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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform/girl.htm">http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform/girl.htm</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.un-documents.net/beijingp.htm"><i><span style="color:#00001F;text-decoration:none">Beijing Platform for Action</span></i></a>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.un-documents.net/bpa-4.htm"><i><span style="color:#00001F;text-decoration:none">Chapter IV: Strategic Objectives and Actions</span></i></a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV. L. The Girl Child
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">259. The
<a href="http://www.un-documents.net/crc.htm"><i><span style="color:#00001F;text-decoration:none">Convention on the Rights of the Child</span></i></a> recognizes that "States Parties shall respect and ensure the rights set forth in the present Convention to
each child within their jurisdiction without discrimination of any kind, irrespective of the child's or his or her parent's or legal guardian's race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, property,
disability, birth or status" (art. 2, para. 1). </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.un-documents.net/bpa-4-l.htm#fn11"><i><span style="color:#00001F;text-decoration:none">/11</span></i></a></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">
However, in many countries available indicators show that the girl child is discriminated against from the earliest stages of life, through her childhood and into adulthood. In some areas of the world, men outnumber women by 5 in every 100. The reasons for
the discrepancy include, among other things, harmful attitudes and practices, such as female genital mutilation, son preference - which results in female infanticide and prenatal sex selection - early marriage, including child marriage, violence against women,
sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, discrimination against girls in food allocation and other practices related to health and well-being. As a result, fewer girls than boys survive into adulthood.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">260. Girls are often treated as inferior and are socialized to put themselves last, thus undermining their self-esteem. Discrimination and neglect in childhood can initiate a lifelong downward spiral of
deprivation and exclusion from the social mainstream. Initiatives should be taken to prepare girls to participate actively, effectively and equally with boys at all levels of social, economic, political and cultural leadership.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">261. Gender-biased educational processes, including curricula, educational materials and practices, teachers' attitudes and classroom interaction, reinforce existing gender inequalities.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">262. Girls and adolescents may receive a variety of conflicting and confusing messages on their gender roles from their parents, teachers, peers and the media. Women and men need to work together with children
and youth to break down persistent gender stereotypes, taking into account the rights of the child and the responsibilities, rights and duties of parents as stated in paragraph 267 below.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">263. Although the number of educated children has grown in the past 20 years in some countries, boys have proportionately fared much better than girls. In 1990, 130 million children had no access to primary
school; of these, 81 million were girls. This can be attributed to such factors as customary attitudes, child labour, early marriages, lack of funds and lack of adequate schooling facilities, teenage pregnancies and gender inequalities in society at large
as well as in the family as defined in paragraph 29 above. In some countries the shortage of women teachers can inhibit the enrolment of girls. In many cases, girls start to undertake heavy domestic chores at a very early age and are expected to manage both
educational and domestic responsibilities, often resulting in poor scholastic performance and an early drop-out from schooling.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">264. The percentage of girls enrolled in secondary school remains significantly low in many countries. Girls are often not encouraged or given the opportunity to pursue scientific and technological training
and education, which limits the knowledge they require for their daily lives and their employment opportunities.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">265. Girls are less encouraged than boys to participate in and learn about the social, economic and political functioning of society, with the result that they are not offered the same opportunities as boys
to take part in decision-making processes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">266. Existing discrimination against the girl child in her access to nutrition and physical and mental health services endangers her current and future health. An estimated 450 million adult women in developing
countries are stunted as a result of childhood protein-energy malnutrition. <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">267. The <a href="http://www.un-documents.net/ac171-13.htm">
<i><span style="color:#00001F;text-decoration:none">International Conference on Population and Development</span></i></a> recognized, in paragraph 7.3 of the Programme of Action,</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.un-documents.net/bpa-4-l.htm#fn14"><i><span style="color:#00001F;text-decoration:none">/14</span></i></a></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">
that "full attention should be given to the promotion of mutually respectful and equitable gender relations and particularly to meeting the educational and service needs of adolescents to enable them to deal in a positive and responsible way with their sexuality",
taking into account the rights of the child to access to information, privacy, confidentiality, respect and informed consent, as well as the responsibilities, rights and duties of parents and legal guardians to provide, in a manner consistent with the evolving
capacities of the child, appropriate direction and guidance in the exercise by the child of the rights recognized in the
<a href="http://www.un-documents.net/crc.htm"><i><span style="color:#00001F;text-decoration:none">Convention on the Rights of the Child</span></i></a>, and in conformity with the
<a href="http://www.un-documents.net/cedaw.htm"><i><span style="color:#00001F;text-decoration:none">Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women</span></i></a>. In all actions concerning children, the best interests of the child
shall be a primary consideration. Support should be given to integral sexual education for young people with parental support and guidance that stresses the responsibility of males for their own sexuality and fertility and that help them exercise their responsibilities.
