A/RES/63/241
Promoting and protecting the rights of children, including children
in particularly difficult situations
34. 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;
35. Also calls upon all States to protect refugee, asylum-seeking and internally
displaced children, taking into account their gender-specific needs, in particular those
who are unaccompanied, who are particularly exposed to violence and risks in
connection with armed conflict, such as recruitment, killing, maiming, sexual violence
and exploitation, as well as trafficking, 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, where appropriate and
feasible, 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;
36. 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;
37. Calls upon all States to ensure that any migration policies, including
repatriation mechanisms, are in accordance with the best interests of the child and to
take all necessary actions to ensure that unaccompanied migrant children and those
who are victims of violence and exploitation receive special protection and
assistance in accordance with international law;
38. Also 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 and programmes and increased protection for children orphaned and
affected by HIV/AIDS, pursuing all necessary efforts towards the goal of universal
access to comprehensive prevention programmes, treatment, care and support by
2010 and intensifying efforts to develop new treatments for children, and building,
where needed, and supporting the social security systems that protect them;
39. Further calls upon all States to protect, in law and in practice, the
inheritance and property rights of orphans, with particular attention to underlying
gender-based discrimination, which may interfere with the fulfilment of these rights;
40. Encourages States to promote actions, including through bilateral and
multilateral technical cooperation and financial assistance, for the social
reintegration of children in difficult situations, considering, inter alia, views, skills
and capacities that those children have developed in the conditions in which they
lived and, where appropriate, with their meaningful participation;
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