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(b) To design and implement programmes to provide social services to and support for
pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular to enable them to continue and
complete their education;
(c) To ensure that children, from an early age, benefit from education programmes,
materials and activities that develop respect for human rights and fully reflect the values of
peace, non-violence against oneself and others, tolerance and gender equality;
(d) To enable children, including adolescents, to exercise their right to express their
views freely, the views of the child being given due weight in accordance with age and maturity
of the child;
The girl child
24. 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, to end
impunity 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;
(c) To involve girls, including girls with special needs, and their representative
organizations, in decision-making processes, as appropriate, and include them as full and active
partners in identifying their own needs and in developing, planning, implementing and assessing
policies and programmes to meet those needs;
Children with disabilities
25. Recognizes that children with disabilities should have full enjoyment of all human
rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis with other children, and recalls the
obligations to that end undertaken by the States parties to the Convention on the Rights of
the Child;
26.
Calls upon all States to:
(a) Take all necessary measures to ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human
rights and fundamental freedoms by children with disabilities, in both the public and private
spheres, including by incorporating a child-rights perspective that includes children with
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