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">268. More than 15 million girls aged 15 to 19 give birth each year. Motherhood at a very young age entails complications during pregnancy and delivery and a risk of maternal death that is much greater than
average. The children of young mothers have higher levels of morbidity and mortality. Early child-bearing continues to be an impediment to improvements in the educational, economic and social status of women in all parts of the world. Overall, early marriage
and early motherhood can severely curtail educational and employment opportunities and are likely to have a long-term adverse impact on their and their children's quality of life.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">269. Sexual violence and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS, have a devastating effect on children's health, and girls are more vulnerable than boys to the consequences of unprotected and
premature sexual relations. Girls often face pressures to engage in sexual activity. Due to such factors as their youth, social pressures, lack of protective laws, or failure to enforce laws, girls are more vulnerable to all kinds of violence, particularly
sexual violence, including rape, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, trafficking, possibly the sale of their organs and tissues, and forced labour.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">270. The girl child with disabilities faces additional barriers and needs to be ensured non-discrimination and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms in accordance with the
<a href="http://www.un-documents.net/sreopwd.htm"><i><span style="color:#00001F;text-decoration:none">Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities</span></i></a>.</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.un-documents.net/bpa-4-l.htm#fn30"><i><span style="color:#00001F;text-decoration:none">/30</span></i></a></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">271. Some children are particularly vulnerable, especially the abandoned, homeless and displaced, street children, children in areas in conflict, and children who are discriminated against because they belong
to an ethnic or racial minority group. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">272. All barriers must therefore be eliminated to enable girls without exception to develop their full potential and skills through equal access to education and training, nutrition, physical and mental
health care and related information. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">273. In addressing issues concerning children and youth, Governments should promote an active and visible policy of mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes so that before decisions
are taken, an analysis is made of the effects on girls and boys, respectively. <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Strategic objective L.1.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Eliminate all forms of discrimination against the girl child<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Actions to be taken <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">274. By Governments: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">By States that have not signed or ratified the
<a href="http://www.un-documents.net/crc.htm"><i><span style="color:#00001F;text-decoration:none">Convention on the Rights of the Child</span></i></a>, take urgent measures towards signing and ratifying the Convention, bearing in mind the strong exhortation
made at the World Conference on Human Rights to sign it before the end of 1995, and by States that have signed and ratified the Convention, ensure its full implementation through the adoption of all necessary legislative, administrative and other measures
and by fostering an enabling environment that encourages full respect for the rights of children;
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Consistent with <a href="http://www.un-documents.net/crc.htm#article-7">
<i><span style="color:#00001F;text-decoration:none">article 7 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child</span></i></a>,</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="http://www.un-documents.net/bpa-4-l.htm#fn11"><i><span style="color:#00001F;text-decoration:none">/11</span></i></a></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">
take measures to ensure that a child is registered immediately after birth and has the right from birth to a name, the right to acquire a nationality and, as far as possible, the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents;
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Take steps to ensure that children receive appropriate financial support from their parents, by, among other measures, enforcing child-support laws;
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Eliminate the injustice and obstacles in relation to inheritance faced by the girl child so that all children may enjoy their rights without discrimination, by, inter alia, enacting, as appropriate, and enforcing legislation
that guarantees equal right to succession and ensures equal right to inherit, regardless of the sex of the child;
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Enact and strictly enforce laws to ensure that marriage is only entered into with the free and full consent of the intending spouses; in addition, enact and strictly enforce laws concerning the minimum legal age of
consent and the minimum age for marriage and raise the minimum age for marriage where necessary;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Develop and implement comprehensive policies, plans of action and programmes for the survival, protection, development and advancement of the girl child to promote and protect the full enjoyment of her human rights
and to ensure equal opportunities for girls; these plans should form an integral part of the total development process;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Ensure the disaggregation by sex and age of all data related to children in the health, education and other sectors in order to include a gender perspective in planning, implementation and monitoring of such programmes.
