A/RES/69/156
Child, early and forced marriage
5.
Urges Governments to promote and protect the human rights of all
women, including their right to have control over and decide freely and responsibly
on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free
of coercion, discrimination and violence, and to adopt and accelerate the
implementation of laws, policies and programmes that protect and enable the
enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including reproductive
rights, in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference
on Population and Development,8 the Beijing Platform for Action14 and the outcome
documents of their review conferences;
6.
Encourages relevant United Nations entities and agencies to continue to
collaborate with and support Member States in developing and implementing
strategies and policies at the national, regional and international levels to prevent
and eliminate child, early and forced marriage, as well as to support already married
girls, adolescents and women;
7.
Recalls the inclusion of a target on eliminating all harmful practices,
such as child, early and forced marriage, in the outcome document of the Open
Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, 15 recognizes child, early and
forced marriage as a barrier to development and the full realization of women’s and
girls’ human rights, and recognizes the need to give due consideration to the
inclusion of the target in the post-2015 development agenda in order to help to
ensure progress towards the elimination of child, early and forced marriage;
8.
Requests the Secretary-General to submit a comprehensive report to the
General Assembly, before the end of its seventieth session, on progress towards
ending child, early and forced marriage worldwide since the issuance of the report
of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of 2 April 2014,12 with
particular emphasis on high-prevalence countries, best practices for programmes
aimed at ending the practice and supporting already married women and girls, gaps
in research and implementation and legal reforms and policies related to this matter,
using information provided by Member States, United Nations bodies, agencies,
funds and programmes, civil society and other relevant stakeholders;
9.
Decides to consider the issue of child, early and forced marriage at its
seventy-first session under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of the rights
of children”, taking into account the multifaceted and worldwide nature of the issue
of child, early and forced marriage.
73rd plenary meeting
18 December 2014
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14
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.
15
See A/68/970 and Corr.1.
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