A/RES/67/152
Rights of the child
programmes, fostering research, collecting data on the incidence of violence against
children, and developing and introducing child- and gender-sensitive, accessible,
safe and confidential reporting and complaints mechanisms;
(p) To take steps to design and implement preventive and comprehensive
anti-bullying measures, including in educational settings, that address bullying and
peer-directed aggression against children, including against indigenous children,
which could include the training of educators and family members and also raising
awareness of this matter among children;
(q) To take measures to eliminate gender-based violence against and sexual
exploitation and trafficking of indigenous children, and to actively involve
indigenous peoples and their communities in the efforts towards the elimination of
these practices;
(r) To take all appropriate measures to ensure protection and safety for all
children, including indigenous children, during and after situations of risk, including
situations of armed conflict, humanitarian emergencies and natural disasters,
including adopting and implementing programmes to ensure the physical and
psychological recovery and social reintegration of these children and ensure that
such recovery, reintegration and rehabilitation take place in an environment which
fosters the well-being, health, self-respect and dignity of the child;
(s) To develop and implement a comprehensive juvenile justice policy that
includes, where appropriate, interpretation or other proper means to ensure that
indigenous children can understand and be understood, as well as the introduction of
alternative measures allowing for responses to juvenile delinquency for these
children without resorting to judicial procedures;
(t) To take all appropriate measures to ensure that indigenous children are
given the opportunity to be heard on issues directly affecting them, bearing in mind
their evolving capacities, in determining and developing priorities and strategies for
exercising their right to development, in particular in developing and determining
health, housing and other economic and social programmes affecting them, and to
promote indigenous children’s active involvement and effective participation,
including through indigenous peoples’ organizations and/or institutions chosen by
indigenous peoples themselves;
45. Calls upon all Member States, and invites the United Nations system, to
strengthen international cooperation to ensure the realization of the rights of the
child, including for indigenous children, inter alia, by supporting national initiatives
that give more emphasis to the development of indigenous children, as appropriate,
and by reinforcing international cooperation measures in fields of research or on the
transfer of technology such as assistive technologies;
46. Calls upon the relevant entities, funds and programmes of the United
Nations system, donor institutions, including the international financial institutions,
and bilateral donors to support, when requested, national initiatives, including
development programmes for indigenous children, financially and technically, as
well as to enhance effective international cooperation and partnership to strengthen
knowledge-sharing and capacity-building, with particular attention to policy
development, programme development, research and professional training;
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