and women ’s and girls’ empowerment, and reaffirming that gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls will make a crucial contribution to progress in realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and are critical factors in the eradication of poverty,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2019), para. 31
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- 6. Encourages all States to mainstream a gender perspective in food security programmes and to take action to address de jure and de facto gender inequality and discrimination against women, in particular where such inequality and discrimination contribute to the malnutrition of women and girls, including by taking measures to ensure the full and equal realization of the right to food and ensuring that women and girls have equal access to social protection and resources, including income, land and water, and their ownership, and full and equal access to health care, education, science and technology, to enable them to feed themselves and their families, and in this regard stresses the need to empower women and to strengthen their role in decision-making;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (2016), para. 045
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- (f) To mainstream a gender perspective into our criminal justice systems by developing and implementing national strategies and plans to promote the full protection of women and girls from all acts of violence, including gender-related killing of women and girls, in accordance with the obligations of parties under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 15 and the Optional Protocol thereto, 16 and taking into account the updated Model Strategies and Practical Measures on the Elimination of Violence against Women in the Field of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice 17 and General Assembly resolutions on the gender-related killing of women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Eliminating rape and other forms of sexual violence in all their manifestations, including in conflict and related situations (2008), para. 34
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- (c) To assign adequate resources within the United Nations system to those bodies, specialized agencies, funds and programmes responsible for the promotion of gender equality and women’s rights and to efforts throughout the United Nations system to eliminate violence against women and girls and design programmes to provide assistance to victims, including children born as a result;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- 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. 23
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- 2. Recognizes that violence against women and girls persists in every country in the world as a pervasive violation, abuse or impairment of human rights and is a major impediment to achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, sustainable development, peace, security and the internationally agreed development goals, in particular the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; 1
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2001), para. 32
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- 23. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that a gender perspective and the needs and rights of the girl child are integrated into the preparatory work for the special session of the General Assembly on the follow-up to the World Summit for Children in 2001, inter alia, by providing the General Assembly with a comprehensive report drawing on the experiences and outcomes of the five-year reviews of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Fourth World Conference on Women and the World Summit for Social Development, and the World Education Forum.
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls (2015), para. 90
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- 24. Stresses that, within the United Nations system, adequate resources should be assigned to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and other bodies, the specialized agencies, funds and programmes responsible for the promotion of gender equality, the empowerment of women and the human rights of women and girls and to efforts throughout the United Nations system to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls, and calls upon the United Nations system to make the necessary support and resources available;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2013), para. 67
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- (aa) Supporting and engaging in partnerships with non-governmental organizations, in particular women’s organizations, and other relevant actors and the private sector to end violence against women and girls and to protect and support women facing or subjected to violence and witnesses;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2019), para. 40
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- 10. Stresses the importance of mainstreaming a gender and age perspective into justice systems at all levels to ensure equal protection of the law for women and girls, taking into consideration, inter alia, the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules), the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) and the United Nations Model Strategies and Practical Measures on the Elimination of Violence against Children in the Field of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in the world of work (2019), para. 42
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- 10. Calls upon States to take immediate and effective action to prevent all forms of violence against women and girls by:
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2018), para. 29
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- (l) Fully engaging men and boys, including community leaders, as strategic partners and allies in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and eliminating all forms of discrimination and violence against them, including by working to counteract attitudes by which women and girls are regarded as subordinate to men and boys;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions (2019), para. 07
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- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the impact of cluster munitions on women, men, girls and boys and the importance of relevant States providing adequate, gender- and age-sensitive assistance to victims of cluster munitions,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support (2017), para. 29
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 13. Reaffirms that achieving gender equality, empowering all women and girls, and the full realization of their human rights are essential to achieving sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth and sustainable development, reiterates the need for gender mainstreaming, including targeted actions and investments in the formulation and implementation of all financial, economic, environmental and social policies, and recommits to adopting and strengthening sound policies and enforceable legislation and transformative actions for the promotion of gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment at all levels, to ensure women’s equal rights, access and opportunities for participation and leadership in the economy and to eliminate gender-based violence and discrimination in all its forms;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2018), para. 58
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 30. Urges the United Nations system and other international organizations, upon the request of Member States, to support and promote innovative programme responses to ensure women’s access to decent work, to recognize, reduce and redistribute the unequal burden of unpaid care and domestic work, to promote gender- responsive social protection initiatives and measures for women and girls and to support and encourage the scaling-up of existing good practice programmes and initiatives;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Equality and non-discrimination of persons with disabilities and the right of persons with disabilities to access to justice (2018), para. 32
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (e) Taking all appropriate measures to eliminate all situations of gender-based discrimination against women and girls with disabilities of all ages, who face an increased vulnerability to violence, abuse, discrimination and negative stereotyping;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls (2016), para. 11
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- Welcoming the Doha Declaration on Integrating Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice into the Wider United Nations Agenda to Address Social and Economic Challenges and to Promote the Rule of Law at the National and International Levels, and Public Participation, 9 in particular the endeavour of Member States to mainstream a gender perspective into criminal justice systems by developing and implementing national strategies and plans, in order to promote the full protection of women and girls from all acts of violence, including gender- related killing of women and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2015), para. 24
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- Paragraph text
- 4. Also calls upon States to ensure the right to education of good quality for women and girls, on an equal basis with men and boys, and to ensure that they complete a full course of primary education, and to renew their efforts to improve and expand girls’ and women’s education at all levels, including at the secondary and higher levels, and including age-appropriate sex education, as well as vocational education and technical training, in order to, inter alia, achieve gender equality, the empowerment of women and girls and poverty eradication;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls (2014), para. 19
- Paragraph text
- Deeply concerned about the high level of impunity with regard to 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 in ending impunity for such crimes,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights (2012), para. 07
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- 1. Requests all States to renew their political commitment to eliminate preventable maternal mortality and morbidity at the local, national, regional and international levels, and to redouble their efforts to ensure the full and effective implementation of their human rights obligations, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and its review processes, including the commitments relating to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, and the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals, in particular the goals on improving maternal health and promoting gender equality and empowering women, including through the allocation of necessary domestic resources to health systems and the provision of the necessary information and health services addressing the sexual and reproductive health of women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2011), para. 19
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- 2. Stresses the need to address the social issues that contribute to the problem of obstetric fistula, such as early marriage of the girl child, early pregnancy, lack of access to sexual and reproductive health, lack of or inadequate education of women and girls, poverty and the low status of women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Trafficking in women and girls (2013), para. 39
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- 11. Further calls upon Governments to take appropriate measures to address the factors that increase vulnerability to being trafficked, including poverty and gender inequality, as well as other factors that encourage the particular problem of trafficking in women and girls for prostitution and other forms of commercialized sex, forced marriage, forced labour and organ removal, in order to prevent and eliminate such trafficking, including by strengthening existing legislation with a view to providing better protection of the rights of women and girls and to punishing perpetrators, including public officials engaging in or facilitating human trafficking, through, as appropriate, criminal and/or civil measures;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promoting awareness, understanding and the application of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through sport and the Olympic ideal (2011), para. 09
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- Recognizing the imperative need to engage women and girls in the practice of sport for development and peace and, in this regard, welcoming activities that aim to foster and encourage such initiatives at the global level,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2020), para. 26
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- (f) Promoting consultation with and the participation of rural women and, as appropriate, girls, including those who are indigenous, those with disabilities and older women, through their organizations and networks, in the design, development and implementation of and follow-up to programmes and strategies for gender equality, the empowerment of women and rural development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2014), para. 47
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- 13. Urges all States to promote gender equality and equal access to basic social services, such as education, nutrition, water and sanitation, birth registration, health care, vaccinations and protection from diseases representing the major causes of mortality, including non-communicable diseases, and to mainstream a gender perspective into all development policies and programmes, including those specific to the girl child;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- 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. 08
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- Welcoming the increased attention to the situation of women and girls and the integration of gender perspectives in the work of the United Nations, in particular in the outcomes of major conferences, special sessions and summit conferences and their follow-up processes, as well as the review and appraisal by the Economic and Social Council of the system-wide implementation of its agreed conclusions 1997/2 of 18 July 1997 on mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system, 3 the inclusion of the question of gender mainstreaming in its agenda, the consideration of annual progress made in gender mainstreaming and the attention given to the gender perspective in the outcomes of its substantive session of 2004,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promoting human rights through sport and the Olympic ideal (2018), para. 17
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- Recognizing further the imperative need to engage women and girls in the practice of sport and to enhance, to this end, their participation in sporting events at the national and international levels,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), para. 13
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- Acknowledging the important role that men and boys can play in preventing and eliminating violence against women and girls, and further encouraging men and boys to take an active part and become strategic partners and allies in the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls, and the importance of effectively responding to violence against boys as well, in order to break the intergenerational cycles of violence,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- 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. 048
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- 41. We are committed to women’s and girls’ equal rights and opportunities in political and economic decision-making and resource allocation and to removing any barriers that prevent women from being full participants in the economy. We resolve to undertake legislation and administrative reforms to give women equal rights with men to economic resources, including access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, credit, inheritance, natural resources and appropriate new technology. We further encourage the private sector to contribute to advancing gender equality through striving to ensure women’s full and productive employment and decent work, equal pay for equal work or work of equal value and equal opportunities, as well as protecting them against discrimination and abuse in the workplace. We support the Women’s Empowerment Principles established by UN-Women and the Global Compact, and encourage increased investments in female-owned companies or businesses.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage: challenges, achievements, best practices and implementation gaps (2013), para. 9
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- Recognizing that child, early and forced marriage continues to be an impediment to not only the economic, legal, health and social status of women and girls but to the development of the community as a whole, and that the empowerment of and investment in women and girls, as well as their meaningful participation in decisions that affect them, is a key factor in breaking the cycle of gender inequality and discrimination, violence and poverty and is critical for sustainable development and economic growth,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2016), para. 44
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- 32. Calls upon the international community to support the leadership and full and meaningful participation of women in all efforts, including decision-making, with the aim of finding a political solution to the conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic, as envisaged by the Security Council in its resolutions 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000, 2122 (2013) of 18 October 2013 and 2254 (2015), and welcomes the participation of the Women’s Advisory Board and civil society in the United Nations-led talks, in order to ensure that all resulting peacebuilding efforts are gender-responsive and consider the differential impact of conflict on women and girls, and their specific needs and interests;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2007), para. 22
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- (e) The continuing violence and discrimination against women and girls in law and in practice, the refusal of the Guardian Council to take steps to address this systemic discrimination and recent arrests of and violent crackdowns on women exercising their right of assembly;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2013), para. 28
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- Paragraph text
- 11. Also urges States to ensure the national implementation of international and regional commitments and obligations undertaken as States parties to various international instruments protecting the full enjoyment of all human rights and the fundamental freedoms of women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2018), para. 49
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- (ff) Taking appropriate measures to adopt or develop legislation and policies that provide rural women with access to land and support women’s cooperatives and agricultural programmes, including for subsistence agriculture, in order to contribute to school feeding programmes as a pull factor to keep children, in particula r girl children, in school, noting that school meals and take-home rations attract and retain children in schools and recognizing that school feeding is an incentive to enhance enrolment and reduce absenteeism, especially for girls;
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Inclusive development for and with persons with disabilities (2019), para. 15
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- Concerned that women and girls with disabilities are often among the most vulnerable and marginalized in society and are at a greater risk of experiencing all forms of violence, and recognizing the need for national development strategies and efforts to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls with disabilities, the elimination of all forms of violence and the realization of their human rights,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2019), para. 19
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- 16. Strongly urges the Islamic Republic of Iran to eliminate, in law and in practice, all forms of discrimination and other human rights violations against women and girls, including with respect to the right to freedom of movement, the right to enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, the right to freedom of religion or belief and the right to work, to take measures to ensure protection for women and girls against violence and their equal protection and access to justice, to address the concerning incidence of child, early and forced marriage, as recommended by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, to promote, support and enable women’s participation in political and other decision-making processes, and, while recognizing the high enrolment of women in all levels of education in the Islamic Republic of Iran, to lift restrictions on women’s equal access to all aspects of education and women’s equal participation in the labour market and in all aspects of economic, cultural, social and political life;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries (2017), para. 09
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- Paragraph text
- Taking note with appreciation also of the commitment of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries to gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2014), para. 075
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- (k) To address the gender dimension of all forms of violence against children and incorporate a gender perspective in all policies adopted and actions taken to protect children against all forms of violence, acknowledging that girls and boys face varying risks from different forms of violence at different ages and in different situations, and in this context recalls the agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women, including those adopted at its fifty-seventh session, 36 on the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (2010), para. 135
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- (e) Investing in infrastructure and labour-saving technologies, especially in rural areas, benefiting women and girls by reducing their burden of domestic activities, affording the opportunity for girls to attend school and women to engage in self-employment or participate in the labour market;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2020), para. 91
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- 61. Urges multilateral donors and invites international financial institutions, within their respective mandates, and regional development banks to review and implement policies that support national efforts to ensure that a higher proportion of resources reaches women and girls, in particular in rural and remote areas;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- 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 (2014), para. 08
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- Paragraph text
- Recalling also the agreed conclusions of the fifty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which addressed the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls, 9 and reiterating the importance of crime prevention and criminal justice measures for the protection of women and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2014), para. 24
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- Recognizing also that girl children are often at greater risk of being exposed to and encountering various forms of discrimination and violence, which continue to hinder efforts towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, and reaffirming the need to achieve gender equality to ensure a just and equitable world for girls, including through partnering with men and boys, as an important strategy for advancing the rights of the girl child,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2002), para. 28
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- 18. Requests all human rights treaty bodies, special procedures and other human rights mechanisms of the Commission on Human Rights and its Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights to adopt regularly and systematically a gender perspective in the implementation of their mandates and to include in their reports information on the qualitative analysis of violations of the human rights of women and girls, and encourages the strengthening of cooperation and coordination in that regard;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2011), para. 36
