A/HRC/19/64 2. That poverty alleviation should be targeted, as poverty is considered a primary cause for children's main problems, which lead to their deprivation of enjoying a normal life. Participants encourage the OIC and its Member States to facilitate the establishment of a children‘s forum to promote the contribution of children to the process of follow-up to the UN Study on Violence against Children and to keep children informed about developments in this area. - Child marriage Participants call upon all OIC Member States to raise the age of marriage to 18, ensuring full consent and registration of marriage. - FGM Participants to the Conference recommend the OIC member States to prohibit by law all forms of FGM and undertake awareness raising and informative campaigns, and promote social mobilisation in close consultation and cooperation with the traditional and religious leadership, NGOs, as well as with parliamentarians, to support the enforcement of the prohibition and the promotion of abandonment of this practice, and to provide people who are involved in this practice with alternative employment. - Corporal Punishment Participants to the Conference recommend that OIC Member States prohibit all corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment or treatment of children, in all settings including within schools and within the family, linking law reform with the promotion of positive, non-violent forms of discipline. - Juvenile justice Participants call on OIC Member States to complete the development of an effective and efficient juvenile justice system which ensures the full implementation of the CRC in particular articles 37 and 40, and other relevant international standards and taking into account the Committee on the Rights of the Child‘s General Comment No. 10. In that regard, special attention should be paid to the establishment and progressive raising of the minimum age for criminal responsibility. Participants call on OIC Member States to take necessary measures to respond to children in conflict with the law without resorting to judicial proceedings providing that human rights and legal safeguards are fully respected, including community service, restorative justice, (taking into account the Lima 2009 - Declaration on Restorative Juvenile Justice). Participants call on OIC Member States to take measures to ensure that all children in conflict with the law are provided with free legal or other appropriate assistance and that deprivation of liberty, including pre-trial detention, is only used as a measure of last resort and for the shortest possible period of time, by fully implementing recommendations of the CRC Committee made in Gen. Comment No. 10 regarding the use of pre-trial detention and by introducing and effectively using suspended sentencing and early release. Participants call on OIC Member States to take legislative measures to abolish the imposition of capital punishment on persons who committed a crime when under the age of 18, and suspend the execution of any pending capital punishment. Furthermore, it is recommended to abolish all forms of life imprisonment for crimes committed before the age of 18. Participants call on OIC Member States to take legislative measures to ensure that children deprived of their liberty have access to education, adequate health care and to sports and other leisure opportunities, can maintain regular contact with their parents and other family 45

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