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14. Urges States to take appropriate measures to address the needs of orphan
girls by implementing national policies and strategies to build and strengthen
governmental, family and community capacities to provide a supportive
environment for orphans and girls and boys infected with and affected by
HIV/AIDS, including by providing appropriate counselling and psychosocial
support, and ensuring their enrolment in school and access to shelter, good nutrition
and health and social services on an equal basis with other children; and to protect
orphans and vulnerable children from all forms of abuse, violence, exploitation,
discrimination, trafficking and loss of inheritance;
15. Also urges States to take special measures for the protection of girls
affected by armed conflicts and by post-conflict situations and in particular to
protect them from sexually transmitted diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, gender-based
violence, including rape and sexual abuse, and sexual exploitation, torture,
abduction and forced labour, paying special attention to refugee and displaced girls,
and to take into account the special needs of girls affected by armed conflicts in the
delivery of humanitarian assistance and disarmament, demobilization, rehabilitation
assistance and reintegration processes;
16. Deplores all the cases of sexual exploitation and abuse of women and
children, especially girls, in humanitarian crises, including those cases involving
humanitarian workers and peacekeepers;
17. Urges all States and the international community to respect, protect and
promote the rights of the child, taking into account the particular vulnerabilities of
the girl child in pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict situations, and calls for
special initiatives designed to address all of the rights and needs of girls affected by
armed conflicts;
18. Calls upon Governments, civil society, including the media, and nongovernmental organizations to promote human rights education and the full respect
for and 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;
19. Calls upon States and international and non-governmental organizations
to mobilize all necessary resources, support and efforts to realize the goals, strategic
objectives and actions set out in the Beijing Platform for Action and the further
actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for
Action;
20. Requests the Secretary-General, as Chairman of the United Nations
System Chief Executives Board for 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 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;
21. Requests all human rights treaty bodies, special procedures and other
human rights mechanisms of the Commission on Human Rights and its
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