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18.
Encourages States to take steps to establish structured and child-friendly
modalities to promote the right of children to be heard in local, national, regional and
international forums;
19.
Urges States to support the role of the Office of the High Commissioner in
mainstreaming child rights across the United Nations system in line with its mandate, and
encourages them to affirm their commitment to increasing financial support for the Office’s
thematic capacity, including its capacity:
(a)
To deliver, upon request, advisory and capacity-building activities to States
and other relevant stakeholders on the full spectrum of child rights in line with international
human rights law;
(b)
To coordinate the implementation of and regularly monitor the progress made
in mainstreaming the rights of the child across the United Nations system, in cooperation
with the United Nations Children’s Fund;
Follow-up
20.
Requests the Secretary-General to expand the capacities of the Office of the
High Commissioner, to advance child rights mainstreaming, in particular child participation
and child safeguarding, in the work of the Office and the human rights accountability and
investigative mechanisms that it supports, and to provide advice and technical assistance on
issues concerning the implementation of the human rights of children to States, upon request,
and to all relevant United Nations organizations and bodies, as appropriate;
21.
Requests the High Commissioner to prepare a report on child rights
mainstreaming across the United Nations, including on the implementation of the Guidance
Note of the Secretary-General on Child Rights Mainstreaming, in consultation with all
relevant stakeholders, including States, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Special
Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, the Special
Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, the Committee on
the Rights of the Child, relevant special procedure mandate holders, other relevant United
Nations bodies and agencies, regional organizations and human rights bodies and civil
society, including through consultations with children themselves, and to present the report
to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-ninth session;
22.
Encourages the special procedures and other human rights mechanisms of the
Human Rights Council to continue to integrate a child rights perspective into the
implementation of their mandates and to include in their reports information, qualitative
analysis and recommendations on the rights of the child, paying attention to the adverse
impact of the lack of inclusive social protection on the full enjoyment of the rights of the
child;
23.
Invites all human rights treaty bodies to continue to integrate the rights of the
child into their work, in particular their concluding observations and general comments and
recommendations, paying attention to the adverse impact of the lack of social protection on
the full enjoyment of the rights of the child, and encourages them to consult children in an
ethical, meaningful and safe manner;
24.
Calls upon all human rights mechanisms of the Human Rights Council,
including subsidiary and advisory bodies, as relevant, to monitor and analyse more
consistently the root causes of child rights violations and abuses, through disaggregated data,
considering all children in marginalized and vulnerable situations, and to translate that
analysis into specific and action-oriented recommendations for all relevant stakeholders to
promote accountability for children’s rights;
25.
Decides to continue its consideration of the question of the rights of the child
in accordance with its programme of work and its resolutions 7/29 of 28 March 2008 and
19/37 of 23 March 2012, and requests the Office of the High Commissioner to organize its
annual full-day meeting on the rights of the child in 2025 on the theme of early childhood
development, to ensure appropriate resources to support and facilitate the participation of
children, ensuring that they have easy access to relevant premises, and to make the discussion
fully accessible to children and to persons with disabilities;
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