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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/148
25 February 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 112
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/54/601)]
54/148. The girl child
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 53/127 of 9 December 1998 and all previous relevant resolutions, including the
agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women, in particular those relevant to the girl child,
Recalling also all relevant United Nations conferences and the Declaration and Agenda for Action of
the World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, held at Stockholm from 27 to
31 August 1996,1 as well as the recent five-year review of the implementation of the Programme of Action
of the International Conference on Population and Development,2
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, 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,
Recognizing the need to achieve gender equality so as to ensure a just and equitable world for girls,
1
A/51/385, annex.
2
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.
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