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(c) To introduce legal and policy measures that promote effective
interventions to improve the quality of relationships between young children
and parents, to promote the competence of parents and to equip and support
them with skills for bringing up young children in a non-violent way;
(d) To ban corporal punishment of children in all settings, including in
families, and to continue informing parents, policymakers and the general
public that corporal punishment of children as well as all other forms of
violence are against human rights and have serious detrimental effects on the
health and development of young children;
(e) To initiate, support and sustain changes in child health-care policies
and services so that the right of young children to healthy development is fully
recognized;
(f) To promote the development and practical application of appropriate
indicators and benchmarks to monitor progress in the realization of the right to
health in early childhood, including in the areas of emotional and social
development;
(g) To equip primary health-care and paediatric services not only with
modern lifesaving medicines and vaccines, but also with knowledge and
effective and culturally appropriate interventions based on research in
neuroscience, psychology, developmental paediatrics and child psychiatry;
(h) To train health and other professionals working with children on
human rights, including on early child development and the impact of quality
relationships on physical and mental health during childhood and throughout
life;
(i) To disseminate the technical guidance on the application of a human
rights-based approach to the implementation of policies and programmes to
reduce and eliminate preventable mortality and morbidity of children under
5 years of age to all relevant government sectors and ensure its systematic
application in the development, implementation and review of laws, policies,
budgets and programmes;
(j) To continue to implement the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of
Children and to eliminate long-term placement of young children in institutional
care;
(k) To eliminate institutional care for children during the first five years
of life and promote investments in community-based services for families at
risk, including for families living in poverty and those with young children with
developmental and other disabilities;
(l) To comply fully with the standards contained in the Convention on
the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and eliminate outdated practices based
on institutional care and excessive medication of young children with
developmental and other disabilities;
(m) To prohibit discrimination against intersex people, including by
banning unnecessary medical or surgical treatment, and adopt measures to
overcome discriminatory attitudes and practices through awareness-raising,
training for public officials and medical professionals and the elaboration of
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