Rights of the child
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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
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