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pollutants and other environmental harm, which are affecting children disproportionately,
including through public awareness-raising, education, research, surveillance, testing and
treatment of health conditions caused by environmental threats, with a particular focus on
child health, and to support efforts to highlight the responsibilities of businesses in relation
to environmental health;
32.
Also calls on States to recognize the link between hazardous child labour and
environmental health, and urges measures to end children’s exposure to hazardous
chemicals in activities such as artisanal mining, and to translate into concrete action their
commitment to the progressive and effective elimination of child labour that is likely to be
hazardous, to interfere with children’s education or to be harmful to their health or physical,
mental, spiritual, moral or social development, and to eliminate immediately the worst
forms of child labour;
Palliative care
33.
Further calls on States to promote the full integration of palliative care
services into treatment and support programmes for children with chronic illnesses,
untreatable conditions and/or treatment failures; treatment guidelines for cancer, AIDSrelated complications, neurological and other relevant conditions should include guidance
on the provision of paediatric palliative care; such services should also address the
psychological, social and spiritual needs of the children, their parents or guardians, their
siblings and other relatives, and the adequate training of paediatric palliative care providers;
34.
Calls on States, including through international cooperation, to improve
access to essential, safe, affordable, effective and quality medicines that are controlled
under international or national law, and to strengthen national regulatory systems as they
consider all possible incentives, including regulatory capacity and flexibilities in
guaranteeing access to these essential medicines;
Access to health services and medicines during emergencies
35.
Acknowledges that children are among the most vulnerable affected during
crises, both human-made crises, such as armed conflicts, and natural disasters, and that
those situations can debilitate or destroy the lifelines – health services and medicines, water
supply, power and food supply systems – needed for day-to-day survival, well-being and
growth, with negative health consequences, and requests States, as well as parties to
conflict, to allow and facilitate provision of and non-discriminatory access to emergency
health care;
Children with disabilities
36.
Conscious that there is an estimated number of one hundred and fifty million
children with disabilities around the world, acknowledges that national prevalence rates of
disability are influenced by trends in health conditions, environmental and other factors,
such as road traffic accidents, natural disasters, conflict, diet and substance abuse, and takes
note in this connection of the World report on disability of 2011 by the World Health
Organization and the World Bank;
37.
Calls upon States to ensure the realization of the right to the enjoyment of the
highest attainable standard of health of children with disabilities without discrimination of
any kind, to provide all children with disabilities with the same range, quality and standard
of free or affordable, gender-sensitive and age-appropriate health care and programmes as
provided to other children, to give priority to the child’s well-being and support, and to
facilitate families in their child-care and child-raising efforts; and to develop strategies for
the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence against children with disabilities, as
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