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13. Urges States to formulate comprehensive, multidisciplinary and coordinated national plans,
programmes or strategies to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, which should be widely
disseminated and should provide targets and timetables for implementation, as well as effective domestic
enforcement procedures through the establishment of monitoring mechanisms involving all parties concerned,
including consultations with women’s organizations;
14. Also urges States to implement measures to protect women and girls from all forms of violence, in
line with the recommendations of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence
against women, its causes and consequences;
15. Requests all States to implement, on an urgent basis, measures to protect children from all forms of
sexual exploitation, including measures in line with those outlined in the Declaration and Agenda for Action
of the World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children;8
16. Calls upon Governments, civil society, including the media, and non-governmental organizations
to promote human rights education and the full respect for and enjoyment of the human rights of the girl
child, inter alia, through the translation, production and dissemination of age-appropriate information
materials on these rights to all sectors of society, in particular to children;
17. Calls upon Governments to encourage efforts by civil society and non-governmental organizations,
including women’s organizations, to establish community-based groups or local committees that could assist
with the safety and welfare of children;
18. Requests the Secretary-General, as Chairman of the Administrative Committee on Coordination, to
ensure that all organizations and bodies of the United Nations system individually and collectively, in
particular the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations
Development Fund for Women, the World Health Organization and the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees, take into account the rights and the particular needs of the girl child, especially
in education, health and nutrition, and eliminate negative cultural attitudes and practices against the girl child
in the implementation of the outcomes of all recent global conferences, in particular the Platform for Action
of the Fourth World Conference on Women, and of the system-wide medium-term plan for the advancement
of women for the period 1996-2001;12
19. Requests the Commission on Human Rights to pay particular attention to the human rights of the
girl child;
20. Requests all human rights treaty bodies, special procedures and other human rights mechanisms of
the Commission on Human Rights and the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of
Minorities of the Commission on Human Rights to adopt regularly and systematically a gender perspective in
the implementation of their mandates and to include in their reports information on the qualitative analysis of
violations of human rights of women and girls, and encourages the strengthening of cooperation and
coordination in that regard;
21. Calls upon States and international and non-governmental organizations to mobilize all necessary
resources, support and efforts to realize the goals, strategic objectives and actions set out in the Platform for
Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women;
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