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parents, legal guardians, caregivers, educators and health -care providers, in order to
contribute to ending child, early and forced marriage;
9.
Urges States to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage by
removing barriers to education, including by ensuring that married girls and boys,
pregnant girls and women and young parents continue to have access to schooling,
improving access to quality formal education and skills development, especially for
those living in remote or insecure areas, improving the safety of girls at and on the
way to and from school, providing safe and adequate sanitation, including for
menstrual hygiene management, and adopting policies to prohibit, prevent and
address violence against children, especially girls;
10. Urges Governments, with the collaboration of relevant stakeholders, to
tackle poverty and lack of economic opportunities for women and girls as drivers of
child, early and forced marriage, including by ensuring the rights of women and
girls to inheritance and property, their equal access with men and boys to social
protection, direct financial services, support and microcredit, to encourage girls to
continue their education, to develop livelihood opportunities through access to
technical and vocational education and training and life skills education, including
financial literacy, and to promote women’s equal access to full and productive
employment and decent work, as well as equal political participation and rights to
inherit, own and control land and productive measures;
11. Urges States to ensure access to justice and accountability mechanisms
and remedies for the effective implementation and enforcement of laws aim ed at
preventing and eliminating child, early and forced marriage, including by informing
women, girls and boys about their rights under relevant laws, 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, improving legal infrastructure and removing all barriers to access to legal
counselling, assistance and remedies;
12. Urges Governments to respect and protect the right to the enjoyment of
the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health through the
development and enforcement of policies and legal frameworks and the
strengthening of health systems, including health information systems, that make
universally accessible and available quality, gender-responsive, adolescent-friendly
health services, sexual and reproductive health-care services, information and
commodities, HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment and care, mental health services
and nutrition interventions;
13. Also urges Governments to promote and protect the human rights of all
women and girls, including the right of women, and those girls who have been
subjected to child, early and forced marriage, to have control over and decide freely
and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and
reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence, and to adopt and
accelerate the implementation of laws, policies and programmes that protect and
enable the enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including
reproductive rights, in accordance with the Programme of Action of the
International Conference on Population and Development, 8 the Beijing Platform for
Action 9 and the outcome documents of their review conferences;
14. Calls upon States to develop, in consultation with 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
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