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(l) To ensure that community and civil society institutions, services and
facilities responsible for children with disabilities comply with national and local
quality standards, especially in the areas of health and social protection, and to
develop training programmes to ensure a quality, suitable and well-trained
workforce for the inclusion of children with disabilities;
(m) To develop strategies, or include in existing strategies measures for the
prevention and elimination of all forms of violence against children with
disabilities, who are particularly vulnerable to, inter alia, cruel, inhuman, degrading
treatment, medical or scientific experimentation, and sexual and physical violence,
including bullying and cyberbullying, and to develop and introduce child- and
gender-sensitive, accessible, safe and confidential reporting and complaints
mechanisms;
(n) To adopt legislative and other appropriate measures, including
cross-sectoral approaches, to ensure the full realization of the right to education for
children with disabilities, including by ensuring that, on the basis of equal
opportunity, accessibility and inclusiveness, they are not excluded from accessible,
free and compulsory primary education directed to the development of their
personality, talents and mental and physical abilities, from early childhood care and
development to vocational training and preparation for work;
(o) To ensure that children with disabilities have equal access with other
children to participation in play, recreation, culture, leisure and sporting activities,
including in the preschool and school system;
(p) To ensure that children with disabilities have the right, on an equal basis
with other children, to express their views freely on all matters affecting them,
giving those views due weight in accordance with their age and maturity, and to be
provided with disability- and age-appropriate assistance to realize that right;
(q) To take all appropriate measures to ensure the protection and safety of
children with disabilities during and after situations of risk, including situations of
armed conflict, humanitarian emergencies and natural disasters, including adopting
and implementing programmes to ensure the physical and psychological recovery
and social reintegration of children with disabilities, including children who acquire
disability as a consequence of such situations of risk, and ensure that such recovery,
reintegration and rehabilitation take place in an environment which fosters the
well-being, health, self-respect and dignity of the child;
(r) To take all necessary measures to ensure that persons with disabilities,
including children with disabilities, through their representative organizations, are
closely consulted and actively involved in the development of legislation and
policies to implement the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and
in other decision-making processes concerning issues relating to persons with
disabilities;
44. Calls upon all Member States, and invites the United Nations system, to
strengthen international cooperation to ensure the realization of the rights of the
child, including for children with disabilities, inter alia, by supporting national
initiatives that give more emphasis to the development of children with disabilities,
as appropriate, and by reinforcing international cooperation measures in fields of
research or on the transfer of technology such as assistive technologies;
45. Calls upon the relevant entities, funds and programmes of the United
Nations system, donor institutions, including the international financial institutions,
and bilateral donors to support, inter alia, national initiatives, when requested,
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