A/RES/68/147 Rights of the child 52. Calls upon all States to protect children deprived of their liberty from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, to ensure that, if they are arrested, detained or imprisoned, children are provided with adequate legal assistance and that no child is sentenced or subjected to forced labour or emotional or physical violence or any other humiliation or degrading treatment or deprived of access to and provision of health care and services, hygiene and environmental sanitation, access to open space for recreation, education, basic instruction and vocational training, and to undertake prompt investigations of all reported acts of violence and ensure that all violators are held accountable; 53. Urges States to ensure that the child is assisted during all judicial proceedings by a competent adult, parent or guardian, in addition to the child’s lawyer, and to ensure that the child’s right to be heard in proceedings is observed; 54. Calls upon all States to take all the measures necessary to avoid revictimization of children victims or witnesses during all stages of judicial proceedings; 55. Encourages continued regional and cross-regional efforts, the sharing of best practices and the provision of technical assistance in the field of juvenile justice, and notes in this regard the initiative to convene a world congress on juvenile justice in Geneva from 26 to 30 January 2015; Children of incarcerated parents 56. Calls upon all States to give attention to the impact of parental detention and imprisonment on children and, in particular: (a) To give priority consideration to non-custodial measures when sentencing or deciding on pretrial measures for a child’s sole or primary caretaker, subject to the need to protect the public and the child, and bearing in mind the gravity of the offence; (b) To identify and promote good practices in relation to the needs and physical, emotional, social and psychological development of babies and children affected by parental detention and imprisonment; 57. Acknowledges that a parent’s deprivation of liberty, sentencing to death or life imprisonment has a serious impact on children’s development, and urges States, in the framework of their national child protection efforts, to provide the assistance and support these children may require; Prevention and eradication of the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography 58. Expresses deep concern about the persistence of the practices of the sale of children, child slavery and sexual exploitation of children in prostitution and pornography, and calls upon all States: (a) To prevent, criminalize, prosecute and punish effectively all forms of the sale of children, including for the purposes of the transfer of organs of the child for profit, child slavery, commercial and domestic sexual exploitation of children, child prostitution and child pornography, with the aim of eradicating those practices and the use of the Internet and other information and communications technologies for these purposes, to combat the existence of a market that encourages such criminal practices and take measures to eliminate the demand that fosters them, as well as to address the rights of victims to effective protection and rehabilitation, to provide 14/19