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13. Calls upon Governments to encourage efforts by civil society and non-governmental
organizations, including women's organizations, to establish community-based groups or local committees
which could assist with the safety and welfare of children;
14. Requests the Secretary-General, as Chairman of the Administrative Committee on 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 High Commissioner
for Human Rights, the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees, take into account the rights and the particular needs of the girl child,
especially in education, health and nutrition, and eliminate negative cultural attitudes and practices against
the girl child in the implementation of the outcomes of all recent global conferences, in particular the
Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women, and of the system-wide medium-term
plan for the advancement of women for the period 1996-2001;13
15. Calls upon the Commission on Human Rights, while considering, in accordance with agreed
conclusions 1996/1 of 26 July 1996 of the Economic and Social Council,14 its input to the Commission
on the Status of Women on ensuring women's equal enjoyment of their human rights, in particular those
relating to economic resources, to pay particular attention to all the human rights of the girl child;
16. Requests all human rights treaty bodies, special procedures and other human rights mechanisms
of the Commission on Human Rights and the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and
Protection of Minorities to regularly and systematically adopt a gender perspective in the implementation
of their mandates and to include in their reports information on and qualitative analysis of violations of
human rights of women and girls, and encourages the strengthening of cooperation and coordination in
that regard;
17. Calls upon States and international and non-governmental organizations to mobilize all necessary
resources, support and efforts to realize the goals, strategic objectives and actions set out in the Platform
for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women;
18. Calls upon all States, all relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations system and
non-governmental organizations to implement commitments to goals and actions relating to the girl child
and to report on initiatives and progress to the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-second
session, pursuant to the decision of the Commission to review, in 1998, the progress made in the
implementation of the provisions of the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women
relating to the girl child.
70th plenary meeting
12 December 1997
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E/1993/43, annex.
See A/51/3 (Part I), chap. III, sect. A. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly,
Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 3.