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- (a) Establishing, in partnership with all relevant stakeholders and at all relevant levels, a comprehensive integrated national plan dedicated to combating violence against women and girls in all its aspects, which includes data collection and analysis, prevention and protection measures, as well as national information campaigns, using resources to eliminate in the media gender stereotypes that lead to violence against women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Disaster risk reduction (2020), para. 62
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- 38. Encourages Governments to promote the full, equal and effective participation and leadership of women, as well as of persons with disabilities, in the design, management, resourcing and implementation of gender-responsive and disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction policies, plans and programmes, and recognizes in this regard that women and girls are disproportionately exposed to risk, increased loss of livelihoods and even loss of life during and in the aftermath of disasters, and that disasters and the consequent disruption to physical, social, economic and environmental networks and support systems disproportionately affect persons with disabilities and their families;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Science, technology and innovation for development (2018), para. 14
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- Recognizing that realizing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls will make a crucial contribution to progress across all of the Sustainable Development Goals and targets, and recognizing also that there is a need to target __________________ science, technology and innovation strategies to address women ’s empowerment and inequalities, including the gender digital divide,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019), para. 29
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- Paragraph text
- 8. Urges States to promote gender-sensitive, empowering educational processes, sensitive to the needs of women and girls, by reviewing and revising, as appropriate, school curricula, educational materials and teacher-training programmes and elaborating policies and programmes of zero tolerance of violence against girls or of harmful practices, including female genital mutilation, placing special emphasis on education about the harmful effects of female genital mutilation, and to further integrate a comprehensive understanding of the causes and consequences of gender- based violence and discrimination against women and girls into education and training curricula at all levels;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) (2016), para. 73
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- 36. Encourages the international community to support developing countries in their efforts to eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, and achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, the poor and people in vulnerable situations, with a view to achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including the Sustainable Development Goals, as established by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which builds upon the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and addresses their unfinished business, improving access to financial services, including affordable microfinance and credit, removing barriers to opportunity, enhancing productive capacity, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, encouraging the formalization and growth of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, developing sustainable agriculture and promoting full and productive employment and decent work for all, emphasizing the important role of national efforts aimed at bringing workers from the informal to the formal economy, guided, as appropriate, by the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204), of the International Labour Organization, complemented by national efforts on effective social policies, including social protection floors, and in this regard takes note of the Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202), of the International Labour Organization;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2013), para. 71
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- 22. Stresses that, within the United Nations system, adequate resources should be assigned to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and other bodies, specialized agencies, funds and programmes responsible for the promotion of gender equality and women’s rights and to efforts throughout the United Nations system to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls, and calls upon the United Nations system to make the necessary support and resources available;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Consequences of child, early and forced marriage (2019), para. 26
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- Paragraph text
- Recognizing also that everyone, including men and boys, benefits from the achievement of gender equality and that the impacts of gender inequality, discrimination and violence against women and girls, including child, early and forced marriage, are borne by society as a whole, and emphasizing therefore that men and boys, by taking responsibility themselves and working jointly in partnership with women and girls at all levels, can contribute to transforming discriminatory social norms that perpetuate gender-based violence, including child, early and forced marriage, and ending this practice,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2010), para. 09
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- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming also all other relevant outcomes of major United Nations summits and conferences relevant to the girl child, as well as their five- and ten-year reviews, including the Beijing Declaration 9F 10 and Platform for Action adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women, the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, 11F 12 the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, 12F 13 the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development 13F 14 and the declaration adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-ninth session in 2005, 14F 15 as well as
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Violence against women migrant workers (2018), para. 05
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- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming further that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 7 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Optional Protocols thereto, 9 as well as other relevant conventions and treaties, provide an international legal framework and a comprehensive set of measures for the elimination and prevention of all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls and for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Trafficking in women and girls (2013), para. 41
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- Paragraph text
- 13. Urges Governments to devise, enforce and strengthen effective gender- and age-sensitive measures to combat and eliminate all forms of trafficking in women and girls, including for sexual and economic exploitation, as part of a comprehensive anti-trafficking strategy that integrates a human rights perspective, and to draw up, as appropriate, national action plans in this regard;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Realizing the equal enjoyment of the right to education by every girl (2017), para. 08
- Paragraph text
- Noting with appreciation the work carried out by all relevant organs, bodies and mechanisms of the United Nations system within their respective mandates, in particular the United Nations Children’s Fund and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, the United Nations Population Fund and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as the efforts of organizations and civil society to promote girls’ full and equal enjoyment of the right to education,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2006), para. 21
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (e) The continuing violence and discrimination against women and girls in law and in practice, despite some minor legislative improvements, and the refusal of the Guardian Council to take steps to address this systemic discrimination, noting in this context its rejection, in August 2003, of the proposal of the elected parliament to accede to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; 6
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2010), para. 70
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Girls
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2010), para. 40
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 12. Urges States to ensure that the applicable requirements of the International Labour Organization for the employment of girls and boys are respected and effectively enforced and that girls who are employed have equal access to decent work, and equal payment and remuneration, are protected from economic exploitation, discrimination, sexual harassment, violence and abuse in the workplace, are aware of their rights and have access to formal and non-formal education, skills development and vocational training, and further urges States to develop gender-sensitive measures, including national action plans, where appropriate, to eliminate the worst forms of child labour, including commercial sexual exploitation, slavery-like practices, forced and bonded labour, trafficking and hazardous forms of child labour;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2018), para. 86
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 58. Urges multilateral donors and invites international financial institutions, within their respective mandates, and regional development banks to review and implement policies that support national efforts to ensure that a higher proportion of resources reaches women and girls, in particular in rural and remote areas;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2011), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Recognizes the interlinkages between poverty, malnutrition, lack of or inadequate or inaccessible health services, early childbearing, early marriage of the girl child and gender discrimination as root causes of obstetric fistula, that poverty remains the main social risk factor, that the eradication of poverty is critical to meeting the needs and protecting and promoting the rights of women and girls and that continued urgent national and international action is required to eliminate it;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2018), para. 41
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (m) To finalize the review of and raise awareness about the new sexual offences bill, to ensure that any bill passed into law reflects international obligations and commitments on the protection of children, women and girls, and to implement it and other laws as necessary to prevent sexual and gender-based violence;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2019), para. 31
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- Paragraph text
- 13. Expresses its profound concern at the findings of the Commission of Inquiry that sexual and gender-based violence against women, girls, men and boys has been a persistent issue in the Syrian Arab Republic since the uprising in 2011, and that women and girls have been disproportionately affected and victimized on multiple grounds;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2018), para. 29
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Urges States to develop or review relevant programmes that promote gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and equal access to basic social services, such as education, nutrition, water and sanitation, birth registration, health care, vaccinations and protection from diseases representing the major causes of mortality, including non-communicable diseases, and to mainstream a gender perspective into all development policies and programmes, including those specific to the girl child;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2018), para. 51
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 26. Urges States to formulate or review, as needed, comprehensive, multidisciplinary and coordinated national plans, programmes or strategies to eliminate all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls, which should have dedicated resources, be widely disseminated and provide targets and timetables for implementation, as well as effective domestic enforcement procedures through the establishment of monitoring and evaluation mechanisms involving all parties concerned, including consultations with women’s organizations, giving attention to the recommendations relating to the girl child of the Special Rapporteurs of the Human Rights Council on violence against women, its causes and consequences, and on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, and of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2005), para. 23
- Paragraph text
- (g) To promote the full enjoyment of all human rights by women and children and to meet the special needs of women and girls in post-conflict reconstruction, as well as to ensure the full participation of women in all aspects of conflict resolution and peace processes, including peacekeeping, conflict management and peacebuilding, as a matter of priority, in accordance with Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000 on women, peace and security;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2013), para. 03
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 1 the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, 2 the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 3 and the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development 4 and their reviews, and the international commitments in the field of social development and to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls made at the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance 5 and the 2005 World Summit, as well as those made in the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, entitled “Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals”, 7
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Trafficking in women and girls (2015), para. 29
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the decision by the General Assembly, in its resolution 68/309 of 10 September 2014, that the proposal of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals contained in its report 16 shall be the main basis for integrating sustainable development goals into the post-2015 development agenda, while recognizing that other inputs will also be considered, in the intergovernmental negotiation process at the sixty-ninth session of the Assembly, and taking note with appreciation of the reference to ensuring gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls contained in the proposal of the Open Working Group,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2007), para. 35
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- (o) To protect women and girls in situations of armed conflict, post-conflict settings and refugee and internally displaced persons settings, where women are at greater risk of being targeted for violence and where their ability to seek and receive redress is often restricted, bearing in mind that peace is inextricably linked with equality between women and men and development, that armed and other types of conflicts and terrorism and hostage-taking still persist in many parts of the world and that aggression, foreign occupation and ethnic and other types of conflicts are an ongoing reality affecting women and men in nearly every region, undertake efforts to eliminate impunity for all gender-based violence in situations of armed conflict, bearing in mind relevant General Assembly resolutions and Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on women and peace and security, and adopt, consistent with their obligations under the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 11 and the 1967 Protocol thereto, international human rights norms and relevant conclusions of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and General Assembly resolutions, a gender-sensitive approach to the consideration of claims for the granting of asylum and refugee status;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Violence against women migrant workers (2018), para. 46
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 9. Encourages Governments to consider, inter alia, provisions regarding gender equality and the empowerment of all migrant women and girls, and the tackling of all forms of violence perpetrated against them, in the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration, which will be negotiated in 2018;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2008), para. 09
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reiterating the need for Member States, relevant United Nations organizations and other relevant actors to mainstream a gender perspective into humanitarian assistance, including by addressing the specific needs of men, women, boys and girls in a comprehensive and consistent manner,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- 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 (2014), para. 16
- Paragraph text
- Expressing its appreciation for the work undertaken by the United Nations system in preventing and responding to all forms of violence against women and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas (2010), para. 25
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (h) Designing and implementing national policies that promote and protect the enjoyment by rural women and girls of all human rights and fundamental freedoms and creating an environment that does not tolerate violations of their rights, including domestic violence, sexual violence and all other forms of gender-based violence;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), para. 45
- Paragraph text
- 7. Affirms the need for States to collect thorough and accurate data and statistics on violence against women and girls, disaggregated on the basis of sex, age, disability and other relevant variables, to measure its impact on socioeconomic development and to strengthen the effectiveness of legislative and policy measures aimed at reducing barriers to women’s political and economic empowerment;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- 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 (2019), para. 036
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming its resolution 71/170 of 19 December 2016, entitled “Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence”, recalling the resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council addressing various aspects of violence against women and girls of all ages, and recalling also the agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-eighth session, which addressed the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls, 14
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- 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 (2007), para. 07
- Paragraph text
- 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,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence (2017), para. 31
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 2. Stresses that “violence against women” means any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, psychological or economic harm or suffering to women and girls, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life, including online, and notes the economic and social harm caused by such violence;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2018), para. 59
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 34. Requests the Secretary-General, as Chair of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, to ensure that all organi zations and bodies of the United Nations system, individually and collectively, in particular the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), the World Health Organization, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, the United Nations Development Programme, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Labour Organization, take into account the rights and the particular needs of the girl child in country programmes of cooperation in accordance with national priorities, including through the United Nations Development Assistance Framework;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human resources development (2018), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming that gender equality is of fundamental importance for achieving sustained economic growth, poverty eradication and sustainable development, in accordance with the relevant General Assembly resolutions and United Nations conferences, and that investing in the development of women and girls has a multiplier effect, in particular on productivity, efficiency and sustained economic growth, in all sectors of the economy, especially in key areas such as agriculture, industry and services, including health,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in South Sudan (2019), para. 17
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Gravely concerned about ongoing reports of widespread sexual and gender-based violence committed against women and girls and instances of conflict-related rape and gang rape used as a weapon against the civilian population, including the rape of women and girls near Bentiu, coupled with beatings, abductions, sexual slavery and forced marriage, and recognizing the urgency and importance of timely investigations and of timely assistance and protection for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, including sexual and reproductive health, psychosocial, legal and livelihood support and other multisectoral services for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, and of working with communities to reintegrate those affected by sexual and gender-based violence, and taking into account the specific needs of persons with disabilities,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The rights of the child (2001), para. 050
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 19. Calls upon States, educational institutions and the United Nations system, in particular the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Development Fund for Women and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to develop and implement gender-sensitive strategies to address the particular needs of the girl child in education;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2014), para. 28
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 9. Stresses the importance of the creation by Member States, international organizations, including the United Nations, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, trade unions and other stakeholders of a favourable and conducive national and international environment in all areas of life for the effective integration of women and girls in development, and of their undertaking and disseminating a gender analysis of policies and programmes related to macroeconomic stability, structural reform, taxation, investments, including foreign direct investment, and all relevant sectors of the economy;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2008), para. 23
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Stresses the need for full and urgent implementation of the rights of the girl child as provided to her under human rights instruments, and urges States to consider signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention on the Rights of the Child 1 0H and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 2 1H as a matter of priority;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights in humanitarian settings (2018), para. 46
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 16. Also calls upon States to ensure the effective and meaningful participation of women and girls, including through civil society and feminist networks and women’s rights organizations, in identifying and determining needs, priorities for funding and service, processes for access and delivery, and crisis response, in recognition of their agency;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Afghanistan (1997), para. 12
