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by the security forces, law enforcement authorities, employees and officials in alternative
care settings, detention centres or welfare institutions, including orphanages, giving priority
to the gender dimension, and to address its underlying causes through a systematic,
comprehensive and multi-sectoral approach, and also urges States to equip their health
systems and to provide training to health workers as well as to school workers to identify
and to report cases of violence, and also to provide child-sensitive and confidential
counselling, reporting and complaint mechanisms and recovery, rehabilitation and
reintegration services to child victims;
21.
Calls upon all States to protect children deprived of their liberty from torture
and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and to ensure that, if they
are arrested, detained or imprisoned, children are provided with adequate legal assistance
and that they have the right to maintain contact with their family through correspondence
and visits from the moment they are arrested, save in exceptional circumstances, and that
no child is sentenced or subject to forced labour or corporal punishment, or deprived of
access to and provision of health care and services, hygiene and environmental sanitation,
education, basic instruction and vocational training, and to undertake prompt investigations
of all reported acts of violence and ensure that perpetrators are held accountable;
Harmful practices
22.
Calls upon States to take all necessary measures to abolish harmful practices
compromising the dignity and integrity of the child, and prejudicial to the health of boys
and girls, particularly by preventing and explicitly condemning such practices including but
not limited to female infanticide, female genital mutilation, virginity tests, early and forced
marriage, forced sterilization, prenatal sex selection, breast ironing and harmful practices
against children with disabilities and children with albinism, and to develop ageappropriate, gender-sensitive, safe and confidential programmes and medical, social and
psychological support services to protect, treat, counsel and reintegrate child victims;
23.
Urges States to ensure a clear ban on harmful practices, which should be
accompanied by preventive measures that should include education, information-sharing,
enhancement of awareness and engaging stakeholders, including community and religious
leaders, for promoting the abandonment of those practices and respect for children’s rights,
helping to overcome discriminatory attitudes and superstitious beliefs, thus supporting a
process of social change for the abandonment of harmful practices that compromise the
dignity and integrity of the child and are prejudicial to the health of boys and girls;
Injuries and accidents
24.
Calls on States to reduce the burden of child injuries, and to adopt measures
to reduce road traffic accidents, drowning, burns and other accidents in the home;
Children affected by armed conflict
25.
Calls upon all States and other parties to armed conflict to respect fully
international humanitarian law, and condemns in the strongest terms all violations of
applicable international law committed against children in armed conflict involving the
recruitment and use of children, killing or maiming, rape or other sexual violence,
abduction, attacks against schools and hospitals, denial of humanitarian access and the
forced displacement of children and their families, and urges all parties to armed conflict to
end all violations that affect their physical and psychological well-being and to seek to end
impunity for perpetrators by ensuring rigorous investigation and prosecution of crimes
committed, taking into account transitional justice measures;
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