Rights of the child
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Children alleged to have infringed or recognized as having infringed penal law
and children of persons alleged to have infringed or recognized as having
infringed penal law
20. Reaffirms paragraphs 43 to 47 of its resolution 63/241, and calls upon all
States to respect and protect the rights of children alleged to have infringed or
recognized as having infringed penal law, as well as children of persons alleged to
have infringed or recognized as having infringed penal law;
Prevention and eradication of the sale of children, child prostitution
and child pornography
21. Reaffirms paragraphs 48 to 50 of its resolution 63/241, and calls upon all
States to prevent, criminalize, prosecute and punish all forms of the sale of children,
including for the purposes of the transfer of organs of the child for profit, child
slavery, commercial sexual exploitation of children, child prostitution and child
pornography, with the aim of eradicating those practices and the use of the Internet
and other information and communications technologies for these purposes, to
combat the existence of a market that encourages such criminal practices and take
measures to eliminate the demand that fosters them, as well as to address the needs
of victims effectively and take effective measures against the criminalization of
children who are victims of exploitation;
22. Calls upon all States to develop and implement programmes and policies
to protect children, particularly girls, who are at increased risk of violence,
exploitation and abuse, from abuse, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, commercial
sexual exploitation, child prostitution, child pornography, child sex tourism and
child abduction, and calls upon States to implement strategies to locate and assist all
children subject to these violations;
23. Also calls upon all States to enact and enforce necessary legislative or
other measures, in cooperation with relevant stakeholders, to prevent the
distribution over the Internet and in all other media of child pornography, including
depictions of child sexual abuse, ensuring that adequate mechanisms are in place to
enable the reporting and removal of such material and that its creators, distributors
and collectors are prosecuted as appropriate;
Children affected by armed conflict
24. Reaffirms paragraphs 51 to 63 of its resolution 63/241, condemns in the
strongest terms all violations and abuses committed against children affected by
armed conflict, and in this regard urges all States and other parties to armed conflict
that are engaged, in contravention of applicable international law, including
humanitarian law, in the recruitment and use of children, in patterns of killing and
maiming of children and/or rape and other sexual violence against children, and in
recurrent attacks on schools and/or hospitals, as well as in all other violations and
abuses against children, to take time-bound and effective measures to end them, and
urges all States, United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, other relevant
international and regional organizations and civil society to continue to give serious
attention to, and to protect and assist child victims of, all violations and abuses
committed against children in situations of armed conflict, in accordance with
international humanitarian law, including the First to Fourth Geneva Conventions; 31
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