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processes, while ensuring that such participation is in accordance with their age,
maturity and evolving capacities and is consistent with the best interests of the child
and recognizing that appropriate care needs to be taken to protect children from
exposure to situations that are likely to be traumatic or harmful;
(s) To take measures to ensure the enjoyment of the right to be heard by
children belonging to minorities and/or vulnerable groups, including migrant
children and indigenous children within their cultural values or ethnic identities;
(t) To adopt measures, including providing or promoting the use of
accessible means, modes and formats of communication, to facilitate the enjoyment
of the right to be heard by children with disabilities;
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Follow-up
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Decides:
(a) To request the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
sixty-fifth session a comprehensive report on the rights of the child containing
information on the status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child1 and the
issues addressed in the present resolution, with a focus on implementing child rights
in early childhood;
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(b) To request the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for
Children and Armed Conflict to continue to submit reports to the General Assembly
and the Human Rights Council on the activities undertaken in the discharge of her
mandate, including information on her field visits and on the progress achieved and
the challenges remaining on the children and armed conflict agenda;
(c) To request the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on
violence against children to submit annual reports to the General Assembly and the
Human Rights Council on the activities undertaken in the discharge of her mandate;
(d) To request the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child
prostitution and child pornography to submit reports to the General Assembly and
the Human Rights Council on the activities undertaken in the discharge of her
mandate;
(e) To invite the Chair of the Committee on the Rights of the Child to
present an oral report on the work of the Committee to the General Assembly at its
sixty-fifth session as a way to enhance communication between the Assembly and
the Committee;
(f) To invite all Member States, organizations of the United Nations system,
non-governmental organizations and individuals to observe the twentieth
anniversary of the adoption of the Convention;
(g) To continue its consideration of the question at its sixty-fifth session
under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of the rights of children”,
focusing section III of the resolution on the rights of the child on implementing
child rights in early childhood.
65th plenary meeting
18 December 2009
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