A/HRC/RES/25/6 (g) Ensuring universal birth registration and age documentation without discrimination of any kind, irrespective of the legal status of the child; (h) capacities; Ensuring children’s informed consent to decisions in line with their evolving (i) Increasing public awareness of the rights of the child and, in particular, of their right to express their views freely in all matters affecting them; (j) Developing and strengthening multidisciplinary capacity-building and training initiatives to ensure that all persons working with and for children have the necessary knowledge and skills relating to children’s rights and needs; (k) Ensuring that all children have access to legal and other appropriate assistance, including by supporting the establishment of child-sensitive legal aid systems; (l) Encouraging the use of safe, non-intimidating and child-sensitive settings for dealing with cases involving children; (m) With full respect to the child’s privacy, encouraging close cooperation between different professionals, where appropriate, in order to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the child, including an assessment of his or her legal, psychological, social, emotional, physical and cognitive situation; (n) Ensuring that decisions are explained to the child in a way and in a language the child understands, in a manner appropriate to the child’s age and maturity, and that an interpreter is provided free of charge if the child cannot understand or speak the language used in the proceedings; (o) Ensuring that the child’s right to appeal is not more restricted than that of adults; (p) Ensuring systematic enforcement of decisions through a predictable process, thus enhancing confidence in the justice system; (q) Addressing social and cultural norms and customs that may prevent children from accessing justice and claiming redress; (r) Taking into consideration the need to ensure that statutes of limitation periods do not apply for gross violations of international human rights law and are not unduly restrictive for other types of violations, including by ensuring, where appropriate, that they do not begin running before the child has reached majority; (s) Considering, wherever possible, reparations for child victims of rights violations, in order to achieve full redress and reintegration, and that procedures for obtaining and enforcing reparation are readily accessible and child-sensitive; 14. Recognizes that alternative mechanisms for solving disputes and seeking redress for violations of the rights of the child, such as diversion, restorative justice processes, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, community-based programmes, complaints mechanisms of national human rights institutions, customary and religious justice processes, or company grievance mechanisms, can provide quick, affordable and accessible remedies, and help to reintegrate the child, while stressing that such mechanisms must be based on strict compliance with international human rights standards and procedural safeguards, and be child- and gender-sensitive; 15. Encourages States to allow children, their representatives, civil society organizations and national human rights institutions to bring cases on behalf of or in support of a group of children, or in the public interest, including group litigation and collective or class action suits, as a way to challenge laws, policies, norms and practices 7