A/RES/72/245 Rights of the child 15. Underlines that the needs of children, including rehabilitation and reintegration, should be fully considered in post-conflict and peacebuilding programmes and that the promotion and protection of the rights of children affected by armed conflict is crucial to break cycles of violence and prevent recurring conflicts; 16. Calls upon States to protect children affected by armed conflict, in particular from violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law, and to ensure that they receive timely, effective humanitarian assistance, noting the efforts taken to end impunity by ensuring accountability and punishing perpetrators, and calls upon the international community to hold those responsible for violations accountable, inter alia, through the International Criminal Court; 17. Calls upon States and regional and subregional organizations to mainstream the rights of the child into relevant activities in conflict and post-conflict situations with the aim of promoting peace and preventing and resolving conflict, as well as negotiating and implementing peace agreements and arrangements negotiated by parties to armed conflict; 18. Recalls that 2016 marked the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of resolution 51/77 of 12 December 1996, by which the mandate of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict wa s created, welcomes its achievements in protecting children affected by armed conflict, underlines the need for the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General, in cooperation with States, United Nations bodies and agencies, regional organizations and especially subregional organizations, to enhance its public awareness activities, including by collecting, assessing and disseminating best practices and lessons learned, in accordance with the existing mandate, and notes with appreciation the efforts of the Secretary-General and United Nations bodies to implement the monitoring and reporting mechanism on children and armed conflict; III Violence against children 19. Recalls article 19 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in which States parties are required to take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse, while in the care of parent(s), legal guardian(s) or any other person who has the care of the child; 20. Also recalls the United Nations study on violence against children submitted to the General Assembly in 2006, 38 and notes with appreciation the efforts of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children in continuing to mainstream the study recommendations in the international, regional and national agendas; 21. Expresses deep concern at the fact that every five minutes a child dies as a result of violence and that globally 1 billion children, between 2 and 17 years of age, experience physical, sexual, emotional or multiple types of violence, with an estimated 120 million girls and 73 million boys having been the victims of sexual violence at some point in their lives; 22. Condemns all forms of violence against children in all settings, including physical, mental, psychological and sexual violence, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, child abuse and exploitation, hostage-taking, domestic __________________ 38 8/15 A/61/299. 17-23328