Rights of the child
A/RES/69/157
(k) To design and implement programmes to provide pregnant adolescents
and adolescent mothers with education, including access to quality education, social
services and support, to enable them to continue and complete their education and
protect them from discrimination, as well as to ensure a healthy and safe pregnancy;
(l) To develop and implement educational programmes and teaching
materials, including comprehensive evidence-based education on human sexuality,
based on full and accurate information, for all adolescents and youth, in a manner
consistent with their evolving capacities, with appropriate direction and guidance
from parents and legal guardians, with the involvement of children, adolescents,
youth and communities, and in coordination with women’s, youth and specialized
non-governmental organizations, in order to modify the social and cultural patterns
of conduct of men and women of all ages, to eliminate prejudices and to promote
and build decision-making, communication and risk reduction skills for the
development of respectful relationships based on gender equality and human rights,
as well as teacher education and training programmes for both formal and nonformal education;
(m) To take all measures necessary to ensure that children enjoy the right to
the highest attainable standard of health, in keeping with existing obligations,
including by ensuring that all children and adolescents have access to quality, free
or affordable, gender-sensitive, appropriate health-care services, including
age-appropriate health-care programmes in the area of sexual and reproductive
health, taking into account the needs and evolving capacities of the child;
(n) To adopt legislative and other appropriate measures, including crosssectoral approaches, to ensure the full realization by all children of the right to
education, 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 to take all appropriate measures to make
all other levels and all forms of education available and accessible to all children
without discrimination;
(o) To take all appropriate measures to ensure protection and safety for all
children, including the prevention of sexual abuse and exploitation, during and after
situations of risk, situations of armed conflict, humanitarian emergencies and
natural disasters, by adopting and implementing prevention and response
programmes, including those related to the recruitment of children by armed forces
and armed groups in contravention of applicable international law, to ensure the
physical and psychological recovery, family reunification 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;
49. 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 the most marginalized and excluded children, inter alia, by
supporting national initiatives that give more emphasis to the development of the
most marginalized and excluded children, as appropriate, and by reinforcing
international cooperation measures in fields of research or on the transfer of
technology such as assistive technologies;
50. Calls upon the relevant entities, funds and programmes of the United
Nations system, and invites the international financial and donor institutions and
bilateral donors, to support, when requested, national initiatives, including
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