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(f) To take measures to increase awareness of the potential of the girl child and to promote gendersensitive socialization of boys and girls from early childhood, with the aim of achieving gender equality,
development and peace within the family and the community;
(g) To ensure the equal participation of girls and young women on the basis of non-discrimination and
as partners with boys and young men in social, economic and political life and in the development of
strategies and the implementation of action aimed at achieving gender equality, development and peace;
(h) To strengthen and reorient health education and health services, in particular primary health-care
programmes, including in sexual and reproductive health, and to design quality health programmes that meet
the physical and mental needs of girls and attend to the needs of young expectant and nursing mothers;
(i) To make information and counselling widely available to adolescent girls and boys, especially on
human relationships, reproductive and sexual health, sexually transmitted diseases and adolescent pregnancy,
in a manner that is confidential and easily accessible, and to emphasize the equal responsibility of girls and
boys;
(j) To provide adequate infrastructure and support services to respond to the needs of the survivors of
violence against women and girls and to assist them towards full recovery and reintegration into society;
(k) To provide gender-sensitive training for personnel in the administration of justice, law enforcement
agencies, security, social and health-care services, schools and migration authorities and to develop guidelines
to ensure appropriate police and prosecutorial responses in cases of violence against women and girls;
7. Urges States to enact and enforce strictly laws to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the
free and full consent of the intending spouses, to enact and enforce strictly laws concerning the minimum
legal age of consent and the minimum age for marriage and to raise the minimum age for marriage where
necessary;
8. Also urges States to eliminate all barriers so as to enable girls, without exception, to develop their
full potential and skills through equal access to education and training;
9. Urges States, educational institutions and the United Nations system to provide gender-sensitive
training for school administrators, parents and all members of the school community;
10. Encourages States to consider ways and means to ensure the continuing education and training of
married women, pregnant women and young mothers and to protect them from discrimination;
11. Urges States to take special measures for the protection of children, in particular to protect girls
from rape and other forms of sexual abuse and gender-based violence in situations of armed conflict, paying
special attention to refugee and displaced girls and taking into account the special needs of the girl child in the
delivery of humanitarian assistance;
12. Urges States parties to fulfil the obligations they have undertaken under the Convention on the
Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women to
protect women and girls from all forms of violence, including domestic violence, sexual exploitation and
trafficking and child prostitution;
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