(b) To ensure that services are provided for children to divert them from, and address the economic imperatives for, involvement in harmful, exploitative and abusive activity; (c) To take the situation of children working and/or living on the street fully into account in preparing their reports to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and encourages the Committee and other relevant bodies and organizations of the United Nations system, within their existing mandates, to increase attention to the question of children working and/or living on the street; (d) To guarantee respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms, particularly the right to life, and to take urgent and effective measures to prevent the killing of children working and/or living on the street and to combat torture and violence against them, to bring the perpetrators to justice and to ensure strict compliance with international human rights instruments, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, including the requirement that legal and juridical processes respect the rights of the child; (e) And the international community to support, through effective international cooperation, the efforts of States to improve the situation of children working and/or living on the street, including in urban settlements, in accordance with the Habitat Agenda (A/CONF.165/14, chap. I) adopted by the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), held in Istanbul, in June 1996; VIII Promotion and protection of the rights of children alleged to have or recognized as having infringed the penal law 26. Reaffirms the need to ensure that every child alleged to have or recognized as having infringed the penal law is treated with dignity in accordance with the principles and relevant provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other relevant international human rights instruments, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, expressing deep concern, inter alia, about cases of children prosecuted without taking into account their special needs, kept in arbitrary detention, subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment or subjected to punishment contrary to accepted international standards and, in this regard, calls upon States to take all the necessary measures to protect children from these practices; 27. Welcomes: (a) The follow-up by the Committee on the Rights of the Child of the implementation of articles 37 and 40 of the Convention by States parties, making concrete recommendations concerning the improvement of the national systems of administration of justice for children, including through the use of advisory services and technical cooperation provided by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and other relevant United Nations entities; page 17

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