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forms of violence against women and girls, including by taking effective measures
against the criminalization of girls who are victims of exploitation and ensuring that
girls who have been exploited receive access to the necessary psychosocial support;
31. Calls upon Governments, civil society, including the media, and
non-governmental organizations to promote human rights education and full respect
for and the enjoyment of the human rights of the girl child, inter alia, through the
translation, production and dissemination of age-appropriate and gender-sensitive
information material on those rights to all sectors of society, in particular to
children;
32. Requests the Secretary-General, as Chairman of the United Nations
System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, to ensure that all organizations
and bodies of the United Nations system, individually and collectively, in particular
the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Population
Fund, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, the World Health
Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Labour
Organization, take into account the rights and the particular needs of the girl child in
country programmes of cooperation in accordance with national priorities, including
through the United Nations Development Assistance Framework;
33. Requests all human rights treaty bodies and the human rights
mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, including the special procedures, to
adopt regularly and systematically a gender perspective in the implementation of
their mandates and to include in their reports information on the qualitative analysis
of violations of the human rights of women and girls, and encourages the
strengthening of cooperation and coordination in that regard;
34. Requests States to ensure that, in all policies and programmes designed
to provide comprehensive HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support,
particular attention and support is given to the girl child at risk, infected with or
affected by HIV, including pregnant girls and young and adolescent mothers, as part
of the global effort to scale up significantly towards achieving the goal of universal
access to comprehensive prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010;
35. Invites States to promote initiatives aimed at reducing the prices of
antiretroviral drugs, especially second-line drugs, available to the girl child,
including bilateral and private sector initiatives as well as initiatives on a voluntary
basis taken by groups of States, including those based on innovative financing
mechanisms that contribute to the mobilization of resources for social development,
including those that aim to provide further access to drugs at affordable prices to
developing countries on a sustainable and predictable basis, and in this regard takes
note of the International Drug Purchase Facility, UNITAID;
36. Calls upon all States to integrate food and nutritional support with the
goal that children, especially girl children, have access at all times to sufficient, safe
and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences, for an active
and healthy life, as part of a comprehensive response to HIV and AIDS and other
communicable diseases;
37. Urges States and the international community to increase resources at all
levels, particularly in the education and health sectors, to enable young people,
especially girls, to gain the knowledge, attitudes and skills that they need to prevent
HIV infection and early pregnancy and to enjoy the highest attainable standard of
physical and mental health, including sexual and reproductive health;
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