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to ensure dignity, promote self-reliance and facilitate the child’s active participation
in the community, including effective access to educational and health services;
Migrant children
11. Calls upon States to protect all human rights of migrant children, in
particular unaccompanied migrant children, and to ensure that the best interest of the
child shall accordingly be a primary consideration, and encourages the Committee
on the Rights of the Child, the United Nations Children’s Fund and other relevant
United Nations bodies, within their respective mandates, to pay particular attention
to the conditions of migrant children in all States and, as appropriate, to make
recommendations to strengthen their protection;
12. Also calls upon States to cooperate fully with and to assist the Special
Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the human rights of migrants in
addressing the particularly vulnerable conditions of migrant children;
IV
Prevention and eradication of the sale of children and of their sexual exploitation
and abuse, including child prostitution and child pornography
1.
Welcomes the interim report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission
on Human Rights on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, 11
and expresses its support for her work;
2.
Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Special Rapporteur with
all necessary human and financial assistance to enable her to discharge her mandate
fully;
3.
Calls upon States to continue to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur
and to give full consideration to all of her recommendations;
4.
Invites further voluntary contributions through the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and support for the work of the
Special Rapporteur for the effective fulfilment of her mandate;
5.
Welcomes the large number of signatories to the Optional Protocol to the
Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography, 12 and calls upon all States to consider signing and ratifying it as
a matter of priority with a view to its entry into force as soon as possible, bearing in
mind the convening of the special session of the General Assembly to follow up the
World Summit for Children in September 2001;
6.
Reaffirms the obligation of States parties to the Convention on the Rights
of the Child 2 to prevent the abduction of, the sale of or the trafficking in children for
any purpose or in any form, including the transfer of the organs of the child for
profit, and to protect children from all forms of sexual exploitation and abuse, in
accordance with articles 35 and 34 of the Convention;
7.
Calls upon States to take all appropriate steps to combat the misuse of
new information and communication technologies, including the Internet, for
trafficking in children and for purposes of all forms of sexual exploitation and
abuse, in particular the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography,
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See A/55/297.
Resolution 54/263, annex II.
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