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, in girls enjoying fewer of the rights, opportunities and benefits of childhood and adolescence than boys, and in leaving them more vulnerable than boys to the consequences of unprotected and premature sexual relations and often being subjected to various forms of cultural, social, sexual and economic exploitation and to violence, abuse, rape, incest, honour-related crimes and harmful traditional practices, such as female infanticide, early marriage, forced marriage, prenatal sex selection and female genital mutilation,
深切关注对女童的歧视以及对女童权利的侵犯往往导致减少女孩获得教育、营养和身心保健的机会，使她们在童年和少年期享受的权利、机会和福利少于男孩，使她们比男孩更容易受到没有保护的和不成熟的性关系的后果的影响，并使她们常常受到各种形式的文化剥削、社会剥削、性剥削和经济剥削，遭受暴力、虐待、强奸、乱伦、与维护名誉有关的犯罪以及有害传统习俗的侵害，例如遭受杀害女婴、早婚、逼婚、产前性别选择和切割女性生殖器的侵害，