Further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 2000, para. 69e
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Develop, adopt and fully implement laws and other measures, as appropriate, such as policies and educational programmes, to eradicate harmful customary or traditional practices, including female genital mutilation, early and forced marriage and so-called honour crimes, which are violations of the human rights of women and girls and obstacles to the full enjoyment by women of their human rights and fundamental freedoms, and intensify efforts, in cooperation with local women's groups, to raise collective and individual awareness on how these harmful traditional or customary practices violate women's human rights;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Declaration / Confererence outcome document
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Education
Harmful Practices
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
Girls
Women
Year
2000
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Other
Reference
Further actions and initiatives to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (2000), A/RES/S-23/3, para. 69e.