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Reaffirming the outcome document of the twenty-seventh special session of
the General Assembly on children, entitled “A world fit for children”, 7 the
Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS adopted at the twenty-sixth special
session of the General Assembly on HIV/AIDS, entitled “Global Crisis – Global
Action”, 8 and the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS of 2006, 9
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Reaffirming also all other relevant outcomes of major United Nations summits
and conferences relevant to the girl child, as well as their five- and ten-year reviews,
including the Beijing Declaration 10 and Platform for Action 11 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”, 12 the Programme of Action of the International
Conference on Population and Development, 13 the Programme of Action of the
World Summit for Social Development 14 and the declaration adopted by the
Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-ninth session in 2005, 15 as well as
the agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission at its fifty-first session, 16 at
which it considered “The elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence
against the girl child” as its priority theme,
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Looking forward to the fifteen-year review of the implementation of the Beijing
Platform for Action and the review of the outcome of the twenty-third special session
of the General Assembly, emphasizing the sharing of experiences and good practices,
with a view to overcoming remaining obstacles and new challenges, including those
related to the Millennium Development Goals, which will take place during the
fifty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, in 2010,
Reaffirming the Dakar Framework for Action, adopted at the World Education
Forum in 2000, 17
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Welcoming the appointment of the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General on violence against children, the creation of the new post of
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on sexual violence in conflict and
the launch of the Secretary-General’s 2008–2015 campaign “UNiTE to End
Violence against Women”,
Recognizing that chronic poverty remains the single biggest obstacle to
meeting the needs of and promoting and protecting the rights of children and that
urgent national and international action is therefore required to eliminate it, and
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7
Resolution S-27/2, annex.
Resolution S-26/2, annex.
9
Resolution 60/262, annex.
10
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.
11
Ibid., annex II.
12
Resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.
13
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
14
Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.
15
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum
(E/2005/27 and Corr.1), chap. I, sect. A; see also Economic and Social Council decision 2005/232.
16
Ibid., 2007, Supplement No. 7 (E/2007/27), chap. I, sect. A.
17
See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Final Report of the World
Education Forum, Dakar, Senegal, 26–28 April 2000 (Paris, 2000).
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