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child, leaving her unable to enjoy her rights, to reach her full potential and to
participate as a full member of society;
13. Urges States to ensure that the applicable requirements of the
International Labour Organization for the employment of girls and boys are
respected and effectively enforced and that girls who are employed have equal
access to decent work, and equal payment and remuneration, are protected from
economic exploitation, discrimination, sexual harassment, violence and abuse in the
workplace, are aware of their rights and have access to formal and non-formal
education, skills development and vocational training, and also urges States to
develop gender-sensitive measures, including national action plans, where
appropriate, to eliminate the worst forms of child labour, including commercial
sexual exploitation, slavery-like practices, forced and bonded labour, trafficking and
hazardous forms of child labour;
14. Recognizes the importance of strengthening health systems, in particular
primary health care and the need to integrate the HIV response into it, and notes that
weak health systems, which already face many challenges, including a lack of
trained health workers and insufficient retention of skilled health workers, are
among the biggest barriers to accessing health care;
15. Calls upon States, with the support of relevant stakeholders including the
private sector, civil society, non-governmental organizations and community-based
organizations, as appropriate, to take all measures necessary to ensure the right of
girls to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, including sexual
and reproductive health, and to develop sustainable health systems and social
services;
16. Urges all States to promote gender equality and equal access to basic
social services, such as education, nutrition, birth registration, health care, including
sexual and reproductive health, vaccinations and protection from diseases
representing the major causes of mortality, including non-communicable diseases,
and to mainstream a gender perspective in all development policies and programmes,
including those relating to children as well as those specific to the girl child;
17. Calls upon States, with the support of international organizations and
civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and the media, to take
appropriate measures to address the root factors of child and forced marriages,
including by undertaking educational activities to raise awareness regarding the
negative aspects of such practices;
18. Urges all States to enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage
is entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses, and, in
addition, to enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of
consent and the minimum age for marriage and raise the minimum age for marriage
where necessary, and to develop and implement comprehensive policies, plans of
action and programmes for the survival, protection, development and advancement
of the girl child in order to promote and protect the full enjoyment of her human
rights and to ensure equal opportunities for girls, including by making such plans an
integral part of her total development process;
19. Urges States to ensure that efforts to enact and implement legislation to
end child and forced marriages engage all stakeholders and agents of change and
ensure that the information on the legislation against the practice is well known and
generates social support for the enforcement of such laws and legislation;
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