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racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, and calls upon
States to provide special support and ensure equal access to services for all children;
22. Calls upon States to take all necessary measures, including legal reforms
where appropriate, to eliminate all forms of discrimination against girls and all
forms of violence, including female infanticide and prenatal sex selection, rape,
sexual abuse and harmful traditional or customary practices, including female
genital mutilation, marriage without the free and full consent of the intending
spouses, early marriage and forced sterilization, by enacting and enforcing
legislation and by formulating, where appropriate, comprehensive, multidisciplinary
and coordinated national plans, programmes or strategies to protect girls;
23. Also calls upon States to take the necessary measures to ensure the full
and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by children with
disabilities in both the public and the private spheres, including access to good
quality education and health care and protection from violence, abuse and neglect,
and to develop and, where it already exists, to enforce legislation to prohibit
discrimination against them in order to ensure their inherent dignity, promote their
self-reliance and facilitate their active participation and integration in the
community, taking into account the particularly difficult situation of children with
disabilities living in poverty;
Promoting and protecting the rights of children, including children in particularly
difficult situations
24. Calls upon all States to prevent violations of the rights of children
working and/or living on the street, including discrimination, arbitrary detention and
extrajudicial, arbitrary or summary executions, torture and all kinds of violence and
exploitation, and to bring the perpetrators to justice, to adopt and implement policies
for the protection, social and psychosocial rehabilitation and reintegration of those
children and to adopt economic, social and educational strategies to address the
problems of children working and/or living on the street;
25. Also calls upon all States to protect refugee, asylum-seeking and
internally displaced children, in particular those who are unaccompanied, who are
particularly exposed to violence and risks in connection with armed conflict, such as
recruitment, sexual violence and exploitation, stressing the need for States as well as
the international community to continue to pay more systematic and in-depth
attention to the special assistance, protection and development needs of those
children through, inter alia, programmes aimed at rehabilitation and physical and
psychological recovery, and to programmes for voluntary repatriation and, wherever
possible, local integration and resettlement, to give priority to family tracing and
family reunification and, where appropriate, to cooperate with international
humanitarian and refugee organizations, including by facilitating their work;
26. Further calls upon all States to ensure, for children belonging to
minorities and vulnerable groups, including migrant children and indigenous
children, the enjoyment of all human rights as well as access to health care, social
services and education on an equal basis with others and to ensure that all such
children, in particular victims of violence and exploitation, receive special
protection and assistance;
27. Calls upon all States to address, as a matter of priority, the vulnerabilities
faced by children affected by and living with HIV, by providing support and
rehabilitation to those children and their families, women and the elderly,
particularly in their role as caregivers, promoting child-oriented HIV/AIDS policies
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