• Conduct awareness-raising campaigns and gender
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training targeted at law enforcement and justice
system officials with regard to the rights of children, giving special attention to the girl child;
The Commission on the Status of Women
• Eliminate traditional and customary practices that
Reaffirms the Beijing Platform for Action adopted
by the Fourth World Conference on Women,
notably chapter IV.L on the girl child, the Vienna
Declaration and Programme of Action adopted
by the World Conference on Human Rights, the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination against Women, and the
Convention on the Rights of the Child,
constitute son-preference through awareness-raising campaigns and gender training;
• Recognize and promote the contribution of girls
and boys to development;
• Promote non-discriminatory treatment of girls and
boys in the family and, in this regard, adopt measures to ensure equal access by girls and boys to
food, education and health.
Proposes, in order to accelerate the implementation
of the strategic objectives of chapter IV.L:
Actions to be taken by States parties to the
Convention on the Rights of the Child and the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women:
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romotion and protection of the human
rights of the girl child
Actions to be taken by Governments, local
authorities, non governmental organizations and
civil society and the United Nations system, as
appropriate:
• Include comprehensive information and sex- and
age-disaggregated data on children in their reports
to the Committee on the Rights of the Child and
the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
against Women, and invite the treaty monitoring
bodies to pay special attention to the rights of the
girl child while assessing those reports;
• Promote further the enjoyment by children,
particularly the girl child, of their human rights,
by the elaboration of an optional protocol to the
Convention on the Rights of the Child on measures
for the prevention and eradication of the sale of
children, child prostitution and pornography;
• Ensure that any reservations to the Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women and the Convention on the Rights of
the Child are formulated as precisely and as narrowly
as possible and that they are not incompatible with
the object and purpose of those conventions, and
review the reservations to the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women and the Convention on the Rights of the
Child with a view to withdrawing them.
• Organize community-based actions, including the
setting up of local committees to create awareness
of, and monitor conformity with, the Convention
on the Rights of the Child and the Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women, with a special focus on the situation of adolescent girls and young mothers;
• Conduct awareness-raising campaigns designed to
mobilize communities, including community leaders,
religious organizations, parents and other family
members, especially male family members, with
regard to the rights of the child, giving special emphasis to the girl child, and monitor changes in attitudes;
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