A/RES/68/147 Rights of the child Promoting and protecting the rights of children, including children in particularly difficult situations 40. Calls upon all States to prevent violations of the rights of children working and/or living on the street, including all forms of discrimination, arbitrary detention and extrajudicial, arbitrary or summary executions, torture and all kinds of violence and exploitation, and to bring the perpetrators to justice, to adopt and implement policies for the protection, social and psychosocial rehabilitation and reintegration of those children and to adopt economic, social and educational strategies to address the problems of children working and/or living on the street; 41. Reaffirms the right of the child to express his or her views freely in all matters affecting him or her, as well as the rights of the child to freedom of association, to freedom of expression and to freedom of peaceful assembly; 42. Calls upon all States to protect refugee, asylum-seeking and internally displaced children, in particular those who are unaccompanied, who are particularly exposed to violence and risks in connection with armed conflict and trafficking, and taking into account their gender-specific needs, stressing the need for States as well as the international community to continue to pay more systematic and in-depth attention to the special assistance, protection and development needs of those children through, inter alia, programmes aimed at rehabilitation and physical and psychological recovery, and to programmes for voluntary repatriation and, where appropriate and feasible, local integration and resettlement, to give priority to family tracing and family reunification and reintegration and, where appropriate, to cooperate with international humanitarian and refugee organizations, including by facilitating their work; 43. Also calls upon all States to ensure, for children belonging to minorities and vulnerable groups, including migrant children and indigenous children, the enjoyment of all human rights as well as access to health care, social services and education on an equal basis with others and to ensure that all such children, in particular unaccompanied migrant children and those who are victims of violence and exploitation, receive special protection and assistance; 44. Calls upon States to protect the human rights of migrant children, given their vulnerability, particularly unaccompanied migrant children, ensuring that the best interests of the child are a primary consideration in their policies of integration, return and family reunification; 45. Urges States to ensure equal access to quality education for indigenous children, particularly for indigenous girls, and to promote education systems that respect the cultures and traditions of the communities that are responsive to their needs; 46. Reaffirms the right of indigenous children, in community with other members of their group, to learn, enjoy and transmit their own culture, to profess and practise their own religion or belief and to use their own language, in this regard encourages Member States to actively promote the objectives of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People,10 and looks forward to the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, to be held in 2014; 47. Calls upon all States to protect, in law and in practice, the inheritance and property rights of orphans, paying particular attention to underlying genderbased discrimination, which may interfere with the fulfilment of these rights; 12/19

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