The rights of the child 2008, para. 9c
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- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
[Calls upon all States:] To take all necessary and effective measures, including legal reforms where appropriate, to eliminate all forms of discrimination against girls and all forms of violence, including female infanticide and prenatal sex selection, rape, sexual abuse and harmful traditional or customary practices, including female genital mutilation, early marriage, marriage without the free and full consent of the intending spouses and forced sterilization, by enacting and enforcing legislation and, where appropriate, by formulating comprehensive, multidisciplinary and coordinated national plans, programmes or strategies to protect girls;
- Document legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document means of adoption
- Vote
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Harmful Practices
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Document year
- 2008
- Paragraph type
- OP
- Reference
- UNGA resolution, The rights of the child (2008), A/RES/63/241, OP 9c.
- Paragraph info
- OP
- Paragraph number
- 9c
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