Rights of the child: Towards better investment in the rights of the child 2015, para. 40
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Calls upon States to take, as a matter of urgency, all appropriate measures, including through sufficient resource allocation, to prevent, and to protect children, without discrimination of any kind, from, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and to abolish harmful practices that compromise the dignity and integrity of the child and that are prejudicial to the health of boys and girls, particularly by preventing and explicitly condemning such practices, as well as addressing violence leading to child self-harm and suicide;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Equality & Inclusion
Governance & Rule of Law
Violence
Person(s) affected
Boys
Children
Girls
Year
2015
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
HRC resolution, Rights of the child: Towards better investment in the rights of the child (2015), A/HRC/RES/28/19, OP 40.