Emphasizing that increased access to education for young people, especially adolescent girls, including in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, as well as health care, hygiene and sanitation, dramatically lowers their vulnerability to preventable diseases and infections, in particular HIV and other sexually transmitted infections,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Education
Health
Social & Cultural Rights
Water & Sanitation
Person(s) affected
Adolescents
Children
Girls
Youth
Year
2013
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
UNGA resolution, The girl child (2013), A/RES/68/146, PP 32.