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6.
Calls upon States to ensure that children working and/or living on the street
enjoy all human rights fully and equally, and that they have access without discrimination
to health care, education, safe drinking water and sanitation, and social and other basic
services;
7.
Also calls upon States to address the vulnerabilities of children working
and/or living on the street to multiple health risks, including HIV infection, through social
protection and primary health-care services that would build relationships of trust with
these children and ensure their access to information on risky behaviours, counselling and
testing and adequate protection against health risks, including HIV;
8.
Calls on States to ensure appropriate care and protection of children who
work and/or live on the street without any parental contact or supervision, including
through measures to support their sustainable reintegration into their family and, when
family reintegration is not possible or appropriate, through a case-by-case approach to
provide alternative care that is appropriate and in the best interests of the child;
9.
Encourages States to develop, strengthen and implement, as appropriate,
national systems for collecting, monitoring and evaluating disaggregated national data on
children, including on children working and/or living on the street;
10.
Calls upon all States to strengthen international commitment, cooperation
and mutual assistance in preventing the phenomenon of children working and/or living on
the street, in protecting such children, including against all forms of violence, and in
improving their situation, including through sharing good practices, research, policies,
monitoring and capacity-building;
11.
Encourages States parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in
preparing their reports for the Committee on the Rights of the Child, to take into account
this issue and to consider requesting technical advice and assistance for initiatives aimed at
improving the situation of children living and/or working on the street, in accordance with
article 45 of the Convention;
12.
Calls upon all States, requests relevant United Nations bodies and agencies
and invites regional organizations, the private sector, employers’ and workers’
organizations, civil society organizations, including child-led organizations and any other
actors, to accelerate action against child labour, especially its worst forms, in line with
international obligations and declared commitments;
13.
Also calls upon all States and invites United Nations entities and agencies,
regional organizations and civil society, including non-governmental organizations, to
cooperate with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against
children in promoting further implementation of the recommendations of the United
Nations study on violence against children,5 and encourages States to provide support,
including financial support, for the effective and independent performance of her mandate,
as set out by the General Assembly in its resolution 62/141 of 18 December 2007, while
promoting and ensuring country ownership and national plans and programmes in this
regard, and calls upon States and institutions concerned and invites the private sector to
provide voluntary contributions for that purpose;
14.
Urges all States that have not yet become parties to the Convention on the
Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocols thereto to do so as a matter of priority;
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