VII The plight of children working and/or living on the street 20. Calls upon: (a) All States, while expressing grave concern at the large number of children working and/or living on the street and at the continued growth in incidents and reports worldwide of such children being involved in and affected by serious crime, drug trafficking and abuse, violence and sexual exploitation, including through prostitution, to continue actively to seek comprehensive solutions to the problems of children working and/or living on the street, while emphasizing that strict compliance with obligations under relevant international human rights instruments, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, constitutes a significant step towards solving the problems of children working and/or living on the street; (b) All States to ensure the reintegration of children working and/or living on the street into society and to provide, inter alia, adequate nutrition, shelter, health care and education, taking into account that such children are particularly vulnerable to all forms of violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect, encourages States to take the situation of children working and/or living on the street fully into account in preparing their reports to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and requests the Committee and other relevant treaty monitoring bodies, within their existing mandates, to give due attention to the question of children working and/or living on the street; (c) All States to guarantee respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms, particularly the right to life, and to take urgent and effective measures to prevent the killing of children working and/or living on the street and to combat torture and violence against them, and to ensure that legal and juridical processes respect children's rights in order to protect them against arbitrary deprivation of liberty, maltreatment or abuse; (d) The international community to support, through effective international cooperation, the efforts of States to improve the situation of children in need of special protection measures, including in urban settlements in accordance with the Habitat Agenda adopted by the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), held in Istanbul, Turkey, in June 1996 (A/CONF.165/14, chap. I); VIII Children with disabilities 21. Welcomes the attention given by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, when considering the reports of States parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to the subject of the rights of children with physical or mental disabilities to enjoy their lives with dignity and to their individual development and social integration, as well as the general debate on this issue, starting at the sixteenth session of the Committee in 1997, focused on the rights to life and development, self-representation and full participation and the right to an inclusive education, with the aim of preparing recommendations for the effective implementation of the Convention, and invites the Committee to continue its task in cooperation with the representatives of the relevant United Nations bodies and organizations, non-governmental organizations and the Special Rapporteur on disability of the Commission for Social Development; 22. Calls upon all States parties to adopt, in accordance with article 23 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, all necessary measures to ensure the full enjoyment in equal conditions of all human rights page 11

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