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• AFRICAN YOUTH CHARTER
f)
Ensure that education material and teaching practices
are gender sensitive and encourage girls and young
women to undertake studies in the sciences;
g)
Provide educational systems that do not impede girls
and young women, including married and/or pregnant
young women, from attending;
h)
Take steps to provide equal access to health care
services and nutrition for girls and young women;
i)
Protect girls and young women from economic
exploitation and from performing work that is
hazardous, takes them away from education or that
is harmful to their mental or physical health;
j)
Offer equal access to young women to employment
and promote their participation in all sectors of
employment;
k)
Introduce special legislation and programmes of
action that make available opportunities to girls and
young women including access to education as a
prerequisite and a priority for rapid social and
economic development;
l)
Enact and enforce legislation that protect girls and
young women from all forms of violence, genital
mutilation, incest, rape, sexual abuse, sexual
exploitation, trafficking, prostitution and pornography;