The girl child 1997, para. 14
Paragraph- Original document
- Document type
- Resolution
- Paragraph text
Requests the Secretary-General, as Chairman of the Administrative Committee on 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 High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, take into account the rights and the particular needs of the girl child, especially in education, health and nutrition, and eliminate negative cultural attitudes and practices against the girl child in the implementation of the outcomes of all recent global conferences, in particular the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women, and of the system-wide medium-term plan for the advancement of women for the period 1996-2001;
- Document legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Document body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Document year
- 1997
- Paragraph type
- OP
- Reference
- UNGA resolution, The girl child (1997), A/RES/52/106, OP 14.
- Paragraph info
- OP
- Paragraph number
- 14