Child, early and forced marriage A/RES/79/158 12. Urges Governments, while addressing child, early and forced marriage, to confront family poverty and social exclusion through investing in family -friendly and family-oriented policies addressing the multidimensional aspects of poverty and aimed at achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, including by extending coverage of social protection, inter alia, through nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all girls, focusing on early childhood, primary and secondary education and training for future employment, and on health, social security, livelihoods and social cohesion, paying special attention to age- and gender-responsive social protection measures, child allowances for parents and guidance to build their positive parenting knowledge and skills, pension benefits for older persons, and protecting, supporting and empowering children, including girls, in child-headed households; 13. Also urges Governments, with the collaboration of relevant stakeholders, to tackle poverty, including the feminization of poverty, the lack of economic opportunities for women throughout their life course and other entrenched economic incentives that act as drivers of child, early and forced marriage, including by ensuring the rights of all women and girls to inheritance and property, without discrimination of any kind, including in relation to marital status, their equal access with men and boys to social protection, childcare services and direct financial services, to support the right of girls to receive and continue their education, including through their continued enrolment in school during pregnancy and re -enrolment in school after childbirth, to develop livelihood opportunities through access to inclusive and equitable quality education, including technical and vocational education, and training and life skills education, including entrepreneurship and financial and digital literacy, and to promote freedom of movement, women’s equal access to full and productive employment and decent work, including waged and salaried work, as well as equal political participation and rights to inherit and own land; 14. Urges Member States to ensure access to social services, justice and education for women who were married in childhood and for girls who are married, are pregnant or are mothers; 15. Calls upon States to respect, protect, promote and fulfil the human rights of all already married girls and women affected by this harmful practice, to eliminate discrimination and promote women’s and girls’ equality in law and in practice, including in all aspects of marriage and its dissolution, and to address their specific needs, such as through targeted and tailored programmes, including social work programmes, that provide social services to protect them from sexual and genderbased violence, increase their decision-making power, make it easier for them to seek formal employment, increase their economic independence and financial literacy, access quality education, skills development programmes and lifelong learning opportunities, ensure their equal access to healthcare services and information, and decrease their social isolation, including by establishing or strengthening childcare services and working with communities to change discriminatory social norms; 16. Also calls upon States to promote and protect the right of women and girls to equal access to education through enhanced emphasis on free and quality primary and secondary education, including catch-up and literacy education for those who have not received formal education, have left school early or were forced to leave school, including because of marriage, pregnancy, childbirth and/or childcare responsibilities, which empowers young women and girls to make informed decisions about their lives, employment, economic opportunities and health, including through scientifically accurate and age-appropriate comprehensive education that is relevant to cultural contexts, that provides adolescent girls and boys and young women and men, in and out of school, consistent with their evolving capacities, and with appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians, with the best 24-24151 9/15