Children with disabilities
28.
Calls upon all States to take necessary measures to ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all
human rights and fundamental freedoms by children with disabilities in both the public and private spheres,
including access to good quality education and health care, protection from violence, abuse and neglect and,
where necessary, to develop and enforce legislation against their discrimination to ensure their dignity, promote
their self-reliance and facilitate their active participation and integration in the community, taking into account
the particularly difficult situation of children with disabilities living in poverty;
29.
Encourages the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention
on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities to consider the issue of
children with disabilities in its deliberations;
Migrant children
30.
Calls upon all States to ensure, for migrant children, the enjoyment of all human rights as well
as access to health care, social services and education of good quality; States should ensure that migrant children
and especially those who are unaccompanied, in particular victims of violence and exploitation, receive special
protection and assistance;
IV. PROTECTION AND PROMOTION OF THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN
IN PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT SITUATIONS
Children working and/or living on the street
31.
Calls upon all States to prevent violations of the rights of children working and/or living on the
street, including discrimination, arbitrary detention and extrajudicial, arbitrary and summary executions, torture,
all kinds of violence and exploitation, and to bring the perpetrators to justice, to adopt and implement policies for
the protection, social and psychosocial rehabilitation and reintegration of these children, and to adopt economic,
social and educational strategies to address the problems of children working and/or living on the street;
Refugee and internally displaced children
32.
Calls upon all States to protect refugee, asylum-seeking and internally displaced children, in
particular those who are unaccompanied, who are particularly exposed to risks in connection with armed conflict,
such as recruitment, sexual violence and exploitation, to pay particular attention to programmes for voluntary
repatriation and, wherever possible, local integration and resettlement, to give priority to family tracing and
reunification and, where appropriate, to cooperate with international humanitarian and refugee organizations;
Child labour
33.
Calls upon all States to translate into concrete action their commitment to the progressive and
effective elimination of child labour that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child’s education, or to
be harmful to the child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development, and to immediately
eliminate the worst forms of child labour, to promote education as a key strategy in this regard, including the
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