[Calls upon all States:] And international and non-governmental organizations, individually and collectively, to set goals and to develop and effectively implement gendersensitive strategies to address the rights and needs of children, in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, especially the rights and particular needs of girls in education, health and nutrition, and to eliminate harmful traditional or customary attitudes and practices against girls;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Food & Nutrition
Gender
Person(s) affected
Children
Girls
Year
1999
Paragraph type
OP
Paragraph focus
Protection and promotion of the rights of the girl child