Rights of the child A/RES/67/152 children, as enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,4 reaffirms paragraphs 31 to 45 of its resolution 66/141, and urges all States to implement the measures set out in paragraph 43 of the same resolution; III Rights of indigenous children 33. Reaffirms that indigenous children are holders of all rights enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child; 34. Also reaffirms the right of indigenous children, in community with other members of their group, to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practise their own religion or belief and to use their own language; 35. Reaffirms its commitment to actively promoting the objectives of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,9 which provides important guidance on the rights of indigenous peoples and individuals, including specific reference to the rights of indigenous children in a number of areas; 36. Recognizes that the full realization of children’s rights requires the adoption and implementation of comprehensive policies and programmes for all children, including indigenous children; 37. Also recognizes the importance for indigenous children to learn and transmit their cultures, to practise and revitalize their cultural traditions and customs and to use and transmit their histories, languages, oral traditions, philosophies, writing systems and literatures; 38. Further recognizes that indigenous children often face multiple forms of discrimination and that discrimination against and exploitation of indigenous children, particularly girls, including economic exploitation, harm their quality of life and may reduce their survival prospects, and expresses grave concern that indigenous children face violations of their human rights as well as discriminatory and attitudinal barriers to their participation and inclusion in society; 39. Calls upon States to take all appropriate measures to ensure that indigenous children are protected against all forms of discrimination and exploitation, which can be harmful to the child’s physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social development; 40. Reaffirms that the eradication of poverty is essential to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and the full realization of the rights of all children, including for indigenous children, and expresses deep concern that high levels of malnutrition and preventable diseases continue to be major obstacles to the realization of these rights, in particular the right to life and the right to food, and to the ability of the child to develop, and also recognizes the need to reduce child mortality and ensure comprehensive child development; 41. Calls upon States to take all appropriate measures to safeguard the realization of the right to education for indigenous children, including their access to quality education, on the basis of equal opportunity, in a manner conducive to their fullest possible social inclusion and individual development, including through the provision of compulsory primary education that is available free to all and, when possible, is provided in their own language, and to take all appropriate measures to make all other levels and all forms of education available and accessible to indigenous children without discrimination; 9/14