A/HRC/19/64 • strengthen the work for the protection of the rights of children in detention centres; • promote work in the member states to develop measures that ensure that children grow up in a family environment in their original families, in foster homes or via national adoptions; • promote the ratification and the implementation of the Convention on Adoption of Children (revised). Children with disabilities • Develop a forum for the exchange of experience on alternatives to institutional care and the dismantling of traditional institutions for children with disabilities, and for increasing children‘s opportunities for community living and develop tools to allow for children‘s involvement in the discussions; • in line with the Committee of Ministers recommendation Rec(2006)5 on the Council of Europe Action Plan to promote the rights and full participation of people with disabilities in society (2006-2015), disability aspects should be mainstreamed throughout the programme; • help raise awareness of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, encourage the member states to become party to and implement it, and further develop their own initiatives and action plans. Children in or at risk of poverty and social exclusion • Promote the support of children living in families with scarce financial resources or who are socially excluded, to prevent children being placed in care because of financial vulnerability or leaving home and thereby risking becoming victims of exploitation or living on the streets; • develop measures to promote the rights of children belonging to national or ethnic minorities, and to prevent and actively combat discrimination against them; • promote work with local authorities to address the problem of children living on the street; • propose specific measures to promote the rights and address the needs of children seeking asylum, refugee and migrant children and, more generally, all unaccompanied children. 71

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