Emphasizes that awareness-raising, community mobilization, education and training are needed to ensure that all key actors, Government officials, including law enforcement and judicial personnel, health-care providers, religious and community leaders, teachers, employers, media professionals and those directly working with girls, as well as parents, families and communities, work to eliminate attitudes and harmful practices that negatively affect girls;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Education
Harmful Practices
Health
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
Families
Girls
Year
2008
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
CSW resolution, Ending female genital mutilation (2008), OP 2.