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distribution over the Internet and in all other media of child pornography, including
depictions of child sexual abuse, ensuring that adequate mechanisms are in place to
enable the reporting and removal of such material and that its creators, distributors
and collectors are prosecuted as appropriate;
Children affected by armed conflict
23. Reaffirms paragraphs 51 to 63 of its resolution 63/241, condemns in the
strongest terms all violations and abuses committed against children affected by
armed conflict, and in this regard urges all States and other parties to armed conflict
that are engaged, in contravention of applicable international law, including
humanitarian law, in the recruitment and use of children, in patterns of killing and
maiming of children and/or rape and other sexual violence against children, and in
recurrent attacks on schools and/or hospitals, as well as in all other violations and
abuses against children, to take time-bound and effective measures to end them, and
urges all States, United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, other relevant
international and regional organizations and civil society to continue to give serious
attention to, and to protect and assist child victims of, all violations and abuses
committed against children in situations of armed conflict, in accordance with
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24. Also reaffirms the essential roles of the General Assembly, the Economic
and Social Council and the Human Rights Council for the promotion and protection
of the rights and welfare of children, including children affected by armed conflict,
notes the increasing role played by the Security Council in ensuring protection for
children affected by armed conflict, and also notes the activities undertaken by the
Peacebuilding Commission, within its mandate, in areas that promote and contribute
to the enjoyment of the rights and welfare of children;
25. Notes with appreciation the steps taken regarding Security Council
resolutions 1539 (2004) of 22 April 2004, 1612 (2005) of 26 July 2005, 1882 (2009)
of 4 August 2009 and 1998 (2011) of 12 July 2011, and the efforts of the
Secretary-General to implement the monitoring and reporting mechanism on
children and armed conflict in accordance with those resolutions, with the
participation of and in cooperation with national Governments and relevant United
Nations and civil society actors, including at the country level, requests the
Secretary-General to ensure that information collected and communicated by the
monitoring and reporting mechanism is accurate, objective, reliable and verifiable,
and in this regard encourages the work and the deployment, as appropriate, of
United Nations child protection advisers in peacekeeping operations and political
and peacebuilding missions;
Child labour
26. Reaffirms paragraphs 64 to 80 of its resolution 63/241, on the theme of
child labour, and calls upon all States to translate into concrete action their
commitment to the progressive and effective elimination of child labour that is
likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child’s education or to be harmful to
the child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development, and to
eliminate immediately the worst forms of child labour;
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