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provides an overview of accessible and child-sensitive counselling, complaint and
reporting mechanisms to address incidents of violence, including sexual violence
and exploitation;
Promoting and protecting the rights of children, including children in
particularly difficult situations
17. Reaffirms paragraphs 34 to 42 of its resolution 63/241, and calls upon all
States to promote and protect all human rights of all children in particularly difficult
situations and to implement programmes and measures that provide them with
special protection and assistance, including access to health care, education and
social services, as well as, where appropriate and feasible, voluntary repatriation,
reintegration, family tracing and family reunification, in particular for children who
are unaccompanied, and to ensure that the best interests of the child are a primary
consideration;
18. Recalls Human Rights Council resolution 16/12 of 24 March 2011
entitled “Rights of the child: a holistic approach to the protection and promotion of
the rights of children working and/or living on the street”, 29 and calls for its full
implementation;
Children alleged to have infringed or recognized as having infringed penal law
and children of persons alleged to have infringed or recognized as having
infringed penal law
19. Reaffirms paragraphs 43 to 47 of its resolution 63/241, and calls upon all
States to respect and protect the rights of children alleged to have infringed or
recognized as having infringed penal law, as well as children of persons alleged to
have infringed or recognized as having infringed penal law;
Prevention and eradication of the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography
20. Also reaffirms paragraphs 48 to 50 of its resolution 63/241, and calls
upon all States to prevent, criminalize, prosecute and punish all forms of the sale of
children, including for the purposes of the transfer of organs of the child for profit,
child slavery, commercial sexual exploitation of children, child prostitution and
child pornography, with the aim of eradicating those practices and the use of the
Internet and other information and communications technologies for these purposes,
to combat the existence of a market that encourages such criminal practices and take
measures to eliminate the demand that fosters them, as well as to address the needs
of victims effectively and take effective measures against the criminalization of
children who are victims of exploitation;
21. Calls upon all States to develop and implement programmes and policies
to protect children from abuse, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, commercial sexual
exploitation, child prostitution, child pornography, child sex tourism and child
abduction, and calls upon States to implement strategies to locate and assist all
children subject to these violations;
22. Also calls upon all States to enact and enforce necessary legislative or
other measures, in cooperation with relevant stakeholders, to prevent the
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/66/53),
chap. II, sect. A.
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