A/HRC/40/27 ensuring bilingual and multilingual education; ensuring the teaching of sign languages, deaf culture and human rights education; mandatory and regular training of all teachers including within core teaching curricula; and the employment of teachers with disabilities across all schools; (c) Actively involve children with disabilities and their representative organizations in all matters affecting them by adopting strategies to ensure their participation in decision-making that include disability- and age-appropriate support; guaranteeing the accessibility of all procedures, spaces and communications relating to public decision-making and providing reasonable accommodation; and supporting the establishment of representative organizations of children with disabilities, in particular self-advocacy organizations of children with intellectual or psychosocial impairments, and those representing girls with disabilities; (d) Adopt a strategy and action plan for deinstitutionalization involving systematic transformation, including the development of community-based support services and peer support networks, covering support for families to uphold the right of children with disabilities to grow up in their family or in a family-based setting, and to participate and be included in the community; (e) Prohibit violence against and abuse and exploitation of children with disabilities, including all harmful practices that violate their integrity, dignity and right to preserve their identity, including the right to health and sexual and reproductive health, with apply effective criminal sanctions to perpetrators; (f) Ensure the availability of appropriate and accessible protection mechanisms to prevent and respond to abuse, violence and exploitation, such as accessible information, hotlines, shelters, victim support services and reporting and complaint mechanisms; and designate an independent body with a mandate to monitor services and facilities for children with disabilities, including institutions, supported by disaggregated data on victims and survivors of violence; (g) Take immediate measures to ensure that girls and boys with disabilities have access to accessible, inclusive, confidential and gender-sensitive redress mechanisms by guaranteeing the provision of procedural and age-appropriate accommodations to ensure their effective role as direct and indirect participants, including as witnesses, in all legal proceedings; and conduct regular training on the rights of children with disabilities, together with reasonable accommodation and support for personnel working in the administration of justice, social assistance and community services, health care and education; (h) In consultation with children with disabilities and their representative organizations, conduct local and nationwide awareness-raising campaigns to combat stereotypes and promote their positive role as equal and active participants in and contributors to society, and to increase public information and awareness on the rights of children with disabilities, including their equal right to education; (i) Alongside children with disabilities and their representative organizations, undertake monitoring and evaluation, research, studies and the systematic collection and publication of accessible data, disaggregated by sex and disability, among other criteria, across all sectors, in order to formulate effective policies and programmes for their empowerment; (j) Implement transparent and participatory budgeting involving children with disabilities, and define specific budgetary lines for children with disabilities that are protected in situations of humanitarian emergency, natural disaster or economic recession; (k) Promote the empowerment of children with disabilities and the realization of their rights, and their participation and full inclusion in society, in the context of international cooperation and the implementation of measures to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. 15

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