A/RES/68/147
Rights of the child
(b) To respect fully the rights, human dignity and physical integrity of
children and to prevent and address any emotional, physical or sexual violence or
any other humiliating or degrading treatment or punishment;
(c) To give priority attention to the prevention of all forms of violence
against children and to addressing its underlying causes and its gender dimension
through a systematic, comprehensive and multifaceted approach, recognizing that
witnessing violence, including domestic violence, also causes harm to children;
(d) To develop a well-coordinated and well-resourced national strategy for
the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence against children, including
measures aimed at, inter alia, raising awareness, building the capacity of
professionals working with and for children, supporting effective parenting
programmes, fostering research, collecting data on the incidence of violence against
children and developing and implementing appropriate national monitoring tools to
periodically assess progress;
(e) To protect children from all forms of violence or abuse by all those who
work with and for children, including in educational settings, in alternative care and
residential care settings, and in international development activities and
humanitarian relief work, as well as by government officials, such as the police, law
enforcement authorities, employees and officials in detention centres or welfare
institutions and health-care personnel;
(f) To establish and develop safe, well-publicized, confidential and
accessible mechanisms to enable children or their representatives to seek
counselling, to report violence against children and file complaints on incidents of
violence against children and to ensure that child victims of violence have access to
confidential, child- and gender-sensitive health and social services and are
supported in their recovery and reintegration, taking into account the joint report of
the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child
pornography and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence
against Children 35 on this matter;
(g) To take measures to ensure that all those who work with and for children
protect children from bullying, including from bullying through the Internet and
other communications technologies, and implement preventive and anti-bullying
policies in order to ensure a safe and supportive environment free from harassment
and violence;
(h) To raise awareness of the negative effects of violence against children
and to strive to change attitudes that condone or normalize any form of violence
against children, including cruel, inhuman or degrading forms of discipline,
treatment or punishment, harmful practices and all forms of sexual violence;
(i) To take measures to promote constructive and positive forms of
discipline and child development approaches in all settings, including the home,
schools and other educational settings, and throughout care and justice systems;
(j) To end impunity for perpetrators of crimes against children, to undertake
thorough and prompt investigations of all acts of violence against children and to
prosecute such acts of violence and impose appropriate penalties, recognizing that
persons convicted of violent offences against children, including sexual abuse, who
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