The girl child
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33. 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
Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations; 28
34. Urges Member States, the United Nations and other international,
regional and subregional organizations, as well as civil society, including
non-governmental organizations, the private sector and the media, to fully and
effectively implement the relevant provisions of the United Nations Global Plan of
Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons 29 and the activities outlined therein, and
expresses its view that it will, inter alia, contribute to the promotion of the rights of
girls, enhance cooperation and a better coordination of efforts in fighting trafficking
in persons and promote increased ratification and full implementation of the United
Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 30 and the Protocol to
Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and
Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime; 31
35. 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
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;
36. 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;
37. Requests the Secretary-General, as Chair 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 Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
(UN-Women), the World Health Organization, the Joint United Nations Programme
on HIV/AIDS, 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
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28
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 19 (A/59/19/Rev.1).
Resolution 64/293.
30
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2225, No. 39574.
31
Ibid., vol. 2237, No. 39574.
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