A/RES/68/146
The girl child
country programmes of cooperation in accordance with national priorities, including
through the United Nations Development Assistance Framework;
38. 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;
39. 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 are given to the girl child at risk, living with or
affected by HIV, including pregnant girls and young and adolescent mothers and
girls with disabilities, and child heads of households, with a view to achieving
Millennium Development Goal 6, in particular to halt and begin to reverse by 2015
the spread of HIV;
40. 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;
41. 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;
42. Calls upon States to ensure that social protection programmes, including
HIV-sensitive programmes, are provided to orphans and other vulnerable children,
with particular attention to addressing the needs and vulnerabilities of girl children
and protecting their rights;
43. Urges States and the international community to increase resources at all
levels, particularly in the education and health sectors, so as to enable young people,
especially girls, to gain the knowledge, attitudes and life skills that they need to
overcome their challenges, including the prevention of HIV infection and early
pregnancy, and to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental
health, including sexual and reproductive health;
44. Stresses the need to strengthen the commitment of States and the United
Nations system in their responsibility to mainstream the promotion and protection of
the rights of the child, in particular the girl child, into the development agenda at the
national, regional and international levels, including in the elaboration of the
post-2015 development agenda;
45. Urges States, the international community, relevant United Nations
entities, civil society and international financial institutions to continue to actively
support, through the allocation of financial resources and technical assistance,
efforts to address the situation of child-headed households;
46. Calls upon States and the international community to create an
environment in which the well-being of the girl child is ensured, inter alia, by
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