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combat torture and abusive treatment and violence against them and to bring the
perpetrators to justice;
4.
Calls upon all States to take the situation of children working and/or
living on the streets into account when preparing reports for submission to the
Committee on the Rights of the Child, and encourages the Committee and other
relevant bodies and organizations of the United Nations system, within their existing
mandates, to pay increased attention to the question of children working and/or
living on the streets;
5.
Calls upon the international community to support, through effective
international cooperation, including technical advice and assistance, the efforts of
States to improve the situation of children working and/or living on the streets;
Refugee and internally displaced children
6.
Urges Governments to improve the implementation of policies and
programmes for the protection, care and well-being of refugee and internally
displaced children and for the provision of basic social services, including access to
education, with the necessary international cooperation, in particular with the Office
of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations
Children’s Fund and the Representative of the Secretary-General on internally
displaced persons, in accordance with the obligations of States under the Convention
on the Rights of the Child;2
7.
Calls upon all States and other parties to armed conflict, as well as
United Nations bodies and organizations, to give urgent attention, in terms of
protection and assistance, to the fact that refugee and internally displaced children
are particularly exposed to risks in connection with armed conflict, such as being
forcibly recruited or subjected to sexual violence, abuse or exploitation;
8.
Expresses its deep concern about the growing number of unaccompanied
and/or separated refugee and internally displaced children, and calls upon all States
and United Nations bodies and agencies and other relevant organizations to give
priority to programmes for family tracing and reunification and to continue to
monitor the care arrangements for unaccompanied and/or separated refugee and
internally displaced children;
Children with disabilities
9.
Encourages the working group on the rights of children with disabilities
established pursuant to the decision of the Committee on the Rights of the Child to
put into practice as soon as possible the recommendations arising from the day of
general discussion on the rights of children with disabilities, held on 6 October
1997, 10 including the drafting of a plan of action on children with disabilities, in
close cooperation with the Special Rapporteur of the Commission for Social
Development on Disability and other relevant parts of the United Nations system;
10. Calls upon all States to take all necessary measures to ensure the full and
equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by children with
disabilities, and to develop and enforce legislation against their discrimination so as
10
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-third Session, Supplement No. 41 (A/53/41),
sect. IV.C.2; and ibid., Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 41 (A/55/41), sect. IV.C.2.
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