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Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons 24 and the activities outlined therein, with
full respect for the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,
Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime; 25
32. Reaffirms that everyone has a right to a nationality as enshrined in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 26 and in this regard calls upon States that have
not yet done so to consider adopting and implementing nationality legislation consistent
with their applicable obligations under international law and to facilitate the acquisition
of nationality by and ensure free or low-cost birth registration for children born on their
territories or their nationals abroad who would otherwise be stateless;
33. Calls upon Governments, civil society, including the media, and
non-governmental organizations to promote human rights education and full respect
for and the enjoyment of the human rights of the girl child, inter alia, through the
translation, production and dissemination of age-appropriate and gender-sensitive
information material on those rights to all sectors of society, in particular to children;
34. Requests the Secretary-General, as Chair of the United Nations System
Chief Executives Board for Coordination, to ensure that all organi zations 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 Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
(UN-Women), the World Health Organization, the Joint United Nations Programme
on HIV/AIDS, the United Nations Development Programme, the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Labour Organization,
take into account the rights and the particular needs of the girl child in country
programmes of cooperation in accordance with national priorities, including through
the United Nations Development Assistance Framework;
35. Requests all human rights treaty bodies and the human rights mechanisms
of the Human Rights Council, including the special procedures, to adopt regularly
and systematically a gender perspective in the implementation of th eir mandates and
to include in their reports information on the qualitative analysis of violations of the
human rights of women and girls, and encourages the strengthening of cooperation
and coordination in that regard;
36. Requests States to ensure that, in all policies and programmes designed to
provide comprehensive HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support,
particular attention and support are given to the girl child at risk, living with or
affected by HIV, including pregnant girls and young and adolescent mothers and girls
with disabilities, and child heads of households, with a view to achieving Sustainable
Development Goal 3, in particular the target of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030;
37. Invites States to promote initiatives aimed at reducing the prices of
antiretroviral drugs, especially second-line drugs, available to the girl child, including
bilateral and private sector initiatives as well as initiatives on a voluntary basis taken
by groups of States, including those based on innovative financing mechanisms that
contribute to the mobilization of resources for social development, including those
that aim to provide further access to drugs at affordable prices to developing countries
on a sustainable and predictable basis, and in this regard takes note of the
International Drug Purchase Facility, UNITAID;
38. Calls upon all States to integrate food and nutritional support with the goal
that children, especially girl children, have access at all times to sufficient, safe and
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