AHG/ST. 4 (XVI) Rev. 1 DECLARES that: 1. In order to focus attention on the problems of the child to make easier the coordination of efforts and mobilization of resources and for performing the advocacy role for the child on a permanent basis, Member States consider the desirability of making respective national commissions or machineries for IYC a permanent organ given the necessary legal powers; 2. Member States should undertake or continue their efforts to review the current legal codes and provisions relating to the rights of children, particularly by taking into account the UN Declaration of 1959 on the rights of the Child and by paying particular attention to the unequal status of female children in some parts of Africa; 3. Member States should thoroughly examine cultural legacies and practice that are harmful to normal growth and development of the child such as child marriage and female circumcision, and should take legal and educational measures to abolish them; 4. All Member States should take advantage of the deliberations on the IYC in the UN General Assembly to urge organizations of the UN system to intensify their co-operation and encourage them to continue carrying out those activities which have positive bearing on the situation of the child in Africa; 5. International and non-governmental organizations should actively participate in the activities undertaken by Member States at national level and strengthen and develop their own activities in co-operation with national organs set up in the framework of the IYC; 6. Those Member States who have not yet done so, should: a) formulate and implement programmes in the field of health, nutrition and education as part of national development plans with a view to making