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Child, early and forced marriage
to access to legal counselling, assistance and remedies, training law enforcement
officers, the judiciary and professionals working with women and children and
ensuring oversight of the handling of cases of child, early and forced marriage;
21. Calls upon States to develop and implement, in consultation with and with
the participation of women and, as appropriate, girls, and integrate into humanitarian
responses, from the early stages of humanitarian emergencies, measures to address
the increased vulnerability of women and girls to child, early and forced marriage,
and to protect women and girls from sexual and gender-based violence and
exploitation during humanitarian emergencies, situations of forced displacement,
armed conflict and natural disaster, including by ensuring their access to such services
as health and education, as well as strengthening follow-up and interventions to
prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings, as
well as to address the needs of those affected;
22. Encourages relevant United Nations entities and agencies, regional and
subregional organizations, within their respective mandates, civil society and other
relevant actors and human rights mechanisms to continue to collaborate among
themselves and with Member States in developing and implementing strategies and
policies at the national, regional and international levels to prevent and eliminate
child, early and forced marriage, as well as to support those who were married as
children;
23. Encourages relevant United Nations entities and agencies, regional and
subregional organizations, the international financial institutions, civil society and
other relevant actors and human rights mechanisms to continue to collaborate with
Member States and national statistical agencies in order to assist in strengthening and
building capacity for data and reporting systems for analysing, monitoring and
publicly reporting on progress to end child, early and forced marriage based on
evidence;
24. Affirms the need for States to improve the collection and use of
quantitative, qualitative and comparable data on violence against women and harmful
practices, disaggregated by sex, age, disability, civil status, race, ethnicity, migratory
status, geographical location, socioeconomic status, education level and other key
factors, as appropriate, to enhance research and dissemination of evidence -based and
good practices relating to the prevention and elimination of child, early and forced
marriage and to strengthen monitoring and impact assessment of existing policies and
programmes as a means of ensuring their effectiveness and implementation;
25. Encourages the international community to fulfil its commitment in
supporting developing countries, particularly African countries, least developed
countries, small island developing States and landlocked developing countries, in
strengthening the capacity of national statistical offices and data systems to ensure
access to high-quality, timely, reliable and disaggregated data while ensuring national
ownership in supporting and tracking progress, including in the context of child, early
and forced marriage;
26. Encourages Governments to include information on progress towards
eliminating child, early and forced marriage, including best practices and
implementation efforts, in their national reports to relevant international treaty bodies
and the universal periodic review and within the national voluntary reviews conducted
through the high-level political forum on sustainable development;
27. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a comprehensive report to the
General Assembly, based on evidence, before the end of its seventy-fourth session,
on progress towards ending child, early and forced marriage worldwide, best practices
for programmes aimed at ending the practice and supporting already mar ried girls and
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