Rights of the child
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investigations of all reported acts of violence and ensure that perpetrators are held
accountable;
43. Encourages continued regional and cross-regional efforts, the sharing of
best practices and the provision of technical assistance in the field of juvenile justice,
and in this regard recalls the validity and importance of international standards and
norms in the field of human rights in the administration of juvenile justice;
Prevention and eradication of the sale of children, child prostitution
and child pornography
44. Reaffirms paragraph 32 of its resolution 71/177, and calls upon all States
to prevent, criminalize, prosecute and punish all forms of the sale and trafficking of
children, including for the purposes of removal of organs of the child, child slavery,
forced labour and the sexual exploitation of children, including chi ld prostitution and
child pornography and other child sexual abuse material, with the aim of eradicating
those practices, including when perpetrated using the Internet and other information
and communications technologies, to combat the existence of a mark et that
encourages such criminal practices and take measures to eliminate the demand that
fosters them, as well as to address the rights and needs of victims effectively,
including universal access to comprehensive social, physical and mental health and
legal services, without discrimination of any kind, and counselling for all victims to
ensure their full recovery and reintegration into society, and to take effective measures
against the criminalization of children who are victims of exploitation;
45. Calls upon States to enact and enforce the necessary legislative or other
measures, in cooperation with relevant stakeholders, including the private sector and
the media, to prevent the distribution over the Internet of child sexual abuse material,
including depictions of child sexual abuse, ensuring that adequate mechanisms are in
place to enable the reporting and removal of such material and that its creators,
distributors and collectors are prosecuted, as appropriate, while working towards
ensuring that the opportunities provided by information and communications
technologies in the lives of children, as tools for learning, socialization, expression,
inclusion and fulfilment of their rights and fundamental freedoms, such as the right
to education and the right to freedom of expression, including the freedom to seek,
receive and impart information and the right to express their views freely, are used to
their fullest;
46. Urges States to intensify their efforts to ensure the legal protection of
children from sexual abuse and exploitation online and to define it legally, in
accordance with international human rights law and obligations, to criminalize all
relevant conduct related to the sexual exploitation of children online and offline and
to ensure that all those in the whole chain of individuals involved in or attempting to
commit such criminal activities are held accountable and brought to justice in order
to fight impunity, taking into account the multi-jurisdictional and transnational nature
of child sexual exploitation and abuse perpetrated online through information and
communications technologies;
Children affected by armed conflict
47. Reaffirms paragraphs 33 to 39 of its resolution 71/177, condemns in the
strongest terms all violations and abuses committed against children in armed
conflict, and in this regard urges all States and other parties to armed conflict that are
engaged, in contravention of applicable international law, in the recruitme nt and use
of children, in patterns of killing and maiming of children and/or rape and other sexual
violence against children, acknowledging that sexual violence in these situations
disproportionately affects girls, but that boys are also targets, in recur rent attacks on
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