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recognized as having infringed penal law, as well as children of persons alleged to
have infringed or recognized as having infringed penal law;
28. Encourages continued regional and cross-regional efforts, the sharing of
best practices and the provision of technical assistance in the field of juvenile
justice, acknowledges in this regard the holding of the World Congress on Juvenile
Justice in Geneva, from 26 to 30 January 2015, and noting with interest its final
declaration;
29. Encourages States to develop and implement a comprehensive juvenile
justice policy to protect and address the needs of children in contact with the law,
with a view to promoting, inter alia, a commitment to improving the quality of
education available to children placed in alternative care and within the juvenile
justice system, crime prevention programmes, the use of alternative measures, such
as diversion, restorative justice and community-based programmes that focus on the
rehabilitation and reintegration of the child, and ensuring compliance with the
principle that deprivation of liberty of children should be used only as a measure of
last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time, as well as to avoid,
wherever possible, the use of pretrial detention for children;
Prevention and eradication of the sale of children, child prostitution
and child pornography
30. Reaffirms paragraph 58 of its resolution 68/147, and calls upon all States
to prevent, criminalize, prosecute and punish all forms of the sale and trafficking of
children, including for the purposes of removal of organs of the child for profit,
child slavery, and the sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution
and child pornography, with the aim of eradicating those pra ctices 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 rights
and needs of victims effectively and take effective measures against the
criminalization of children who are victims of exploitation;
Children affected by armed conflict
31. Reaffirms paragraphs 59 to 70 of its resolution 68/147, condemns in the
strongest terms all violations and abuses committed against children in armed
conflict, and in this regard urges all States and other parties to armed conflict that
are engaged, in contravention of applicable international 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, acknowledging that sexual violence in these
situations disproportionately affects girls, in recurrent attacks on schools and/or
hospitals and related personnel, and in patterns of abduction of children, as well as
in all other violations and abuses against children, to take time -bound and effective
measures to end and prevent them, and takes note in this regard of the adoption of
Security Council resolution 2225 (2015) of 18 June 2015;
32. Urges all States, United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, other
relevant international and regional organizations and civil society to giv e serious
attention to, and to protect and assist child victims of, all violations and abuses
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