A/HRC/34/27 remedial action, and child protection systems must be strengthened in an integrated manner, including through the transformation of legislation and policies to prohibit all forms of violence against children, alongside supportive measures in relation to services and social norms. 25. Commitments under target 16.2 to end abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children in all circumstances; and targets under Goal 5 to eliminate violence against women and girls (target 5.2) and to end harmful practices including child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation (target 5.3), are particularly important in this respect. Further to these, Goal 16 contains crucial targets for children with respect to target 16.3 to promote the rule of law and equal access to justice for all, which should in its implementation include children’s access to juvenile justice systems; and target 16.9 to provide legal identity for all, including birth registration, which should be implemented in accordance with the right of all children to legal identity. Ending child poverty and ensuring access to quality essential services for all children 26. While children represent approximately one third of the world’s population, almost half of those surviving on less than $1.25 per day are children and young people under 18 years of age. In addition, child poverty is an increasingly global challenge, as growing numbers of children in comparatively rich countries are falling into poverty as a result of austerity policies due to economic recession. 10 In implementing the Sustainable Development Goals, it must be considered that addressing childhood poverty is a particular priority, as it is damaging to development outcomes and can lead to the lifelong denial of multiple rights. 27. Inequality and discrimination take the form of unequal access to essential goods and services, which are the foundation of basic rights enjoyed by all children, including rights to food, water, health and education. Deprivation in these respects often spans generations due to entrenched cycles of poverty. Ensuring equal access for all children to quality essential services is a crucial building block for the fulfilment of all goals and multiple rights set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, including the right to an adequate standard of living. Goal 1 of the Sustainable Development Goals aimed at ending poverty in all its forms everywhere contains a key commitment to reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions. 28. The commitment under Goal 1 to halve child poverty is strongly supported by the cross-cutting commitments to addressing inequalities, gender inequality and discrimination, and by target 11.1 to ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and to upgrade slums. The promise in target 1.3 pertaining to social protection including “social protection floors” (minimum guarantees for those families and individuals in situations of the greatest need) provides an essential foundation for addressing child poverty, by guaranteeing minimum essential levels of economic and social rights. Health and nutrition 29. The comprehensive nature of Goal 3 on health is supportive of the right to health and for all children to survive and to thrive. It addresses the multiple health risks faced by children throughout their life course, including under-5 mortality and both communicable and non-communicable diseases. Target 3.2 makes key commitments pertaining to the right to life, including to end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age 10 8 See UNICEF, Save the Children and others, “Child poverty: indicators to measure progress for the SDGs” (March 2015).