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;
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