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Global health and foreign policy (2015), para. 44
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- (d) Other appropriate measures, such as national legal frameworks where warranted, to effectively address violence against medical and health personnel;
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- Gender
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order (2019), para. 42
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- (i) The principle of equitable regional and gender-balanced representation in the composition of the staff of the United Nations system;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2018), para. 41
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- (e) To address the widespread stigma and shame surrounding menstruation and menstrual hygiene by ensuring access to factual information thereon, addressing the negative social norms around the issue and ensuring universal access to hygienic products and gender-sensitive facilities, including disposal options for menstrual products;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and cultural diversity (2018), para. 37
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- 15. Also emphasizes that tolerance and respect for diversity facilitate the universal promotion and protection of human rights, including gender equality and the enjoyment of all human rights by all, and underlines the fact that tolerance and respect for cultural diversity and the universal promotion and protection of human rights are mutually supportive;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to and implementation of the Monterrey Consensus and the outcome of the 2008 Review Conference (Doha Declaration on Financing for Development) (2010), para. 25
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- 9. Stresses the essential role that official development assistance plays in complementing, leveraging and sustaining financing for development in developing countries and in facilitating the achievement of development objectives, including the internationally agreed development goals, in particular the Millennium Development Goals, reiterates that official development assistance can play a catalytic role in assisting developing countries in removing constraints on sustained, inclusive and equitable growth by, inter alia, enhancing social, institutional and physical infrastructure, promoting foreign direct investment, trade and technological innovations, improving health and education, fostering gender equality, preserving the environment and eradicating poverty, and welcomes steps to improve the effectiveness and quality of aid based on the fundamental principles of national ownership, alignment, harmonization, managing for results and mutual accountability;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2006), para. 19
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- 6. Encourages the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the right to food to continue mainstreaming a gender perspective in the fulfilment of his mandate, and encourages the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and all other United Nations bodies and mechanisms addressing the right to food and food insecurity to integrate a gender perspective into their relevant policies, programmes and activities;
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The girl child (2004), para. 25
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- 8. Urges all States to promote gender equality and equal access to basic social services, such as education, nutrition, health care, including sexual and reproductive health care, vaccinations, and protection from diseases representing the major causes of mortality, and to mainstream a gender perspective in all development policies and programmes;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Equitable geographical distribution in the membership of the human rights treaty bodies (2009), para. 12
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- Convinced that the goal of equitable geographical distribution in the membership of human rights treaty bodies is perfectly compatible and can be fully realized and achieved in harmony with the need to ensure gender balance and the representation of the principal legal systems in those bodies and the high moral character, acknowledged impartiality and recognized competence in the field of human rights of their members,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Global efforts for the total elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (2011), para. 07
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- Underlining the primacy of political will, international cooperation and adequate funding at the national, regional and international levels needed to address all forms and manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Joint courses of action and future-oriented dialogue towards a world without nuclear weapons (2019), para. 18
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- Noting that efforts to encompass different generations, areas of the world and genders in disarmament and non-proliferation education underscore efforts and create momentum towards achieving a world without nuclear weapons,
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence (2006), para. 22
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- 7. Stresses that, in the increasingly globalizing interdependent world economy, a holistic approach to the interconnected national, international and systemic challenges of financing for development, namely, sustainable, gender- sensitive and people-centred development, is essential and that such an approach must open up opportunities for all and help to ensure that resources are created and used effectively and that solid and accountable institutions are established at all levels;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation (2016), para. 33
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- (a) To identify, with a view to repealing and reforming them, all laws that have both direct and indirect discriminatory consequences with regard to the equal enjoyment of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, and with regard to gender-based violence;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order (2011), para. 36
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- (i) The principle of equitable regional and gender-balanced representation in the composition of the staff of the United Nations system;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International trade and development (2019), para. 17
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- 5. Further reaffirms that the gender-responsive implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals is essential to achieving sustained, inclusive and __________________ equitable economic growth, and notes the need for a broader use of gender impact assessments of trade policies before, during and after their implementation;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and cultural diversity (2001), para. 19
