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learning activities, with child-friendly spaces serving as a referral mechanism to other
services as appropriate, and to help to restore a sense of normality and continuity;
(i)
Work towards ensuring that no child is denied access to humanitarian
assistance and that all children are registered and identified;
(j)
Ensure the safety and security of humanitarian personnel, and that
humanitarian aid is delivered without impediment and in accordance with humanitarian
principles;
Follow-up
27.
Encourages the special procedures and other human rights mechanisms of the
Human Rights Council to continue to integrate a child rights perspective while
implementing their mandates, and to include in their reports information, qualitative
analysis and recommendations on child rights;
28.
Invites all human rights treaty bodies to continue to integrate the rights of the
child into their work, in particular in their concluding observations, general comments and
recommendations;
29.
Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to
contribute to the work of the high-level political forum on sustainable development on the
follow-up to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in consultation with relevant
stakeholders, including the United Nations Children’s Fund, other relevant United Nations
bodies and agencies, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence
against Children and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and
Armed Conflict, relevant special procedure mandate holders, regional organizations and
human rights bodies, and civil society, in particular by providing comprehensive inputs
from a child rights perspective to the yearly thematic reviews of progress at the forum,
focusing on achievements and challenges, and taking into account the implementation of
recommendations contained in previous Human Rights Council resolutions on the rights of
the child;
30.
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 to focus its next annual full-day meeting on the theme
“Empowering children with disabilities for the enjoyment of their human rights, including
through inclusive education”, and requests the High Commissioner to prepare a report on
that theme, in close cooperation with all relevant stakeholders, including States, the United
Nations Children’s Fund, other relevant United Nations bodies and agencies, the Special
Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, the Special
Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, relevant special
procedure mandate holders, regional organizations and human rights bodies, national
human rights institutions and civil society, including children themselves, and to present it
to the Human Rights Council at its fortieth session, with a view to providing information
for the annual day of discussion on the rights of the child.
54th meeting
23 March 2018
[Adopted without a vote.]
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