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disabilities into policies and programmes for children, taking into account the particular situation
of children with disabilities who may be subject to multiple or aggravated forms of
discrimination, including girls with disabilities and children with disabilities living in poverty;
(b) To ensure the dignity of children with disabilities, to promote their self-reliance and
to facilitate their full and active participation and inclusion in the community, including by
ensuring access to good-quality inclusive education and health, and to enact and enforce
legislation protecting children with disabilities against all forms of discrimination, exploitation,
violence and abuse;
(c) To consider ratifying the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and
its Optional Protocol as a matter of priority;
Migrant children
27. Calls upon all States to ensure, for migrant children, the enjoyment of all human
rights and access to health care, social services and education of good quality, and that migrant
children, and especially those who are unaccompanied and those who are victims of violence and
exploitation, receive special protection and assistance, in accordance with their obligations, as
reflected in articles 9 and 10 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child;
Children working and/or living on the street
28. 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 execution, 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
29. 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 and post-conflict situations, 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;
Children alleged to have or recognized as having infringed penal law
30. Calls upon all States, in particular those States in which the death penalty has not
been abolished:
(a) To abolish by law, as soon as possible, the death penalty and life imprisonment
without possibility of release for those under the age of 18 years at the time of the commission of
the offence;
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