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">275. By Governments and international and non-governmental organizations:
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Disaggregate information and data on children by sex and age, undertake research on the situation of girls and integrate, as appropriate, the results in the formulation of policies, programmes and decision-making for
the advancement of the girl child; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Generate social support for the enforcement of laws on the minimum legal age for marriage, in particular by providing educational opportunities for girls.
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Strategic objective L.2.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Eliminate negative cultural attitudes and practices against girls<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Actions to be taken <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">276. By Governments: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Encourage and support, as appropriate, non-governmental organizations and community-based organizations in their efforts to promote changes in negative attitudes and practices towards girls;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Set up educational programmes and develop teaching materials and textbooks that will sensitize and inform adults about the harmful effects of certain traditional or customary practices on girl children;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Develop and adopt curricula, teaching materials and textbooks to improve the self-image, lives and work opportunities of girls, particularly in areas where women have traditionally been underrepresented, such as mathematics,
science and technology; <o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> Take steps so that tradition and religion and their expressions are not a basis for discrimination
against girls. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">277. By Governments and, as appropriate, international and non-governmental organizations:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Promote an educational setting that eliminates all barriers that impede the schooling of married and/or pregnant girls and young mothers, including, as appropriate, affordable and physically accessible child-care facilities
and parental education to encourage those who have responsibilities for the care of their children and siblings during their school years to return to, or continue with, and complete schooling;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo4">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Encourage educational institutions and the media to adopt and project balanced and non-stereotyped images of girls and boys, and work to eliminate child pornography and degrading and violent portrayals of the girl child;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo4">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Eliminate all forms of discrimination against the girl child and the root causes of son preference, which result in harmful and unethical practices such as prenatal sex selection and female infanticide; this is often
compounded by the increasing use of technologies to determine foetal sex, resulting in abortion of female foetuses;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo4">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Develop policies and programmes, giving priority to formal and informal education programmes that support girls and enable them to acquire knowledge, develop self-esteem and take responsibility for their own lives;
and place special focus on programmes to educate women and men, especially parents, on the importance of girls' physical and mental health and well-being, including the elimination of discrimination against girls in food allocation, early marriage, violence
against girls, female genital mutilation, child prostitution, sexual abuse, rape and incest.
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Strategic objective L.3.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Promote and protect the rights of the girl child and increase awareness of her needs and potential<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Actions to be taken <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">278. By Governments and international and non-governmental organizations:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Generate awareness of the disadvantaged situation of girls among policy makers, planners, administrators and implementors at all levels, as well as within households and communities;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Make the girl child, particularly the girl child in difficult circumstances, aware of her own potential, educate her about the rights guaranteed to her under all international human rights instruments, including the
Convention on the Rights of the Child, legislation enacted for her and the various measures undertaken by both governmental and non-governmental organizations working to improve her status;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Educate women, men, girls and boys to promote girls' status and encourage them to work towards mutual respect and equal partnership between girls and boys;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Facilitate the equal provision of appropriate services and devices to girls with disabilities and provide their families with related support services, as appropriate.
