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25. Recognizes that a considerable number of girl children are particularly
vulnerable, including orphans, children living on the street, internally displaced and
refugee children, children affected by trafficking and sexual and economic
exploitation, children living with HIV and AIDS, and children who are incarcerated
who live without parental support, and therefore urges States, with the support of
the international community, where relevant, to take appropriate measures to
address the needs of such children by implementing national policies and strategies
to build and strengthen governmental, community and family capacities to provide a
supportive environment for such children, including by providing appropriate
counselling and psychosocial support, and ensuring their enrolment in school and
access to shelter, good nutrition and health and social services on an equal basis
with other children;
26. Encourages States to promote actions, including through bilateral and
multilateral technical cooperation and financial assistance, for the social
reintegration of children in difficult situations, in particular girls, considering, inter
alia, views, skills and capacities that those children have developed in the conditions
in which they lived and, where appropriate, with their meaningful participation;
27. Urges all States and the international community to respect, promote and
protect the rights of the girl child, taking into account the particular vulnerabilities
of the girl child in pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict situations, and further
urges States to take special measures for the protection of girls, in particular to
protect them from sexually transmitted infections, including HIV infection,
gender-based violence, including rape, sexual abuse and sexual exploitation, torture,
abduction and forced labour, paying special attention to refugee and displaced girls,
and to take into account their special needs in the delivery of humanitarian
assistance and disarmament, demobilization, rehabilitation assistance and
reintegration processes;
28. Deplores all cases of sexual exploitation and abuse of women and
children, especially girls, in humanitarian crises, including those cases involving
humanitarian workers and peacekeepers, and urges States to take effective measures
to address gender-based violence in humanitarian emergencies and to make all
possible efforts to ensure that their laws and institutions are adequate to prevent,
promptly investigate and prosecute acts of gender-based violence;
29. Also deplores all acts of sexual exploitation, abuse of and trafficking in
women and children by military, police and civilian personnel involved in United
Nations operations, welcomes the efforts undertaken by United Nations agencies
and peacekeeping operations to implement a zero-tolerance policy in this regard,
and requests the Secretary-General and personnel-contributing countries to continue
to take all appropriate action necessary to combat these abuses by such personnel,
including through the full implementation without delay of those measures adopted
in the relevant General Assembly resolutions based on recommendations of the
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30. Calls upon Member States to devise, enforce and strengthen effective
child- and youth-sensitive measures to combat, eliminate and prosecute all forms of
trafficking in women and girls, including for sexual and economic exploitation, as
part of a comprehensive anti-trafficking strategy within wider efforts to eliminate all
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 19 (A/59/19/Rev.1).