E/2007/27 E/CN.6/2007/9 16. Calls upon the international community, the relevant United Nations entities and civil society to actively support, through the allocation of appropriate financial resources, targeted, innovative programmes and to disseminate best practices that address the needs and priorities of girls in vulnerable situations, such as that of female genital mutilation, who have difficulties accessing services and programmes; 17. Encourages all decision makers, at all levels, with responsibilities for policies, legislation, programmes and allocation of public resources to play leadership roles in eliminating female genital mutilation; 18. Encourages men and boys to continue to take positive initiatives and to work in partnership with women and girls to combat violence against women and girls, in particular female genital mutilation, through networks, peer programmes, information campaigns and training programmes; 19. Requests the Secretary-General, to ensure that all relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, in particular the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, the United Nations Population Fund, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and the World Health Organization, individually and collectively, take into account the protection and promotion of the rights of girls against female genital mutilation in their country programmes, as appropriate, and in accordance with national priorities, in order to further strengthen their efforts in this regard; 20. Also requests the Secretary-General to report to the fifty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women on the implementation of the present resolution by using information provided by Member States and verifiable information provided by organizations and bodies of the United Nations system and by non-governmental organizations, with a view to assessing the impact of the present resolution on the well-being of girls. Resolution 51/3 Forced marriage of the girl child The Commission on the Status of Women, Reaffirming the obligation of all States to promote and protect the human rights of women, including girls, and reaffirming relevant human rights instruments in this regard, in particular the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women20 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child,9 Reaffirming also the Beijing Declaration13 and Platform for Action,3 the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly4 and the declaration adopted by the Commission on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the fourth World Conference on Women, 27 Recognizing that all forms of violence against women and girls impede the social and economic development of communities and States, as well as the __________________ 27 28 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 27 and corrigendum (E/2005/27 and Corr.1), chap. I.A. 07-28248