freedoms, and to base programmes and policies on the rights of the child, taking into account
the special situation of girls;
(b)
To eliminate all forms of discrimination against girls and all forms of violence,
including female infanticide and prenatal sex selection, rape, sexual abuse and harmful
traditional or customary practices, including female genital mutilation, son preference,
marriages without free and full consent of the intending spouses, early marriages and forced
sterilization, including addressing their root causes, by enacting and enforcing legislation and,
where appropriate, formulating comprehensive, multidisciplinary and coordinated national
plans, programmes or strategies protecting girls;
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 to develop and, where it already exists, to
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 in its deliberations children with disabilities;
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
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