A/RES/68/147 Rights of the child (b) To respect fully the rights, human dignity and physical integrity of children and to prevent and address any emotional, physical or sexual violence or any other humiliating or degrading treatment or punishment; (c) To give priority attention to the prevention of all forms of violence against children and to addressing its underlying causes and its gender dimension through a systematic, comprehensive and multifaceted approach, recognizing that witnessing violence, including domestic violence, also causes harm to children; (d) To develop a well-coordinated and well-resourced national strategy for the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence against children, including measures aimed at, inter alia, raising awareness, building the capacity of professionals working with and for children, supporting effective parenting programmes, fostering research, collecting data on the incidence of violence against children and developing and implementing appropriate national monitoring tools to periodically assess progress; (e) To protect children from all forms of violence or abuse by all those who work with and for children, including in educational settings, in alternative care and residential care settings, and in international development activities and humanitarian relief work, as well as by government officials, such as the police, law enforcement authorities, employees and officials in detention centres or welfare institutions and health-care personnel; (f) To establish and develop safe, well-publicized, confidential and accessible mechanisms to enable children or their representatives to seek counselling, to report violence against children and file complaints on incidents of violence against children and to ensure that child victims of violence have access to confidential, child- and gender-sensitive health and social services and are supported in their recovery and reintegration, taking into account the joint report of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children 35 on this matter; (g) To take measures to ensure that all those who work with and for children protect children from bullying, including from bullying through the Internet and other communications technologies, and implement preventive and anti-bullying policies in order to ensure a safe and supportive environment free from harassment and violence; (h) To raise awareness of the negative effects of violence against children and to strive to change attitudes that condone or normalize any form of violence against children, including cruel, inhuman or degrading forms of discipline, treatment or punishment, harmful practices and all forms of sexual violence; (i) To take measures to promote constructive and positive forms of discipline and child development approaches in all settings, including the home, schools and other educational settings, and throughout care and justice systems; (j) To end impunity for perpetrators of crimes against children, to undertake thorough and prompt investigations of all acts of violence against children and to prosecute such acts of violence and impose appropriate penalties, recognizing that persons convicted of violent offences against children, including sexual abuse, who _______________ 35 10/19 A/HRC/16/56.

Select target paragraph3