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The Girl Child

            23.       Calls upon all States to take all necessary measures, including legal reforms where appropriate:

            (a)        To ensure the full and equal enjoyment by girls of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, to take effective actions against violations of those rights and freedoms, and to base programmes and policies on the rights of the child, taking into account the special situation of girls;

            (b)        To eliminate all forms of discrimination and violence against girls, including female infanticide and prenatal sex selection, rape, sexual abuse and harmful traditional or customary practices, including female genital mutilation, son preference, marriages without free and full consent of the intending spouses, early marriages and forced marriages and forced sterilization, including addressing their root causes, by enacting and enforcing legislation and, where appropriate, formulating comprehensive, multidisciplinary and coordinated national plans, programmes or strategies protecting girls;

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A/HRC/7/L.34

26 March 2008

Original:  ENGLISH


HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Seventh session
Agenda item 3

PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL,
political, economic, social and cultural rights
                   including the right to development

Albania*, Andorra*, Argentina*, Austria*, Belgium*, Bolivia, Brazil,
Bulgaria
*, Canada, Chile*, Colombia*, Costa Rica*, Croatia*, Cuba,
Cyprus
*, Czech Republic*, Denmark*, Dominican Republic*, Ecuador*,
El Salvador
*, Estonia*, Finland*, France, Germany, Greece*, Guatemala,
Honduras
*, Hungary*, Ireland*, Israel*, Italy, Latvia*, Lithuania*,
Luxembourg
*, Maldives*, Malta*, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua,
Norway
*, Panama*, Paraguay*, Peru, Poland*, Portugal*, Romania,
Slovakia
*, Slovenia, Spain*, Sweden*, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia*, Timor-Leste*, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland, Uruguay, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
*: 
                                                       draft resolution

7/…  Rights of the Child







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