Conference on Population and Development,
the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome
documents of their review conferences, including
through the development and enforcement of policies and legal frameworks and the strengthening
of health systems that make universally accessible
and available quality comprehensive sexual and
reproductive health-care services, commodities, information and education, including, inter alia, safe
and effective methods of modern contraception,
emergency contraception, prevention programmes
for adolescent pregnancy, maternal health care
such as skilled birth attendance and emergency
obstetric care, which will reduce obstetric fistula
and other complications of pregnancy and delivery,
safe abortion where such services are permitted
by national law, and prevention and treatment of
reproductive tract infections, sexually transmitted
infections, HIV and reproductive cancers, recognizing that human rights include the right to have
control over and decide freely and responsibly on
matters related to their sexuality, including sexual
and reproductive health, free from coercion, discrimination and violence;
exercise due diligence, investigate, prosecute and
punish the perpetrators of violence against women
and girls and end impunity, and provide protection
as well as universal access to comprehensive social,
health and legal services for all victims and survivors, to ensure their full recovery and reintegration
into society and, bearing in mind the importance
for all women and girls to live free from violence,
to address the structural and underlying causes of
violence against women and girls through enhanced
prevention measures, research and strengthened
coordination and monitoring and evaluation;
(m) Eliminate all harmful practices, including child, early
and forced marriage and female genital mutilation,
by reviewing, adopting, enacting and enforcing
laws and regulations that prohibit such practices,
creating awareness around their harmful health
consequences and generating social support for the
enforcement of these laws;
(n) Strengthen bilateral, regional and international
cooperation for the full and effective implementation of the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol to
Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,
Especially Women and Children supplementing the
United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime including by implementing the
United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat
Trafficking in Persons, and take appropriate measures
to raise public awareness of the issue of trafficking
in persons, particularly women and girls, including
the factors that make women and girls vulnerable to
trafficking; to discourage, with a view to eliminating,
the demand that fosters all forms of exploitation,
including sexual exploitation and forced labour; to
review and adopt laws, regulations and penalties
necessary to deal with this issue and publicize them
to emphasize that trafficking is a serious crime; and
encourage media providers, including Internet service providers, to adopt or strengthen self-regulatory
measures to promote the responsible use of media,
particularly the Internet, with a view to eliminating
the exploitation of women and children;
(p) Ensure universal access to comprehensive pre-
vention, affordable treatment, care and support
services for HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted
infections, free of stigma and discrimination, with
a gender perspective, and provide comprehensive
information, voluntary counselling and testing
to young women and adolescent girls living and
affected with HIV and AIDS;
(q) Develop, implement and support national preven-
tion, care and treatment strategies to effectively
address obstetric fistula using a multisectoral, multidisciplinary, comprehensive and integrated approach
in order to bring about lasting solutions;
(r) Encourage partnerships for global health to support
Member States in carrying out their responsibilities,
including in moving towards universal health coverage, which implies that all people, including women
and girls, have access, without discrimination, to
nationally determined sets of the promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative basic
health services, needed and essential, safe, affordable, effective and quality medicines and vaccines,
especially through the promotion of primary health
(o) Ensure the promotion and protection of the human
rights of all women and their sexual and reproductive health, and reproductive rights in accordance
with the Programme of Action of the International
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