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(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;
(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 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;
(p) Ensure universal access to comprehensive prevention, 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 prevention, care and
treatment strategies to effectively address obstetric fistula using a
multisectoral, multidisciplinary, comprehensive and integrated approach in
order to bring about lasting solutions;
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