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Children with disabilities
31. Also calls upon all States to take the necessary measures to ensure the
full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by children
with disabilities in both the public and the private spheres, including access to good
quality education and health care and protection from violence, abuse and neglect,
and to develop and, where it already exists, to enforce legislation to prohibit
discrimination against them to ensure their dignity, promote their self-reliance and
facilitate their active participation and integration in the community, taking into
account the particularly difficult situation of children with disabilities living in
poverty;
32. Encourages the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral
International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity
of Persons with Disabilities to continue to consider the issue of children with
disabilities in its deliberations;
Migrant children
33. Calls upon all States to ensure, for migrant children, the enjoyment of all
human rights as well as access to health care, social services and education of good
quality and to ensure that migrant children, and especially those who are
unaccompanied, in particular victims of violence and exploitation, receive special
protection and assistance;
Children working and/or living on the street
34. Also calls upon all States to prevent violations of the rights of children
working and/or living on the street, including discrimination, arbitrary detention and
extrajudicial, arbitrary and summary executions, torture, all kinds of violence and
exploitation, and to bring the perpetrators to justice, to adopt and implement policies
for the protection, social and psychosocial rehabilitation and reintegration of these
children and to adopt economic, social and educational strategies to address the
problems of children working and/or living on the street;
Refugee and internally displaced children
35. Further calls upon all States to protect refugee, asylum-seeking and
internally displaced children, in particular those who are unaccompanied, who are
particularly exposed to risks in connection with armed conflict, such as recruitment,
sexual violence and exploitation, to pay particular attention to programmes for
voluntary repatriation and, wherever possible, local integration and resettlement, to
give priority to family tracing and reunification and, where appropriate, to cooperate
with international humanitarian and refugee organizations, including by facilitating
their work;
Child labour
36. 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 to or interfere with the child’s education or to be harmful to the child’s
health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development, to eliminate
immediately the worst forms of child labour, to promote education as a key strategy
in this regard, including the creation of vocational training and apprenticeship
programmes and the integration of working children into the formal education
system, and to examine and devise economic policies, where necessary, in
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