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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2013), para. 09

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  • Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2013)
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Reaffirming that female genital mutilations are a harmful practice that constitutes a serious threat to the health of women and girls, including their psychological, sexual and reproductive health, which can increase their vulnerability to HIV and may have adverse obstetric and prenatal outcomes as well as fatal consequences for the mother and the newborn, and that the abandonment of this harmful practice can be achieved as a result of a comprehensive movement that involves all public and private stakeholders in society, including girls and boys, women and men,
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Infants
  • Men
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2015), para. 09

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  • Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2015)
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Reaffirming that female genital mutilations are a harmful practice, constituting a serious threat to the health of women and girls, including their psychological, sexual and reproductive health, increasing their vulnerability to HIV and possibly having adverse obstetric and prenatal outcomes, as well as fatal consequences for the mother and the newborn, and that the abandonment of this harmful practice can be achieved as a result of a comprehensive movement that involves all public and private stakeholders in society, including girls and boys, women and men,
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Infants
  • 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. 24

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  • Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence (2017)
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Reaffirming that female genital mutilation is a harmful practice and an act of violence against women and girls that impairs their human rights, constituting a serious threat to their health and well-being, including their psychological, sexual and reproductive health, increasing their vulnerability to HIV and possibly having adverse obstetric and prenatal outcomes, as well as fatal consequences for the mother and the newborn, and that the abandonment of this harmful practi ce can be achieved as a result of a comprehensive movement that involves all public and private stakeholders in society, including girls, boys, women and men,
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Infants
  • Men
  • 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. 21

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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)
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Noting global initiatives and partnerships to assist countries in the implementation of the commitments of the 2030 Agenda, inter alia, the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016-2030), the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, the Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage, the Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting, the High Time to End Violence against Children initiative, Alliance 8.7 to eradicate forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking and child labour, the Global Partnership for Education, the Global Education First Initiative, the Global Alliance for reporting progress on promoting peaceful, just and inclusive societies, the We Protect Global Alliance to End Child Sexual Abuse Online, and the Fast-Track strategy to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, and tools such as the technical guidance on the application of a human rights-based approach to the implementation of policies and programmes to reduce and eliminate preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age, 2 1. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; 3
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  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Infants
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017), para. 10

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  • Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation (2017)
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Reaffirming that female genital mutilation is a harmful practice, constituting a serious threat to the health of women and girls, including their physical, mental, sexual and reproductive health, increasing their vulnerability to HIV, as well as hepatitis A and B, and possibly having adverse obstetric and prenatal outcomes, as well as fatal consequences for the mother and the newborn, and that the elimination of this harmful practice can be achieved as a result of a comprehensive movement that involves all public and private stakeholders in society, including girls and boys, women and men,
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Infants
  • Men
  • Women
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Consequences of child, early and forced marriage (2019), para. 28

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  • Consequences of child, early and forced marriage (2019)
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Recognizing that the registration of births, marriages, divorces and deaths is part of a comprehensive civil registration system that facilitates the development of vital statistics and the effective planning and implementation of programmes and policies intended to promote better governance and to achieve sustainable development, and that the absence of compulsory registration of customary and religious marriages is a major impediment to the implementation of existing legislation and other initiatives to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage,
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Infants
Date added
Feb 25, 2020
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Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 78

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Female infanticide has been practiced throughout history, on all continents, and by persons from all backgrounds. It remains a critical concern in a number of countries today. It is closely linked to the phenomenon of sex-selective abortion, which targets female foetuses. Female infanticide has been known to take such forms as the induced death of infants by suffocation, drowning, neglect and exposure to danger or other means.
Body
Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Infants
Year
2012
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Gender perspectives on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment 2016, para. 50

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In many States, children born with atypical sex characteristics are often subject to irreversible sex assignment, involuntary sterilization and genital normalizing surgery, which are performed without their informed consent or that of their parents, leaving them with permanent, irreversible infertility, causing severe mental suffering and contributing to stigmatization. In some cases, taboo and stigma lead to the killing of intersex infants.
Body
Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Infants
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Preliminary survey on the root causes of attacks and discrimination against persons with albinism 2016, para. 48

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In addition, there have been cases where persons with albinism themselves have been accused of witchcraft and persecuted as a result. This can be linked to some of the dehumanizing myths described above. Mothers of children with albinism have also, in certain instances, been accused of witchcraft for giving birth to a child with the condition.
Body
Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Infants
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Female circumcision 1990, para. (b)

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[Recommends to States parties:] That States parties include in their national health policies appropriate strategies aimed at eradicating female circumcision in public health care. Such strategies could include the special responsibility of health personnel including traditional birth attendants to explain the harmful effects of female circumcision;
Body
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Infants
Year
1990
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Harmful practices (joint General Recommendation with CEDAW) 2014, para. 55h

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[The Committees recommend that the States parties to the Conventions adopt or amend legislation with a view to effectively addressing and eliminating harmful practices. In doing so, they should ensure:] That a national system of compulsory, accessible and free birth registration is established in order to effectively prevent harmful practices, including child marriage;
Body
Committee on the Rights of the Child
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Civil & Political Rights
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Infants
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Study on illegal adoptions 2017, para. 36

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Gender discrimination and violence based on moral and religious constructs regarding the social or marital status of the mother have been a key driver of illegal adoptions in several countries. In Ireland, the so-called mother and baby homes, which were managed by Catholic organizations, and other maternity institutions, were established in the 1920s to deal with unmarried pregnant women and girls and operated until the 1990s. Conditions in those institutions were deplorable and cases of violence against the women were common (e.g. abuse of expectant mothers, forced labour, neglect and detention). Before the 1952 Adoption Act, most children born out of wedlock were placed in foster care, "boarded out" or informally adopted. After passage of the Act, children were put up for formal adoption. Consent was improperly induced or forcibly obtained and documents, including illegal birth registrations, were falsified on a large scale. Furthermore, there were cases of intercountry adoptions, in particular to the United States of America, which often resulted from the same illegal practices.
Body
Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Infants
  • Women
Year
2017
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Witchcraft and the human rights of persons with albinism 2017, para. 38

