A/RES/51/77
Page 8
III
Refugee and internally displaced children
40.
Urges Governments to pay particular attention to the situation of
refugee and internally displaced children by continuing to design and improve
the implementation of policies for their care and well-being with the
necessary international cooperation, in particular that of the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the United Nations
Children's Fund;
41.
Calls upon States and United Nations bodies, in recognizing the
particular vulnerability of refugee and internally displaced children, to
protect both their safety and their developmental needs, including health,
education and psychosocial rehabilitation;
42.
Calls upon States and United Nations bodies and other
organizations to ensure the early identification and registration of
unaccompanied refugee and internally displaced children and to give priority
to programmes for family tracing and reunification;
43.
Calls for the continual monitoring of the care arrangements of
unaccompanied refugee and internally displaced children;
44.
Calls upon States and other parties to armed conflict to recognize
the particular vulnerability of refugee and internally displaced children to
recruitment into the armed forces and to sexual violence, exploitation and
abuse and to enhance protection and assistance mechanisms;
45.
Calls upon the United Nations Children's Fund and other relevant
United Nations bodies and agencies and governmental and non-governmental
organizations to continue to adopt all necessary measures to ensure the
survival, assistance and protection of internally displaced children;
46.
Stresses the special vulnerability of households headed by
children, and calls upon Governments and United Nations bodies to give urgent
attention to their situation and to develop policy and programme guidelines to
ensure their protection and care, in the best interests of the child;
47.
Also stresses that women and youth be fully involved in the
design, delivery, monitoring and implementation of measures to protect them
from sexual violence and from the recruitment of children into the armed
forces;
IV
Prevention and eradication of the sale of children and of their sexual
exploitation, including child prostitution and child pornography
48.
Welcomes the interim report of the Special Rapporteur of the
Commission on Human Rights on the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography;14
14
A/51/456, annex.
/...