E/2007/27
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13.
The Commission urges Governments to take the following actions:
Norms and policies
(a) Consider ratifying or acceding to, as a particular matter of priority,
the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and their
respective Optional Protocols, limit the extent of any reservations that they
lodge and regularly review such reservations with a view to withdrawing them
so as to ensure that no reservation is incompatible with the object and purpose
of the relevant treaty; and implement them fully by, inter alia, putting in place
effective national legislation, policies and action plans;
(b) Consider ratifying or acceding to, as a matter of priority, the United
Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols
thereto, in particular the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking
in Persons, Especially Women and Children;
(c) Consider becoming a State Party to, as a matter of priority, and
thereafter ensure the full implementation of International Labour Organization
(ILO) Conventions 138 and 182 on, respectively, the minimum age for
employment, and eliminating the worst forms of child labour, and establish
appropriate penalties and sanctions to ensure effective enforcement;
(d) Intensify efforts to fully implement the Beijing Platform for Action,
the outcome documents of the five-year review of the Beijing Platform for
Action, the World Summit for Children and the Millennium Development
Goals;
(e) Exercise leadership to end all forms of violence against girls and
support advocacy in this regard at all levels, including at the local, national,
regional and international levels, and by all sectors, especially by political,
community and religious leaders, as well as the public and private sectors, the
media and civil society;
(f) Review and, where appropriate, revise, amend or abolish all laws,
regulations, policies, practices and customs that discriminate against women or
the girl child or have a discriminatory impact on women or the girl child, and
ensure that provisions of multiple legal systems, where they exist, comply with
international human rights obligations, commitments and principles, including
the principle of non-discrimination;
(g) Condemn all forms of discrimination and violence against girls and
enact and/or strengthen legislation on preventing and eliminating all forms of
discrimination and violence against girls, develop policies that ensure its full
and effective implementation, and put in place adequate national and local
mechanisms to monitor compliance with these laws and policies, with the
active participation of civil society, where appropriate;
(h) Develop policies and programmes to sensitize magistrates, judges,
lawyers, prosecutors and persons who work with victims, in order to ensure
that judicial proceedings are adequate to the needs and the development of the
girl child and that a gender perspective is applied to such proceedings;
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