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Deeply deplores the grave deterioration of the human rights of women noted by the Special Rapporteur in his report, and urges the Afghan authorities immediately to restore respect for all human rights of women, including the right of women to work and the right of girls to education without discrimination, and calls upon Afghanistan to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, to which it is a signatory;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Child, early and forced marriage (2015), para. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Calls upon States to promote and protect the right of women and girls to education through enhanced emphasis on quality education, including catch-up and literacy education for those who have not received formal education, while recognizing that education is one of the most effective ways to prevent and end child, early and forced marriage and to help married women and girls to make more informed choices about their lives;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2020), para. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 17. Strongly urges the Islamic Republic of Iran to eliminate, in law and in practice, all forms of discrimination and other human rights violations against women and girls, to take measures to ensure protection for women and girls against violence and their equal protection and access to justice, to address the concerning incidence of child, early and forced marriage, as recommended by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, to promote, support and enable women’s participation in political and other decision-making processes, and, while recognizing the high enrolment of women in all levels of education in the Islamic Republic of Iran, to lift restrictions on women’s equal access to all aspects of education and women’s equal participation in the labour market and in all aspects of economic, cultural, social and political life, including participation in and attendance at sporting events;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters, from relief to development (2015), para. 61
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 35. Encourages Governments, local authorities, the United Nations system and regional organizations, and invites donors and other assisting countries, to address the vulnerabilities and capacities of women and girls through gender- responsive programming, including means to address sexual and gender-based violence and various forms of exploitation during emergencies and in post-disaster environments, and the allocation of resources in their disaster risk reduction, response and recovery efforts in coordination with the Governments of affected countries;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- 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. 31
- Paragraph text
- (a) Fully engaging men and boys, alongside women and girls, including community and religious leaders, as agents and beneficiaries of achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls as a contribution to the elimination of violence against women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers (2020), para. 71
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 29. Urges States to adopt national gender-responsive migration policies and legislation, in line with relevant obligations under international law, to protect the human rights of all migrant women and girls, regardless of migration status; recognize the skills and education of women migrant workers to promote their economic empowerment in all sectors and, as appropriate, facilitate their productive employment, decent work and integration into the labour force, including in the fields of education and science and technology; recognize the importance of protecting labour rights and a safe environment for women migrant workers and those in precarious employment, including preventing and addressing abuse a nd exploitation, protecting women migrant workers in all sectors and promoting labour mobility; provide newly arrived migrant women with targeted, gender-responsive, child- sensitive, accessible and comprehensive information and legal guidance on their rights and obligations, including on compliance with national and local laws, obtaining work and resident permits, status adjustments, registration with authorities, access to justice to file complaints about rights violations, as well as access to basic services; encourage cooperation among various stakeholders, including countries of origin, transit and destination, in ensuring that migrant women and girls have adequate identification and the provision of relevant documents to facilitate access to social protection mechanisms; and facilitate the sustainable reintegration of returning migrant women and girls by providing them with equal access to social protection and services;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the Third United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2018–2027) (2019), para. 62
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 25. Also stresses the importance of policies and actions that are not just gender-responsive but that actively seek to advance the goal of gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment as well as to address longer-term structural issues, including structural constraints faced by women as economic agents, and to remove any barriers that prevent women from being full participants in the economy, by, inter alia, undertaking legislation and administrative reforms, as appropriate, to give women equal rights with men in political and economic decision-making and access to economic resources and to promote the reconciliation of work and family responsibilities, including through paid maternity and parental leave and the redistribution of the disproportionate work burden of women engaged in unpaid work, including domestic and care work, encourages the private sector, in accordance with national legislation, to contribute to advancing gender equality by striving to ensure women’s full and productive employment and decent work, equal pay for equal work or work of equal value and equal opportunities, as well as by protecting them against discrimination and abuse in the workplace, and underlines that globally, gross domestic product could increase significantly if every country achieved gender equality and increased participation of women in the formal labour fo rce;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science (2016), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 3. Invites the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and UN-Women, mindful of the provisions contained in the annex to Economic and Social Council resolution 1980/67, to work together to facilitate the implementation of the International Day in collaboration with all relevant organizations already involved in the promotion of women and girls in science;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2019), para. 33
- Paragraph text
- (e) To support substantive gender equality and women’s and girls’ rights, including within families, through long-term awareness-raising initiatives, including for men and boys, especially education and public awareness-raising, including in the media and online, through the incorporation of curricula on all women’s and girls’ rights into teacher training courses, including on the prevention of sexual and gender-based violence, and by ensuring universal access to evidence-based comprehensive sexuality education;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Families
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Violence against women migrant workers (2018), para. 26
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing also that violence against women and girls, in particular migrant women, is rooted in historical and structural inequality in power relations between women and men, which further reinforces gender stereotypes and barriers to the full enjoyment by women and girls of their human rights,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation against the world drug problem (2006), para. 33
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (d) To consider strengthening and implementing broadly based prevention and treatment programmes and to ensure that such programmes adequately address the gender-specific barriers that limit access for young girls and women, taking into account all attendant circumstances, including social and clinical histories, in the context of education, the family and the community, as appropriate;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Traffic in women and girls (2001), para. 05
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming the provisions of the outcomes of the World Conference on Human Rights, held in Vienna from 14 to 25 June 1993, 12 the International Conference on Population and Development, 13 the World Summit for Social Development, 14 the Fourth World Conference on Women, the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, held in New York from 5 to 9 June 2000, 16 and the twenty-fourth special session of the Assembly, entitled “World Summit for Social Development and beyond: achieving social development for all in a globalizing world”, held in Geneva from 26 June to 1 July 2000, 17 as well as the Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, held in Cairo from 29 April to 8 May 1995, 18 and the Tenth Congress, 19 pertaining to the traffic in women and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2018), para. 18
- Paragraph text
- 2. Urges Member States, in collaboration with the organizations of the United Nations system and civil society, as appropriate, to continue their efforts to implement the outcome of and to ensure an integrated and coordinated follow-up to the relevant United Nations conferences and summits, including their reviews, and to attach greater importance to the improvement of the situation of rural women and girls in their national, regional and global development strategies by, inter alia:
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Policies and programmes involving youth (2010), para. 03
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling also that, in its resolution 62/126, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to report to the Assembly at its sixty-fourth session, through the Commission for Social Development at its forty-seventh session, on the implementation of eleven of the fifteen priority areas of the World Programme of Action for Youth, namely armed conflict, drug abuse, environment, girls and young women, health, HIV/AIDS, information and communications technology, intergenerational issues, juvenile delinquency, leisure-time activities and youth participation in society and decision-making,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- 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. 099
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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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Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: engaging men and boys in preventing and responding to violence against all women and girls (2017), para. 51
- Paragraph text
- 14. Decides to continue its consideration of the issue of the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, as a matter of high priority, in conformity with its annual programme of work.
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2014), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that unremunerated work, including domestic and care work, plays an essential role in improving well-being in the household and in the functioning of the economy as a whole, and acknowledging the need to recognize and consider, where appropriate, policies and programmes that would contribute to reducing the unequal burden of unremunerated work, including care work, for which women and girls continue to carry an unequal level of responsibility,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2018), para. 08
- Paragraph text
- Recalling that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, that gender equality must be promoted in a comprehensive and systematic manner, and that persistent discrimination within families and societies has a debilitating impact on the equal enjoyment of human rights by women and girls in all aspects of life, and affirming that no State can be indifferent to the violations of human rights anywhere in the world,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas (2014), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (j) Designing and implementing national policies and legal frameworks that promote and protect the enjoyment by rural women and girls of all human rights a nd fundamental freedoms, and creating an environment that does not tolerate violations or abuses of their rights, including domestic violence, sexual violence and all other forms of gender-based violence;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2014), para. 45
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 11. Further urges States to ensure that the applicable requirements of the International Labour Organization for the employment of girls and boys are respected and effectively enforced and that girls who are employed have equal access to decent work and equal payment and remuneration, are protected from economic and sexual exploitation, discrimination, sexual harassment, violence and abuse in the workplace, are aware of their rights and have access to formal and non-formal education, skills development and vocational training, and also urges States to develop gender-sensitive measures, including national action plans, where appropriate, to eliminate the worst forms of child labour, commercial sexual exploitation, hazardous forms of child labour, trafficking and slavery-like practices, including forced and bonded labour, and to recognize that girls, including in child- headed households, face greater risks in this regard;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls (2016), para. 30
- Paragraph text
- 13. Encourages Member States and relevant United Nations entities and agencies, including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Office of the High Commissioner, UN-Women and other specialized funds and programmes of the United Nations, to raise awareness regarding gender-related killing of women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2016), para. 28
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming that nutrition and other related policies should pay special attention to women and empower women and girls, thereby contributing to women’s full and equal access to social protection and resources, including income, land, water, finance, education, training, science and technology and health -care services, thus promoting food security and health,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2018), para. 48
- Paragraph text
- (e) To encourage and facilitate women’s entrepreneurship, including by improving access to financing and investment opportunities, tools of trade, business development and training, through, inter alia, the mobilization of adequate financial resources, capacity-building and the transfer of technology on mutually agreed terms, in order to increase the share of trade and procurement from women’s enterprises, including micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises, cooperatives and self-help groups in both the public and private sectors, and to promote girls’ and young women’s access to training for business development;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Information and communications technologies for development (2014), para. 09
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Noting also the establishment of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development at the invitation of the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union and the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, taking note of the “Broadband targets for 2015”, which set targets for making broadband policy universal and for increasing affordability and uptake in support of internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, taking note also of the report entitled “The state of broadband 2013: universalizing broadband”, which provides a country-by-country evaluation of those targets and the state of broadband deployment worldwide, as well as the report of the Broadband Commission entitled “Doubling digital opportunities: enhancing the inclusion of women and girls in the information society”, which identified a digital gender gap of approximately 200 million fewer women online than men, and noting that without further action to increase access to broadband for women and girls, this digital gender gap could grow to 350 million by 2015,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of discrimination against women and girls (2017), para. 07
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Deeply concerned that no country in the world has yet fully eliminated gender-based discrimination 3 and at the fact that many women and girls everywhere, particularly those who are marginalized or in a vulnerable situation, face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and are still subject to discriminatory laws and practices, and that de jure and de facto equality has not been achieved,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Protection of migrants (2020), para. 66
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (h) Encourages all States to develop international migration policies and programmes that include a gender perspective, in order to adopt the measures necessary to better protect women and girls against dangers and abuse during migration;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in protection (2011), para. 30
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (n) To support initiatives undertaken by and engage in strategic partnerships with women’s groups, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, media, faith and community groups and other relevant civil society actors and international organizations aimed at protecting women and girls who have been subjected to violence, promoting gender equality and the full enjoyment of all human rights by women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human resources development (2002), para. 10
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that there is a need to integrate human resources development into comprehensive strategies that mainstream a gender perspective, taking into account the needs of all people, in particular the needs of women and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights in humanitarian settings (2018), para. 42
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 12. Calls upon States to support gender equality and women’s rights and the rights of the child, including within families, through awareness-raising initiatives, including in schools and in displaced and refugee camps and settlements, especially education and public awareness-raising, including through the media and online, the incorporation of curricula on all women’s and girls’ rights into teacher training courses, including the prevention of sexual and gender-based violence and discrimination, and ensuring universal access to evidence-based comprehensive sexuality education consistent with the evolving capacities of the child;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Global health and foreign policy: an inclusive approach to strengthening health systems (2020), para. 55
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 10. Also encourages Member States to mainstream a gender perspective on a systems-wide basis when designing, implementing and monitoring health policies, taking into account the specific needs of all women and girls, with a view to achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women in health policies and health systems delivery;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Violence against women migrant workers (1997), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 2. Determines to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2020), para. 51
- Paragraph text
- (ff) Developing and adopting strategies to decrease women’s and girls’ vulnerability to environmental factors, including gender-responsive strategies on mitigation and adaptation to climate change, to support the resilience and adaptive capacities of women and girls to respond to the adverse effects of climate change, through, inter alia, the promotion of their health and well-being, as well as access to sustainable livelihoods, and the provision of adequate resources to ensure women’s full participation in decision-making at all levels on environmental issues, in particular on strategies and policies related to the impacts of climate change, such as desertification, deforestation, sand and dust storms and natural disasters, persistent drought, extreme weather events, sea level rise, coastal erosion and ocean acidification and loss of biodiversity, on the lives of rural women and girls, and ensuring the integration of their specific needs into humanitarian responses to natural disasters, into the planning, delivery, implementation and monitoring of disaster risk reduction policies, in particular urban and rural infrastructure and land-use planning and resettlement and relocation planning during the aftermath of natural disasters, and into sustainable natural resources management;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2014), para. 27
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Deeply concerned also that violence against women and girls is underrecognized, particularly at the community level, and underreported or unrecorded as a result of stigma, fear, social tolerance and the often illegal and covert nature of such activities,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls (2016), para. 08
- Paragraph text
- Expressing its gratitude to the Government of Thailand for hosting and chairing the meeting of the open-ended intergovernmental expert group on gender- related killing of women and girls, held in Bangkok from 11 to 13 November 2014, as mandated by resolution 68/191,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) (2016), para. 23
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming that women are key contributors to the economy and to combating poverty and inequalities, through both paid and unpaid work, at home, in the community and in the workplace, and that evidence shows that gender equality, the empowerment of women and their full and equal participation and leadership in the economy are vital in order to achieve sustainable development and significantly enhance economic growth and productivity, and reaffirming also that gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls will make a crucial contribution to progress in realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and are critical factors in the eradication of poverty,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2018), para. 35
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (g) To prioritize the enactment of legislation and undertake reforms that respect, protect and promote women’s and girls’ full enjoyment of all human rights and to allow for the response to and the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls, including by adopting a zero-tolerance approach to sexual and gender-based violence, child, early and forced marriage and all forms of female genital mutilation, ensuring that those responsible for sexual and gender-based violence, exploitation and abuse are held to account, regardless of their status or rank;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2014), para. 23
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that the needs of girls vary, according to a number of factors, including their age, and that the risks of violence and discrimination that they face change over their life cycles, from childhood through adolescence,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and extreme poverty (2017), para. 09
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling that the Sustainable Development Goals and targets seek to build on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what they did not achieve, and that they seek to realize the human rights of all and to achieve gender equality a nd the empowerment of all women and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Scope, modalities, format and organization of the high-level meeting on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women (2019), para. 08
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 2. Also decides that the theme of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly will be “Accelerating the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls” and that this meeting will highlight achievements, best practices, gaps and challenges, and recalls that the theme of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, “The future we want, the United Nations we need: reaffirming our collective commitment to multilateralism”, shall guide all activities, meetings and conferences organized by the United Nations in 2020;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 081
- Paragraph text
- (i) Committing gender-related violence against a child and, in particular, gender-related killing of girls.
