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making processes, as appropriate, and to include them as full partners in identifying
their own needs and in developing, planning, implementing and assessing policies
and programmes to meet those needs, with a view to ensuring their full and effective
participation;
24. Recognizes that a considerable number of girl children are particularly
vulnerable, including orphans, children living on the street, internally displaced and
refugee children, children affected by trafficking and sexual and economic
exploitation, children living with or affected by HIV and AIDS, and children who
are incarcerated or who live without parental support, and therefore urges States,
with the support of the international community, where relevant, to take appropriate
measures to address the needs of such children by implementing national,
subregional and regional policies and strategies to build and strengthen
governmental, community and family capacities to provide a supportive
environment for such children, including by providing appropriate counselling and
psychosocial support, and ensuring their safety, enrolment in school and access to
shelter, good nutrition and health and social services on an equal basis with other
children;
25. Urges all States and the international community to respect, promote and
protect the rights of the girl child, taking into account the p articular vulnerabilities
of the girl child in pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict situations and in climaterelated and other hazards and natural disasters, as well as in other humanitarian
emergencies, all of which may result in the creation of child-headed households, and
also urges States to take special measures for the protection of girls in all phases of
humanitarian emergencies, from relief to recovery, and in particular to ensure that
children have access to basic services, which include clean water, including safe
drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, to protect them from sexually transmitted
infections, including HIV infection, gender-based violence, including rape, sexual
abuse and sexual exploitation, torture, abduction and trafficking, i ncluding forced
labour, paying special attention to refugee and displaced girls, and to take into
account their special needs in disarmament, demobilization, rehabilitation assistance
and reintegration processes;
26. Deplores all acts of sexual exploitation, abuse of and trafficking in
women and children, including in humanitarian crises and by humanitarian workers
and peacekeepers, including military, police and civilian personnel involved in
United Nations operations, welcomes the efforts undertaken by U nited Nations
agencies and peacekeeping operations to implement a zero -tolerance policy in this
regard, and requests the Secretary-General or the Member States from which those
humanitarian workers originate and personnel-contributing countries to continue to
take all appropriate action necessary to combat these abuses by such personnel,
including through the full implementation without delay of those measures adopted
in the relevant General Assembly resolutions based on recommendations of the
Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations; 21
27. Calls upon Member States to devise, enforce and strengthen effective
child- and youth-sensitive measures to combat, eliminate and prosecute all forms of
trafficking in women and girls, including for sexual and economi c exploitation, as
part of a comprehensive anti-trafficking strategy within wider efforts to eliminate all
forms of violence against women and girls, including by taking effective measures
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 19 (A/59/19/Rev.1).
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