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- 7. Also emphasizes the fact that tolerance and respect for diversity facilitate the universal promotion and protection of human rights, including gender equality and the enjoyment of all human rights by all;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence (2008), para. 22
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- 7. Reaffirms that good governance is essential for sustainable development, that sound economic policies, solid democratic institutions responsive to the needs of the people and improved infrastructure are the basis for sustained economic growth, poverty eradication and employment creation, and that freedom, peace and security, domestic stability, respect for human rights, including the right to development, and the rule of law, gender equality, market-oriented policies and an overall commitment to just and democratic societies are also essential and mutually reinforcing;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights and extreme poverty (2015), para. 34
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- 13. Encourages States, when designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating social protection programmes, to ensure gender mainstreaming and the promotion and protection of all human rights in accordance with their obligations under international human rights law, throughout this process;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Questions relating to information (2013), para. 045
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- 20. Underlines the responsibility of the Secretariat in mainstreaming multilingualism into all its communication and information activities, within existing resources on an equitable basis;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (2017), para. 07
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- Acknowledging the importance of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 5 and its implementation for the promotion and protection of the enjoyment by all persons of human rights, gender equality, access to justice for all and effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity (2011), para. 5
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- Expressing grave concern at acts of violence and discrimination, in all regions of the world, committed against individuals because of their sexual orientation and gender identity,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- 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 (1997), para. 37
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- 18. Calls upon Member States to allocate sufficient resources for undertaking gender impact analyses in order to develop successful national implementation strategies for the Platform for Action;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The right to food (2010), para. 24
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- 6. Encourages the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the right to food to continue mainstreaming a gender perspective in the fulfilment of his mandate, and encourages the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and all other United Nations bodies and mechanisms addressing the right to food and food insecurity to integrate a gender perspective into their relevant policies, programmes and activities;
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (2010), para. 38
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- 29. Takes note with appreciation of the interim report of the Special Rapporteur, 9F 10 and encourages the Special Rapporteur to continue to include in his recommendations proposals on the prevention and investigation of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, including its gender-based manifestations;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- 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. 133
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- 64 (c). Support and encourage enhanced strategic engagement with the private sector to support countries with investments as well as, inter alia, service delivery, strengthening supply chains, workplace initiatives and social marketing of health commodities, and in support of behavioural change, to fast-track the response;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005–2014) (2016), para. 22
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- 8. Invites the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, as the lead agency for education for sustainable development, to continue to provide coordination for the implementation of the Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development, in cooperation with Governments, United Nations organizations, funds and programmes, non-governmental organizations and other stakeholders, and to continue to advocate the importance of ensuring adequate resources for education for sustainable development, and calls upon the United Nations system to increase efforts to fully mainstream a gender perspective into the implementation of the Global Action Programme;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Equal political participation (2013), para. 07
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- Emphasizing the critical importance of equal political participation for democracy, the rule of law, social inclusion and economic development, and advancing gender equality, as well as for the realization of all human rights and fundamental freedoms,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- 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. 59
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- (h) Encouraging business enterprises, in the effective implementation of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, to create gender-responsive policies and transparent and effective processes for reporting violence in the world of work, including protection of victims, survivors, witnesses and whistle-blowers from reprisals;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations common system: report of the International Civil Service Commission (2015), para. 19
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- A. Gender balance in the United Nations common system
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- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2013), para. 14
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- Deeply concerned that, despite the increase in national, regional and international efforts and the focus on the abandonment of female genital mutilations, the practice continues to exist in all regions of the world,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening and enhancing the effective functioning of the human rights treaty body system (2014), para. 37
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- 12. Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to include in the documentation prepared for elections of members of human rights treaty bodies at meetings of States parties an information note on the current situation with respect to the composition of the treaty body, reflecting the balance in terms of geographical distribution and gender representation, professional background and different legal systems, as well as the tenure of current members;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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