A/HRC/RES/22/32
26.
Reaffirms the essential role of the General Assembly, the Economic and
Social Council and the Human Rights Council in the promotion and protection of the rights
and welfare of children, including children affected by armed conflict, and takes note of the
Security Council resolutions on children and armed conflict, in particular resolutions 1612
(2005) of 26 July 2005, 1882 (2009) of 4 August 2009 and 1998 (2011) of 12 July 2011,
and of the undertaking by the Security Council to pay special attention to the protection,
welfare and rights of children in armed conflict when taking action aimed at maintaining
peace and security, including provisions for the protection of children in the mandates of
peacekeeping operations, as well as the inclusion of child protection advisers in these
operations;
27.
Calls on parties to armed conflict, consistent with applicable international
law, to refrain from actions that impede the children’s access to health services and, in this
regard, also calls upon such parties to refrain from attacking hospitals and other medical
facilities, as well as medical personnel and the transport of medical supplies, including
through physical attacks, abductions and looting, and further calls upon parties to armed
conflict to respect the prohibition under international humanitarian law of attacks on
schools and hospitals and medical facilities as such, to facilitate humanitarian access to
children in conflict-affected areas;
Non-communicable diseases
28.
Calls upon States and, where relevant, international organizations, civil
society and the private sector to advance the development, strengthening, implementation
and promotion of multi-sectoral, cost-effective, population-wide interventions and policies,
in particular among children and adolescents, in order to reduce the impact of noncommunicable disease risk factors, such as tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity
and harmful use of alcohol, through the development and implementation of relevant
international agreements and strategies, and education, legislative, regulatory and fiscal
measures, where appropriate, by involving all relevant sectors, civil society, communities
and the private sector, without prejudice to the right of sovereign nations to determine and
establish their taxation policies and other policies;
Children affected by HIV/AIDS
29.
Calls on States and all relevant stakeholders to address, as a matter of
priority, the vulnerabilities faced by children affected by and living with HIV by providing
care, support and treatment to those children, their families and caregivers, by promoting
rights-based and child-oriented HIV and AIDS policies and programmes, and protection for
children orphaned and affected by HIV; by involving children and their caregivers, as well
as the private sector, to ensure access to affordable, effective and quality prevention, care
and treatment, including through correct information, access to voluntary and confidential
testing, sexual and reproductive health care, services and education, and access to safe,
affordable, effective, quality and age-appropriate pharmaceutical products and medical
technologies; by intensifying efforts to develop affordable, accessible and quality tools for
early diagnosis, child-friendly combinations and new treatments for children, and
prioritizing prevention of mother-to-child transmission of the virus; and by building, where
needed, and supporting social security systems to protect them;
30.
Takes note of the Global Plan towards the Elimination of New HIV
Infections among Children by 2015 and Keeping Their Mothers Alive: 2011-2015;
Environmental health
31.
Calls on States to, where possible, develop multi-sectoral environmental
health strategies to address the health conditions caused by environmental exposure to
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