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including development programmes for children with disabilities, financially and
technically, as well as to enhance effective international cooperation and partnership
to strengthen knowledge-sharing and capacity-building, with particular attention to
policy development, programme development, research and professional training;
IV
Follow-up
46. Recognizes the work of the office of the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, its increased level of activity
and the progress achieved since the establishment of the mandate of the Special
Representative, and, bearing in mind its resolution 63/241 and paragraphs 35 to 37
of resolution 51/77 of 12 December 1996, recommends that the Secretary-General
extend the mandate of the Special Representative for a further period of three years;
47.
Decides:
(a) To request the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
sixty-seventh 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 indigenous children,
bearing in mind relevant international norms and standards and regional and
national particularities;
(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 fulfilment 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 continue to submit annual reports to the General Assembly and the
Human Rights Council on the activities undertaken in the fulfilment of her mandate,
including information on her field visits and on the progress achieved and the
challenges remaining on the violence against children agenda;
(d) To request the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child
prostitution and child pornography to continue to submit reports to the General
Assembly and the Human Rights Council on the activities undertaken in the
fulfilment of her mandate, including information on her field visits and on the
progress achieved and the challenges remaining on the sale of children, child
prostitution and child pornography agenda;
(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 and engage in an interactive
dialogue with the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session under the item
entitled “Promotion and protection of the rights of children”;
(f) To continue its consideration of the question at its sixty-seventh session
under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of the rights of children”,
focusing section III of the resolution entitled “Rights of the child” on indigenous
children, bearing in mind relevant international norms and standards and regional
and national particularities.
89th plenary meeting
19 December 2011
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