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Post-2015 Development Agenda Must Prioritize the Human Rights of Women and Young People

Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Several women’s human rights, youth, and gender justice advocates have called on the High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda to prioritize the human rights of women and young people in its recommendations on a new global framework for sustainable development.
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New Global Development Agenda Must Have Human Rights At Its Core

Friday, 10 May 2013
World leaders must reject an aid-based model of development and instead pursue an approach that puts human rights and justice at its core, urged 37 non-governmental organizations ahead of a High-Level Panel report to the UN on the future of sustainable development.
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UN Resolution Calls on Governments to Provide Sexual and Reproductive Health Services to Migrants

Friday, 26 April 2013
The Resolution of the 46th Session of the Commission on Population and Development recognized the centrality of meeting the needs of women and young people through migration policies and programs that respect and protect human rights.
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Education for Girls Is Crucial to End Child Marriage but Must be Part of Broader Effort, Urge NGOs

Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Getting the world’s 32 million out-of-school girls back into education will be crucial to end child marriage, stated a group of non-governmental organizations on the eve of a high level roundtable on child marriage. But the groups emphasized that there is no single solution to end a practice that denies an estimated 14 million girls a year their rights to health, education, choice, and security.
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