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Strategic objective L.4.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Eliminate discrimination against girls in education, skills development and training<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Actions to be taken <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">279. By Governments: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ol start="1" type="a">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo6">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Ensure universal and equal access to and completion of primary education by all children and eliminate the existing gap between girls and boys, as stipulated in
<a href="http://www.un-documents.net/crc.htm#article-28"><i><span style="color:#00001F;text-decoration:none">article 28 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child</span></i></a>;</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="http://www.un-documents.net/bpa-4-l.htm#fn11"><i><span style="color:#00001F;text-decoration:none">/11</span></i></a></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">
similarly, ensure equal access to secondary education by the year 2005 and equal access to higher education, including vocational and technical education, for all girls and boys, including the disadvantaged and gifted;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo6">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Take steps to integrate functional literacy and numeracy programmes, particularly for out-of-school girls in development programmes;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo6">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Promote human rights education in educational programmes and include in human rights education the fact that the human rights of women and the girl child are an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal
human rights; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo6">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Increase enrolment and improve retention rates of girls by allocating appropriate budgetary resources and by enlisting the support of the community and parents through campaigns and flexible school schedules, incentives,
scholarships, access programmes for out-of-school girls and other measures; <o:p>
</o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo6">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Develop training programmes and materials for teachers and educators, raising awareness about their own role in the educational process, with a view to providing them with effective strategies for gender-sensitive teaching;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo6">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Take actions to ensure that female teachers and professors have the same possibilities and status as male teachers and professors.
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">280. By Governments and international and non-governmental organizations:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ol start="1" type="a">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo7">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Provide education and skills training to increase girls' opportunities for employment and access to decision-making processes;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo7">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Provide education to increase girls' knowledge and skills related to the functioning of economic, financial and political systems;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo7">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Ensure access to appropriate education and skills-training for girl children with disabilities for their full participation in life;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo7">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Promote the full and equal participation of girls in extracurricular activities, such as sports, drama and cultural activities.
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Strategic objective L.5.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Eliminate discrimination against girls in health and nutrition<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Actions to be taken <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">281. By Governments and international and non-governmental organizations:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ol start="1" type="a">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Provide public information on the removal of discriminatory practices against girls in food allocation, nutrition and access to health services;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Sensitize the girl child, parents, teachers and society concerning good general health and nutrition and raise awareness of the health dangers and other problems connected with early pregnancies;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Strengthen and reorient health education and health services, particularly primary health care programmes, including sexual and reproductive health, and design quality health programmes that meet the physical and mental
needs of girls and that attend to the needs of young, expectant and nursing mothers;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Establish peer education and outreach programmes with a view to strengthening individual and collective action to reduce the vulnerability of girls to HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, as agreed to in
the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and as established in the report of that Conference, recognizing the parental roles referred to in paragraph 267 of the present Platform for Action;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Ensure education and dissemination of information to girls, especially adolescent girls, regarding the physiology of reproduction, reproductive and sexual health, as agreed to in the Programme of Action of the International
Conference on Population and Development and as established in the report of that Conference, responsible family planning practice, family life, reproductive health, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV infection and AIDS prevention, recognizing the parental
roles referred to in paragraph 267; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Include health and nutritional training as an integral part of literacy programmes and school curricula starting at the primary level for the benefit of the girl child;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Emphasize the role and responsibility of adolescents in sexual and reproductive health and behaviour through the provision of appropriate services and counselling, as discussed in paragraph 267;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Develop information and training programmes for health planners and implementors on the special health needs of the girl child;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Take all the appropriate measures with a view to abolishing traditional practices prejudicial to the health of children, as stipulated in
<a href="http://www.un-documents.net/crc.htm#article-24"><i><span style="color:#00001F;text-decoration:none">article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child</span></i></a>.</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="http://www.un-documents.net/bpa-4-l.htm#fn11"><i><span style="color:#00001F;text-decoration:none">/11</span></i></a></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Strategic objective L.6.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Eliminate the economic exploitation of child labour and protect young girls at work<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Actions to be taken <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">282. By Governments: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ol start="1" type="a">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo9">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">In conformity with <a href="http://www.un-documents.net/crc.htm#article-32">