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In addition, the common belief that persons with albinism are a bad omen or a curse on their family or on the community, although not, stricto sensu, a witchcraft accusation, does attribute evil qualities to a newborn, with an impact on the mothers and family members in a manner that is strongly analogous to the impact stemming from witchcraft accusations. Consequently, infanticide, abandonment of children with albinism and exclusion of the children and their mothers from community life (either structural expulsion or exclusion from participation) have been reported to the Independent Expert.
Body
Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Families
  • Infants
Year
2017
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Witchcraft and the human rights of persons with albinism 2017, para. 37

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In its study on children accused of witchcraft, UNICEF reported that, in many African societies, births considered "abnormal" were generally surrounded by a complex system of representations and rituals. Such births included twins, "badly born" children and persons with albinism. Cases have been reported of parents killing their babies born with albinism for being witches. Where these children are not killed at birth, they are often taken to a spiritual leader or traditional healer to be "healed" through various forms of violent exorcism. Similarly, in a report published by the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence Against Children in 2012, it is stressed that vulnerable children such as children with disabilities, children with albinism, premature babies or specially gifted children are often the target of witchcraft accusations. The link between witchcraft and persons with albinism was also noted in western Sudan where persons with albinism were accused of taking part in "strange and dangerous practices" related to witchcraft.
Body
Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Infants
Year
2017
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Preliminary survey on the root causes of attacks and discrimination against persons with albinism 2016, para. 32

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Such stories have also been reported in contemporary times. Village folklore describes how mothers are advised by midwives to sit on their babies or asphyxiate them at birth if they have albinism. In other cases, it seems that the child is left to die, with no food. Similarly, it has been reported that children with albinism have been instantly killed at birth for fear of the shame attached to the condition, or because of a belief that they bring bad luck. Other folklore describes practices such as drowning children with albinism in a lake or placing babies with albinism at the exit gate of a cow pen, where they are left to die from being trampled on by cattle. Still other folklore recounts the ritual killing of children with albinism, who have been accused of being witches, by putting them in bags and smashing the bags against a tree.
Body
Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Infants
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Preliminary survey on the root causes of attacks and discrimination against persons with albinism 2016, para. 10

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Other myths seek an explanation in existing traditional beliefs associated with childbirth. It has been reported, for example, that the birth of children with albinism could be linked to the "snake inside the woman" turning away from that pregnancy. The snake is considered the protector of the pregnancy, monitoring it. Other explanations are that a child born with albinism was conceived when a woman had intercourse while she was menstruating. Further, some mythological beliefs seek to explain the condition by advancing that the mother of the child with albinism was struck by lightning or that albinism occurs when a mother does not consume enough salt in her diet.
Body
Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Infants
  • Women
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Preliminary survey on the root causes of attacks and discrimination against persons with albinism 2016, para. 9

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Further, it is also sometimes believed that albinism can be contracted by being in contact with albinism. The same myth is extended to things that have been touched by persons with albinism. There are also beliefs that if a pregnant woman looks at a person with albinism, even unintendedly, her unborn child will be born with albinism, unless she spits to neutralize the "curse". Persons spit at the person with albinism, on the floor, inside their shirts or on their stomachs in the case of pregnant women. One mother of a child with albinism reported that she gave birth to a child with albinism for having herself stared too hard at a person with albinism while fetching water during her pregnancy.
Body
Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Infants
  • Women
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage 2015, para. 18

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Recognizing that birth registration and marriage, divorce and death registration are part of a comprehensive civil registration system that facilitates the development of vital statistics and the effective planning and implementation of programmes and policies intended to promote better governance and to achieve internationally agreed development goals, and that the absence of compulsory registration of customary and religious marriages is a major stumbling block for the implementation of existing legislation and other initiatives to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage,
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Harmful Practices
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Infants
Year
2015
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Intensifying global efforts and sharing good practices to effectively eliminate female genital mutilation 2014, para. 6

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Reaffirming that female genital mutilation is a form of discrimination, an act of violence against women and girls and a harmful practice that constitutes a serious threat to their health, including their psychological, sexual and reproductive health, which can increase their vulnerability to HIV and may have adverse obstetric and prenatal outcomes as well as fatal consequences for the mother and the newborn, and that the abandonment of this harmful practice can be achieved as a result of a comprehensive movement that involves all public and private stakeholders in society, including girls and boys, women and men,
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Infants
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2014
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation 2016, para. 10

Paragraph text
Reaffirming that female genital mutilation is a harmful practice, constituting a serious threat to the health of women and girls, including their physical, mental, sexual and reproductive health, increasing their vulnerability to HIV, as well as hepatitis A and B, and possibly having adverse obstetric and prenatal outcomes, as well as fatal consequences for the mother and the newborn, and that the elimination of this harmful practice can be achieved as a result of a comprehensive movement that involves all public and private stakeholders in society, including girls and boys, women and men,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Infants
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Intensification of efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls: domestic violence 2016, para. 25

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Reaffirming that female genital mutilation is a harmful practice and an act of violence against women and girls that impairs their human rights, constituting a serious threat to their health and well-being, including their psychological, sexual and reproductive health, increasing their vulnerability to HIV and possibly having adverse obstetric and prenatal outcomes, as well as fatal consequences for the mother and the newborn, and that the abandonment of this harmful practice can be achieved as a result of a comprehensive movement that involves all public and private stakeholders in society, including girls, boys, women and men,
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Infants
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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