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(d) To support and expand nutrition and immunization programmes for
young mothers and their children;
(e) To address the needs of young married girls regarding family
planning and HIV/AIDS prevention, care, testing and treatment programmes;
(f) To establish shelters offering counselling and education services for
girls who escape forced and early marriages;
(g)
To support programmes to eliminate violence against women;
(h) To continue to study the links between forced and early marriage
and poverty; customs, traditions and practices; health; education; and
economic empowerment;
“4.
actors:
Invites non-governmental organizations and other civil society
(a) To advocate at the local, national, regional and international levels
on forced and early marriage, including through building and strengthening
networks among those who may call attention to its adverse consequences;
(b) To increase coordination and cooperation in addressing forced and
early marriage, and continue to present their observations and conclusions to
Governments;
“5. Requests the Secretary-General, in his report to the Commission on
the Status of Women at its fifty-second session, to include information on
forced and early marriage, and encourages Governments to cooperate with the
Secretary-General by providing precise data on the subject.”
70. At the same meeting, the representative of El Salvador made a statement and
joined in sponsoring the draft resolution.
71. At its 13th meeting, on 9 March, the Commission had before it a revised draft
resolution submitted by the United States, entitled “Forced and early marriage”
(E/CN.6/2007/L.4/Rev.1).
72. At the same meeting, the Commission was advised that the revised draft
resolution contained no programme budget implications.
73. Also at the same meeting, the representative of the United States presented
revisions to the draft resolution in an informal paper and announced that Côte
d’Ivoire and Panama had joined in sponsoring the revised draft resolution.
Subsequently, Angola, Benin, the Congo, Mali and Togo joined in sponsoring the
revised draft resolution.
74. At the 13th meeting, the representative of Germany (on behalf of the European
Union and Costa Rica, Iceland, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey
and Uruguay) proposed amendments to the text, as contained in the informal paper.
75. At the same meeting, the representative of the United States proposed
amendments to the amendments proposed by the representative of Germany.
76. Also at the same meeting, Cuba joined in sponsoring the amendments
proposed by the representative of Germany.
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