To combat harmful traditional practices.

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The report should pay special attention to the question of harmful traditional practices.

Emphasizing that all harmful traditional practices affect women and girls first and foremost,

Noting the consideration given by the General Assembly to the issue of harmful traditional and customary practices,

Noting the consideration given by the General Assembly to the issue of harmful traditional and customary practices,

It expresses its serious concern at the continuance of traditional practices harmful to the health of women and children, particularly the practice of female genital mutilation.

C. Harmful marriage practices

(e) The fact that the elimination of harmful traditional or customary practices will be considered during the special session of the General Assembly on children

The Government planned to promulgate legislation banning female genital mutilation, abduction and other harmful traditional practices.

Methods of combating harmful traditional practices appear to differ greatly from one region to another and depending on the practice concerned.

Parents Responsibility and Protection from Detrimental Practices

Psychosocial support and mental health services to women survivors of violence and harmful traditional practices are very limited.

Other European countries tend to use their existing criminal law to make female genital mutilation, and other harmful traditional practices, an offence.

Calls upon all Governments to give their full attention to the implementation of the Plan of Action for the Elimination of Harmful Traditional Practices affecting the Health of Women and Children

Lastly, she requested a definition of the harmful traditional practices prohibited by the recently adopted Children's Act 2005.

Female genital mutilation was included among the harmful traditional practices prohibited by the Act but it was not specifically named.

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Further welcomes the commitment of many States to efforts to combat all harmful traditional practices, and encourages them to intensify their efforts

The Unit against Harmful Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (CPTAFE) runs awareness campaigns on female excision and other degrading practices.

Origins of certain traditional practices

Combating violence and traditional practices that are harmful to health.

The report also refers to harmful traditional practices, such as humiliating and degrading treatment of widows and the giving of a girl in marriage to a witch doctor for religious reasons (p. 14).

The Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women should continue to examine within the framework of her mandate, the question of harmful traditional practices.

With regard to harmful traditional practices, in order to avoid ambiguity about which practices were illegal it would be best to spell them out in legislation and to provide for enforcement.

In this, her final report, the Special Rapporteur should like to express her gratitude to the Inter African Committee for its unfailing support for her mandate and for the fight against harmful traditional practices.

The independent expert for the study on violence against children is encouraged to address the question of harmful traditional practices and to deal with such practices as a form of violence against children.

Ms. Singhateh (Gambia) said that the Committee had asked about the list of harmful traditional practices that had at first been included in the draft of the Children's Act 2005 and later removed.

Reaffirming that such harmful traditional or customary practices constitute a definite form of violence against women and girls and a serious violation of their human rights,

Invites the Special Rapporteur on violence against women to cooperate closely with non governmental organizations working on harmful traditional practices, especially the Inter African Committee

Climate friendly agricultural technologies and practices, including traditional agricultural methods Afforestation, reforestation and use of marginal land Solid and liquid waste management for the recovery of methane

Reiterating also that activities to be funded should be country driven, cost effective and integrated into national sustainable development and poverty reduction strategies,

Ninth report and final report on the situation regarding the elimination of traditional practices affecting the health of women and the girl child, prepared by Ms. Halima Embarek Warzazi

Regrets, however, the continuation and further development of existing and new forms of harmful practice

Appeals to all States concerned to intensify efforts to develop awareness of and mobilize national public opinion concerning the harmful effects of all forms of harmful traditional practice, in particular through education, information and training, in order to achieve the total eradication of these practices

Reaffirming that harmful traditional or customary practices, including female genital mutilation, constitute a serious threat to the health of women and girls, and may have fatal consequences,

States should accelerate the drafting of legislation that outlaws all forms of violence against women and girls, including harmful traditional practices, and prescribes penalties that are commensurate with the gravity of such acts.

The Subcommission adopted in its resolution 1994 30 of 26 August 1994, a Plan of Action for the Elimination of Harmful Traditional Practices affecting the Health of Women and Children, submitted by the Special Rapporteur.

Consideration of the question of traditional practices by the United Nations

(c) Building the capacities of parliamentarians to strengthen the protective environment for children, including eliminating harmful traditional practices, reducing the incidence of sexual exploitation and child pornography and combating child trafficking