incorporation in the databases and information systems for
sustainable development;
(ii)
The impact on women of environmental and natural resource
degradation, deriving from, inter alia, unsustainable production
and consumption patterns, drought, poor quality water, global
warming, desertification, sealevel rise, hazardous waste, natural
disasters, toxic chemicals and pesticide residues, radioactive
waste, armed conflicts and its consequences;
(iii)
Analysis of the structural links between gender relations,
environment and development, with special emphasis on particular
sectors, such as agriculture, industry, fisheries, forestry,
environmental health, biological diversity, climate, water
resources and sanitation;
(iv)
(v)
Measures to develop and include environmental, economic,
cultural, social and gender-sensitive analyses as an essential
step in the development and monitoring of programmes and
policies;
Programmes to create rural and urban training, research and
resource centres that will disseminate environmentally sound
technologies to women;
(c)
Ensure the full compliance with relevant international obligations,
including where relevant, the Basel Convention and other conventions
relating to the transboundary movements of hazardous wastes (which
include toxic wastes) and the Code of Practice of the International
Atomic Energy Agency relating to the movement of radioactive waste;
enact and enforce regulations for environmentally sound management
related to safe storage and movements; consider taking action towards
the prohibition of those movements that are unsafe and insecure;
ensure the strict control and management of hazardous wastes and
radioactive waste, in accordance with relevant international and
regional obligations and eliminate the exportation of such wastes to
countries that, individually or through international agreements,
prohibit their importation;
(d)
Promote coordination within and among institutions to implement the
Platform for Action and chapter 24 of Agenda 21 by, inter alia,
requesting the Commission on Sustainable Development, through the
Economic and Social Council, to seek input from the Commission on the
Status of Women when reviewing the implementation of Agenda 21 with
regard to women and the environment.
L.
The girl child
259. The Convention on the Rights of the Child recognizes that "States Parties
shall respect and ensure the rights set forth in the present Convention to each
child within their jurisdiction without discrimination of any kind, irrespective
of the child’s or his or her parent’s or legal guardian’s race, colour, sex,
language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social
origin, property, disability, birth or status" (art. 2, para. 1). 11/ However,
in many countries available indicators show that the girl child is discriminated
against from the earliest stages of life, through her childhood and into
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