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  • Nov 10th, 2005
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Ministers from 51 Muslim nations have agreed at a conference here on children to do everything necessary to stamp out discrimination against girls.

This includes measures against forced marriage and genital mutilation, they concluded in a declaration adopted Tuesday after the meeting organised by the UN Children's Fund and Organisation of the Islamic Conference.

Nations should take "all necessary measures to achieve the elimination of all forms of discrimination towards girls, such as forced marriage or genital mutilation", it said. The two-day meeting also welcomed a United Nations resolution aimed at stopping so-called honour crimes against women and girls.

Fifty-one ministers or deputies from Muslim countries took part in the conference.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2005


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