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children 6 and the recommendations made by the Committee on the Rights of the
Child after its two days of general discussion on violence against children; 11
30. Calls upon the Governments of all States, in particular States in which
the death penalty has not been abolished, to comply with the obligations that they
have assumed under relevant provisions of international human rights instruments,
including in particular articles 37 to 40 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
and articles 6 and 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; 12
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Promotion and protection of the rights of children in particularly
vulnerable situations and non-discrimination against children
Plight of children working and/or living on the streets
1.
Calls upon Governments to seek comprehensive solutions to the
problems that cause children to work and/or live on the streets and to implement
appropriate programmes and policies for the protection and the rehabilitation and
reintegration of those children, bearing in mind that such children are particularly
vulnerable to all forms of violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect;
2.
Calls upon all States to ensure that basic social services, notably
education, are provided for children in order to divert them from and to address the
economic imperatives that lead to involvement in harmful, exploitative and abusive
activity;
3.
Strongly urges all Governments to guarantee respect for all human rights
and fundamental freedoms, in particular the right to life, to take urgent and effective
measures to prevent the killing of children working and/or living on the streets, to
combat torture and abusive treatment and violence against them and to bring the
perpetrators to justice;
4.
Calls upon all States to take the situation of children working and/or
living on the streets into account when preparing reports for submission to the
Committee on the Rights of the Child, and encourages the Committee and other
relevant bodies and organizations of the United Nations system, within their existing
mandates, to pay increased attention to the question of children working and/or
living on the streets;
5.
Calls upon the international community to support, through effective
international cooperation, including technical advice and assistance, the efforts of
States to improve the situation of children working and/or living on the streets;
Refugee and internally displaced children
6.
Urges Governments to improve the implementation of policies and
programmes for the protection, care and well-being of refugee and internally
displaced children and for the provision of basic social services, including access to
education, with the necessary international cooperation, in particular with the Office
of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations
Children’s Fund and the Representative of the Secretary-General on internally
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11
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 41 and
corrigendum (A/57/41 and Corr.1), sect. IV.C.
12
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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