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of liberty, whether occurring in public or private life, and in particular
physical, sexual, and psychological violence, wherever it occurs, within or
outside the family;
(c) Provide age-appropriate and gender-sensitive services to girls
subjected to all forms of gender-based violence, including comprehensive
programmes for their physical, psychological and social recovery, such as
health, counselling and legal services, helplines and shelters, and ensure
adequate human, material and financial resources for these services;
(d) Condemn violence against women and girls and refrain from
invoking any custom, tradition or religious consideration to avoid their
obligations with respect to its elimination, and hold up to public scrutiny and
eliminate those attitudes that foster, justify, or tolerate violence;
(e) Strengthen
advocacy
and
rights-based
awareness-raising
programmes directed at eliminating all forms of violence and discrimination
against girls by engaging girls and boys, parents and families, local
community, political, religious and traditional leaders and educational
institutions, and provide adequate financial support to efforts at both national
and local levels to change behaviour, stereotyped attitudes and harmful
practices;
(f) Create and support, as appropriate, community-based networks to
advocate against all forms of violence against girls, develop programmes to
sensitize and train health workers and other professionals working with and for
the girl child to the issue, including on the early detection of violence, and
integrate comprehensive measures and incentives that promote the full
enjoyment of human rights and equality by the girl child into national
development strategies;
(g) Encourage and support men and boys to take an active part in the
prevention and elimination of all forms of violence, and encourage increased
understanding among men and boys of how violence harms girls, boys, women
and men and undermines gender equality;
(h) Eliminate all forms of discrimination against the girl child and the
root causes of son preference, which results in harmful and unethical practices
regarding female infanticide and prenatal sex selection, which may have
significant repercussions on society as a whole;
(i) Review, strengthen or adopt legislation or policies to eradicate child
pornography, including child pornography transmitted through the media and
ICTs, and related forms of exploitation of children, and strengthen efforts to
combat the existence of a market that encourages child pornography, including
the prosecution of those who sexually exploit or abuse children;
(j) Develop and strengthen partnerships involving Governments, civil
society, the media and business sectors and other relevant actors in the
elimination of child pornography, including child pornography transmitted
through the media and ICTs, in the protection of the girl child from related
abuses and exploitation, and in training, inter alia, law enforcers, prosecutors,
judges and social workers, as appropriate, in order to build effective capacities
to eradicate child pornography;
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