instilling in them the values and goals of a culture of peace; and invites them to develop national strategies for human rights education which are comprehensive, participatory and effective; 16. Urges States: (a) To take measures to protect students from violence, injury or abuse, including sexual abuse, to establish complaint mechanisms that are accessible to children and to undertake thorough and prompt investigations of all acts of violence and discrimination; (b) To take measures to eliminate the use of corporal punishment in schools; Freedom from violence Reaffirming paragraphs 22 to 24 of its resolution 2000/85, 17. Welcomes the request by the General Assembly to the Secretary-General in resolution 56/138 to conduct an in-depth study on the question of violence against children and suggests that he appoint an independent expert to direct the study, in collaboration with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Health Organization, taking into account the recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child made following its two days of general discussion on violence against children and the outcome of the special session of the General Assembly on children, and, in this regard, requests the Secretary-General to submit a substantive progress report on the study to the Commission at its fifty-ninth session and a final in-depth study to the Commission at its sixtieth session to the greatest extent possible for its consideration, with the aim of evaluating all possible complementary measures and future actions; 18. Requests Member States and United Nations bodies and organizations, including the Committee on the Rights of the Child, as well as other relevant intergovernmental organizations, and invites non-governmental organizations to contribute to the study; 19. Requests that all relevant human rights mechanisms, in particular special rapporteurs and working groups, within their mandates, pay attention to the special situation of violence against children, reflecting their experience in the field; 20. Calls upon all States to take all appropriate national, bilateral and multilateral measures to prevent and protect children from all forms of physical, sexual and psychological violence, including violence occurring, inter alia, in the family, in public or private institutions, in society, or perpetrated or tolerated by private individuals, juridical persons or the State; 21. Also calls upon all States to investigate and submit cases of torture and other forms of violence against children to the competent authorities for the purpose of prosecution and to impose appropriate disciplinary or penal sanctions against those responsible for such practices; III. NON-DISCRIMINATION Calling upon all States to ensure that children are entitled to their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights without discrimination of any kind, 22. Notes with concern the large number of children, particularly girls, among the victims of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, and stresses the need to incorporate special measures, in accordance with the principle of the best interests of the child and respect for his or her views, in programmes to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, in order to give priority attention to the rights and the situation of children who are victims of these practices; 23. Calls upon all States in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities or persons of indigenous origin exist not to deny to a child belonging to such a minority or who is indigenous the right, in community with page 5