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls (2015), para. 85
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (cc) Ensuring that the prison system and probation services provide appropriate rehabilitation programmes for perpetrators, as a preventive tool against recidivism as part of an integrated response to violence against women, and that they consider the safety of women and girls as the highest priority;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Organization of la Francophonie (2019), para. 71
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 40. Also welcomes the adoption by the Heads of State and Government of countries using French as a common language, at the seventeenth Summit of la Francophonie, of the strategy for the promotion of equality between women and men and the rights and empowerment of women and girls in the francophone countries, which is intended to promote gender equality in the public and private spheres ; encourage access for girls and women to high-quality and inclusive education, training, decent work and health; promote their empowerment; prevent and combat all forms of violence, abuse and discrimination committed against them; and promote their full, effective and equal participation in political, economic, cultural and public life, including the prevention and resolution of conflicts;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- 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. 011
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. We reaffirm that achieving gender equality, empowering all women and girls, and the full realization of their human rights are essential to achieving sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth and sustainable development. We reiterate the need for gender mainstreaming, including targeted actions and investments in the formulation and implementation of all financial, economic, environmental and social policies. We recommit to adopting and strengthening sound policies and enforceable legislation and transformative actions for the promotion of gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment at all levels, to ensure women’s equal rights, access and opportunities for participation and leadership in the economy and to eliminate gender-based violence and discrimination in all its forms.
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2017), para. 52
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 36. Calls upon the international community to support the leadership and full and meaningful participation of women in all efforts, including decision-making, with the aim of finding a political solution to the conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic, as envisaged by the Security Council in its resolutions 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000, 2122 (2013) of 18 October 2013, 2254 (2015), 2268 (2016), 2332 (2016) of 21 December 2016 and 2336 (2016), and welcomes the participation of the Women’s Advisory Board and civil society in the United Nations-led talks in order to ensure that all resulting peacebuilding efforts are gender-responsive and consider the differential impact of conflict on women and girls, and their specific needs and interests;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2008), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing also that girl children are often at greater risk of being exposed to and encountering various forms of discrimination and violence, and reaffirming the need to achieve gender equality to ensure a just and equitable world for girls, including through partnering with men and boys, as an important strategy for advancing the rights of the girl child,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the Third United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2018–2027) (2019), para. 55
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 18. Encourages the international community to support developing countries in their efforts to eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, and achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, the poor and people in vulnerable situations, with a view to achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including the Sustainable Development Goals, as established by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which builds upon the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and addresses their unfinished business, improving tax systems and access to financial services, including affordable microfinance and credit, removing barriers to opportunity, enhancing productive capacity, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, encouraging the formalization and growth of micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises, developing sustainable agriculture and promoting full and productive employment and decent work for all, emphasizing the important role of national efforts aimed at bringing workers from the informal to the formal economy, guided, as appropriate, by the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204), of the International Labour Organization, complemented by national efforts on effective social policies, including social protection floors, and in this regard takes note of the Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 ( No. 202), of the International Labour Organization;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2010), para. 07
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reiterating the need for Member States, relevant United Nations organizations and other relevant actors to mainstream a gender perspective into humanitarian assistance, including by addressing the specific needs of women, girls, boys and men in a comprehensive and consistent manner,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), para. 21
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing also the important role of the United Nations system, in particular of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, in addressing discrimination and violence against women and girls at the global, regional and national levels and in assisting States, upon their request, in their efforts to eliminate and prevent all forms of violence against women and girls, and highlighting the relevance of such efforts to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2018), para. 52
- Paragraph text
- 6. Encourages States to prioritize the allocation of funds, both internationally and domestically, to support women’s and girls’ full and equal enjoyment of all human rights, including by mainstreaming gender equality in the process of conceiving, planning, approving, executing, analysing and ordering budgets, to ensure that their legal and policy commitments bear results, and to implement active and sustained measures to promote good practices in the eradication of discrimination and the promotion of women’s and girls’ empowerment, including measures focused on attitudinal and behavioural change that cultivate an environment in which good practices in achieving gender equality in law and in practice can thrive;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of discrimination against women (2012), para. 06
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Bearing in mind that international human rights treaties, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender and include guarantees to ensure the enjoyment by women and men, and girls and boys, of their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights on a basis of equality,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence (2017), para. 69
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 22. Calls upon all United Nations bodies, entities, funds and programmes and the specialized agencies and invites the Bretton Woods institutions to intensify their efforts at all levels to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls and to better coordinate their work with a view to increasing effective support for national efforts to prevent and eliminate domestic violence against women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Sudan (1998), para. 10
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Deeply concerned about policies, practices and activities which are directed against and particularly violate the human rights of women and girls, and noting the continuation of such practices, including civil and judicial discrimination against women, as reported by the Special Rapporteur,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas (2014), para. 35
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 5. Stresses the need to identify the best practices for ensuring that rural women have access to and full participation in the area of information and communications technology, to address the priorities and needs of ru ral women and girls as active users of information and to ensure their participation in developing and implementing global, regional and national information and communications technology strategies, taking appropriate educational measures to eliminate gen der stereotypes regarding women in the field of technology;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls (2016), para. 34
- Paragraph text
- 17. Invites the institutes of the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme network to include in their work programmes the issue of gender-related killing of women and girls with a view to promoting ways and means of more effectively preventing, investigating, prosecuting and punishing such crime, and to develop appropriate training material;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond (2018), para. 04
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing also that the objectives of the International Year of the Family and its follow-up processes, especially those relating to family policies in the areas of poverty, work-family balance and intergenerational issues, with attention given to the rights and responsibilities of all family members, can contribute to ending poverty, ending hunger, ensuring a healthy life and promoting well-being for all at all ages, promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all, ensuring better education outcomes for children, achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and eliminating all forms of violence, in particular against women and girls, as part of an integrated comprehensive approach to development,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2019), para. 33
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 15. Strongly condemns all acts of sexual and gender-based violence and abuse, calls for immediate medical and psychosocial support to be provided to all survivors of such crimes and for every effort to be made to ensure justice for those who have suffered as a result of such crimes, and urges all parties to the conflict to respect and protect women’s and girls’ full enjoyment of human rights and to heed the recommendations made by the Commission of Inquiry;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Information and communications technologies for development (2015), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Noting the establishment of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, at the invitation of the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union and the Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, taking note of the “Broadband targets for 2015”, which sets targets for making broadband policy universal and for increasing affordability and uptake in support of internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, taking note also of the report of the Broadband Commission entitled The State of Broadband 2014: Broadband for All, which provides a country-by-country evaluation of those targets and the state of broadband deployment worldwide, as well as the report of the Broadband Commission Working Group on Broadband and Gender entitled “Doubling digital opportunities: enhancing the inclusion of women and girls in the information society”, which identifies a digital gender gap of approximately 200 million fewer women online than men, noting that without further action to increase access to broadband for women and girls, this digital gender gap could grow to 350 million by 2015, and taking note of the report of the Broadband Commission Task Force on Sustainable Development entitled “Means of transformation: harnessing broadband for the post-2015 development agenda”,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2018), para. 51
- Paragraph text
- (hh) Eliminating gender disparities in the realization of the right to education and ensuring full and equal participation in and completion of inclusive quality education (primary, secondary and tertiary education, including vocational and technical education), promoting lifelong learning opportunities for rural women and girls and the elimination of female illiteracy, including through quality teacher training, recruitment and retention of teachers in rural areas, especially women teachers where they are underrepresented, and building gender-sensitive education facilities that provide a safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environment for all and facilitate an effective transition from education or unemployment to decent work;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cooperatives in social development (2018), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 11. Invites Governments, in collaboration with the cooperative movement, to develop programmes aimed at enhancing the capacity-building of cooperatives, including by strengthening the organizational, management and financial skills of their members, while respecting the principles of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, and to introduce and support programmes to improve the access of cooperatives to new technologies;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls (2015), para. 87
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 21. Urges the international community, including the United Nations system and, as appropriate, regional and subregional organizations, to support national efforts to promote the empowerment of women and girls and gender equality in order to enhance national efforts to eliminate violence against women and girls, including, upon request, in the development and implementation of national action plans on the elimination of violence against women and girls, through, inter alia, official development assistance and other appropriate assistance, such as facilitating the sharing of guidelines, methodologies and best practices, taking into account national priorities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2015), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reiterating the need for Member States, relevant United Nations organizations and other relevant actors to mainstream a gender perspective into humanitarian assistance, including by addressing the specific needs of women, girls, boys and men in a comprehensive and consistent manner, and to improve accountability at all levels to the needs of affected populations, including persons with disabilities, and recognizing the importance of inclusive participation in decision-making,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2018), para. 44
- Paragraph text
- (aa) Developing and adopting strategies to decrease women’s and girls’ vulnerability to environmental factors, including gender-responsive strategies on mitigation and adaptation to climate change, to support the resilience and adaptive capacities of women and girls to respond to the adverse effects of c limate change, through, inter alia, the promotion of their health and well-being, as well as access to sustainable livelihoods, and the provision of adequate resources to ensure women ’s full participation in decision-making at all levels on environmental issues, in particular on strategies and policies related to the impacts of climate change, such as desertification, deforestation, sand and dust storms and natural disasters, persistent drought, extreme weather events, sea level rise, coastal erosion and ocean acidification and loss of biodiversity, on the lives of rural women and girls, and ensuring the integration of their specific needs into humanitarian responses to natural disasters, into the planning, delivery and monitoring of disaster risk reduction policies and into sustainable natural resources management;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2019), para. 032
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (g) Gender-responsive. The Global Compact ensures that the human rights of women, men, girls and boys are respected at all stages of migration, that their specifi c needs are properly understood and addressed and that they are empowered as agents of change. It mainstreams a gender perspective and promotes gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, recognizing their independence, agency and leadership in order to move away from addressing migrant women primarily through a lens of victimhood;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2007), para. 11
- Paragraph text
- Deeply concerned about the pervasiveness of violence against women and girls in all its forms and manifestations worldwide, and reiterating the need to intensify efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls throughout the world,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (2019), para. 40
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 27. Reaffirms that achieving gender equality, empowering all women and girls and the full realization of the human rights of all people are essential to achieving sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth and sustainable development, and reiterates the need for gender mainstreaming, including targeted actions and investments in the formulation and implementation of all financial, economic, environmental and social policies in the least developed countries;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights in humanitarian settings (2018), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that respect for and the protection and fulfilment of the full enjoyment of human rights by all women and girls and the full implementation of all Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda, including Goal 5 on achieving gender equality and empower all women and girls and target 3.1 on reducing global maternal mortality, are interrelated and mutually reinforcing,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2013), para. 39
- Paragraph text
- 17. Calls upon States, with the support of United Nations entities, to fully engage men and boys, as well as families and communities, as agents of change in preventing and condemning violence against women and girls and to develop appropriate policies to promote the responsibility of men and boys in eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Families
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and mass exoduses (1998), para. 11
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- Recognizing that women and children constitute the majority of most refugee populations and that, in addition to the problems they share in common with all refugees, women and girls in such circumstances are vulnerable to gender-based discrimination and gender-specific violations of human rights,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Question of the realization in all countries of economic, social and cultural rights (2018), para. 11
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- Recalling the commitment included in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to ensure the equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all economic, social and cultural rights set forth in the Covenant, and welcoming the inclusion of both gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls as a stand- alone goal, and its integration into all goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda and throughout the implementation process,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in the world of work (2019), para. 36
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- 4. Expresses deep concern that all forms of discrimination, intimidation, harassment and violence, including in the world of work, prevent women and girls from fully enjoying their human rights and fundamental freedoms, which hinders their full, equal, effective and meaningful participation in economic, social, cultural, civil and political spheres, and is an impediment to achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2019), para. 26
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- 13. Also welcomes the joint communiqué issued by the Government of Myanmar and the United Nations on addressing conflict-related sexual violence in Myanmar, and calls for its effective implementation, including by taking action to hold perpetrators of sexual violence to account and ensuring accountability for violations of the rights of women and girls in humanitarian settings, supporting legal reforms and providing training and capacity-building on investigating and prosecuting sexual and gender-based violence for justice and security sector actors, and strengthening service delivery and access to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Trafficking in women and girls (2013), para. 65
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- 34. Invites Governments, United Nations bodies, agencies and special mechanisms, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and the private sector to undertake collaborative and joint research and studies on trafficking in women and girls that can serve as a basis for policy formulation or change;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls (2014), para. 29
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- 9. Encourages relevant United Nations entities and agencies, in particular the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Commission on the Status of Women, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), to support Member States in developing and implementing strategies and policies, upon request, at the national, regional and international levels to address and prevent gender-related killing of women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2018), para. 40
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- 15. Also urges States to ensure that the applicable conventions of the International Labour Organization relating to the employment of girls and boys are respected and effectively enforced and that girls who are employed have equal access to decent work and equal pay for equal work or work of equal value, are protected from economic and sexual exploitation, discrimination, sexual harassment, violence and abuse in the workplace, are aware of their rights and have access to formal and non-formal education, skills development and technical and vocational training, and urges States to develop gender-sensitive measures, including national action plans, where appropriate, to eliminate child labour and its worst forms, commercial sexual exploitation, hazardous forms of child labour, trafficking and slavery-like practices, including forced and bonded labour, and recruitment or use of children in armed conflict in violation of applicable international law, and to recognize that girls, including in child-headed households, face greater risks in this regard;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2018), para. 11
