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13. Urges all States and the international community to respect, protect and
promote the rights of the child, taking into account the particular vulnerabilities of
the girl child in pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict situations, and calls for
special initiatives designed to address all of the rights and needs of war-affected
girls;
14. Welcomes the holding of the International Conference on War-Affected
Children at Winnipeg, Canada, from 10 to 17 September 2000, and takes note with
appreciation of the Winnipeg Agenda for War-Affected Children; 15
15. Urges States to formulate comprehensive, multidisciplinary and
coordinated national plans, programmes or strategies to eliminate all forms of
violence against women and girls, which should be widely disseminated and should
provide targets and timetables for implementation, as well as effective domestic
enforcement procedures through the establishment of monitoring mechanisms
involving all parties concerned, including consultations with women’s
organizations, giving attention to the recommendations relating to the girl child of
the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against
women, its causes and consequences;
16. Calls upon Governments, civil society, including the media, and
non-governmental organizations to promote human rights education and the full
respect for and enjoyment of the human rights of the girl child, inter alia, through
the translation, production and dissemination of age-appropriate information
material on those rights to all sectors of society, in particular to children;
17. Requests the Secretary-General, as Chairman of the United Nations
System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, 16 to ensure that all organizations
and bodies of the United Nations system, individually and collectively, in particular
the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Population
Fund, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, the World Health
Organization, the United Nations Development Programme and the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, take into account the rights and
the particular needs of the girl child in the country programme of cooperation in
accordance with the national priorities, including through the United Nations
Development Assistance Framework; 17
18. Requests all human rights treaty bodies, special procedures and other
human rights mechanisms of the Commission on Human Rights and its
Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights to adopt
regularly and systematically a gender perspective in the implementation of their
mandates and to include in their reports information on the qualitative analysis of
violations of the human rights of women and girls, and encourages the strengthening
of cooperation and coordination in that regard;
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15
A/55/467-S/2000/973, annex.
Formerly known as the Administrative Committee on Coordination (see Economic and Social Council decision 2001/321
of 24 October 2001).
17
See A/53/226, paras. 72–77, and A/53/226/Add.1, paras. 88–98.
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