welfare institutions, including orphanages, giving priority to the gender dimension
and to address its underlying causes through a systematic and comprehensive
approach;
(c)
To take appropriate measures to assert the right of children to respect
for their human dignity and physical integrity and to prohibit and eliminate any
emotional or physical violence or any other humiliating or degrading treatment;
(d)
To take measures to eliminate the use of corporal punishment in
schools and to take urgent measures to protect students from violence of any kind,
injury or abuse, including sexual abuse, intimidation or maltreatment in schools, to
establish complaint mechanisms that are age-appropriate and accessible to children
and to undertake thorough and prompt investigations of all acts of violence and
discrimination;
(e)
To take measures to change attitudes that condone or normalize any
form of violence against children, including cruel, inhuman or degrading forms of
discipline, harmful traditional practices and all forms of sexual violence;
(f)
To end impunity for perpetrators of crimes against children, and to
investigate and prosecute such acts of violence and impose appropriate penalties,
recognizing that persons convicted of violent offences against children, including
sexual abuse of children, should be able to work with children only after adequate
national safeguards have been used to determine that they do not pose a risk of harm
to children;
15.
Requests the Secretary-General to take urgent action on General
Assembly resolution 62/141 and to appoint, in accordance with Assembly
resolution 62/141, at the highest possible level and without delay, a Special
Representative on violence against children and to report on progress made to the
Council at its eighth session;
Identity, family relations and birth registration
16.
Urges all States parties to intensify their efforts to comply with their
obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child to preserve the child’s
identity, including nationality, name and family relations, as recognized by law, to
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