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- Expressing its deep concern also that, while women contribute more than 50 per cent of the food produced worldwide, they account for 70 per cent of the world’s hungry, and that women and girls are disproportionately affected by hunger, food insecurity and poverty, in part as a result of gender inequality and discrimination,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Integrating volunteering into peace and development: the plan of action for the next decade and beyond (2016), para. 17
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- 8. Urges Governments and all related stakeholders to incorporate volunteerism into gender mainstreaming strategies, recognizing that peer -to-peer informal volunteering can help to reduce violence against women and girls, contribute to the achievement of gender equality, empower women and girls and strengthen their civic and political participation and leadership;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls (2015), para. 52
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- 16. Further stresses that, despite important steps taken by many countries around the world, States should continue to focus on the prevention of violence against women and girls, as well as on their protection, their empowerment and the provision of services, and should therefore implement laws and policies for ending violence against women and girls and monitor and rigorously evaluate the implementation of available programmes, policies and laws and improve, where possible, their impact, accessibility and effectiveness;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human resources development (2014), para. 14
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- Reaffirming that gender equality is of fundamental importance for achieving sustained economic growth, poverty eradication and sustainable development, in accordance with the relevant General Assembly resolutions and United Nations conferences, and that investing in the development of women and girls has a multiplier effect, in particular on productivity, efficiency and sustained economic growth, in all sectors of the economy, especially in key areas such as agriculture, industry and services,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of violence against women, including crimes identified in the outcome document of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” (2003), para. 20
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- 12. Urges relevant entities of the United Nations system, within their mandates, to assist countries, upon their request, in their efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women, including crimes identified in the outcome document of the twenty-third special session, and in this regard expresses its appreciation of the work being done by the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the United Nations Development Fund for Women and other relevant funds and programmes aimed at preventing and eliminating violence against women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Policies and programmes involving youth (2016), para. 21
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- 11. Urges Member States to address the challenges faced by girls and young women, as well as to address gender stereotypes that perpetuate discrimination and violence against girls and young women and the stereotypical roles of men and women that are preclusive of social development, by reaffirming the commitment to the empowerment of women and gender equality and the human rights of all women and girls, and to engage, educate, encourage and support men and boys to take responsibility for their behaviour in this regard, including their sexual and reproductive behaviour;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2016), para. 19
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- (j) Designing and implementing national policies and legal frameworks that promote and protect the full enjoyment of human rig hts and fundamental freedoms by rural women and girls, and creating an environment that does not tolerate violations or abuses of their rights, including domestic violence, sexual violence and all other forms of gender-based violence and discrimination;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of indigenous peoples (2016), para. 10
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- Recognizing that violence against indigenous women and girls has a negative impact on the enjoyment of their human rights and fundamental freedoms and constitutes a major impediment to women’s full, equal and effective participation in society, the economy and political decision-making,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), para. 11
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- Emphasizing the need for States, and all segments of society, including civil society organizations, the private sector and the media, as well as community leaders, including tribal leaders, and religious leaders to take meaningful steps to promote the empowerment of women and girls in order to achieve gender equality and to strongly condemn and address attitudes and behaviours that perpetuate violence against women and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2008), para. 29
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- (j) Incorporating gender perspectives and human rights in health-sector policies, programmes and research activities, paying attention to women’s and girls’ specific needs and priorities, ensuring women’s right to the highest attainable standards of health and their access to affordable and adequate health-care services, including sexual, reproductive and maternal health care and lifesaving obstetric care, in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, 13F 14 and recognizing that the lack of economic empowerment and independence has increased women’s vulnerability to a range of negative consequences, involving the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other poverty-related diseases;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Entrepreneurship for sustainable development (2019), para. 50
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- 22. Strengthens science and technology education policies and curricula to promote girls in science, technology, engineering and mathematics so that they are relevant to the needs of and benefit women and girls, and encourages investment and research in sustainable technology that meets the needs of women, particularly in developing countries, in order to strengthen their capacities, so as to enable women to leverage science and technology for entrepreneurship and economic empowerment in the changing world of work;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2015), para. 40
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- 21. Encourages men and boys to take positive initiatives and to work in partnership with women and girls to combat violence and discriminatory practices against women and girls, in particular female genital mutilations, through networks, peer programmes, information campaigns and training programmes;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls (2015), para. 30
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- Recognizing also the important role of the family in combating violence against women and girls and the need to support its capacity to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Question of human rights in Afghanistan (2000), para. 31
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- (d) The right of women and girls to education without discrimination, the reopening of schools and the admission of women and girls to all levels of education;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Development Fund for Women (2008), para. 30
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- 15. Calls upon the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality to intensify its consideration of ways and means to enhance the effectiveness of the Trust Fund as a system-wide funding mechanism for preventing and redressing all forms of violence against women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2018), para. 32
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- 5. Reaffirms that achieving gender equality, empowering all women and girls and the full realization of their human rights are essential to achieving sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth and sustainable development, reiterates the need for gender mainstreaming, including targeted actions and investments in the formulation and implementation of all financial, economic, environmental and social policies, and further reaffirms the commitment to adopting and strengthening sound policies and enforceable legislation and transformative actions for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls at all levels to ensure women’s equal rights, access and opportunities for participation and leadership in the economy and to eliminate gender-based violence and discrimination in all its forms;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples (2014), para. 21
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- 19. We invite the Human Rights Council to consider examining the causes and consequences of violence against indigenous women and girls, in consultation with the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples and other special procedures mandate holders within their respective mandates. We also invite the Commission on the Status of Women to consider the issue of the empowerment of indigenous women at a future session.
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The situation in Afghanistan (2018), para. 54
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- 35. Reiterates its unwavering commitment and that of the Government of Afghanistan to achieving the full and equal participation of women in all spheres of Afghan life, commends the achievements and efforts of the Government aimed a t countering discrimination and protecting and promoting the equal rights of women and men consistent with its international obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 4 and pursuant to the Afghan Constitution, the National Action Plan for the Women of Afghanistan, the Afghan national action plan on women, peace and security, the law on the elimination of violence against women and the national strategy to prevent violence against women, and welcomes recent measures taken towards the protection of women’s and girls’ full and equal enjoyment of human rights, including the establishment of a senior position in the Office of the Attorney General on the elimination of violence against women and the appointment of 44 female attorneys in 25 provinces;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2018), para. 17
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- 14. Strongly urges the Islamic Republic of Iran to eliminate, in law and in practice, all forms of discrimination and other human rights violations against women and girls, including with respect to the right to freedom of movement, the right to enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and the right to work, to take measures to ensure protection for women and girls against violence and their equal protection and access to justice, to address the concerning incidence of child, early and forced marriage, as recommended by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, to promote, support and enable women’s participation in leadership and decision-making processes and, while recognizing the high enrolment of women in all levels of education in the Islamic Republic of Iran, to lift restrictions on women’s equal access to all aspects of education and women’s equal participation in the labour market and in all aspects of economic, cultural, social and political life;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in protection (2011), para. 33
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- (q) To establish or strengthen plans of action to eliminate violence against women and girls that clearly delineate government accountabilities for protection and are supported by the necessary human, financial and technical resources, including, where appropriate, time-bound measurable targets, to accelerate the implementation of existing plans of action and to regularly monitor and update them, taking into account inputs by civil society, in particular women’s organizations, networks and other stakeholders;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2018), para. 29
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- 13. Expresses its profound concern at the findings of the Commission of Inquiry that sexual and gender-based violence against women, girls, men and boys has been a persistent issue in the Syrian Arab Republic since the uprising in 2011, and that women and girls have been disproportionately affected and victimized on multiple grounds;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Trafficking in women and girls (2017), para. 48
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- 11. Encourages the United Nations system to mainstream, as appropriate, the issue of trafficking in persons, especially women and girls, into its broader policies and programmes aimed at addressing economic and social development, human rights, the rule of law, good governance, education, health and natural disaster and post-conflict reconstruction;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2003), para. 19
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- 4. Urges all Governments and the United Nations system to strengthen efforts bilaterally and with international organizations and private sector donors in order to achieve the goals of the World Education Forum, 12 in particular that of eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005, and to implement the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative as a means of reaching this goal, and reaffirms the commitment contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration 4 in this regard;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 09
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- Recognizing that female genital mutilation constitutes irreparable, irreversible harm and an act of violence against women and girls that impairs their human rights, and recognizing also that it affects about 200 million women and girls worldwide and that each year an estimated further 4 million girls are at risk of being subjected to the practice throughout the world, which can be an impediment to the full achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The rights of the child (2001), para. 046
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- 15. Calls upon all States to eliminate the gender gap in education, reaffirms the commitment contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration to ensure equal access for girls and boys to all levels of education and the completion of a full course of primary schooling by children everywhere, boys and girls alike, by 2015, 5 and in this regard encourages the implementation of the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative launched by the Secretary-General at the World Education Forum;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2008), para. 12
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- 2. Stresses the need to address the social issues that contribute to the problem of obstetric fistula, such as early marriage of the girl child, early pregnancy, lack of access to sexual and reproductive health, lack of or inadequate education of girls, poverty and low status of women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Protection of migrants (2018), para. 65
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- (g) Encourages all States to develop international migration policies and programmes that include a gender perspective, in order to adopt the measures necessary to better protect women and girls against dangers and abuse during migration;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), para. 16
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- Recognizing further that child, early and forced marriage continues to be an impediment to not only the economic, legal, health and social status of women and girls but also to the development of the community as a whole, and that the empowerment of and investment in women and girls, as well as their meaningful participation in decisions that affect them, are a key factor in breaking the cycle of gender inequality and discrimination, violence and poverty and is critical for sustainable development and economic growth,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2018), para. 06
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- Reaffirming also the recognition in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda that gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and women’s full and equal participation and leadership in the economy are vital to the achievement of sustainable development and significantly enhance economic growth and productivity,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2018), para. 32
- Paragraph text
- (b) To ensure that their international obligations on gender equality and non- discrimination are incorporated at all levels of legal frameworks, including in relation to women’s and girls’ access to justice, redress and effective remedies;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Trafficking in women and girls (2019), para. 35
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- Paragraph text
- Acknowledging that women and girl victims of human trafficking, owing to pervasive and persistent gender inequality, are further disadvantaged and marginalized by a general lack of information on or awareness and recognition of their human rights and by the stigmatization often associated with human trafficking, as well as by the obstacles they meet in gaining access to accurat e information and recourse mechanisms in cases of the violations and abuses of their rights, and that special measures are required for their protection and to increase their awareness,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2017), para. 42
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- Paragraph text
- (i) Ensuring that all women and girls who have undergone fistula treatment, including the forgotten women and girls whose conditions are deemed incurable or inoperable, are provided with and have access to comprehensive health -care services, holistic social integration services and careful follow -up, including counselling, education, family planning and socioeconomic empowerment, for as long as needed, through, inter alia, skills development and income -generating activities, so that they can overcome abandonment and social exclusion, and developing linkages with civil society organizations and women’s and girls’ empowerment programmes so as to help to achieve this goal;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- 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. 31
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- Paragraph text
- (l) To include, where appropriate, in their reports to the human rights treaty bodies information on legal and policy measures adopted and implemented in their efforts to prevent and eliminate crimes against women and girls committed in the name of honour;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: engaging men and boys in preventing and responding to violence against all women and girls (2017), para. 21
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the importance of investment to close resource gaps for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and that resources for gender equality initiatives for men and boys should build upon rather than compromise opportunities and resources for women and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of discrimination against women and girls (2017), para. 18
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- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the major contributions made by civil society, including women’s and community-based organizations, feminist groups, women human rights defenders and girls’ and youth-led organizations, to the development of good practices that place the interests, needs and visions of women and girls on local, national, regional and international agendas, including the 2030 Agenda, and recognizing the importance of having an open, inclusive and transparent engagement with civil society in the implementation of measures on the empowerment of women and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in prevention (2010), para. 15
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- 2. Calls upon States to enact and, where necessary, reinforce or amend domestic legislation and take measures to enhance the protection of victims, to investigate, prosecute, punish and redress, including by ensuring access to adequate, effective, prompt and appropriate remedies, the wrongs done to women and girls subjected to any form of violence, whether in the home, the workplace, the community or society, in custody or in situations of armed conflict, to ensure that such legislation conforms with relevant international human rights instruments and international humanitarian law, to abolish existing laws, regulations, customs and practices that constitute discrimination against women, and to remove gender bias in the administration of justice;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019), para. 24
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- Paragraph text
- 3. Also calls upon States to develop information and awareness-raising campaigns and programmes to systematically reach and engage the general public, especially relevant professionals, in particular schoolteachers, families, communities, civil society representatives, including women’s and girl-led organizations and religious and traditional leaders, including through the traditional and non -traditional media, featuring television and radio discussions and infor mation and communications technology, about the harmful effects of female genital mutilation and the fact that this practice still exists and about national and international levels of support for the elimination of female genital mutilation, with a view to helping to change existing negative social norms, attitudes and behaviours that condone and justify gender inequality, all forms of violence against women and girls and harmful practices, including female genital mutilation;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Equal pay (2019), para. 14
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- Paragraph text
- 1. Expresses deep concern that pay inequality persists around the world despite the principle of equal pay for work of equal value having been established more than 70 years ago, and recognizes that pay inequality is an impediment to the achievement of gender equality and the economic empowerment of women and girls, and to the full realization of their human rights;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- 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. 056
