Rights of the child
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education and social services, to consider implementing voluntary repatriation,
reintegration or resettlement where appropriate and feasibl e, 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;
27. Calls upon all States to ensure, for children belonging to minorities and
vulnerable groups and children in vulnerable situations, including migrant children
and indigenous children, as well as children placed in alternative care and within the
juvenile justice system and in detention, the enjoyment of all human rights
regardless of migration status and access to health care, social services and
education without discrimination and to ensure that all such children, in particular
unaccompanied migrant children, those separated from their parents and primary
caregivers and those who are victims of violence and exploitation, receive
appropriate protection and assistance;
28. Calls upon States to ensure that migrant children in need of protection,
particularly unaccompanied migrant children and those separated from their parents
or primary caregivers, are, giving primary consideration at all times to the best
interests of the child, referred to the relevant national child protection authorities
and other relevant authorities;
Children and the administration of justice
29. Reaffirms paragraphs 49 to 57 of its resolution 68/147, 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;
30. Encourages continued regional and cross-regional efforts, the sharing of
best practices and the provision of technical assistance in the field of juvenile
justice;
31. Encourages States to develop and implement a comprehensive juvenile
justice policy to protect and address the needs of children in contact with the law,
with a view to promoting, inter alia, a commitment to improving the quality of
education available to children placed in alternative care and within the juvenile
justice system, crime prevention programmes, the use of alternative measures, such
as diversion, restorative justice and community-based programmes that focus on the
rehabilitation and reintegration of the child, and ensuring compliance with the
principle that deprivation of liberty of children should be used only as a measure of
last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time, as well as to avoid,
wherever possible, the use of pretrial detention for children;
Prevention and eradication of the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography
32. Reaffirms paragraph 58 of its resolution 68/147, 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 for profit,
child slavery, forced labour and the sexual exploitation of children, including child
prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material, 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 rights and needs of victims
effectively, including universal access to comprehensive social, physical and mental
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