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21. Urges States to forge partnerships with relevant stakeholders, particularly
by working with and involving communities in developing programmes and
mechanisms designed to ensure the safety, protection and empowerment of children,
especially girls, in child-headed households, as well as to ensure that they receive
the support they need from their communities;
22. Calls upon States to strengthen research on families and household
formation and structure, with a particular emphasis on the existence of de facto
child-headed households and the long-term economic and psychological impact that
being a child head of household or a child raised by another child has on the
children and on social sustainability;
23. Also calls upon States to strengthen research, data collection and analysis
on the girl child, disaggregated by household structure, sex, age, disability status,
economic situation, marital status and geographical location, in order to provide a
better understanding of the situations of girls, especially of the multiple forms of
discrimination that they face, and to inform the development of necessary policies
and programme responses, which should take a holistic age-appropriate approach to
addressing the full range of the forms of discrimination that girls may face, in order
to protect their rights effectively;
24. Urges States to take all measures necessary to ensure the full enjoyment
by girls with disabilities of all human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal
basis with other children, to adopt, implement and strengthen appropriate policies
and programmes designed to address their needs and to take into account the
conclusions contained in the outcome document adopted at the high-level meeting
of the General Assembly on the realization of the Millennium Development Goals
and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities,
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25. Urges all States to enact and enforce legislation to protect girls from all
forms of violence, discrimination and exploitation in all settings, including female
infanticide and prenatal sex selection, female genital mutilation, rape, domestic
violence, incest, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, child prostitution and child
pornography, trafficking and forced migration, forced labour and child, early and
forced marriage, and to develop age-appropriate safe, confidential and disabilityaccessible programmes and medical, social and psychological support services to
assist girls who are subjected to violence and discrimination;
26. Calls upon all States to enact and enforce the necessary legislative or
other measures, in cooperation with relevant stakeholders, including the private
sector and the media, to prevent the distribution over the Internet of child
pornography, including depictions of child sexual abuse, ensuring that adequate
mechanisms are in place to enable reporting and removal of such material and that
its creators, distributors and collectors are prosecuted, as appropriate;
27. Urges States to formulate comprehensive, multidisciplinary and
coordinated national plans, programmes or strategies to eliminate all forms of
discrimination and violence against women and girls, which should have dedicated
resources, be widely disseminated and provide targets and timetables for
implementation, as well as effective domestic enforcement procedures through the
establishment of monitoring mechanisms involving all parties concerned, including
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