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Custody, violence against women and violence against children
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Year
- 2023
- Document code
- A/HRC/53/36
- Date modified
- Jan 22, 2024
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Violence against indigenous women and girls
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Year
- 2022
- Document code
- A/HRC/50/26
- Date modified
- Jan 22, 2024
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Addendum - A framework for legislation on rape (model rape law)
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Year
- 2021
- Document code
- A/HRC/47/26/Add.1
- Date modified
- Jan 22, 2024
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Rape as a grave, systematic and widespread human rights violation, a crime and a manifestation of gender-based violence against women and girls, and its prevention
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Year
- 2021
- Document code
- A/HRC/47/26
- Date modified
- Jan 22, 2024
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Violence against women journalists
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Year
- 2020
- Document code
- A/HRC/44/52
- Date modified
- Jan 22, 2024
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Corrigendum
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Year
- 2019
- Document code
- A/HRC/41/42/Corr.1
- Date modified
- Jan 22, 2024
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Twenty-five years of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences: an analysis of its evolution, current challenges and the way forward
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Year
- 2019
- Document code
- A/HRC/41/42
- Date modified
- Jan 22, 2024
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Online violence against women and girls
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Year
- 2018
- Document code
- A/HRC/38/47
- Date modified
- Jan 22, 2024
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A human rights-based approach to integrated services and protection measures on violence against women and girls, with a focus on shelters and protection orders
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Year
- 2017
- Document code
- A/HRC/35/30
- Date modified
- Jan 22, 2024
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Violence against women and girls, nationality laws and statelessness
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Year
- 2023
- Document code
- A/78/256
- Date modified
- Dec 6, 2023
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Violence against women and girls in the context of the climate crisis, including environmental degradation and related disaster risk mitigation and response
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Year
- 2022
- Document code
- A/77/136
- Date modified
- Dec 6, 2023
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Taking stock of the femicide watch initiative
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Year
- 2021
- Document code
- A/76/132
- Date modified
- Nov 30, 2023
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Intersection between the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and the pandemic of gender-based violence against women, with a focus on domestic violence and the “peace in the home” initiative
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Year
- 2020
- Document code
- A/75/144
- Date modified
- Nov 30, 2023
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A human rights-based approach to mistreatment and violence against women in reproductive health services with a focus on childbirth and obstetric violence
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Year
- 2019
- Document code
- A/74/137
- Date modified
- Nov 30, 2023
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Violence against women in politics
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Year
- 2018
- Document code
- A/73/301
- Date modified
- Nov 30, 2023
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Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 76
- Paragraph text
- Reports of homicides of "trans" people reflect that 93 murders were recorded in the first half of 2010. Another project has revealed that between January 2008 and September 2011 there were 681 reports of murdered "trans" people in 50 countries.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- LGBTQI+
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Pathways to, conditions and consequences of incarceration for women 2013, para. 53
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- In India, the conditions in which prisoners are held can vary according to how they are classified: foreign citizens, political prisoners and individuals belonging to "higher" castes receive better treatment while incarcerated, including placement in larger or less-crowded prison cells, access to books and newspapers, and more and better food. Those who belong to the "lower" castes do not receive these benefits.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Pathways to, conditions and consequences of incarceration for women 2013, para. 30
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- Women are generally more impacted than men by pretrial detention. In Scotland, 25 per cent of the female daily prison population consists of pretrial detainees compared to 17 per cent of the male daily prison population. In England and Wales, between 1992 and 2002 there was a 196 per cent increase in female pretrial detainees as compared to a 52 per cent increase for males.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 70
- Paragraph text
- Furthermore, organized crime groups and gangs (known as maras) have multiplied and have created an internal system of control of local territory and of communities. They have established an open market for a profitable arms trade, which allows them to position themselves as the main providers of private security for drug cartels, entrepreneurs and the elite.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Year
- 2012
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Violence against women with disabilities 2012, para. 98l
- Paragraph text
- [The Special Rapporteur recommends the following measures:] Establishment of a mechanism by which the special procedures of the Human Rights Council can collaborate with the Special Rapporteur on disability of the Commission on Social Development should be encouraged.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Year
- 2012
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Violence against women with disabilities 2012, para. 74
- Paragraph text
- The principle of non-discrimination in article 2 encompasses the commitment not to engage in discrimination on the basis of disability and to take steps to counter both direct and indirect forms of discrimination. In addition to prohibiting discrimination both on the basis of disability and other grounds, article 5 requires States to ensure the provision of reasonable accommodation, in order to promote equality and eliminate discrimination.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Year
- 2012
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Reparations to women who have been subjected to violence 2010, para. 46
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- Under many authoritarian regimes, and more so in situations of large-scale civil strife, violence is often perpetrated with the complicity of non-State actors, including foreign States, members of guerrillas, self-defence groups, corporations and ordinary citizens. Whereas some reparations programmes are embracing these forms of violence, the record of such programmes overall is still quite patchy.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Year
- 2010
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 110
- Paragraph text
- In the context of murders relating to witchcraft, a number of factors that hinder or prevent adequate police response were identified. These include shortages of personnel, vehicles and fuel and a limited presence of the police, as well as the taboo surrounding sorcery, which in and of itself prevents intervention. In many cases communities do not cooperate and are reluctant to give information to the police due to fear of mob rule and of being accused as co-sorcerers if they assist victims.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Violence
- Year
- 2012
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 52
- Paragraph text
- Some organizations highlighted that any new instrument should also promote communication for development and technology for development programmes and require States to establish a “femicide watch”.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 81
- Paragraph text
- This includes immediate risk assessment and protection, including a wide range of protection measures, comprising the issuance and monitoring of eviction, protection orders and adequate sanctions for non-compliance.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Year
- 2017
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Modalities for the establishment of femicides/gender-related killings watch 2016, para. 82d
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- [States should undertake to do the following:] Cooperate to establish and implement a common methodology for the collection of comparable data and the establishment of a femicide watch;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Modalities for the establishment of femicides/gender-related killings watch 2016, para. 74
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- Recognizing the need for a credible collection of good practice on the prevention of femicide, the Special Rapporteur invites all States and other stakeholders to provide her with examples of good practices on femicide reviews and examples of legislation and jurisprudence that could be used as a good practices by others.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Modalities for the establishment of femicides/gender-related killings watch 2016, para. 72
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- The Special Rapporteur intends to establish an online collection of landmark court cases on femicide. She believes that such rulings provide examples of the application of relevant international, regional and national standards and are useful tools for lawyers, prosecutors and judges working on similar cases.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Modalities for the establishment of femicides/gender-related killings watch 2016, para. 70
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- The Supreme Court of Colombia recently passed judgment on how femicide was a gender-related crime and why it should be prosecuted as harshly as possible. In its first-ever case of convicted femicide, it sentenced the perpetrator to 18 years in prison for the brutal murder of his wife on the grounds that the killing had been motivated by his wife's gender.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Violence
- Year
- 2016
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Pathways to, conditions and consequences of incarceration for women 2013, para. 76
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- Preparing children who have remained with their mothers in prison for integration back into society is a crucial step towards their ability to adjust to life outside, particularly for those who were born in prison or have no memory of life before prison. One report on India states that Many children born in prison have never experienced normal family life up to the age of four-five years. The socialization pattern of children gets severely affected due to their stay in prison. Their only image of a male authority figure is that of the police and prison officials. They are unaware of the concept of a "home". Boys sometimes talk in the female gender, having grown up only among women in the female ward. Sights like animals on roads frighten these children because of lack of exposure to the outside world.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2013
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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