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6. Calls upon all States and international and non-governmental organizations, individually and
collectively, to implement further the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women, in
particular the strategic objectives relating to the girl child;
7. 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;
8. Also urges States to formulate comprehensive, multidisciplinary and coordinated national plans,
programmes or strategies to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, which should be widely
disseminated and should provide targets and timetables for implementation, as well as effective domestic
enforcement procedures through the establishment of monitoring mechanisms involving all parties
concerned, including consultations with women’s organizations, giving attention to the recommendations
relating to the girl child of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against
women, its causes and consequences;
9. Calls upon Governments, civil society, including the media, and non-governmental organizations
to promote human rights education and the full respect for and enjoyment of the human rights of the girl
child, inter alia, through the translation, production and dissemination of age-appropriate information
materials on those rights to all sectors of society, in particular to children;
10. 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 and the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees, take into account the rights and the particular needs of the girl child in the
country programme of cooperation in accordance with the national priorities, including through the United
Nations Development Assistance Framework;6
11. Requests all human rights treaty bodies, special procedures and other human rights mechanisms
of the Commission on Human Rights and its Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human
Rights7 to adopt regularly and systematically a gender perspective in the implementation of their mandates
and to include in their reports information on the qualitative analysis of violations of the human rights of
women and girls, and encourages the strengthening of cooperation and coordination in that regard;
12. 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;
6
See A/53/226, paras. 72–77, and A/53/226/Add.1, paras. 88–98.
7
Formerly known as the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities; see
E/1999/INF/2/Add.2. For the final text, see Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1999,
Supplement No. 1 (E/1999/99), decision 1999/256.
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