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6.
Also urges States to ensure access to justice and accountability mechanisms
and remedies for the effective implementation and enforcement of laws aimed at preventing
and eliminating child, early and forced marriage, including by informing women and girls
about their rights under relevant laws, training law enforcement officers and monitoring
how they handle cases of child, early and forced marriage, improving legal infrastructure
and removing all barriers to access to legal counselling, assistance and remedies;
7.
Further urges States to strengthen their efforts to ensure free birth
registration, including free or low-fee late birth registration, by means of universal,
accessible, simple, expeditious and effective registration procedures, without discrimination
of any kind, and marriage, divorce and death registration as part of the civil registration and
vital statistics systems, especially for individuals living in rural and remote areas, including
by identifying and removing all physical, administrative, procedural and any other barriers
that impede access to registration and by providing, where lacking, mechanisms for the
registration of customary and religious marriages;
8.
Affirms the need for States to improve gender disaggregated data collection,
research and dissemination of evidence-based and good practices relating to the prevention
and elimination of child, early and forced marriage, as well as the use of quantitative and
qualitative data on harmful practices, disaggregated by sex, age, disability, geographical
location, socioeconomic status, education level and other key factors, and to strengthen
monitoring and impact assessment of existing policies and programmes as a means of
strengthening them, ensuring their effectiveness and implementation, including in the
context of the post-2015 development agenda;
9.
Calls upon States to promote the meaningful participation and active
consultation of children and young people in all issues affecting them, and to create
awareness about their rights, including the negative impact of child, early and forced
marriage, through safe spaces, forums and support networks that provide girls and boys
with information, life skills training and the opportunities to be empowered and become
agents of change within their communities;
10.
Urges States to promote awareness-raising and to engage in dialogue within
communities on the health implications of child, early and forced marriage, and to improve
equal access to health-care facilities and sexual and reproductive health information,
education and services, including modern forms of contraception;
11.
Calls upon States to promote and protect the rights of women and girls to
education through enhanced emphasis on quality education, including human rights
education and training, and catch-up and literacy education for those who have not received
formal education, including in remote areas, while recognizing that education is one of the
most effective ways to prevent and end child, early and forced marriage and to help already
married women and men, girls and boys to make more informed choices about their lives;
12.
Urges Governments to promote and protect the human rights of all women
and girls, including their right to have control over and decide freely and responsibly on
matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion,
discrimination and violence, and to adopt and accelerate the implementation of laws,
policies and programmes that protect and enable the enjoyment of all human rights and
fundamental freedoms, including reproductive rights, in accordance with the Programme of
Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing
Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences;
13.
Calls upon States, with the support of humanitarian partners, and in full
collaboration with concerned communities and other stakeholders, to strengthen monitoring
and interventions to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian
settings and fragile situations, including by integrating and harmonizing such interventions
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