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Child, early and forced marriage
from sexual and gender-based violence and exploitation during humanitarian
emergencies, situations of forced displacement, armed conflict and natural disaster,
including by ensuring their access to such services as health-care and education;
15. Encourages relevant United Nations entities and agencies, regional and
subregional organizations, within their respective mandates, civil society and other
relevant actors and human rights mechanisms to continue to co llaborate with
Member States in developing and implementing strategies and policies at the
national, regional and international levels to prevent and eliminate child, early and
forced marriage, as well as to support those who were married as girls and boys ;
16. Affirms the need for States to improve the collection and use of
quantitative, qualitative and comparable data on violence against women and
harmful practices, disaggregated by sex, age, disability, civil status, race, ethnicity,
migratory status, geographical location, socioeconomic status, education level and
other key factors, as appropriate, to enhance research and dissemination of
evidence-based and good practices relating to the prevention and elimination of
child, early and forced marriage and to strengthen monitoring and impact
assessment of existing policies and programmes as a means of ensuring their
effectiveness and implementation;
17. Encourages Governments to include information on progress towards
eliminating child, early and forced marriage in their national reports to relevant
international treaty bodies and the universal periodic review and within the national
voluntary reviews conducted through the high-level political forum on sustainable
development under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council;
18. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a comprehensive report to the
General Assembly, before the end of its seventy-second session, on progress towards
ending child, early and forced marriage worldwide, including, for the consideration
of Member States, action-oriented recommendations for eliminating this practice,
using information provided by Member States, United Nations bodies, agencies,
funds and programmes, civil society and other relevant stakeholders;
19. Decides to consider the issue of child, early and forced marriage at its
seventy-third session under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of the rights
of children”, taking into account the multifaceted and worldwide nature of the issue
of child, early and forced marriage.
65th plenary meeting
19 December 2016
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