A/HRC/RES/19/37
Eradication of poverty
35.
Calls upon States and the international community to support, cooperate and
participate in the intensification of global efforts for poverty eradication at the global,
regional and country levels by, inter alia, accelerating progress towards all development and
poverty reduction goals, as set out in the Millennium Declaration and reaffirmed during its
review, so as to ensure the realization of the rights of the child;
36.
Calls upon States to ensure that all efforts to achieve child poverty-related
international development goals by and beyond 2015 are guided by the obligations and
commitments of States to respect, protect and fulfil human rights;
Right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health
37.
Calls upon all States:
(a)
To take all necessary measures to ensure that the right of the child to life,
survival and the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
is promoted and protected, without any kind of discrimination, including through the
development and implementation of laws, strategies and policies, gender-responsive
budgeting and resource allocation, and adequate investment in health systems, including
comprehensive and integrated primary health care, and in the health work force, including
in efforts to achieve health-related international development goals by and beyond 2015,
and to ensure access to adequate food and nutrition, safe drinking water and sanitation;
(b)
To address, as a matter of priority, the vulnerabilities faced by children
affected by and living with HIV, by providing those children, their families and caregivers
with support and rehabilitation, including social and psychological rehabilitation and care,
including paediatric services and medicines, by intensifying efforts to develop tools for
early diagnosis, child-friendly medicine combinations and new treatments for children,
particularly for infants living in resource-limited settings, and by accelerating efforts
towards the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of the virus;
(c)
To ensure confidentiality and informed consent in the provision of health care
and services, in particular with regard to sexual and reproductive health, to children and
adolescents, according to their evolving capacities;
Right to education
38.
Also calls upon all States:
(a)
To recognize and ensure the realization of the right to education on the basis
of equal opportunity and non-discrimination by making primary education available, free
and compulsory for all children, ensuring that all children have access to good-quality
education from an early age, and making secondary education generally available and
accessible for all, in particular by the progressive introduction of free education, bearing in
mind that special measures to ensure equal access, including affirmative action, contribute
to achieving equal opportunity and combating exclusion;
(b)
To ensure children’s education is restored in emergency situations, and that
disaster risk reduction strategies take into due account the right of the child to education;
(c)
To design and implement programmes to provide pregnant adolescents and
adolescent mothers with education, social services and support, to enable them to continue
and complete their education and ensure that they are not discriminated against;
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