Rights of the child
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attendance, in particular for girls, children with disabilities, pregnant adolescent girls,
children living in poverty, indigenous children, children of African descent, persons
belonging to ethnic or religious minorities and children in vulnerable or marginalized
situations;
15. Urges States to take immediate and effective measures to secure the
prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour and to end child labour
in all its forms, by 2025 at the latest;
16. Strongly condemns all forms of violence against children in all settings,
including physical, psychological and sexual violence, torture and other cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment, child abuse and exploitation, hostage -taking,
domestic violence, incest, trafficking in or sale of children and their org ans,
paedophilia, child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse
material, child sex tourism, gang and armed violence, sexual exploitation of children
online and offline, bullying, including cyberbullying, and harmful practices,
including female genital mutilation and child, early and forced marriage, and urges
States to strengthen efforts to prevent and protect children from all such violence
through a comprehensive, gender-responsive and age-appropriate approach and to
develop an inclusive multifaceted and systematic framework, which is integrated into
national planning processes, to respond effectively to violence against children and
to provide for safe and child-sensitive counselling, complaint and reporting
mechanisms and safeguards for the rights of affected children;
17. Calls upon all States to protect the human rights of all children and to
ensure, for children belonging to minorities in vulnerable situations, including
migrant children, indigenous children, children of African descent, internally
displaced children and children with disabilities, the enjoyment of all human rights
as well as access to health care, social services, social protection and accessible and
inclusive education on an equal basis with others, and to ensure that all such children,
in particular unaccompanied migrant children, internally displaced children and those
who are victims of violence and exploitation, receive special protection and assistance
and that the best interests of the child are a primary consideration in their policies of
integration, return and family reunification;
18. Condemns in the strongest terms all violations and abuses committed
against children in armed conflict, and in this regard urges all States and other parties
to armed conflict that are engaged, in contravention of applicable international law,
in the recruitment and use of children, in patterns of killing and maiming of children
and/or rape and other sexual violence against children, acknowledging that sexual
violence in these situations disproportionately affects girls, but that boys are also
targets, in recurrent attacks on schools and/or hospitals and related personnel and in
patterns of abduction of children, as well as in all other violations and abuses against
children, to take time-bound and effective measures to end and prevent them and to
encourage age- and gender-specific support services, including psychological, social
and sexual and reproductive health-care services, and education, social protection and
reintegration programmes;
19. Calls upon all Member States to ensure that children associated or
allegedly associated with armed groups should be treated primarily as victims and in
line with the best interests of the child, and to consider non-judicial measures as
alternatives to prosecution and detention and take measures that focus on
rehabilitation and reintegration in an environment that fosters the health, self -respect
and dignity of the child, in accordance with relevant provisions of international
humanitarian law, as well as human rights law, in particular the Convention on the
Rights of the Child;
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