A/RES/72/245
Rights of the child
towards the elimination of all forms of violence against children, including violent
forms of discipline;
(d) To adopt all appropriate measures to ensure that school discipline is
administered in a manner consistent with the child ’s human dignity and human rights
by taking all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures,
in accordance with the best interests of the child, to protect the child from all forms
of physical or psychological violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment,
maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse in schools, and in this context to
take measures to promote non-violent forms of discipline in schools;
(e) To accelerate efforts to develop, review and strengthen inclusive and
gender-responsive policies, including by allocating adequate resources, to address the
structural and underlying causes of violence against girls, to overcome gender
stereotypes and negative social norms, to encourage the media to examine the impact
of gender-role stereotypes, including those perpetuated by commercial
advertisements, that foster gender-based violence, sexual exploitation and
inequalities, to promote zero tolerance for such violence and to remove the stigma of
being a victim and survivor of violence, thus creating an enabling and accessible
environment where girls can easily report incidents of violence and make use of the
services available, including protection and assistance programmes;
(f) To fully engage men and boys as agents and beneficiaries of change in the
achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and as
allies in the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls,
including domestic violence;
(g) To condemn all harmful practices that affect girls, in particular female
genital mutilation, whether committed within or outside a medical institution, and to
take all measures necessary, especially through educational campaigns, including
enacting and enforcing legislation, to prohibit female genital mutilation and to protect
girls from this form of violence, and to hold perpetrators to account;
(h) To enact, enforce and uphold laws and policies aimed at preventing and
ending child, early and forced marriage and protecting those at risk, to ensure that
marriage is entered into only with the informed, free and full consent of the intending
spouses and to amend relevant laws and policies to remove any provision that enables
perpetrators of rape, sexual abuse or abduction to escape prosecution and punishment
by marrying their victims;
(i) To take all measures necessary to ensure the full enjoyment by children
with disabilities of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, on an equal basis with
other children, to adopt, implement and strengthen appropriate policies and
programmes designed to address their needs, with a focus on ending violence against
children with disabilities, to ensure that programmes aimed at violence prevention
and victim support are inclusive and accessible to children with disabilities, including
by providing information in accessible formats, and to mainstream disability issues
in training and information provided to professionals working on addressing violence
against children;
(j) To enact and enforce the necessary legislative or other measures, in
cooperation with relevant stakeholders, including the private sector and the media, to
prevent the distribution over the Internet 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, while working towards ensuring that the opportunities
provided by information and communications technologies in the lives of children, as
tools for learning, socialization, expression, inclusion and fulfilment of their rights
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