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administrative and judicial proceedings, and that disability-, gender- and age-appropriate
assistance is provided to enable the active and equal participation of all children;
(m) To ensure an active engagement of children in the development of measures
of prevention, response and monitoring of sexual violence and abuse against them,
including through the promotion and development of child-led initiatives;
(n)
To develop, strengthen and implement well-coordinated cross-sectoral
strategies or plans of action at the national and community levels to address violence
against children, including sexual violence and abuse against children, within the context of
comprehensive domestic child protection strategies, with realistic and time-bound targets,
and ensure the allocation of financial and human resources for their implementation,
including arrangements for the monitoring and regular review of action taken to address
sexual violence against children;
(o)
To improve national and local data-collection and information systems on
children at risk so as to inform policy and monitor progress in order to prevent sexual
violence against children, while safeguarding their dignity and right to privacy and averting
child stigmatization;
(p)
To ensure the registration of the child immediately after birth and that
registration procedures are simple, expeditious and effective and provided at minimal or no
cost and to raise awareness of the importance of birth registration at the national, regional
and local levels;
(q)
To establish and implement regional and national legal mechanisms and
programmes for addressing sex offender behaviour and preventing recidivism, in addition
to but not in place of criminal sanctions, safe reintegration of convicted offenders and the
collection and sharing of good practices;
(r)
To share good practices on all issues related to the fight against sexual
violence against children and to discuss these practices in regional and multilateral forums;
3.
Also urges all States to strengthen international commitment, cooperation and
mutual assistance, including at the level of relevant government ministries and law
enforcement agencies, in preventing and protecting children from all forms of sexual
violence and in ending impunity for sexual violence against children, including through
research, policies, monitoring and capacity-building designed to promote the
implementation of agreed international standards for preventing and protecting children
from sexual violence, abuse and exploitation, including child pornography;
4.
Calls upon States to pay special attention to the protection from sexual
violence and abuse of marginalized and vulnerable children, such as children belonging to
minorities, children with disabilities, migrant children, indigenous children, children
working and/or living on the street, refugee, asylum-seeking and internally displaced
children, in particular those who are unaccompanied, and children held in detention, and to
take all necessary actions, including the use of detention as a measure of last resort, and to
ensure that those who are victims of sexual violence receive special protection and
assistance in accordance with international law;
5.
Calls upon all States to prevent, criminalize, punish and eradicate the
practices of the sale of children, child slavery, commercial sexual exploitation of children,
child prostitution and child pornography, including the use of the Internet and new
technologies for those practices, and to take effective measures, as appropriate, against the
criminalization of children who are victims of exploitation;
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