Rights of the child A/RES/73/155 Promoting and protecting the rights of children, including children in particularly difficult situations 32. Reaffirms paragraphs 26 to 28 of its resolution 71/177, and calls upon all States to promote and protect all human rights of all children and to implement evidence-based programmes and measures that provide them with special protection and assistance, including access to inclusive and equitable quality education, health care, social services and social protection; 33. Calls upon all States to protect the human rights of all children and to ensure, for children belonging to minorities in vulnerable situations, including migrant children, indigenous children, children of African descent, int ernally displaced children and children with disabilities, the enjoyment of all human rights as well as access to health care, social services, social protection and accessible and inclusive education on an equal basis with others, and to ensure that all s uch children, in particular unaccompanied migrant children, internally displaced children and those who are victims of violence and exploitation, receive special protection and assistance and that the best interests of the child are a primary consideration in their policies of integration, return and family reunification; 34. Also calls upon all States to protect refugee, asylum-seeking, migrant and internally displaced children, in particular those who are unaccompanied, who are particularly exposed to violence and risks in connection with armed conflict and trafficking in persons, and, taking into account their gender-specific needs, stresses the need for States and 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 programmes for voluntary return or repatriation and, where appropriate and feasibl e, local integration and resettlement, to give priority to family tracing and family reunification and reintegration, and, where appropriate, to cooperate with international humanitarian and refugee organizations, including by facilitating their work, in l ine with their obligations under international law; Migrant children 35. Reaffirms paragraphs 40 to 87 of its resolution 71/177, and calls upon States to effectively promote and protect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all children affected by migration, regardless of their migration status, and to address international migration through international, regional or bilateral cooperation and dialogue and through a comprehensive and balanced appr oach, while recognizing the roles and responsibilities of countries of origin, transit and destination in promoting and protecting the human rights of all children affected by migration and in avoiding approaches that might aggravate their vulnerability; 36. Also reaffirms the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, 40 welcomes the conclusion in 2018 of the process of intergovernmental negotiations of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, considered for adoption by States at the intergovernmental conference held in Marrakech, Morocco, on 10 and 11 December 2018, and stresses the centrality of full respect for the human rights of all migrants, including migrant children; 37. Takes note of the joint general comments of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers __________________ 40 18-22250 Resolution 71/1. 11/17

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