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- 22. Recognizes that promoting full employment and decent work for all also requires investing in education, training and skills development for women and men, and girls and boys, strengthening social protection and health systems and applying international labour standards, and urges States and, as appropriate, the relevant entities of the United Nations system and international and regional organizations, within their respective mandates, as well as civil society, the private sector, employer organizations, trade unions, the media and other relevant actors, to continue to develop and strengthen policies, strategies and programmes to enhance, in particular, the employability of women and youth and to ensure their acce ss to full and productive employment and decent work for all, including by improving access to formal and non-formal education, skills development and vocational training, lifelong learning and retraining and long-distance education, inter alia, in information and communications technology and entrepreneurial skills, particularly in developing countries, including with a view to supporting the economic empowerment of women in the different stages of their lives;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace (1999), para. 083
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- (f) Include a gender perspective and empowerment of women and girls as an integral part of the development process;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2006), para. 27
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- Paragraph text
- 10. Recognizes also that violence against women and girls is one of the obstacles to the achievement of the objectives of equality, development and peace and the implications of violence against women and girls for the social and economic development of communities and States, and calls upon States to elaborate and implement, at all appropriate levels, plans of action to eliminate violence against women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2020), para. 41
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- Reiterating the importance of achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, as well as the recognition and protection of the rights of smallholders, particularly women, reiterating also the importance, inter alia, of supporting the empowerment of rural women, youth, small-scale farmers, family farmers and livestock farmers, fishers and fish workers as critical agents for enhancing agricultural and rural development and food security and for improving nutrition outcomes, and acknowledging their fundamental contribution to the environmental sustainability and the genetic preservation of agricultural systems and to sustaining productivity on often marginal lands,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2010), para. 23
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- Paragraph text
- 5. Encourages all States to take action to address gender inequality and discrimination against women, in particular where it contributes to the malnutrition of women and girls, including measures to ensure the full and equal realization of the right to food and ensuring that women have equal access to resources, including income, land and water and their ownership, as well as full and equal access to education, science and technology, to enable them to feed themselves and their families;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls (2015), para. 78
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- Paragraph text
- (v) Taking effective measures, as appropriate, to prevent the requirement for victim consent from becoming an impediment to bringing perpetrators of violence against women and girls to justice, while ensuring that criminal justice processes are gender-sensitive and that appropriate safeguards and measures to protect women facing or subjected to violence, such as restraining and expulsion orders against the perpetrators, testimonial aids and adequate and comprehensive measures for the rehabilitation and reintegration of victims of violence into society, are in place;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2011), para. 14
- Paragraph text
- Acknowledging the need to address violence against women and girls holistically, including through the recognition of linkages between violence against women and girls and other issues, such as HIV/AIDS, poverty eradication, food security, peace and security, humanitarian assistance, human trafficking, education, health and crime prevention,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Poverty
- Violence
- 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. 34
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- Paragraph text
- 13. Calls upon States to develop policies and regulations to ensure the effective implementation of national legislative frameworks on eliminating discrimination and violence against women and girls, in particular female genital mutilation, and to put in place adequate accountability mechanisms at the national and local levels to monitor adherence to and implementation of those legislative frameworks;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Organization of la Francophonie (2017), para. 63
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- 31. Also welcomes the decision of the Heads of State and Government using French as a common language at the sixteenth Summit of la Francophonie to creat e within the International Organization of la Francophonie a permanent entity for the promotion of gender equality and the rights and empowerment of women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2018), para. 21
- Paragraph text
- (c) Promoting consultation with and the participation of rural women and, as appropriate, girls, including those who are indigenous, those with disabilities and older women, through their organizations and networks, in the design, development and implementation of and follow-up to programmes and strategies for gender equality, the empowerment of women and rural development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Effective global response to address the impacts of the El Niño phenomenon (2019), para. 34
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- 10. Encourages Governments to promote the full, equal and effective participation and leadership of women, as well as of persons with disabilities, in the design, management, resourcing and implementation of gender-responsive and disability-inclusive policies, plans and programmes on the preparation for and response to the El Niño phenomenon, and recognizes in this regard that women and girls are disproportionately exposed to risk, increased loss of livelihoods and even loss of life during and in the aftermath of disasters, and that disasters and the consequent disruption to physical, social, economic and environmental networks and support systems disproportionately affect persons with disabilities and their families;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of violence against women, including crimes identified in the outcome document of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” (2005), para. 12
- Paragraph text
- 5. Welcomes specific legal and comprehensive legislative measures being enacted or contemplated, in particular with regard to various forms of violence against women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation to address and counter the world drug problem (2017), para. 049
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- 14. Reiterates its call to mainstream a gender perspective into and ensure the involvement of women in all stages of the development, i mplementation, monitoring and evaluation of drug policies and programmes, to develop and disseminate gender-sensitive and age-appropriate measures that take into account the specific needs and circumstances faced by women and girls with regard to the world drug problem and, as States parties, implement the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; 12
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence (2017), para. 28
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Stressing the need to fully engage men and boys as agents and beneficiaries of change in the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, as well as allies in the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls, including domestic violence,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Violence against women migrant workers (1995), para. 26
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- Paragraph text
- 15. Invites the World Summit for Social Development, the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace and the Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders to consider including in their respective programmes of action the subject of the traffic in women and girls, as well as youth;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: violence against women as a barrier to women’s political and economic empowerment (2014), para. 14
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that poverty and lack of empowerment of women, as well as their marginalization resulting from their exclusion from social policies and from the benefits of education, health and sustainable development, can place them at increased risk of violence, and that all forms of violence against women and girls, including sexual violence, are impediments to the development of their full potential as equal partners in all aspects of life, as well as obstacles to the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2016), para. 40
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- Paragraph text
- 18. Also calls upon States to strengthen research, data collection and analysis on the girl child, disaggregated by household structure, sex, age, disability status, economic situation, marital status and geographical location, and improve gender statistics on time use, unpaid care work and water and sanitation in order to provide a better understanding of the situations of girls, especially of the multiple forms of discrimination that they face, and to inform the development of necessary policies and programme responses, which should take a holistic age-appropriate approach to addressing the full range of the forms of discrimination that girls may face, in order to protect their rights effectively;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2009), para. 39
- Paragraph text
- (s) Encouraging joint responsibility of men and boys with women and girls in the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women, based on the conviction that this is essential to the achievement of the goals of gender equality and the empowerment of women, development and peace;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2001), para. 05
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the need to achieve gender equality so as to ensure a just and equitable world for girls,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters, from relief to development (2014), para. 58
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- Paragraph text
- 34. Encourages Governments, local authorities, the United Nations system and regional organizations, and invites donors and other assisting countries, to address the vulnerabilities and capacities of women and girls through gender- responsive programming, including means to address sexual and gender-based violence and various forms of exploitation in post-disaster environments, and the allocation of resources in their disaster risk reduction, response and recovery efforts in coordination with the Governments of affected countries;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2019), para. 089
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- Paragraph text
- 47. Reaffirms paragraphs 33 to 39 of its resolution 71/177 , condemns in the strongest terms all violations and abuses committed against children in armed conflict, and in this regard urges all States and other parties to armed conflict that are engaged, in contravention of applicable international law, in the recruitme nt and use of children, in patterns of killing and maiming of children and/or rape and other sexual violence against children, acknowledging that sexual violence in these situations disproportionately affects girls, but that boys are also targets, in recur rent attacks on schools and/or hospitals and related personnel and in patterns of abduction of children, as well as in all other violations and abuses against children, to take time - bound and effective measures to end and prevent them and to encourage age - and gender-specific support services, including psychological, social and sexual and reproductive health-care services, and education, social protection and reintegration programmes, and notes in this regard the adoption by the Security Council of resolution 2427 (2018) of 9 July 2018;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Culture and sustainable development (2016), para. 31
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- Paragraph text
- (c) To ensure that women and men can equally access, participate in and contribute to cultural life and decision-making, and to further commit themselves to the development of cultural policies and programmes with a gender perspective at the local, national and international levels in order to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- 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. 139
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (i) Enhancing the impact of development assistance in advancing gender equality and empowerment of women and girls through targeted activities including capacity-building, as well as through gender mainstreaming and enhanced dialogue between donors and partners, involving, as appropriate, civil society and the private sector, with a view to ensuring adequate funding;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in the world of work (2019), para. 31
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the major contribution made by civil society, including women’s and community-based organizations, feminist groups, women human rights defenders, social partners such as labour unions and employer organizations and girls’ and youth-led organizations, in promoting the economic empowerment of women and girls and the fulfilment of their right to decent work and education, and recognizing also the importance of having open, inclusive and transparent engagement with civil society in the development and implementation of measures promoting gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in Afghanistan (1998), para. 16
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (c) The right of women and girls to education without discrimination, the reopening of schools and the admission of women and girls to all levels of education;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2011), para. 21
- Paragraph text
- 2. Recognizes that violence against women and girls persists in every country in the world as a pervasive violation of the enjoyment of human rights and a major impediment to achieving gender equality, development, peace and the internationally agreed development goals, in particular the Millennium Development Goals;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2020), para. 62
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- Paragraph text
- 34. Reaffirms the commitment to women’s equal rights and opportunities in political and economic decision-making and resource allocation, to the removal of all barriers that prevent women from being full participants in the economy, and to the resolve to undertake legislative and administrative reforms to give women equal rights with men, as well as girls and boys as applicable, to economic resources, including access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, credit, inheritance, natural resources and appropriate new technology, encourages the private sector to contribute to advancing gender equality by striving to ensure women’s full and productive employment and decent work, equal pay for equal work or for work of equal value and equal opportunities, as well as protecting them against discrimination, sexual harassment and abuse in the workplace, including by supporting the women’s empowerment principles established by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and the United Nations Global Compact, and encourages increased investment in female - owned companies or businesses;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Eliminating rape and other forms of sexual violence in all their manifestations, including in conflict and related situations (2008), para. 16
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Strongly condemning all acts of violence against women and girls, whether these acts are perpetrated by the State, by private persons or by non-State actors, calling for the elimination of all forms of gender-based violence in the family, within the general community, and where perpetrated or condoned by the State, and stressing the need to treat all forms of violence against women and girls as a criminal offence, punishable by law,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls (2014), para. 34
- Paragraph text
- 14. Requests the Secretary-General to convene an open-ended intergovernmental expert group meeting to discuss ways and means to more effectively prevent, investigate, prosecute and punish gender-related killing of women and girls, with a view to making practical recommendations, drawing also on current best practices, in consultation with relevant United Nations entities and human rights mechanisms, and welcomes the offer of the Government of Thailand to act as host to that meeting;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2002), para. 25
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- Paragraph text
- 15. Urges States to formulate comprehensive, multidisciplinary and coordinated national plans, programmes or strategies to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, which should be widely disseminated and should provide targets and timetables for implementation, as well as effective domestic enforcement procedures through the establishment of monitoring mechanisms involving all parties concerned, including consultations with women’s organizations, giving attention to the recommendations relating to the girl child of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women, its causes and consequences;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Violence against women migrant workers (2014), para. 08
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling also that the declaration recognized that women and girls account for almost half of all international migrants at the global level and the need to address the special situation and vulnerability of migrant women and girls by, inter alia, incorporating a gender perspective into policies and strengthening national laws, institutions and programmes to combat gender-based violence, including trafficking in persons and discrimination against them, and emphasized in this regard the need to establish appropriate measures for the protection of women migrant workers in all sectors, including those involved in domestic work,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2018), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reiterating the importance and value of the mandate of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), welcoming the leadership of UN-Women in providing a strong voice for women and girls at all levels, and reaffirming its important role in leading, coordinating and promoting accountability of the United Nations system in its work on gender equalit y and the empowerment of women,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2016), para. 08
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing further that social protection, education, adequate health care, nutrition, full access to clean water, including safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, skills development and combating discrimination and violence against girls, among other things, are all necessary for the empowerment of the girl child, and recalling the importance of mainstreaming a gender perspective across the United Nations system in relation to the girl child,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2019), para. 31
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 10. Calls upon States to ensure that national action plans and strategies on the elimination of female genital mutilation are comprehensive and multidisciplinary in scope and that they include projected timelines for goals and incorporate clear targets and indicators for the effective monitoring, impact assessment and coordination of programmes among all relevant stakeholders and promote their participation, including the participation of affected women and girls, practising communities and non-governmental organizations, in the development, implementation and evaluation of such plans and strategies;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- 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. 39
- Paragraph text
- (d) Encouraging digital technology companies, including Internet service providers and digital platforms, to strengthen or adopt positive measures, including internal policies, to promote gender equality in the design, implementation and use of digital technologies with a view to eliminating violence against women and girls, and to refrain from presenting women and girls as inferior beings and exploiting them as sexual objects and commodities, thereby empowering women and girls as key actors and contributors to and beneficiaries of sustainable development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2020), para. 38
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 10. Also recognizes the mutually reinforcing links between gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and poverty eradication, as well as the need to elaborate and implement, where appropriate, in consultation with all relevant stakeholders, participatory, comprehensive, gender-sensitive poverty eradication strategies that address social, structural and macroeconomic issues in order to ensure an adequate standard of living for women and girls throughout the life cycle, including through social protection systems;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2020), para. 28
- Paragraph text
- (h) Integrating a gender perspective into the design, implementation and evaluation of and follow-up to development policies, plans and programmes, including budget policies, where lacking, ensuring coordination between line ministries, gender policymakers, gender machineries and other relevant government organizations and institutions with gender expertise, and paying increased attention to the needs of rural women and girls to ensure that they benefit from policies and programmes adopted in all spheres and that the disproportionate number of rural women living in poverty is reduced;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- 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. 23
