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Summit for Children,5 held in New York on 29 and 30 September 1990, the World
Declaration on Education for All and the Framework for Action to Meet Basic
Learning Needs6 adopted at the World Conference on Education for All, held at
Jomtien, Thailand, from 5 to 9 March 1990,
Welcoming with satisfaction the adoption and dissemination of the
Declaration and Agenda for Action of the World Congress against Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children,7 held at Stockholm from 27 to 31 August 1996,
which constitute an important contribution to the global efforts aimed at the
eradication of such practices,
Noting with appreciation the report of the Secretary-General on the
mid-decade review of progress made in achieving the goals of the World Summit
for Children,8
Welcoming the report of the expert of the Secretary-General on the
impact of armed conflict on children,9
Deeply concerned about discrimination against the girl child and the
violation of the rights of the girl child, which often result in less access
for girls to education, nutrition, physical and mental health care and to
girls enjoying fewer rights, opportunities and benefits of childhood and
adolescence than boys and often being subjected to various forms of cultural,
social, sexual and economic exploitation and to violence and harmful practices
such as incest, early marriage, female infanticide, prenatal sex selection and
female genital mutilation,
Reaffirming the equal rights of women and men as enshrined in the
Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations, and recalling the Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women10 and the
Convention on the Rights of the Child,11
1.
Urges all States to take all necessary measures and to institute
legal reforms to ensure the full and equal enjoyment by the girl child of all
human rights and fundamental freedoms and to take effective action against
violations of those rights and freedoms;
5
See A/45/625, annex.
6
Final Report of the World Conference on Education for All: Meeting Basic
Learning Needs, Jomtien, Thailand, 5-9 March 1990, Inter-Agency Commission
(UNDP, UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank) for the World Conference on Education for
All, New York, 1990, appendix 1 and 2.
7
A/51/385, annex.
8
A/51/256.
9
See A/51/306 and Add.1.
10
Resolution 34/180, annex.
11
Resolution 44/25, annex.
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