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the least developed countries and in sub-Saharan Africa, and urges Governments and
the international community to give urgent priority to preventing and combating
those diseases;
49. Also recognizes that countries struggle to develop when their children
grow up malnourished, poorly educated or ravaged by disease, as these factors can
perpetuate the generational cycle of poverty;
50. Reaffirms that the primary responsibility for ensuring an enabling
environment for securing the well-being of children, in which the rights of each and
every child are promoted and respected, rests with each individual State;
51. Calls upon all States and the international community to mobilize all
necessary resources, support and efforts to eradicate poverty, according to national
plans and strategies and in consultation with national Governments, including
through an integrated and multifaceted approach based on the rights and well-being
of children;
52. Also calls upon all States, and the international community, where
appropriate:
(a) To integrate the international obligations related to the rights and wellbeing of the child and the internationally agreed development goals, including the
Millennium Development Goals, in national development strategies and plans,
including poverty reduction strategy papers where they exist, and calls upon the
international community to continue to support developing countries in the
implementation of those development strategies and plans;
(b) To ensure a continuum of care from pregnancy through childhood,
recognizing that maternal, newborn and child health are inseparable and
interdependent, and that the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals
must be based on a strong commitment to the rights of women, children and
adolescents;
(c) To work for a solid effort of national and international action to enhance
children’s health, to promote prenatal care and to lower infant and child mortality in
all countries and among all peoples;
(d) To develop a national strategy of prevention and treatment to effectively
address the condition of obstetric fistula and to further develop a multisectoral,
comprehensive and integrated approach to bring about lasting solutions and a
meaningful response to the problem of obstetric fistula and related morbidities;
(e) To promote the provision of clean water in all communities for all their
children, as well as universal access to sanitation;
(f)
famine;
To take all necessary measures to eradicate hunger, malnutrition and
(g) To mobilize the necessary additional resources from all sources of
financing for development, including domestic resources, international investment
flows, official development assistance and external debt relief, and to commit
themselves to a universal, open, equitable, rule-based, predictable and nondiscriminatory global trading system in order to stimulate development worldwide
to ensure the well-being of the most vulnerable sectors of populations, in particular
children;
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