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medical, social and psychological support services to assist girls who are subjected
to violence;
9.
Urges States to formulate comprehensive, multidisciplinary and
coordinated national plans, programmes or strategies to eliminate all forms of
violence against women and girls, which should be widely disseminated and should
provide targets and timetables for implementation, as well as effective domestic
enforcement procedures through the establishment of monitoring mechanisms
involving all parties concerned, including consultations with women’s
organizations, giving attention to the recommendations relating to the girl child of
the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against
women, its causes and consequences;
10. Calls upon all States and international and non-governmental
organizations, individually and collectively, to implement further the Beijing
Platform for Action, in particular the strategic objectives relating to the girl child,
and the further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action;
11. Urges States to take special measures for the protection of war-affected
girls and in particular to protect them from sexually transmitted diseases, such as the
human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS),
gender-based violence, including rape and sexual abuse, and sexual exploitation,
torture, abduction and forced labour, paying special attention to refugee and
displaced girls, and to take into account the special needs of the war-affected girl
child in the delivery of humanitarian assistance and disarmament, demobilization
and reintegration processes;
12. Urges all States and the international community to respect, protect and
promote the rights of the child, taking into account the particular vulnerabilities of
the girl child in pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict situations, and calls for
special initiatives designed to address all of the rights and needs of war-affected
girls;
13. Calls upon Governments, civil society, including the media, and nongovernmental organizations to promote human rights education and the full respect
for and enjoyment of the human rights of the girl child, inter alia, through the
translation, production and dissemination of age-appropriate information material
on those rights to all sectors of society, in particular to children;
14. Calls upon States and international and non-governmental organizations
to mobilize all necessary resources, support and efforts to realize the goals, strategic
objectives and actions set out in the Beijing Platform for Action and the further
actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for
Action;
15. Requests the Secretary-General, as Chairman of the United Nations
System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, to ensure that all organizations
and bodies of the United Nations system, individually and collectively, in particular
the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Population
Fund, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, the World Health
Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Labour
Organization, take into account the rights and the particular needs of the girl child in
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