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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
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