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6.
Encourages States to consider ways and means to ensure the
continuing education of married women, pregnant women and young mothers;
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, in line with
the recommendations of the expert appointed by the Secretary-General to study
the impact of armed conflict on children;
8.
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 trafficking and child prostitution;
9.
Urges States to implement measures to protect women and girls from
all forms of violence, in line with the recommendations of the Special
Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women, its
causes and consequences;12
10.
Requests all States to implement, on an urgent basis, measures to
protect children from all forms of sexual exploitation, including measures in
line with those outlined in the Declaration and Agenda for Action of the World
Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children;
11.
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 World Health Organization, the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights, the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees, take into account the rights and the
particular needs of the girl child, especially in education, health and
nutrition, and eliminate negative cultural attitudes and practices against the
girl child in the implementation of the Platform for Action of the Fourth
World Conference on Women and the system-wide medium-term plan for the
advancement of women for the period 1996-2001;13
12.
Calls upon the Commission on Human Rights, while considering, in
accordance with the agreed conclusions 1996/1 of the Economic and Social
Council,14 its input to the Commission on the Status of Women on ensuring
women's equal enjoyment of human rights relating to economic resources, to pay
particular attention to all the human rights of the girl child;
12
See E/CN.4/1996/53 and Add.1 and 2.
13
E/1993/43, annex.
14
See A/51/3 (Part I), chap. III, sect. A; see Official Records of the
General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 3.
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