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19. Calls upon all States to develop and implement programmes and policies
to protect children from abuse, commercial sexual exploitation, child prostitution,
child pornography, child sex tourism and child abduction, and calls upon States to
implement strategies to locate and assist all children subject to these violations;
20. Also calls upon all States to enact and enforce necessary legislative or
other measures, in cooperation with relevant stakeholders, to prevent the
distribution over the Internet and in all other media of child pornography, including
depictions of child sexual abuse, ensuring that adequate mechanisms are in place to
enable the reporting and removal of such material and that its creators, distributors
and collectors are prosecuted as appropriate;
Children affected by armed conflict
21. Reaffirms paragraphs 51 to 63 of its resolution 63/241, condemns in the
strongest terms all violations and abuses committed against children affected by
armed conflict, and in this regard urges all States and other parties to armed conflict
that are engaged, in contravention of applicable international law, including
humanitarian law, in the recruitment and use of children, in patterns of killing and
maiming of children and/or rape and other sexual violence against children, as well
as in all other violations and abuses against children, to take time-bound and
effective measures to end them, and urges all States, United Nations agencies, funds
and programmes, other relevant international and regional organizations and civil
society to continue to give serious attention to, and to protect and assist child
victims of, all violations and abuses committed against children in situations of
armed conflict, in accordance with international humanitarian law, including the
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22. Also reaffirms the essential roles of the General Assembly, the Economic
and Social Council and the Human Rights Council for the promotion and protection
of the rights and welfare of children, including children affected by armed conflict,
notes the increasing role played by the Security Council in ensuring protection for
children affected by armed conflict, and also notes the activities undertaken by the
Peacebuilding Commission, within its mandate, in areas that promote and contribute
to the enjoyment of the rights and welfare of children;
23. Notes with appreciation the steps taken regarding Security Council
resolutions 1539 (2004) of 22 April 2004, 1612 (2005) of 26 July 2005 and 1882 (2009)
of 4 August 2009 and the efforts of the Secretary-General to implement the
monitoring and reporting mechanism on children and armed conflict in accordance
with those resolutions, with the participation of and in cooperation with national
Governments and relevant United Nations and civil society actors, including at the
country level, requests the Secretary-General to ensure that information collected and
communicated by the monitoring and reporting mechanism is accurate, objective,
reliable and verifiable, and in this regard encourages the work and the deployment, as
appropriate, of United Nations child protection advisers in peacekeeping operations
and political and peacebuilding missions;
Child labour
24. Reaffirms paragraphs 64 to 80 of its resolution 63/241, on the theme of
child labour, and calls upon all States to translate into concrete action their
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