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External sources (not reviewed)

Promote gender-based education for adolescent and adult men on fertility issues,

(h) Addressing disability-specific vulnerabilities, including by offering services and social support to women and girls with disabilities at the community level, as well as assistive devices in order to avoid isolation and confinement in their homes; ensuring adequate institutional oversight of institutions where women and girls with disabilities reside; ensuring access to information for women and girls with disabilities, and for people in their immediate environment, on how to prevent, recognize and report instances of exploitation, violence and abuse; providing information in an accessible format

The report concludes by drawing attention to further actions required to promote and

Alongside the development of this network, an agenda for indigenous women is being drawn up, including five priority areas of action: land and

Main topics on training are conflict transformation, women’s human rights advocacy (national and international standards — CEDAW, Platform for Action), gender sensitivity, gender analysis, gender mainstreaming,

It has also led to the creation of the first ethnic group leadership network for young women of the Jingpo people along the China-Myanmar border, which addresses the urgent need to include young women and girls in issues related to harm reduction intervention; to discussion about pleasure and virginity and the relationship to religious fundamentalism among young people in Indonesia as a step to create

In the context of multilateral cooperation, the development agency supports and funds organizations working in the field of human rights such as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, UNICEF, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) (now UN Women, the United Nations

ACPD supported the recommendation to invite the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders

(d) The Fund suggested that United Nations agencies, special procedures and non-governmental organizations should use the general recommendations and concluding comments and observations from the treaty bodies and special procedures as

In view of the foregoing and considering that, as previously mentioned, neither the Cairo Programme of Action nor national legislation promotes abortion as a method of family planning, El

In 2003, the Federation adopted a new strategic framework (2005-2015) to focus its work on five priority areas: (a) adolescents/young people (to ensure that they are aware of and can make

In the second half of the 1990s, women formed organized alliances with the Congress of the Republic, culminating in legislation which forms a normative framework, although still an inadequate one, for the tackling of key social problems

In this context, BEMFAM have been working in Brazil, in other Latin American countries and in Africa in the field of social

With regard to women, the Belgian

Understand the multiple layers of marginalization and representation by specifically focusing on the diversity of young people, including young women and girls; young people living with HIV/AIDS; young migrant workers; young people who are lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/intersexed/ questioning;

UNFPA works to strengthen the health sector’s role in

Over the past two decades, legal reforms have strengthened gender equality in Nepal, ensuring greater economic security for women,

In relation to recommendation 22, the Federation for Women and Family Planning commended the Uruguayan Parliament for having passed, in

The Programme of Action is a comprehensive document that addresses a wide

Issues of concern to Equality Now include rape, domestic violence,

Comprehensive sexuality education: provide young people with

The rights violated include, but are not limited to: the right to freedom from discrimination, right to life and security of person, right to human dignity, freedom from torture, inhuman or degrading treatment, right to recognition as a person before the law, right to freedom from arbitrary detention, right to access to justice, legal aid and representation, right to equal protection before the law, right to compensation and effective remedy, and right to non-conditional assistance, right to privacy, right to freedom of movement, right to information and freedom of expression, right to freedom of association, right to be heard, right not to be held in slavery and freedom from forced or compulsory labour, right to just and favourable conditions of employment, right to remuneration, right to equal pay for equal work, right

Gender equality: empower young people and women to demand their rights related to gender equality; rights for women and men to have control over and decide

Deeply concerned also about discrimination against the girl child and the violation of the rights of the girl child, which often result in less access for girls to education, and to quality education, nutrition and physical and mental health