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4. Urges States to involve children and youth in their efforts to implement the goals of the World
Summit for Children and the Convention;
5. Calls upon States parties to cooperate closely with the Committee on the Rights of the Child and
to comply in a timely manner with their reporting obligations under the Convention, in accordance with the
guidelines elaborated by the Committee, and encourages States parties to take into account the
recommendations made by the Committee in the implementation of the provisions of the Convention;
6. Also calls upon States parties to encourage training on the rights of the child for those involved in
activities concerning children, for example, through the programme of advisory services and technical
cooperation in the field of human rights;
7. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure the provision of appropriate staff and facilities for the
effective and expeditious performance of the functions of the Committee, notes the temporary support given
by the plan of action of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to strengthen the important
role of the Committee in advancing the implementation of the Convention, and also requests the SecretaryGeneral to make available information on the follow-up to the plan of action;
8. Calls upon States parties urgently to take appropriate measures so that acceptance of the
amendment to paragraph 2 of article 43 of the Convention by a two-thirds majority of States parties can be
reached as soon as possible, in order for the amendment to enter into force, increasing the membership of
the Committee from ten to eighteen experts;
9. Invites the Committee to continue to enhance its constructive dialogue with the States parties and
its transparent and effective functioning;
10. Welcomes the attention given by the Committee to the realization of the highest attainable standards
of health and access to health care, and to the rights of children affected by human immunodeficiency
virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and urges Governments, in cooperation with relevant United
Nations bodies and organizations, to adopt all appropriate measures with a view to the realization of all their
rights;
11. Calls upon States to protect all human rights of migrant children, in particular unaccompanied
migrant children, and to ensure that the best interest of the child shall accordingly be a primary consideration,
and encourages the Committee, the United Nations Children’s Fund and other relevant United Nations
bodies, within their respective mandates, to pay particular attention to the conditions of migrant children in
all States and, as appropriate, to make recommendations to strengthen their protection;
12. Recommends that, within their mandates, all relevant human rights mechanisms and all other
relevant organs and mechanisms of the United Nations system and the supervisory bodies of the specialized
agencies pay attention to particular situations in which children are in danger and in which their rights are
violated and that they take into account the work of the Committee, and encourages the further development
of the rights-based approach adopted by the United Nations Children’s Fund and further steps to increase
system-wide coordination and inter-agency cooperation for the promotion and protection of the rights of the
child;
13. Encourages the Committee, in monitoring the implementation of the Convention, to continue to
pay attention to the needs of children in especially difficult circumstances;
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