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promoted and protected, without any kind of discrimination, including through the
enactment and implementation of laws, strategies and policies, gender- and childresponsive budgeting and resource allocation, and adequate investment in health systems,
including comprehensive and integrated primary health care, including in efforts to achieve
Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 and in the health work force;
3.
Reaffirms the right of the child to express their views freely in all matters and
decisions affecting their health, and that those views should be given due weight in
accordance with their evolving capacities, and calls upon States to provide disability-,
gender- and age-sensitive assistance to enable active and equal participation of all children;
4.
Calls upon States to ensure the enjoyment by all children of all their civil,
cultural, economic, political and social rights without discrimination of any kind, and to
take effective and appropriate measures to ensure the right of all children to the enjoyment
of the highest attainable standard of health, on an equal basis with others, as well as access
to quality, affordable and equitable health care and social services, without discrimination
of any kind, and to ensure that all such children, in particular victims of violence and
exploitation, receive special protection and assistance;
5.
Reaffirms the responsibilities, rights and duties of parents or, where
applicable, the members of the extended family or community as provided for by local
custom, legal guardians or other persons legally responsible for the child, to provide, in a
manner consistent with the evolving capacities of the child, appropriate direction and
guidance in the exercise by the child of their rights;
6.
Urges States to enforce law and judicial procedures in a child-friendly way,
including guaranteeing that remedies are available to children when rights are violated;
7.
Calls upon States to ensure that children have access to relevant information,
education, counselling and services to be able to make informed choices concerning
behaviour that may represent a risk to their health and development;
8.
Urges all States to ensure birth registration free of cost to all children
immediately after birth through universal, accessible, simple, expeditious and effective
registration procedures, in accordance with article 7 of the Convention on the Rights of the
Child and article 24 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to
continuously raise awareness of the importance of birth registration at the national, regional
and local levels, to ensure free or low-fee late birth registration, to identify and remove
physical, administrative, procedural and any other barriers, paying due attention to, among
others, those barriers relating to poverty, disability, gender, nationality, displacement,
statelessness, illiteracy and detention contexts, and to persons in vulnerable situations that
impede access to birth registration, including late birth registration, and to ensure that
children who have not been registered enjoy their human rights;
9.
Calls upon States to strengthen their international commitment, cooperation
and mutual assistance with the objective of fully realizing the right of the child to the
highest attainable standard of health, including through the sharing of good practices,
research, policies, monitoring and capacity-building;
II.
Health issues relating to children requiring special attention
Maternal and child mortality and morbidity
10.
Affirms the importance of applying a human rights-based approach to
reducing and eliminating preventable maternal and child mortality and morbidity, and
requests all States to renew their political commitment in that respect at all levels, and also
calls upon States, in adopting a human rights-based approach, especially to scale up efforts
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