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22. Reaffirms that the primary responsibility for ensuring an enabling
environment for securing the well-being of children, in which the rights of each and
every child are promoted and respected, rests with each individual State;
23. Calls upon all States and the international community to mobilize all
necessary resources, support and efforts to eradicate poverty, according to national
plans and strategies and in consultation with national Governments, including
through an integrated and multifaceted approach based on the rights and well-being
of children, and to continue their efforts to realize the internationally agreed
development and poverty eradication goals, including the Millennium Development
Goals;
Right to education
24. Recognizes the right to education on the basis of equal opportunity and
non-discrimination by making primary education compulsory and available free to
all children, ensuring that all children have access to education of good quality, as
well as making secondary education generally available and accessible to all, in
particular through 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, and ensuring school
attendance, in particular for girls and children from low-income families in order to
achieve the objectives of Education for All, with the aim of realizing millennium
development goal 2;
25. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Special Rapporteur on
the right to education, 20 which is devoted to the right to inclusive education of
persons with disabilities, and in this context calls upon States to consider carefully
the recommendations contained therein, namely, to take steps towards ensuring an
effective inclusive education system;
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Right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health
26.
Calls upon States:
(a) To take all necessary measures to ensure the right of the child to the
enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and to develop sustainable
health systems and social services, ensuring access to such systems and services
without discrimination, paying special attention to adequate food and nutrition and
combating disease and malnutrition, to access to safe drinking water and sanitation,
to the special needs of male and female adolescents and to reproductive and sexual
health, and securing appropriate prenatal and post-natal care for mothers, including
measures to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and in this context to
realize millennium development goals 4, 5 and 6;
(b) To assign priority to developing and implementing activities and
programmes aimed at treating and preventing addictions, in particular addiction to
alcohol and tobacco, and the abuse of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and
inhalants;
(c) To support adolescents to be able to deal positively and responsibly with
their sexuality in order to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS infection and to
implement measures to increase their capacity to protect themselves from
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