A/RES/69/157
Rights of the child
accessing education, health care, adequate nutritious food, sanitation, clean water,
protection and other services necessary for their survival, growth and development;
(d) To take all necessary and effective measures to prevent and eliminate all
forms of discrimination against girls and all forms of violence, including female
infanticide and prenatal sex selection, rape, sexual abuse, forced sterilization and
harmful traditional or customary practices, including female genital mutilation and
child, early and forced marriage, by enacting and enforcing legislation and, where
appropriate, by formulating comprehensive, multidisciplinary and coordinated
national plans, programmes or strategies to protect girls, as well as by promoting
awareness-raising and social mobilization initiatives for the protection of their
rights;
(e) To eliminate all forms of discrimination against girls and to take
measures to address stereotyped gender roles and other prejudices based on the idea
of the inferiority or the superiority of either of the sexes, and to mainstream in this
context a gender perspective in all development and human rights policies and
programmes related to children and those specific to the girl child;
(f) To take measures to collect and disaggregate relevant information,
including statistical and research data, as appropriate, in order to identify the
barriers faced by children, especially those who are marginalized or in vulnerable
situations, in exercising their rights;
(g) To develop and strengthen the collection, analysis and dissemination of
data for national statistics on children as far as possible and to use data
disaggregated by relevant factors that may lead to disparities and other statistical
indicators at the subnational, national, subregional, regional and international levels
in order to develop and assess social and other policies and programmes so that
economic and social resources are used efficiently and effectively for the full
realization of the rights of the child;
(h) 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, which could include the training of
educators and family members and also raising awareness of this matter among
children;
(i) To take all necessary measures to ensure universal access to birth
registration of all children immediately after birth, including those living in remote
areas, by, inter alia, removing barriers that impede their registration, moving
towards the provision of free birth registration, ensuring the existence of a simple,
effective, expeditious and accessible birth registration system, including late birth
registration, ensuring the right of every child to a name and the right to acquire a
nationality, respecting the selection by parents of a name of their own choosing,
respecting the child’s preservation of his or her identity and, as far as possible,
protecting the child’s knowing and being cared for by his or her parents;
(j) In accordance with article 7 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child,
to continuously raise awareness of the importance of birth registration at the
national, regional and local levels, to ensure free or low-fee late birth registration, to
ensure that all legal and procedural impediments to the registration of children who
reside in a State party are addressed and to ensure that children who have not been
registered enjoy their human rights and have access without discrimination to health
care, quality education, protection from violence, safe drinking water and sanitation
and other basic services;
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