A/HRC/43/52
(iv) Educating children, parents and teachers about the responsible use of
information and communications technologies (ICT);
(v)
Promoting the safe use of digital technology to increase civic and social
engagement.
34.
States should ensure that:
(a)
Birth certificates are issued for children upon birth, including for indigenous
and tribal children, and that they reflect the self-defined gender identity of the parents;
(b)
Court records containing sensitive details of the sex characteristics of intersex
children, addresses, details of genitalia and surgical procedures, among other personal
information, are not accessible by search engines;
(c)
There are limitations on the authority of parents of intersex children to
authorize medically unnecessary genital plastic surgery that cosmetically “normalizes”
variations in the children’s sex characteristics, and that the involvement of the child
concerned in such decisions is ensured, in accordance with the evolving capacity of the child;
(d)
Privacy protocols are adopted so that children are fully consulted and informed
regarding modifications to their sex characteristics necessary to avoid or remedy proven
serious physical harm, and the consent of the child concerned to such modifications is
ensured, in accordance with the evolving capacity of the child;
(e)
Gender recognition procedures for minors are compatible with human rights
(i)
Are swift, transparent and based on self-determination;
(ii)
Have the best interest of the child as the primary consideration;
(iii)
Are not medicalized;
(iv)
Protect the child’s identity;
and:
(f)
in order to:
They take measures in relation to the rights of the child in HIV/AIDS contexts
(i)
Implement child-centred and rights-based national and local HIV/AIDSrelated policies, action plans, strategies and programmes;
(ii)
Allocate financial, technical and human resources, insofar as possible, to
support national and community-based action that, where appropriate, is within the
framework of international cooperation;
(iii)
Expressly prohibit discrimination based on real or perceived HIV/AIDS status;
(g)
They include HIV/AIDS action plans, strategies, policies and programmes in
the work of national mechanisms responsible for monitoring and coordinating children’s
rights and provide a procedure for complaints of neglect or violation of those rights in relation
to HIV/AIDS;
(h)
They ensure that HIV-related data collections and evaluations adequately
cover children, are disaggregated by age and gender and include, insofar as possible, children
belonging to vulnerable groups and those in need of special protection;
(i)
They enable all children to:
(i)
Obtain, in a manner that protects their privacy, adequate information related to
HIV/AIDS prevention and care through formal educational opportunities and childtargeted media and informal channels, such as those targeting street children,
institutionalized children or children living in difficult circumstances;
(ii)
Have private access to voluntary, confidential HIV counselling, testing and test
results;
(j)
They guarantee the confidentiality and security of information concerning:
11
Select target paragraph3
Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents