against girls and of early motherhood, and establish innovative mechanisms for
encouraging protection of and respect for the rights of the girl child;
14. Encourages Governments, within their legal framework, to eliminate all
policies and practices of discrimination and coercion related to employment,
marriage, divorce, inheritance, maternity, child-rearing, and custody of
children;
15. Also encourages Governments to develop educational curricula that
eliminate gender stereotypes and reflect a commitment to full gender equality;
16. Urges Governments and non-governmental organizations to encourage men
to be involved, as partners and fathers, in safe and responsible parenthood and
family planning, emphasizing men’s shared responsibilities, inter alia, in the
areas of prenatal and maternal health, prevention of sexually transmitted
diseases, prevention of unwanted and high-risk pregnancies, child care,
education, health and nutrition and the promotion of the equal value of children
of both sexes;
17. Urges Governments to take steps so that children receive appropriate
financial support from parents by, inter alia, enforcing child support laws;
18. Urges Governments and non-governmental organizations to develop an
integrated approach to the special nutritional, health, including reproductive
health, educational and social needs of girls and young women;
19. Also urges Governments and non-governmental organizations to involve
women in the design of health-care programmes, including reproductive health,
and in the planning, management, delivery and evaluation of services, and to
take positive steps to train and employ more women at all levels of the
health-care delivery system;
20. Further urges Governments and non-governmental organizations to
support women in their aim to expand and strengthen campaigns to make women
aware of the full range of their legal rights, including their rights within the
family, and to help women organize to achieve those rights.
Resolution 38/7.
Violence against women migrant workers*
The Commission on the Status of Women,
Recalling the Charter of the United Nations which reaffirms faith in human
rights and fundamental freedoms, in the dignity and worth of the human person
and in the equal rights of men and women,
Reaffirming the principles set forth in the Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, adopted by the General Assembly in
its resolution 34/180 of 18 December 1979,
Recalling General Assembly resolutions 47/96 of 16 December 1992 and 48/110
of 20 December 1993 on violence against women migrant workers,
*
For the discussion, see chap. IV.
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