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strategy that integrates a human rights perspective, and to draw up, as appropriate,
national action plans in this regard;
(q) To strengthen measures to eliminate the demand for child sex tourism and
to ensure the effective protection of children from exploitation through all possible
preventive actions, including legislative measures and other relevant policies and
programmes;
(r) To protect the child against all other forms of exploitation prejudicial to
any aspect of the child’s welfare;
(s) To continue to seek to prevent, respond to, investigate and prosecute
violations and abuses against children in humanitarian emergencies, to strengthen
support services for children affected by humanitarian emerge ncies, including those
who have experienced violations and abuses, and to call for a more effective response
in that regard;
(t) To invest in the development and implementation of data systems to
monitor violence against children and track progress and to promote, where possible,
innovation in the area of data collection and monitoring, including using benchmarks
and indicators, to ensure access to reliable disaggregated data;
(u) To encourage and support the private sector, including the corporate sector,
to put in place policies and processes, appropriate to their size and circumstances, that
ensure that their activities do not cause or contribute to violence against and
exploitation of children;
(v) To support the work of the independent expert for the global study on the
situation of children deprived of their liberty;
IV
Follow-up
37. Recalls paragraph 52 (d) of its resolution 69/157 of 18 December 2014, in
which it invited the Secretary-General to commission an in-depth global study on
children deprived of their liberty, to be funded through voluntary contributions, also
recalls paragraph 88 of its resolution 71/177, in this regard encourages Member States
and United Nations agencies, funds, programmes and offices, as well as other relevant
stakeholders, to contribute to and support the elaboration of the study, and invites the
designated independent expert to update Member States at its seventy-third session
on the progress made and to submit a final report to the General Assembly at its
seventy-fourth session;
38. Welcomes the appointment of Virginia Gamba as the Special
Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, pursuant
to General Assembly resolutions 51/77 and 60/231 of 23 December 2005, and
recognizes the progress achieved since the establishment of the mandate of the
Special Representative, as extended by the Assembly in its resolution 69/157;
39. Recognizes the work of the Office of the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, its increased level of work and
the progress achieved since the establishment of the mandate of the Special
Representative, and, bearing in mind its resolution 63/241 of 24 December 2008 and
paragraphs 35 to 37 of its resolution 51/77, recommends that the Secretary-General
extend the mandate of the Special Representative for a further period of three years;
40.
Decides:
(a) To request the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
seventy-third session a comprehensive report on the rights of the child containing
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