A/RES/58/157
Non-discrimination
30. Calls upon all States to ensure that children are entitled to their civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights without discrimination of any kind;
31. Notes with concern the large number of children, particularly girls,
among the victims of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance, and stresses the need to incorporate special measures, in accordance
with the principle of the best interests of the child and respect for his or her views,
in programmes to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerance, in order to give priority attention to the rights and the situation of
children who are victims of these practices, and calls upon States to provide special
support and ensure equal access to services for those children;
32. Calls upon all States in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities or
persons of indigenous origin exist not to deny to a child belonging to such a
minority or an indigenous child the right, in community with other members of his
or her group, to enjoy his or her own culture, to profess and practise his or her own
religion or to use his or her own language;
The girl child
33. Calls upon all States to take all necessary measures, including legal
reforms where appropriate:
(a) To ensure the full and equal enjoyment by girls of all human rights and
fundamental freedoms, to take effective actions against violations of those rights
and freedoms and to base programmes and policies on the rights of the child, taking
into account the special situation of girls;
(b) 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,
the root causes of son preference, marriages without free and full consent of the
intending spouses, early marriages and forced sterilization, by enacting and
enforcing legislation and, where appropriate, formulating comprehensive,
multidisciplinary and coordinated national plans, programmes or strategies
protecting girls;
Children with disabilities
34. Also calls upon all States to take 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 to ensure their 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;
35. Encourages the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral
International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity
of Persons with Disabilities to consider the issue of children with disabilities in its
deliberations;
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