<i><span style="color:#00001F;text-decoration:none">article 32 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child</span></i></a>,</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="http://www.un-documents.net/bpa-4-l.htm#fn11"><i><span style="color:#00001F;text-decoration:none">/11</span></i></a></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">
protect children from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child's education, or to be harmful to the child's health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo9">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Define a minimum age for a child's admission to employment in national legislation, in conformity with existing international labour standards and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, including girls in all sectors
of activity; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo9">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Protect young girls at work, inter alia, through:
<o:p></o:p></span>
<ol start="1" type="i">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l9 level2 lfo9">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">A minimum age or ages for admission to employment;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l9 level2 lfo9">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Strict monitoring of work conditions (respect for work time, prohibition of work by children not provided for by national legislation, and monitoring of hygiene and health conditions at work);
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l9 level2 lfo9">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Application of social security coverage;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l9 level2 lfo9">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Establishment of continuous training and education;
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo9">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Strengthen, where necessary, legislation governing the work of children and provide for appropriate penalties or other sanctions to ensure effective enforcement of the legislation;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo9">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Use existing international labour standards, including, as appropriate, ILO standards for the protection of working children, to guide the formulation of national labour legislation and policies.
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Strategic objective L.7.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Eradicate violence against the girl child<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Actions to be taken <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">283. By Governments and, as appropriate, international and non-governmental organizations:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ol start="1" type="a">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo10">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Take effective actions and measures to enact and enforce legislation to protect the safety and security of girls from all forms of violence at work, including training programmes and support programmes, and take measures
to eliminate incidents of sexual harassment of girls in educational and other institutions;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo10">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Take appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the girl child, in the household and in society, from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent
treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo10">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Undertake gender sensitization training for those involved in healing and rehabilitation and other assistance programmes for girls who are victims of violence and promote programmes of information, support and training
for such girls; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo10">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Enact and enforce legislation protecting girls from all forms of violence, including female infanticide and prenatal sex selection, genital mutilation, incest, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, child prostitution and
child pornography, and develop age-appropriate safe and confidential programmes and medical, social and psychological support services to assist girls who are subjected to violence.
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Strategic objective L.8.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Promote the girl child's awareness of and participation in social, economic and political life<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Actions to be taken <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">284. By Governments and international and non-governmental organizations:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ol start="1" type="a">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l11 level1 lfo11">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Provide access for girls to training, information and the media on social, cultural, economic and political issues and enable them to articulate their views;
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l11 level1 lfo11">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Support non-governmental organizations, in particular youth non-governmental organizations, in their efforts to promote the equality and participation of girls in society.
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Strategic objective L.9.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Strengthen the role of the family in improving the status of the girl child<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Actions to be taken <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">285. By Governments, in cooperation with non-governmental organizations:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ol start="1" type="a">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo12">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Formulate policies and programmes to help the family, as defined in paragraph 29 above, in its supporting, educating and nurturing roles, with particular emphasis on the elimination of intra-family discrimination against
the girl child; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo12">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Provide an environment conducive to the strengthening of the family, as defined in paragraph 29 above, with a view to providing supportive and preventive measures which protect, respect and promote the potential of
the girl child; <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo12">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Educate and encourage parents and caregivers to treat girls and boys equally and to ensure shared responsibilities between girls and boys in the family, as defined in paragraph 29 above.
<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"><br>
<img border="0" width="66" height="1" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image007.jpg@01D46187.F6827110" alt="http://www.un-documents.net/black.gif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Notes</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center">
<a name="fn11"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">11/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">
<a href="http://www.un-documents.net/a44r25.htm#annex"><i><span style="color:#00001F;text-decoration:none">General Assembly resolution 44/25, annex</span></i></a>.
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