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(r) To ensure that young children with disabilities have equal opportunities
to participate fully in education and community life, including the removal of
barriers that impede the realization of their rights, and to foster at all levels of the
education system, including all children from an early age, an attitude of respect for
the rights of persons with disabilities;
(s) To take decisive steps to develop strategies for children, including in
early childhood, regarding human rights education, on values such as respect for
human dignity, non-discrimination, equality, justice, non-violence, tolerance and
peace, at home, in childcare centres and in early education programmes, in order to
promote the awareness and empowerment of children with respect to their rights and
responsibilities, taking into account the World Programme for Human Rights
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(t) To address the root causes preventing children, including in early
childhood, from exercising their right to be heard and to be consulted, in accordance
with their evolving capacities, on matters affecting them, to inform children,
parents, legal guardians, other caregivers and the general public about the rights of
the child, and to raise awareness, including through partnerships with civil society,
the private sector and the media, while being attentive to their influence on children,
of the importance and benefits of the participation of children in society;
(u) To adopt measures to promote and protect the right of the child,
including in early childhood, to rest and leisure, and to participate freely in cultural
life and the arts, including measures that allow him or her to engage in play and
age-appropriate recreational activities, such as sports;
(v) To strengthen efforts to effectively eliminate child labour which is
harmful to the child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social
development;
(w) To develop strategies for the prevention and elimination of all forms of
violence against children, including in early childhood, by adopting appropriate
policy measures aimed at, inter alia, raising awareness, capacity-building for
professionals working with and for children, supporting effective parenting
programmes, fostering research, collecting data on the incidence of violence against
children, including in early childhood, and developing and implementing
appropriate national monitoring tools to periodically assess progress;
(x) To take steps to design and implement preventive and comprehensive
anti-bullying measures, including in educational settings, that address bullying and
peer-directed aggression during early childhood, which could include the training of
early childhood educators and family members and also raising awareness of this
matter among children;
(y) To develop or enhance early childhood programmes targeted at assisting
families facing especially difficult circumstances, including those headed by single
parents or children, those living in the most vulnerable and disadvantaged situations
and those living in extreme poverty or caring for children with disabilities;
(z) To strengthen efforts to implement programmes for realizing child rights
in early childhood with equity, involving the support of international organizations
and donor institutions and the private sector, through, inter alia, the development of
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See resolutions 59/113 A and B.