The girl child 2017, para. 6

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Recognizing that chronic poverty remains one of the biggest obstacles to meeting the needs and promoting and protecting the rights of the child, including the girl child, and that girls living in poverty are more likely to be married as children or to work to ease family hardships, often ending education and suffering other harmful consequences, further limiting their opportunities and leaving them entrenched in poverty, and recognizing also that the eradication of poverty must remain a high priority for the international community,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2017
Reference
UNGA resolution, The girl child (2017), A/RES/72/154, PP 6.
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PP
Paragraph number
6