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To achieve these goals, we will implement the following strategies and actions:
General protection
1.
Develop systems to ensure the registration of every child at or shortly after
birth, and fulfil his or her right to acquire a name and a nationality, in accordance
with national laws and relevant international instruments.
2.
Encourage all countries to adopt and enforce laws, and improve the
implementation of policies and programmes to protect children from all forms of
violence, neglect, abuse and exploitation, whether at home, in school or other
institutions, in the workplace, or in the community.
3.
Adopt special measures to eliminate discrimination against children on the
basis of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national,
ethnic or social origin, property, disability, birth or other status, and ensure their
equal access to education, health and basic social services.
4.
End impunity for all crimes against children by bringing perpetrators to justice
and publicizing the penalties for such crimes.
5.
Take steps with a view to the avoidance of and refrain from any unilateral
measure not in accordance with international law and the Charter of the United
Nations that impedes the full achievement of economic and social development by
the population of the affected countries, in particular children and women, that
hinders their well-being and that creates obstacles to the full enjoyment of their
human rights, including the right of everyone to a standard of living adequate for
their health and well-being and their right to food, medical care and the necessary
social services. Ensure that food and medicine are not used as tools for political
pressure.
6.
Raise awareness about the illegality and harmful consequences of failing to
protect children from violence, abuse and exploitation.
7.
Promote the establishment of prevention, support and caring services as well as
justice systems specifically applicable to children, taking into account the principles
of restorative justice and fully safeguard children’s rights and provide specially
trained staff to promote children’s reintegration in society.
8.
Protect children from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
or punishment. Call upon the Governments of all States, in particular States in which
the death penalty has not been abolished, to comply with the obligations they have
assumed under relevant provisions of international human rights instruments,
including in particular articles 37 and 40 of the Convention on the Rights of the
Child and articles 6 and 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights.11
9.
End harmful traditional or customary practices, such as early and forced
marriage and female genital mutilation, which violate the rights of children and
women.
10. Establish mechanisms to provide special protection and assistance to children
without primary caregivers.
11. Adopt and implement policies for the prevention, protection, rehabilitation and
reintegration, as appropriate, of children living in disadvantaged social situations and
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See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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