(f)
To take all appropriate measures, especially educational measures, to further promote the
responsibility of both parents in the education, development and raising of children;
Poverty
Convinced that investments in children and the realization of their rights are among the most effective
ways to eradicate poverty,
14.
Calls upon States and the international community to cooperate, support and participate in the
global efforts for poverty eradication at the global, regional and country levels, recognizing that strengthened
availability and effective allocation of resources are required at all
of these levels, in order to ensure that all the development and poverty reduction goals, as set out in the United
Nations Millennium Declaration, are realized within their time framework, and to promote the enjoyment of the
rights of the child;
Health
15.
Calls upon all States to take all appropriate measures to develop sustainable health systems and
social services and to ensure access to such systems and services without discrimination, and to pay particular
attention to adequate food and nutrition to prevent disease
and malnutrition, to prenatal and post-natal health care, to special needs of adolescents, to reproductive and
sexual health and to threats from substance abuse and violence, in particular to all vulnerable groups, and calls
upon all States parties to take all necessary measures to ensure the right of all children, without discrimination, to
the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health in accordance with article 24 of the Convention;
16.
Also calls upon all States to give support and rehabilitation to children and their families
affected by HIV/AIDS and to involve children and their caregivers, as well as the private sector, to ensure the
effective prevention of HIV infections through correct information and access to voluntary and confidential care,
treatment and testing, including pharmaceutical products and medical technologies, affordable to all, giving due
importance to the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of the virus;
Education
17.
Calls upon all States:
(a)
To recognize the right to education on the basis of equal opportunity by making primary
education free and compulsory for all, without discrimination and ensuring that all children, including girls,
children in need of special protection, children with disabilities, indigenous children, children belonging to
minorities and children from different ethnic origins, have access without discrimination to education of good
quality, as well as making secondary education generally available and accessible for all, in particular by the
progressive introduction of free education, bearing in mind that special measures to ensure equal access,
including affirmative action, contribute to achieving equal opportunity and combating exclusion, and that the
education of the child is carried out and that States parties develop and implement programmes for the education
of the child in accordance with articles 28 and 29 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child;
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