A/RES/58/156
Recalling all other relevant United Nations conferences, the Beijing
Declaration 8 and Platform for Action 9 adopted at the Fourth World Conference on
Women, the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly,
entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first
century”, 10 and the outcome documents of the recent five-year reviews of the
implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on
Population and Development 11 and the Programme of Action of the World Summit
for Social Development, 12
Reaffirming the Dakar Framework for Action adopted at the World Education
Forum, 13
Recalling the Declaration and Agenda for Action adopted at the World
Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, held at Stockholm
from 27 to 31 August 1996, 14 and welcoming the Yokohama Global Commitment
2001, adopted at the Second World Congress against Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children, held at Yokohama, Japan, from 17 to 20 December 2001, 15
Recognizing the efforts of the international community to strengthen the
standards for combating sexual abuse and exploitation, and in this regard taking
note of the Secretary-General’s bulletin on special measures for protection from
sexual exploitation and sexual abuse 16 and other policies and codes of conduct
developed by the United Nations system to prevent and address such incidents,
Recalling the International Conference on War-Affected Children, held at
Winnipeg, Canada, from 10 to 17 September 2000, and affirming the ongoing
importance of the Winnipeg Agenda for War-Affected Children 17 for all children
affected by armed conflict,
Recognizing the need to achieve gender equality to ensure a just and equitable
world for girls,
Deeply concerned about discrimination against the girl child and the violation
of the rights of the girl child, which often result in less access for girls to education,
nutrition and physical and mental health care and in girls enjoying fewer of the
rights, opportunities and benefits of childhood and adolescence than boys and often
being subjected to various forms of cultural, social, sexual and economic
exploitation and to violence and harmful practices, such as female infanticide,
incest, early marriage, prenatal sex selection and female genital mutilation,
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8
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I.
9
Ibid., annex II.
10
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
11
Resolution S-21/2, annex.
12
Resolution S-24/2, annex.
13
See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Final Report of the World
Education Forum, Dakar, Senegal, 26–28 April 2000 (Paris, 2000).
14
A/51/385, annex.
15
See A/S-27/12, annex.
16
ST/SGB/2003/13.
17
A/55/467-S/2000/973, annex.
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