A/70/213 (c) To introduce legal and policy measures that promote effective interventions to improve the quality of relationships between young children and parents, to promote the competence of parents and to equip and support them with skills for bringing up young children in a non-violent way; (d) To ban corporal punishment of children in all settings, including in families, and to continue informing parents, policymakers and the general public that corporal punishment of children as well as all other forms of violence are against human rights and have serious detrimental effects on the health and development of young children; (e) To initiate, support and sustain changes in child health-care policies and services so that the right of young children to healthy development is fully recognized; (f) To promote the development and practical application of appropriate indicators and benchmarks to monitor progress in the realization of the right to health in early childhood, including in the areas of emotional and social development; (g) To equip primary health-care and paediatric services not only with modern lifesaving medicines and vaccines, but also with knowledge and effective and culturally appropriate interventions based on research in neuroscience, psychology, developmental paediatrics and child psychiatry; (h) To train health and other professionals working with children on human rights, including on early child development and the impact of quality relationships on physical and mental health during childhood and throughout life; (i) To disseminate the technical guidance on the application of a human rights-based approach to the implementation of policies and programmes to reduce and eliminate preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age to all relevant government sectors and ensure its systematic application in the development, implementation and review of laws, policies, budgets and programmes; (j) To continue to implement the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children and to eliminate long-term placement of young children in institutional care; (k) To eliminate institutional care for children during the first five years of life and promote investments in community-based services for families at risk, including for families living in poverty and those with young children with developmental and other disabilities; (l) To comply fully with the standards contained in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and eliminate outdated practices based on institutional care and excessive medication of young children with developmental and other disabilities; (m) To prohibit discrimination against intersex people, including by banning unnecessary medical or surgical treatment, and adopt measures to overcome discriminatory attitudes and practices through awareness-raising, training for public officials and medical professionals and the elaboration of 24/25 15-12535

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