A/HRC/19/64 the rights of the child ; to ensure comprehensive and balanced development by establishing an integrated Arab mechanism to mobilize , guide and coordinate efforts exerted in favour of childhood ; to provide necessary technical expertise and funding in cooperation with regional and international organizations, the private sector and civil society organizations. • To pursue diligent efforts to promote the rights of the child, improve his/her status within the context of a rights-based approach that ensures the best interests of the child, based on the interdependent, holistic and indivisible character of rights and by applying the principle of non-discrimination to give the causes of childhood the priority they deserve; to mobilize financial and human resources required to implement sectoral plans and programmes through child-friendly budgets while establishing monitoring and evaluation systems; • To reaffirm our resolve to continue working to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, the Goals of ― World Fit for Children‖, and the goals of the ―Arab Plan for Childhood‖ set for 2015; to intensify Arab efforts for addressing challenges through, inter alia, submitting childhood-related issues to the Council of the League of Arab States at the Summit Level; finding ways to promote the role of Arab funds and financial institutions in childhood projects, as a high priority of development action based on regional cooperation and human development concepts, promoting human rights and economic integration between Arab countries as a driving force of genuine development; • To pursue work to update the Second Arab Childhood Plan to include well-defined goals, fixed time-frames, and subject to assessment, monitoring and follow-up; based on partnership between countries and different societal sectors, those working with children, with children themselves and their families, civil society, the private sector, academic centres and media, and to be implemented through the application of quality standards, efficiency and transparency. In this context we emphasize the importance of incorporating a gender-sensitive approach in all child-related programmes and encouraging work to combat violence against women in view of its close link to the best interests of children. We also stress the importance of up-dating and developing the database on indicators on the situation of children in Arab countries as a reference for planning, policy formulation and programme design, while emphasizing the importance of conducting periodic studies on the situation of children in the Arab region in cooperation with relevant regional and international organizations. • To establish a framework of action for the protection of children living under Israeli occupation in Palestine and the Golan; to defend their rights guaranteed by international law, especially their right to a free and dignified life in their homeland, their right to protection from all forms of violence, torture, ill-treatment and aggressive practices, and ensure that they are not deprived of their basic rights; to affirm the right of the Palestinian child to a national identity within the independent state of Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital and the right of the Syrian child in the occupied Golan to enjoy his original nationality and to have access to all health and educational services, to learn in his own language and to study his national curriculum, to communicate with his family in his country of origin, and to be protected from land mines, and the right of the Lebanese child to live in a country free from land mines and cluster bombs; to encourage Arab and international efforts to take action for the rehabilitation of children who have been physically, psychologically and socially affected; to reject the teaching of curricula prepared by the occupying authorities while stressing that just, lasting and comprehensive peace requires lifting the blockade imposed on Gaza and ending the suffering of the 37