Rights of the child: Omnibus resolution 2008, para. 24b
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- [Calls upon all States to take all necessary measures, including legal reforms where appropriate:] To eliminate all forms of discrimination and violence against girls, including female infanticide and prenatal sex selection, rape, sexual abuse and harmful traditional or customary practices, including female genital mutilation, son preference, marriages without free and full consent of the intending spouses, early marriages and forced marriages and forced sterilization, including addressing their root causes, by enacting and enforcing legislation and, where appropriate, formulating comprehensive, multidisciplinary and coordinated national plans, programmes or strategies protecting girls;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2008
- Paragraph type
- OP
- Reference
- HRC resolution, Rights of the child: Omnibus resolution (2008), A/HRC/RES/7/29, OP 24b.
- Paragraph info
- OP
- Paragraph number
- 24b
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