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Children working and/or living on the street
22.
Calls upon all States to take a holistic and gender-based approach to the
protection and promotion of the rights of children working and/or living on the street in
order to prevent violations of their rights, including discrimination, arbitrary detention and
extrajudicial, arbitrary and summary execution, torture, all kinds of violence and
exploitation, and human trafficking, and to bring the perpetrators to justice, to adopt and
implement policies for the protection, social and psychosocial rehabilitation and
reintegration of those children, and to adopt economic, social and educational strategies to
address the problems of children working and/or living on the street;
Refugee and internally displaced children
23.
Also calls upon all States to comply with their obligations as assumed under
relevant provisions of international law, and to protect refugee, asylum-seeking and
internally displaced children, in particular those who are unaccompanied and who are
particularly exposed to risks in connection with armed conflict and post-conflict situations,
such as recruitment, sexual violence and exploitation; to pay particular attention to
programmes for voluntary repatriation and, wherever possible, local integration and
resettlement, to give priority to family tracing and reunification; and, where appropriate, to
cooperate with international humanitarian and refugee organizations;
Freedom from violence
24.
Encourages States to implement the recommendations made in the United
Nations study on violence against children,12 building upon the follow-up process promoted
by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children, urging
them to prioritize prevention in order to address the serious incidence and long-term impact
of all forms of violence against children perpetrated throughout the world, in their homes
and families, in schools and other education centres, in care and justice systems,
workplaces and in communities;
25.
Notes with appreciation the consolidated partnerships promoted by the
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children in
coordination with national Governments, United Nations agencies, regional organizations,
human rights bodies and mechanisms and representatives of civil society, and with the
participation of children;
26.
Calls upon all States and invites United Nations entities and agencies,
regional organizations and civil society, including non-governmental organizations, to
cooperate with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against
children in promoting further implementation of the recommendations made in the United
Nations study on violence against children, and encourages States to provide support to the
Special Representative, including adequate and predictable financial support, for the
continued, effective and independent performance of her mandate, as set out by the General
Assembly in its resolution 62/141 of 18 December 2007, and invites the private sector to
provide voluntary contributions for that purpose;
27.
Calls upon States to take effective and appropriate legislative and other
measures or, where they already exist, to strengthen legislation and policy to prohibit and
eliminate all forms of violence against children in all settings;
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