Child, early and forced marriage
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supporting and tracking progress, including in the context of child, early and forced
marriage;
43. Encourages Governments to include information on progress towards
eliminating child, early and forced marriage, including best practices and
implementation efforts, 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;
44. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a comprehensive report to the
General Assembly at its eighty-first session on progress towards ending child, early
and forced marriage worldwide as well as best practices and recommendations for
accelerating progress to end child, early and forced marriage and support already
married girls in situations of poverty, and including in humanitarian contexts, armed
conflict and disasters, and including on gaps in funding, research and data collection,
using information provided by Member States, United Nations bodies, agencies,
funds and programmes, civil society and other relevant stakeholders, including those
who have been subjected to child, early and forced marriage;
45. Decides to consider the issue of child, early and forced marriage at its
eighty-first session under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of the rights of
children”, taking into account the multifaceted and worldwide nature of this issue.
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