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Rights of the child 2005, para. 14b
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- [Calls upon all States:] To investigate and submit cases of torture and other forms of violence against children to the competent authorities for the purpose of prosecution and to impose appropriate disciplinary or penal sanctions against those responsible for such practices;
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- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of the child 2005, para. 12
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- Reaffirming the interrelatedness of all human rights and the necessity of taking into account the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, to promote and protect the rights of the child,
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Children
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of the child 2004, para. 42c
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- [Calls upon States:] To take all feasible measures to prevent recruitment and use of children by armed groups, as distinct from the armed forces of a State, including the adoption of legal measures necessary to prohibit and criminalize such practices;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2004, para. 23
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- Also calls upon all States to investigate and submit cases of torture and other forms of violence against children to the competent authorities for the purpose of prosecution and to impose appropriate disciplinary or penal sanctions against those responsible for such practices;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2004, para. 20
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- Reaffirming the interrelatedness of all human rights and the necessity of taking into account the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, to promote and protect the rights of the child,
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Children
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of the child 2005, para. 39a
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- [Calls upon:] All States and other parties to armed conflict to respect fully international humanitarian law and, in this regard, calls upon States parties to respect fully the provisions of the Geneva Conventions, of 12 August 1949, and the Additional Protocols thereto of 8 June 1977;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2005, para. 3
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- Urges States that have not yet done so to consider signing and ratifying or acceding to the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the involvement of children in armed conflict and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2005, para. 1
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- Reaffirms that the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration in all actions concerning children, and reaffirms also the general principles of, inter alia, non discrimination, participation, and survival and development;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2004, para. 47
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- Also encourages States to promote actions for the social reintegration of children in difficult situations, considering, inter alia, views, skills and capacities that these children have developed in the conditions in which they lived and, where appropriate, with their meaningful participation;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Rights of the child 2004, para. 44a
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- [Calls upon:] All States and other parties to armed conflict to respect fully international humanitarian law and, in this regard, calls upon States parties to respect fully the provisions of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and the Additional Protocols thereto of 1977;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2004, para. 40
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- Stresses the continuing importance of the Plan of Action on Children Affected by Armed Conflict of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and the resolution on this subject adopted at the twenty seventh International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2005, para. 38b
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- [Calls upon States:] To take all feasible measures to prevent recruitment and use of children by armed groups, as distinct from the armed forces of a State, including the adoption of legal measures necessary to prohibit and criminalize such practice, and the adoption of measures to prevent re recruitment, in particular education;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2005, para. 30
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- Encourages States to promote actions, including through bilateral and multilateral technical cooperation and financial assistance, for the social reintegration of children in difficult situations, considering, inter alia, views, skills, and capacities that these children have developed in the conditions in which they lived and, where appropriate, with their meaningful participation;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2005, para. 29
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- Urges all States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying and implementing the Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999 (No. 182) and the Convention concerning the Minimum Age for Employment, 1973 (No. 138) of the International Labour Organization, and calls upon States parties to these instruments to implement them fully and to comply in a timely manner with their reporting obligations;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2005, para. 27c
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- [Calls upon all States:] To ensure compliance with the principle that depriving children of their liberty should be used only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate time, in particular before trial, recalling the prohibition of life imprisonment without possibility of release;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2005, para. 21a
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- [Calls upon all States to take all necessary measures, including legal reforms where appropriate:] To ensure the full and equal enjoyment by girls of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, to take effective actions against violations of those rights and freedoms, and to base programmes and policies on the rights of the child, taking into account the special situation of girls;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2005, para. 9
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- Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations mechanisms, including human rights mechanisms, and all relevant organs of the United Nations system, to incorporate a strong child-rights perspective throughout all activities in the fulfilment of their mandates, as well as to ensure that their staff is trained in child protection matters, and calls upon States to cooperate closely with them;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2005, para. 5
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- Also calls upon States parties to strengthen relevant governmental structures for children, including, where appropriate, ministers in charge of child issues and independent commissioners for the rights of the child, and ensure adequate and systematic training in the rights of the child for professional groups working with and for children;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2005, para. 1
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- Emphasizing the importance of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and that its provisions and other relevant human rights instruments must constitute the standard in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, and bearing in mind the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the involvement of children in armed conflict,
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2004, para. 42b
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- [Calls upon States:] When ratifying the Optional Protocol, to raise the minimum age for voluntary recruitment of persons into their national armed forces from that set out in article 38, paragraph 3, of the Convention, bearing in mind that under the Convention persons under 18 years of age are entitled to special protection, and to adopt safeguards to ensure that such recruitment is not forced or coerced;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2004, para. 34
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- Urges all States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying and implementing the Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999 (No. 182) and the Convention concerning the Minimum Age for Employment, 1973 (No. 138) of the International Labour Organization and calls upon States parties to these instruments to implement them fully and to comply in a timely manner with their reporting obligations;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2004, para. 27a
- Paragraph text
- [Calls upon all States to take all necessary measures, including legal reforms where appropriate:] To ensure the full and equal enjoyment by girls of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, to take effective actions against violations of those rights and freedoms, and to base programmes and policies on the rights of the child, taking into account the special situation of girls;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2004, para. 17f
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- [Calls upon all States:] To ensure that children, from an early age, benefit from education and from participation in activities which develop respect for human rights and to emphasize the practice of non violence towards oneself and others, with the aim of instilling in them the values and goals of a culture of peace, and invites States to develop national strategies for human rights education which are comprehensive, participatory and effective;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2004, para. 13
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- Reaffirms that investments in favour of children and the realization of their rights contribute to their social and economic development and are among the most effective ways to eradicate poverty in the long term, and therefore encourages States, inter alia, to allocate financial resources particularly in areas that contribute to the development of children in a holistic manner;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2004, para. 8a
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- [Calls upon States parties:] To ensure that the members of the Committee on the Rights of the Child are of high moral standing and recognized competence in the field covered by the Convention, serving in their personal capacity, consideration being given to equitable geographical distribution, as well as to the principal legal systems;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2004, para. 5a
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- [Urges States parties to take all appropriate measures for the implementation of the rights recognized in the Convention, bearing in mind article 4 of the Convention, by:] Strengthening relevant governmental structures for children, including, where appropriate, ministers in charge of child issues and independent commissioners for the rights of the child;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2004, para. 2
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- Urges States that have not yet done so to consider signing and ratifying or acceding to the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the involvement of children in armed conflict and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and calls upon States parties to implement them fully, in accordance with the best interests of the child;
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2004, para. 7
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- Taking note of the issuance by the Committee on the Rights of the Child of general comment No. 3 (2003) on HIV/AIDS and the rights of the child, general comment No. 4 (2003) on adolescent health and development in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and general comment No. 5 (2003) on general measures of implementation of the Convention (arts. 4, 42 and 44, para. 6),
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2004, para. 4
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- Reaffirming also the outcome document of the twenty seventh special session of the General Assembly on children entitled "A world fit for children", annexed to its resolution S 27/2 of 10 May 2002, and the firm commitments contained therein to promote and protect the rights of each child every human being below the age of 18 years and the integration of child rights issues into the outcome documents of all major United Nations conferences, special sessions and summits,
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Rights of the child 2004, para. 3
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- Reaffirming the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of the Child and the Plan of Action for the Implementation of the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of the Child in the 1990s adopted in September 1990 by the World Summit for Children (A/45/625, annex), the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted in June 1993 by the World Conference on Human Rights (A/CONF.157/23),
- Body
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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