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well as providing those health services required by children with disabilities specifically
because of their disabilities, including early identification and intervention as appropriate,
as well as access to health-related rehabilitation, reintegration and services designed to
minimize and prevent further disabilities, and prevent exclusion on the basis of disability;
states should also develop strategies for the prevention and elimination of all forms of
violence against children with disabilities;
38.
Calls on States to ensure that health professionals provide care on the basis of
free and informed consent by, inter alia, raising awareness of the human rights, dignity,
autonomy and needs of children with disabilities through training and the promulgation of
ethical standards for public and private health care;
39.
Calls upon States parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child to
ensure that children with disabilities have a right to express their views freely on all healthrelated matters affecting them, their views being given due weight in accordance with their
age and maturity, on an equal basis with other children, and are provided with disabilityand age-appropriate assistance to ensure their enjoyment of the right to the highest
attainable standard of health;
Indigenous children
40.
Acknowledges that indigenous boys and girls have an equal right to the
enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health as other
children, and that States shall take the necessary steps with a view to achieving
progressively the full realization of this right;
41.
Calls on States to take effective and appropriate measures to ensure the right
of indigenous children to available, accessible, acceptable and quality health facilities,
goods and health services and programmes, on an equal basis with others, while also taking
into account traditional preventive care, healing practices and medicines, and guaranteeing
protection from violence, and ensuring that indigenous adolescent boys and girls have
access to culturally sensitive and age-appropriate information and education on healthrelated issues that are in an accessible format, including on reproductive health and HIV
prevention;
42.
Also calls on States to ensure that indigenous children have access to the
same range, quality and standard of free or affordable, cultural- and gender-sensitive, and
age-appropriate health care and programmes as provided to other children, and to take
measures, in consultation with indigenous peoples, to promote healthy lives, to eliminate
child and maternal mortality and malnutrition and to develop measures to support those
services inside their communities;
Migrant children
43.
Calls upon all States to ensure for migrant children, as well as for children of
migrant parents, the enjoyment of all human rights of every child within their jurisdiction,
without discrimination of any kind, to provide access to health care, social services and
education of good quality in accordance with domestic laws consistent with applicable
international obligations, and to ensure that migrant children, especially those who are
unaccompanied and those who are victims of violence and exploitation, receive special
protection and assistance, in accordance with their obligations, as reflected in articles 9 and
10 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child;
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