14.9.
Violence and discrimination
(f) Create and support, as appropriate, community-based networks to advocate against all forms
of violence against girls, develop programmes to
sensitize and train health workers and other professionals working with and for the girl child to the
issue, including on the early detection of violence,
and integrate comprehensive measures and incentives that promote the full enjoyment of human
rights and equality by the girl child into national
development strategies;
(a) Condemn all forms of violence against girls and
take effective legislative and other measures to
prevent and eliminate all such violence, including physical, mental, psychological and sexual
violence, torture, child abuse and exploitation,
hostage-taking, domestic violence, trafficking in or
sale of children and their organs, paedophilia, child
prostitution, child pornography, child sex tourism,
gang-related violence and harmful traditional
practices in all settings;
(g) Encourage and support men and boys to take an
active part in the prevention and elimination of all
forms of violence, and encourage increased understanding among men and boys of how violence
harms girls, boys, women and men and undermines
gender equality;
(b) Take all appropriate measures to strengthen legal
frameworks, including the review and amendment of existing legislation, the enactment of
new laws where necessary, developing adequate
programmes and formulating appropriate policies to prevent, prosecute and punish all cases of
violence against girls, including threats of such acts,
coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether
occurring in public or private life, and in particular
physical, sexual, and psychological violence, wherever it occurs, within or outside the family;
(h) Eliminate all forms of discrimination against the girl
child and the root causes of son preference, which
results in harmful and unethical practices regarding female infanticide and prenatal sex selection,
which may have significant repercussions on society as a whole;
(i) Review, strengthen or adopt legislation or policies
(c) Provide age-appropriate and gender-sensitive ser-
to eradicate child pornography, including child
pornography transmitted through the media and
ICTs, and related forms of exploitation of children,
and strengthen efforts to combat the existence of a
market that encourages child pornography, including the prosecution of those who sexually exploit
or abuse children;
vices to girls subjected to all forms of gender-based
violence, including comprehensive programmes for
their physical, psychological and social recovery,
such as health, counselling and legal services, helplines and shelters, and ensure adequate human,
material and financial resources for these services;
(d) Condemn violence against women and girls and
(j) Develop and strengthen partnerships involving
refrain from invoking any custom, tradition or religious consideration to avoid their obligations with
respect to its elimination, and hold up to public
scrutiny and eliminate those attitudes that foster,
justify, or tolerate violence;
Governments, civil society, the media and business
sectors and other relevant actors in the elimination
of child pornography, including child pornography
transmitted through the media and ICTs, in the
protection of the girl child from related abuses and
exploitation, and in training, inter alia, law enforcers, prosecutors, judges and social workers, as
appropriate, in order to build effective capacities to
eradicate child pornography;
(e) Strengthen advocacy and rights-based aware-
ness-raising programmes directed at eliminating all
forms of violence and discrimination against girls by
engaging girls and boys, parents and families, local
community, political, religious and traditional leaders and educational institutions, and provide adequate financial support to efforts at both national
and local levels to change behaviour, stereotyped
attitudes and harmful practices;
(k) Ensure that follow-up to and implementation of rele-
vant resolutions and, where appropriate, the relevant
recommendations contained in the United Nations
study on violence against children and the in-depth
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