The girl child 2009, para. 12

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Recognizing that chronic poverty remains the single biggest obstacle to meeting the needs of and promoting and protecting the rights of children and that urgent national and international action is therefore required to eliminate it, and noting that the burden of the global financial and economic crisis, the energy crisis, the food crisis and the continuing food insecurity as a result of various factors is felt directly by households, especially those depending on income from the informal sector, and particularly by women and girls,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Poverty
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2009
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
UNGA resolution, The girl child (2009), A/RES/64/145, PP 12.
Paragraph info
PP
Paragraph number
12