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the need to ensure the integration of gender perspectives and to promote the early, full and effective participation of women and girls in the conceptualization, development and implementation of digital technologies and related policies, regulation and legislation in an effort to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls in digital contexts,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in protection (2011), para. 07
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing also that violence against women and girls persists in every country in the world as a pervasive violation of the enjoyment of human rights and a major impediment to achieving gender equality, development, peace and security and internationally agreed development goals, in particular the Millennium Development Goals,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2018), para. 58
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 33. Calls upon Governments, civil society, including the media, and non-governmental organizations to promote human rights education and full respect for and the enjoyment of the human rights of the girl child, inter alia, through the translation, production and dissemination of age-appropriate and gender-sensitive information material on those rights to all sectors of society, in particular to children;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2019), para. 079
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 45. Requests Member States, relevant humanitarian organizations of the United Nations system and other relevant humanitarian actors to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women in all stages of humanitarian response, to take measures to ensure the full participation of women, girls, men and boys, including persons with disabilities and older persons, in all stages of decision-making, as appropriate, in order to, inter alia, reduce gender inequalities and ensure that humanitarian assistance is informed, adapted, appropriate and effective, and to take into account the specific needs, vulnerabilities and capacities of women, girls, men and boys, taking into consideration age and disability, in the design of needs assessments and the implementation of all programming, including by seeking to ensure the provision of access to the full range of medical, legal and psychosocial and livelihood services, without discrimination, and in this regard encourages efforts to ensure gender mainstreaming, including in the collection and analysis of disaggregated data, in the analysis of allocations and programme implementation, and through greater use of the Gender with Age Marker;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Contribution to the implementation of the joint commitment to effectively addressing and countering the world drug problem with regard to human rights (2018), para. 22
- Paragraph text
- 4. Calls upon States to mainstream a gender perspective into and ensure the involvement of women in all stages of the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of drug policies and programmes, and to develop and disseminate gender- sensitive and age-appropriate measures that take into account the specific needs and circumstances faced by women and girls with regard to the world drug problem, bearing in mind that targeted interventions that are based on the collection and analysis of data, including age- and gender-related data, can be particularly effective in meeting the specific needs of drug-affected populations and communities;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- 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. 44
- Paragraph text
- (i) Mainstreaming a gender perspective into their criminal justice systems and into efforts to prevent and combat crime, including digital technology-mediated and transnational organized crime, including by developing and implementing national criminal justice legislation, policies and programmes that take into account the important role and specific needs of women and girls and by promoting gender-specific measures in crime prevention and protection policies;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas (2006), para. 31
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 5. Stresses the need to identify the best practices for ensuring that rural women have access to and full participation in the area of information and communication technologies, and invites the World Summit on the Information Society, at its second phase in Tunis, to take into consideration, while addressing gender issues, the priorities and needs of rural women and girls as active users of information and ensure their participation in developing and implementing global information and communication technology strategies;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in South Sudan (2018), para. 16
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Gravely concerned about ongoing reports of widespread sexual and gender-based violence committed against women and girls and instances of conflict-related rape and gang rape, coupled with beatings and abductions, recognizing the importance of providing timely assistance and protection to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, including sexual and reproductive health, psychosocial, legal and livelihood support and other multisectoral services for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, including working with communities to reintegrate those affected by sexual and gender-based violence, and taking into account the specific needs of persons with disabilities,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- 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. 040
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- (l) Enhancing opportunities for women and girls and advancing the economic, legal and political empowerment of women;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2016), para. 34
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- 7. Encourages all States to take action to address gender inequality and discrimination against women, in particular when they contribute to the malnutriti on of women and girls, including measures to ensure the full and equal realization of the right to food and that women have equal access to resources, including income, land and water and their ownership and agricultural inputs, as well as full and equal access to health care, education, science and technology, to enable them to feed themselves and their families, and in this regard stresses the need to empower women and strengthen their role in decision-making;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2004), para. 51
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- 27. Urges Governments to create and maintain a non-discriminatory and gender-sensitive legal environment by reviewing legislation, with a view to striving to remove discriminatory provisions as soon as possible, preferably by 2005, and eliminating legislative gaps that leave women and girls without protection of their rights and without effective recourse against gender-based discrimination, and encourages assistance to countries in achieving this aim;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2013), para. 74
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- 25. Calls upon all United Nations bodies, entities, funds and programmes and the specialized agencies and invites the Bretton Woods institutions to intensify their efforts at all levels to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls and to better coordinate their work with a view to increasing effective support for national efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Policies and programmes involving youth (2018), para. 32
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- 16. Further urges Member States to mainstream a gender perspective into all development efforts, recognizing that the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls is critical for achieving sustainable development and for efforts to combat hunger, poverty and disease, and to strengthen policies and programmes that seek to improve, ensure and broaden the full, effective and structured participation of young women in all spheres of political, economic, social and cultural life as equal partners, and to improve their access to all resources needed for the full exercise of all of their human rights and fundamental freedoms by removing persistent barriers, including by providing access to quality education at all levels, ensuring equal access to full and productive employment and decent work and strengthening their economic independence;
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- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (2020), para. 35
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- 16. Recognizes that gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls remains a crucial contribution to the effective implementation of the Con vention, including its 2018–2030 Strategic Framework, and to the achievement of the Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, stresses the importance of parties to the Convention and partners pursuing the equal participation of women and men in planning, decision-making and implementation at all levels and further promoting gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in desertification, land degradation and drought-related policies and activities, and stresses the importance of effective implementation of the four priority thematic areas of the Gender Action Plan adopted by the parties to the Convention;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- 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 (2014), para. 60
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- 16. Invites Member States to strengthen the crime prevention and criminal justice response to gender-related killing of women and girls, in particular measures to support the capacity of Member States to prevent, investigate, prosecute and punish all forms of such crime;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- 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. 46
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- 25. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that all relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, in particular the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), the World Health Organization, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the United Nations Development Programme and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, individually and collectively, take into account the protection and promotion of the rights of women and girl s against female genital mutilation in their country programmes, as appropriate and in accordance with national priorities, in order to further strengthen their efforts in this regard;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls (2015), para. 39
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- 3. Also recognizes that violence against women and girls persists in every country in the world as a pervasive violation of the enjoyment of human rights and a major impediment to achieving gender equality, development, peace, security and the internationally agreed development goals, in particular the Millennium Development Goals;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind (2020), para. 46
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- 19. Urges Member States, taking into account that women and girls are often disproportionately affected by climate change owing to gender inequalities and the dependence of many women on natural resources for their livelihoods, to promote the integration of a gender perspective into environmental and climate change policies and to strengthen mechanisms and provide adequate resources towards achieving the full and equal participation of women in decision-making at all levels on environmental issues, and stresses the need to address the challenges posed by climate change that affect women and girls in particular, including through the full implementation of the new gender action plan adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at its twenty-third session, 31 and looks forward to its review with a view to advancing towards the goal of promoting gender-responsive and equal and meaningful participation of women in support of climate action;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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World Summit Outcome (2005), para. 088
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- 44. We reaffirm our commitment to support developing country efforts to ensure that all children have access to and complete free and compulsory primary education of good quality, to eliminate gender inequality and imbalance and to renew efforts to improve girls’ education. We also commit ourselves to continuing to support the efforts of developing countries in the implementation of the Education for All initiative, including with enhanced resources of all types through the Education for All fast-track initiative in support of country-led national education plans.
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the Third United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2018–2027) (2019), para. 17
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- Deeply concerned that poverty acts as a serious impediment to the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and that the feminization of poverty persists, stressing the importance of giving women equal rights with men to economic resources, including access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, credit, inheritance, natural resources and appropriate new technology, reaffirming that women play a critical role in development, contribute to structural transformation and are key contributors to the economy and to combating poverty and inequalities and that their full, effective and equal participation in decision-making and the economy is vital in order to achieve sustainable development and significantly enhance economic growth and productivity, recognizing that the economic and social losses due to a lack of progress in achieving gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment are significant and that it is therefore critical that our policies and actions are not just gender - responsive but actively seek to advance the goal of gender equality and women ’s and girls’ empowerment, and reaffirming that gender equality and the empowermen t of all women and girls will make a crucial contribution to progress in realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and are critical factors in the eradication of poverty,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Protecting children from bullying (2019), para. 16
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- Recognizing that bullying often includes a gender dimension and is associated with gender-based violence and stereotyping that negatively affects both boys and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2015), para. 37
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- 18. Calls upon the international community, the relevant United Nations entities and civil society and international financial institutions to continue to actively support, through the allocation of increased financial resources and technical assistance, targeted comprehensive programmes that address the needs and priorities of women and girls at risk of or subjected to female genital mutilations;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (2019), para. 41
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- 28. Recognizes that particular efforts are needed to ensure that all young people, including girls, enjoy access to lifelong learning opportunities and equal access to quality education at all levels, inclusive of early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary education, as well as technical and vocational training, notes with concern, in this regard, the lack of progress in closing gender gaps in access to, retention in and completion of secondary education, recognizes the need to continue to provide and encourage, as appropriate, institutes of higher education to allocate places and scholarships for students and trainees from the least developed countries, in particular in the fields of science, technology, business management and economics, and to strengthen support for institutions in relation to gender equality and the empowerment of women at the global, regional and national levels, and recognizes that the least developed countries have the most to gain from sustainable development and utilizing the full skills and talents of their peop le, including women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2011), para. 11
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- Recognizing that violence against women and girls is rooted in historical and structural inequality in power relations between men and women and that all forms of violence against women seriously violate and impair or nullify the enjoyment by women and girls of all human rights and fundamental freedoms and constitute a major impediment to the ability of women to make use of their capabilities,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in the world of work (2019), para. 09
- Paragraph text
- Acknowledging the important role played by regional conventions, instruments, declarations and initiatives in preventing and eliminating violence against women and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of discrimination against women (2014), para. 12
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- Deeply concerned by the widespread persistence of various forms of violence against girls and women of all ages,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2014), para. 08
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- Reaffirming further all other relevant outcomes of major United Nations summits and conferences relevant to the girl child, as well as their 5-, 10- and 15-year reviews, including the Beijing Declaration 13 and Platform for Action, the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, 15 the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 16 and the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, 17 and reiterating that their full and effective implementation is essential to achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (2018), para. 40
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- 30. Reaffirms that achieving gender equality, empowering all women and girls and the full realization of the human rights of all people are essential to achieving sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth and sustainable development, and reiterates the need for gender mainstreaming, including targeted actions and investments in the formulation and implementation of all financial, economic, environmental and social policies in the least developed countries;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Trafficking in women and girls (2003), para. 07
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- Reaffirming the outcomes and commitments pertaining to trafficking in women and girls of recent United Nations conferences and summits, including the World Conference on Human Rights, 14 the International Conference on Population and Development, 15 the World Summit for Social Development, the Fourth World Conference on Women 17 and the special session of the General Assembly on children 18 and their follow-up processes,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2018), para. 35
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- 8. Recognizes the importance of the full engagement of men and boys as strategic partners, allies, agents and beneficiaries of change for the achie vement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and commits to taking measures to fully engage men and boys in efforts to achieve the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, t he outcome document of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, the declarations adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women on the occasions of the tenth, 1 fifteenth and twentieth anniversaries of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the 2030 Agenda;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2020), para. 27
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- Deeply concerned further that women and girls are particularly at risk of and exposed to attacks, sexual and gender-based violence, harassment and other threats to their safety while collecting household water and when accessing sanitation facilities outside their homes or, when lacking adequate sanitation facilities, practisi ng open defecation and urination, limiting their ability to move freely and safely in the public sphere,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The situation in Afghanistan (2016), para. 080
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- 47. Strongly condemns all incidents of discrimination and violence against women and girls and other forms of gender-based and sexual violence, including “honour killings”, underscores the importance of countering impunity for these incidents, especially against women activists and women prominent in public life, takes note of the important progress made by the Government of Afghanistan in this regard, reiterates its strong commitment to support the efforts of the Government of Afghanistan to continue to address this issue, and also reiterates its appreciation for all measures taken to address targeted violence against women, including preventi on of forced marriages, as well as the contribution of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women);
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2019), para. 26
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- 5. Further calls upon States to ensure the right to education of good quality for women and girls, on an equal basis with men and boys, and to ensure that they complete a full course of primary education, and to renew their efforts to improve and expand girls’ and women’s education at all levels, including at the secondary and higher levels, including age-appropriate sex education, as well as vocational education and technical training, in order to, inter alia, achieve gender equality, the empowerment of women and girls and poverty eradication;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2020), para. 13
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- Recalling also its resolution 71/243 of 21 December 2016 on the quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system, which reaffirms that promoting gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls, in accordance with the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of relevant United Nations conferences and resolutions of the General Assembly, including through investing in the development of women and girls and promoting their economic and political participation and equal access to economic and productive resources and education, is of fundamental importance and has a multiplier effect for achieving sustained and inclusive economic growth, poverty eradication and sustainable development,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Trafficking in women and girls (2013), para. 42
