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(f) Putting in place strategies, policies and programmes that identify and
address those factors that make individuals particularly vulnerable to HIV infection
in order to complement prevention programmes that address activities that place
individuals at risk for HIV infection, such as risky and unsafe behaviour and
injecting drug use;
(g) Designing and implementing programmes to provide social services and
support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular by enabling
them to continue and complete their education;
Violence against children
13. Welcomes the United Nations study on violence against children, led by
the independent expert for the study, 18 takes fully into account its recommendations,
and encourages Member States and requests United Nations entities, regional
organizations and civil society, including non-governmental organizations, to widely
disseminate and follow up on the study;
14. Commends the independent expert for the participatory process through
which the report was prepared in close collaboration with Member States, United
Nations bodies and organizations, other relevant intergovernmental organizations
and civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and in particular for
the unprecedented level and quality of participation by children;
15. Condemns all forms of violence against children, and urges States to
take effective legislative and other measures to prevent and eliminate all such
violence, including physical, mental, psychological and sexual violence, torture,
child abuse and exploitation, hostage-taking, domestic violence, trafficking in or
sale of children and their organs, paedophilia, child prostitution, child
pornography, child sex tourism, gang-related violence and harmful traditional
practices in all settings;
16. Also condemns the abduction of children, in particular extortive
abduction and abduction of children in situations of armed conflict, including for
the recruitment and use of children in armed conflicts, and urges States to take all
appropriate measures to secure their unconditional release, rehabilitation,
reintegration and reunification with their families;
17.
Urges States:
(a) To strengthen efforts to prevent and protect children from all forms of
violence through a comprehensive approach and to develop a multifaceted and
systematic framework to respond to violence against children, including by giving
priority attention to prevention and addressing its underlying causes, which is
integrated into national planning processes;
(b) To strive to change attitudes that condone or normalize any form of
violence against children;
(c) To end impunity for perpetrators of crimes against children, investigate
and prosecute such acts of violence and impose appropriate penalties;
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