The Girl Child, G.A. res. 50/154, U.N. Doc. A/RES/50/154 (1995)


                
 
    The General Assembly,
 
    Recalling the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action of the
Fourth World Conference on Women, the Copenhagen Declaration on Social
Development and the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social
Development, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on
Population and Development, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of
the World Conference on Human Rights, Agenda 21 adopted by the United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development, the Plan of Action for Implementing
the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children
in the 1990s of the World Summit for Children, the World Declaration on
Education for All and the Framework for Action to Meet Basic Learning Needs
adopted at the World Conference on Education for All:  Meeting Basic Learning
Needs,
 
    Recalling also that discrimination against the girl child and the
violation of the rights of the girl child was identified as a critical area of
concern in the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women in
the achievement of equality, development and peace for women, and that the
advancement and empowerment of women throughout their life-cycle must begin
with the girl child,
 
    Noting with appreciation that the World Summit for Children sensitized the
entire world to the plight of children,
 
    Reaffirming the equal rights of women and men as enshrined in the Preamble
to the Charter of the United Nations, and recalling the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on
the Rights of the Child,
 
    1.    Urges all States to eliminate all forms of discrimination against
the girl child and to eliminate the violation of the human rights of all
children, paying particular attention to the obstacles faced by the girl
child;
 
    2.    Also urges all States, international organizations as well as
non-governmental organizations, individually and collectively to set goals and
to develop and implement gender-sensitive strategies to address the needs of
children, in particular those of girls, in accordance with the Convention on
the Rights of the Child and the goals, strategic objectives and actions
contained in the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women;
 
    3.    Requests all States, international organizations as well as
non-governmental organizations to increase awareness of the potential of the
girl child and to promote the participation of girls and young women, on an
equal basis and as partners with boys and young men, in social, economic and
political life and in the development of strategies and in the implementation
of actions aimed at achieving gender equality, development and peace;
 
    4.    Calls upon Member States and organizations and bodies of the United
Nations system, in particular, the United Nations Children's Fund, the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health
Organization, to take into account the rights and the particular needs of the
girl child, especially in education, health and nutrition, and to eliminate
negative cultural attitudes and practices against the girl child;
 
    5.    Urges all States to eliminate all forms of violence against
children, in particular the girl child;
 
    6.    Calls upon States, international organizations as well as
non-governmental organizations to help mobilize the necessary financial
resources and political support to achieve goals, strategies and actions
relating to the survival, development and protection of the girl child in all
programmes for children;
 
    7.    Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the goals and actions
relating to the girl child receive full attention in the implementation of the
Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women through the work
of all organizations and bodies of the United Nations system;
 
    8.    Also requests the Secretary-General, as Chairman of the
Administrative Committee on Coordination, to urge all the organizations and
bodies of the United Nations system focusing on the advancement of women to
make commitments to goals and actions relating to the girl child in the
revision and implementation of the system-wide medium-term plan for the
advancement of women for the period 1996-2001, as well as in the medium-term
plan for the period 1998-2002.
      

 

 



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