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- 14. Also urges Governments, in cooperation with intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, to support and allocate resources to strengthen preventive action, in particular education for women and men, as well as for girls and boys, on gender equality, self-respect and mutual respect, and campaigns, carried out in collaboration with civil society, to increase public awareness of the issue at the national and grass-roots levels;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2011), para. 24
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- 5. Encourages all States to take action to address gender inequality and discrimination against women, in particular where it contributes to the malnutrition of women and girls, including measures to ensure the full and equal realization of the right to food and ensuring that women have equal access to resources, including income, land and water and their ownership, as well as full and equal access to education, science and technology, to enable them to feed themselves and their families;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Health
- 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. 14
- Paragraph text
- Stressing that “violence against women and girls” means any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women and girls, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life, including in digital contexts, and noting the economic and social harm caused by such violence,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2015), para. 66
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- Paragraph text
- 38. Requests Member States, relevant humanitarian organizations of the United Nations system and other relevant humanitarian actors to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women in all stages of humanitarian response, including disaster preparedness and needs assessments, and to take into account the specific humanitarian needs and vulnerabilities of all components of the affected population, in particular girls, boys, women, older persons and persons with disabilities, including in the design and implementation of disaster risk reduction, humanitarian and recovery programming and post-humanitarian emergency reconstruction, and in this regard encourages efforts to ensure gender mainstreaming, including in the analysis of allocations and programme implementation, and through greater use of the gender marker;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Violence against women migrant workers (2020), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Emphasizing that violence against women and girls is a major impediment to the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and that it violates and impairs or nullifies their full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promotion of the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: protecting women human rights defenders (2014), para. 41
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- 20. Emphasizes the need for the participation of women human rights defenders in the development of effective policies and programmes related to their protection, recognizing their independence and expertise with regard to their own needs, and the need to create and strengthen mechanisms for consultation and dialogue with women human rights defenders, such as focal points for human rights defenders within the public administration, for example, through national mechanisms for the advancement of women and girls, where they exist, or other mechanisms, depending on the national and local context;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2009), para. 09
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- Paragraph text
- (d) Arrests, violent repression and sentencing of women exercising their right to peaceful assembly, a campaign of intimidation against women’s human rights defenders, and continuing discrimination against women and girls in law and in practice;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Political declaration of the high-level meeting on universal health coverage (2019), para. 81
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- 69. Mainstream a gender perspective on a systems-wide basis when designing, implementing and monitoring health policies, taking into account the specific needs of all women and girls, with a view to achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women in health policies and health systems delivery;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2000), para. 20
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- 11. Requests all human rights treaty bodies, special procedures and other human rights mechanisms of the Commission on Human Rights and its Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights 7 to adopt regularly and systematically a gender perspective in the implementation of their mandates and to include in their reports information on the qualitative analysis of violations of the human rights of women and girls, and encourages the strengthening of cooperation and coordination in that regard;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2020), para. 35
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- Paragraph text
- 7. Stresses the importance of the creation by Governments, international organizations, including the United Nations, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, trade unions and other stakeholders of a favourable and conducive national and international environment in all areas of life for the effective integration of women and girls in development, and of their undertaking and disseminating a gender analysis of legislation, policies and programmes related to macroeconomic stability, structural reform, taxation, investments, including foreign direct investment, and all relevant sectors of the economy;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Taking action against gender-related killing of women and girls (2014), para. 02
- Paragraph text
- Deeply concerned that the global prevalence of different manifestations of the gender-related killing of women and girls 1 is reaching alarming proportions,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Rights of the child (2019), para. 053
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 20. Calls upon States to accelerate efforts to eliminate gender-specific barriers to the equal enjoyment by girls of their right to education, to address gender -based discrimination, negative social norms and gender stereotypes in education systems, including in curricula, textbooks and teaching methodologies, and to fight all forms of violence, including sexual harassment and school-related sexual and gender-based violence, in and out of schools and other educational settings;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls (2015), para. 48
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 12. Welcomes the contributions already made by States, the private sector and other donors to the United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women, while stressing the importance of the need for further funding of the Fund in order to provide support for national, regional and international actions, including those taken by governmental and non-governmental organizations working to prevent and end violence against women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence (2017), para. 51
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (a) Investing in the full realization of the right to education by, inter alia, eliminating illiteracy, developing equitable, quality, inclusive and gender -sensitive educational programmes, in particular in rural and remote areas, and by closing the gender gap at all levels of education, thereby ensuring that women and men and girls and boys are portrayed in positive, non-stereotypical roles and contributing to the empowerment of women and girls and to the elimination of domestic violence and all other forms of violence against women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women and political participation (2004), para. 40
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (l) To develop programmes to educate and train women and girls in using the media and information and communication technologies in order to obtain and impart information, be informed voters, network, communicate with potential voters and raise campaign funds;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (2013), para. 53
- Paragraph text
- (m) Developing gender-sensitive curricula for educational programmes at all levels and taking concrete measures to ensure that educational materials portray women and men, youth, girls and boys in positive and non-stereotypical roles;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Impact of arms transfers on human rights in armed conflicts (2013), para. 12
- Original document
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- 2. Notes with alarm that such arms transfers can have a seriously negative impact on the human rights of women and girls, who may be disproportionately affected by the widespread availability of arms, as it may increase the risk of sexual and gender-based violence, and may also contribute to the recruitment and use of children in armed conflicts;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in the world of work (2019), para. 32
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing also the critical contribution of families in eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, including sexual harassment and domestic violence, by, inter alia, providing for a supportive environment for the empowerment of all women and girls, including by raising awareness about the human rights of women and girls, and that family-oriented policies can play an important role in preventing and responding to all forms of violence,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Political Declaration of the High-level Midterm Review on the Implementation of the Vienna Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024 (2019), para. 52
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- 48. We encourage landlocked developing countries to promote innovative solutions in sectors such as agriculture, transport, information and communications, finance, energy, health, water and sanitation and education, and effective public -private partnerships through investments in education and skills development, including technical, vocational and tertiary education and training, while ensuring gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls at all levels. We recognize that these investments are required to reduce economic volatility, enable landlocked developing countries to reap the demographic dividend, and achieve lifelong learning and broader human development.
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Education
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
- 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. 37
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- (b) Prioritizing the integration of gender perspectives, and ensuring the early, full and effective participation of women and girls in the development and implementation of national policies, legislation, programmes, projects, strategies and regulatory and technical instruments in the area of digital technologies and creating monitoring and accountability mechanisms to ensure implementation of gender-sensitive policies and regulations, as well as analysing the gender impact of such policies in consultation and collaboration with women digital technology specialists, civil society organizations and gender equality advocates;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls (2015), para. 49
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- 13. Reaffirms that the persistence of armed conflicts in various parts of the world is a major impediment to the elimination of all forms of violence against women, and, bearing in mind that armed and other types of conflicts and terrorism and hostage-taking still persist in many parts of the world and that aggression, foreign occupation and ethnic and other types of conflicts are an ongoing reality, affecting women and men in nearly every region, calls upon all States and the international community to place particular focus on their plight, to give priority attention and increased assistance to relieving the suffering, of women and girls living in such situations and to ensure that, where violence is committed against them, all perpetrators of such violence are duly investigated and, as appropriate, prosecuted and punished in order to end impunity, including by appropriate authorities contributing police, military or civilian personnel serving in peacekeeping missions, while stressing the need to respect international humanitarian law and human rights law, and invites States to consider the various provisions on sexual and gender-based violence set out in relevant international instruments, including, where appropriate, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; 30
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- 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 (2015), para. 011
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- Reiterating its condemnation of all forms of violence against women and girls, and expressing deep concern about gender-related killing of women and girls,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls (2019), para. 43
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- 13. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the reports of the Working Group are brought to the attention of the Commission on the Status of Women in proximity with the reports of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences and of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, to assist in the Commission’s work in the area of discrimination against women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Question of human rights in Afghanistan (2002), para. 53
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- (b) To implement the recommendations of the inter-agency gender mission to Afghanistan under the leadership of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women and to provide specific programmes for all Afghan women and girls to address their special needs and promote their human rights;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human resources development (2010), para. 09
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- Reaffirming that gender equality is of fundamental importance for achieving sustained economic growth, poverty eradication and sustainable development, in accordance with the relevant General Assembly resolutions and United Nations conferences, and that investing in the development of women and girls has a multiplier effect, in particular on productivity, efficiency and sustained economic growth, in all sectors of the economy, especially in key areas such as agriculture, industry and services,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2008), para. 27
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- 5. Urges all Governments and the United Nations system to strengthen efforts bilaterally and with international organizations and private sector donors in order to achieve the goals of the World Education Forum, 15 3H in particular that of eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005, which have not been fully met, and to implement the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative as a means of reaching this goal, and calls for the implementation of and reaffirms the commitments contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 20F 21 particularly those related to education;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2009), para. 34
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- 11. Calls upon Member States to integrate a gender perspective into the design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of national environmental policies, and to strengthen mechanisms and provide adequate resources to ensure women’s full and equal participation in decision-making at all levels on environmental issues, in particular on strategies related to the impact of climate change on the lives of women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Gender
- 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. 33
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- 12. Also urges States to ensure the national implementation of international and regional commitments and obligations undertaken as States parties to various international instruments protecting the full enjoyment of all human rights and the fundamental freedoms of women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (2010), para. 175
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- (d) Taking action at all levels to address the interlinked root causes of maternal mortality and morbidity, such as poverty, malnutrition, harmful practices, lack of accessible and appropriate health-care services, information and education and gender inequality, and paying particular attention to eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2007), para. 29
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- (e) To eliminate, in law and in practice, all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls and, as previously proposed by the elected Iranian parliament, to accede to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; 12
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to and implementation of the outcomes of the International Conferences on Financing for Development (2019), para. 06
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- Reiterating the affirmation in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda that achieving gender equality, empowering all women and girls and attaining the full realization of their human rights are essential to achieving sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth and sustainable development,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Women in development (2009), para. 29
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- 6. Stresses the importance of the adoption by Member States, international organizations, including the United Nations, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, trade unions and other stakeholders of appropriate measures to identify and address the negative impacts of the economic and financial crisis on women and girls and of maintaining adequate levels of funding for the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Eradicating rural poverty to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2019), para. 11
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- Recognizing that poverty is a serious impediment to the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, including those living in rural areas, and that the feminization of poverty persists, emphasizing that the eradication of poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, acknowledging the mutually reinforcing links between the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and the eradication of poverty, and stressing the importance of support for countries in their efforts to eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights (2016), para. 25
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- 1. Urges all States to renew their political commitment to eliminate preventable maternal mortality and morbidity at the local, national, regional and international levels, and to strengthen their efforts to address multiple and intersecting inequalities and to remove all barriers to access to sexual and reproductive health facilities, services, goods and information, and education, to ensure the full and effective implementation of their human rights obligations, and their commitments as addressed in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the outcome documents of the review processes, including the commitments relating to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, considering the Goals on improving maternal health and promoting gender equality and empowering women, and other interlinked Goals, by ensuring universal access to quality maternity, sexual and reproductive health-care services, including through international assistance and cooperation, the allocation of domestic resources to health systems and the provision of the necessary information and services in relation to the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including the sexual and reproductive health of women and girls;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls (2015), para. 22
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- Recognizing that violence against women and girls is rooted in historical and structural inequality in power relations between men and women and that all forms of violence against women seriously violate and impair or nullify the enjoyment by women and girls of all human rights and fundamental freedoms and constitute a major impediment to women’s full, equal and effective participation in society, the economy and political decision-making,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women: ensuring due diligence in protection (2011), para. 13
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- 1. Strongly condemns all acts of violence against women and girls, where these acts are perpetrated by the State, private persons or non-State actors, and calls for the elimination of all forms of gender-based violence in the family, within the general community and where perpetrated or condoned by the State, in accordance with the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, and stresses the need to treat all forms of violence against women and girls as a criminal offence, punishable by law, and the duty to provide victims with access to just and effective remedies and specialized assistance, including medical and psychological assistance, as well as effective counselling;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2011), para. 11
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- (f) Pervasive gender inequality and violence against women, a continued crackdown on women’s human rights defenders, arrests, violent repression and sentencing of women exercising their right to peaceful assembly and continuing discrimination against women and girls in law and in practice;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings (2017), para. 14
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- Recognizing that child, early and forced marriage undermines women’s and girls’ autonomy and decision-making in all aspects of their lives, and remains an impediment not only to the economic, legal, health and social status of women and girls but also to the development of society as a whole, and that the empowerment of and investment in women and girls, the meaningful participation of girls in all decisions that affect them, and women’s full, equal and effective participation at all levels of decision-making are a key factor in breaking the cycle of gender inequality and discrimination, violence and poverty, and are critical for, inter alia, sustainable development, peace, security, democracy and inclusive economic growth,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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