Rights of the child
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22. Calls upon States to address with all relevant stakeholders, as a matt er of
priority, the vulnerabilities faced by children affected by and living with HIV by
providing care, support and treatment to those children, their families and caregivers
and promoting rights-based and child-oriented HIV and AIDS policies and
programmes, and to ensure access to affordable, effective and quality prevention, care
and treatment, including through correct information, access to voluntary,
confidential and affordable testing, comprehensive health care, including sexual and
reproductive health care, services and education, and access to safe, affordable,
effective, quality pharmaceutical products and medical technologies, by intensifying
efforts to develop affordable, accessible and quality tools for early diagnosis and by
prioritizing the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of the virus;
23. Recognizes the importance of the implementation of the human right to
safe drinking water and sanitation for the full realization of the right of the child to
the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, and
therefore urges States and, through them, service providers to ensure a regular supply
of safe, accessible and affordable drinking water and sanitation services of good
quality and sufficient quantity, guided also by the principles of equity, equality and
non-discrimination, bearing in mind that the human right to safe drinking water and
sanitation for their populations is to be progressively realized with full respect for
national sovereignty;
Right to food
24. Reaffirms its resolution 72/173 of 19 December 2017 on the right to food,
and the right of children to have access to safe, sufficient and nutritious food,
consistent with the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to
be free from hunger, so as to be able to fully develop and mai ntain his or her physical
and mental capacities;
25. Calls upon all States to take action to ensure the full realization of the right
to food for all and to eliminate child hunger and malnutrition, including through the
adoption or strengthening of national programmes to address food security and
nutrition and adequate livelihoods, especially regarding vitamin A, iron and iodine
deficiencies, the promotion of breastfeeding and a nutritious diet, as well as
programmes, for example, school meal programmes, that should ensure adequate
nutrition for all children, in order to enable all children to fully develop and maintain
their physical and mental capacities, and to take measures, if appropriate, with
relevant international organizations, to support programmes that are aimed at
combating undernutrition in mothers, in particular during pregnancy, and in children,
and the irreversible effects of chronic undernutrition in early childhood, in particular
from birth to the age of 2 years;
Child labour
26. Reaffirms paragraphs 16 to 18 of its resolution 71/177, urges States to take
immediate and effective measures to secure the prohibition and elimination of the
worst forms of child labour and to end child labour in all its forms, by 2025 at the
latest, through stronger legislation and improved cooperation and coordination among
ministries and workforces involved in social welfare and protection systems and the
education and labour sectors, and to promote education as a key strategy, and urges
States to continue to promote the engagement of all sectors of society in creating an
enabling environment for the eradication of child labour;
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