Rights of the child A/RES/68/147 8. Requests all relevant organs and mechanisms of the United Nations system to systematically incorporate a strong child rights perspective throughout all activities in the fulfilment of their mandates, as well as to ensure that their staff are trained in child rights matters, and calls upon States to continue to cooperate closely with all those organs and mechanisms; 9. Encourages States to strengthen their national statistical capacities and to use statistics disaggregated, inter alia, by age, sex and other relevant factors to enable the identification of discrimination and/or disparities and other statistical indicators at the national, subregional, regional and international levels so as to develop and assess social policies and programmes for the full realization of the rights of the child; 10. Expresses its concern that children with disabilities, particularly girls, are often at greater risk, both within and outside the home, of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment and maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse; II Promotion and protection of the rights of the child and non-discrimination against children Non-discrimination 11. Calls upon all States: (a) To ensure the enjoyment by all children of all their civil, political, cultural, economic and social rights without discrimination of any kind; (b) To incorporate special measures in formal and non-formal education and other programmes to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance affecting children; (c) To take all necessary and effective measures to prevent and eliminate all forms of discrimination against girls and all forms of violence, including female infanticide and prenatal sex selection, rape, sexual abuse and harmful traditional or customary practices, including female genital mutilation, child, early and forced marriage and forced sterilization, by enacting and enforcing legislation and, where appropriate, by formulating comprehensive, multidisciplinary and coordinated national plans, programmes or strategies to protect girls, as well as by promoting awareness-raising and social mobilization initiatives for the protection of their rights; (d) To ensure the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by children with disabilities on an equal basis with other children, inter alia, by integrating the rights of children with disabilities into policies and programmes affecting children, including their rights to education, to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including sexual and reproductive health, and to protection from violence, abuse and neglect; to develop and enforce legislation aiming at their maximum inclusion in society, without discrimination, taking into account that children with disabilities may be subject to multiple or aggravated forms of discrimination and segregation; and to take into account the conclusions included in the outcome document of the high-level meeting of the 5/19

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