Deeply concerned about discrimination against the girl child and the violation of the rights of the girl child, which often result in less access for girls to education, nutrition and physical and mental health care and in girls enjoying fewer of the rights, opportunities and benefits of childhood and adolescence than boys and often being subjected to various forms of cultural, social, sexual and economic exploitation and to violence and harmful practices, such as female infanticide, incest, early marriage, prenatal sex selection and female genital mutilation,
深切关注对女童的歧视和侵犯女童权利的情况，这往往使女孩较少有机会获得教育、营养、身心保健，享有较男孩为少的童年和青少年时期的权利、机会和福利，并且往往受到各种形式的文化、社会、性剥削和经济剥削，以及受到暴力和杀害女婴、乱伦、早婚、产前性别选择和切割女性生殖器官等有害习俗之害，