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This document presents Resolution 67-146 on Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation, adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2012. This Resolution Stresses that the empowerment of women and girls is essential for breaking the cycle Discrimination and violence and to promote and protect fundamental rights and calls upon States parties to intensify awareness-raising, school and non-school education and training activities to promote the direct participation of girls, boys, women and Of men, and that essential actors, government officials, and those who work directly with girls, as well as parents, families and communities, are all working to eliminate harmful behavior and practices In particular all forms of female genital mutilation, which have negative consequences for girls

This document presents Resolution 69-150 on Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation, adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2014. This Resolution confirms that the empowerment of women and girls is essential to break the cycle of discrimination and violence and to promote and protect human rights, including the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including sexual and reproductive health, the States Parties and calls to honor the commitments they have undertaken under the Convention on the rights of the Child and the Convention on the elimination of All forms of discrimination against women and its commitments to the implementation of declaration on the elimination of violence against women and the Programme of action of the international Conference on population and development and the Beijing Platform for action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly and of the special Assembly session on children.

This document presents the United Nations resolution on child marriages, early marriages and forced marriages. The resolution was adopted on 17 November 2014 by the UN General Assembly and Urges all States to enact, enforce and uphold laws and policies aimed at preventing and ending child, early and forced marriage and protecting those at risk and to ensure that marriage is entered into only with the informed, free and full consent of the intending spouses.

This document presents the International Convention on the Nationality of Married Women which entered into force on 11 August 1958, signed by 29 countries and ratified by 74 countries. The purpose of this Convention is to eliminate conflicts of laws arising out of provisions concerning the loss or acquisition of nationality by women as a result of marriage, of its dissolution, or of the change of nationality by the husband during marriage.

This document presents an interagency statement on eliminating female genital mutilation. This Statement is a call to all States, international and national organizations, civil society and communities to uphold the rights of girls and women. It also calls on those bodies and communities to develop strengthen, and support specific and concrete actions directed towards ending female genital mutilation. However, despite some successes, the overall rate of decline in the prevalence of female genital mutilation has been slow. It is therefore a global imperative to strengthen work for the elimination of this practice, which is essential for the achievement of many of the Millennium Development Goals