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United Nations study on violence against children, 21 while promoting and ensuring
country ownership and national plans and programmes in this regard, and calls upon
States and institutions concerned, and invites the private sector, to provide voluntary
contributions for that purpose;
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Promoting and protecting the rights of children, including children
in particularly difficult situations
14. Reaffirms paragraphs 34 to 42 of its resolution 63/241, and calls upon all
States to promote and protect all human rights of all children in particularly difficult
situations and to implement programmes and measures that provide them with
special protection and assistance, including access to health care, education and
social services, as well as, where appropriate and feasible, voluntary repatriation,
reintegration, family tracing and family reunification, in particular for children who
are unaccompanied, and to ensure that the best interests of the child are accorded a
primary consideration;
Children alleged to have infringed or recognized as having infringed penal law
and children of persons alleged to have infringed or recognized as having
infringed penal law
15. Also reaffirms paragraphs 43 to 47 of its resolution 63/241, and calls
upon all States to respect and protect the rights of children alleged to have infringed
or recognized as having infringed penal law, as well as children of persons alleged
to have infringed or recognized as having infringed penal law;
Prevention and eradication of the sale of children, child prostitution
and child pornography
16. Further reaffirms paragraphs 48 to 50 of its resolution 63/241, and calls
upon all States to prevent, criminalize, prosecute and punish all forms of sale of
children, including for the purposes of transfer of organs of the child for profit,
child slavery, commercial sexual exploitation of children, child prostitution and
child pornography, with the aim of eradicating those practices 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 needs
of victims effectively and take effective measures against the criminalization of
children who are victims of exploitation;
17. Welcomes the Third World Congress against Sexual Exploitation of
Children and Adolescents, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 25 to 28 November
2008, and the Rio de Janeiro Declaration and Call for Action to Prevent and Stop
Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents;
18. Calls upon all States to enact and enforce necessary legislative or other
measures, in cooperation with relevant stakeholders, to prevent the distribution over
the Internet of child pornography and including depictions of child sexual abuse,
ensuring that adequate mechanisms are in place to enable reporting and removal of
such material and that its creators, distributors and collectors are prosecuted as
appropriate;
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See A/61/299 and A/62/209.
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