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importance of family and school support for its prevention and the treatment, rehabilitation
and reintegration of children and adolescents with substance abuse issues;
Sexual and reproductive health
17.
Urges States:
(a)
To ensure that the right to the highest attainable standard of sexual and
reproductive health is fully realized by giving full attention to the sexual and reproductive
health needs of children and adolescents, consistent with their evolving capacities, through
providing information, education and services, in accordance with the Beijing Platform for
Action and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and
Development,3 and the outcomes of their review conferences, on an equitable and universal
basis, with their full involvement and the support of the international community, with full
respect for their privacy and confidentiality, free of discrimination, and to provide them
with youth-friendly and evidence-based comprehensive education, consistent with their
evolving capacities, on sexual and reproductive health, human rights and gender equality to
enable them to deal in a positive and responsible way with their sexuality;
(b)
To increase resources at all levels, particularly in the education and health
sectors, so as to enable young people, especially girls, to gain the knowledge, attitudes and
life skills that they need to overcome their challenges, particularly through expanded and
improved family planning services, including the prevention of HIV infection and early
pregnancy, and to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health,
including sexual and reproductive health; and to provide quality services for the
management of complications arising from abortion, and, in circumstances where abortion
is not against the law, training and equipping health service providers and other measures to
ensure that such abortion is safe and accessible;
(c)
To ensure confidentiality and informed consent in the provision of health care
and services, in particular with regard to sexual and reproductive health, to children and
adolescents according to their evolving capacities;
Freedom from violence
18.
Welcomes the renewal by the General Assembly of the mandate of the
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children for a further
period of three years;4
19.
Also welcomes the joint report on prevention and responses to violence
against children within the juvenile justice system of the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General on Violence against Children, the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime,5 and
the report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against
Children;6
20.
Calls upon States to take, as a matter of urgency, all appropriate measures to
identify and prevent and to protect children from all forms of violence in all settings,
including physical, mental and sexual violence, to tackle all forms of bullying, child abuse
and exploitation, domestic violence and neglect, including early and forced marriage, child
trafficking, sale of children, child pornography, child prostitution and violence perpetrated
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General Assembly resolution 67/152.
A/HRC/21/25.
A/HRC/22/55.