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recommendations of the United Nations study on violence against children, 25 while
promoting and ensuring country ownership and national plans and programmes in
this regard, and calls upon States and institutions concerned, and invites the private
sector, to provide voluntary contributions for that purpose;
14. Notes with appreciation the consolidated partnerships promoted by the
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, in
coordination with national Governments, United Nations agencies, human rights
bodies and mechanisms and representatives of civil society and with the
participation of children, as well as the organization of an expert consultation on
child-sensitive counselling, complaint and reporting mechanisms, held in Geneva on
30 September and 1 October 2010;
15. Recalls Human Rights Council resolution 13/20 of 26 March 2010
entitled “Rights of the child: the fight against sexual violence against children”; 26
Promoting and protecting the rights of children, including children in
particularly difficult situations
16. Reaffirms paragraphs 34 to 42 of its resolution 63/241, and calls upon all
States to promote and protect all human rights of all children in particularly difficult
situations and to implement programmes and measures that provide them with
special protection and assistance, including access to health care, education and
social services, as well as, where appropriate and feasible, voluntary repatriation,
reintegration, family tracing and family reunification, in particular for children who
are unaccompanied, and to ensure that the best interests of the child are accorded
primary consideration;
Children alleged to have infringed or recognized as having infringed penal law
and children of persons alleged to have infringed or recognized as having
infringed penal law
17. Also reaffirms paragraphs 43 to 47 of its resolution 63/241, and calls
upon all States to respect and protect the rights of children alleged to have infringed
or recognized as having infringed penal law, as well as children of persons alleged
to have infringed or recognized as having infringed penal law;
Prevention and eradication of the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography
18. Further reaffirms paragraphs 48 to 50 of its resolution 63/241, and calls
upon all States to prevent, criminalize, prosecute and punish all forms of the sale of
children, including for the purposes of the transfer of organs of the child for profit,
child slavery, commercial sexual exploitation of children, child prostitution and
child pornography, with the aim of eradicating those practices and the use of the
Internet and other information and communications technologies for these purposes,
to combat the existence of a market that encourages such criminal practices and take
measures to eliminate the demand that fosters them, as well as to address the needs
of victims effectively and take effective measures against the criminalization of
children who are victims of exploitation;
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See A/61/299 and A/62/209.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53 and corrigendum
(A/65/53 and Corr.1), chap. II, sect. A.
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