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mothers should stay with them in prison, and emphasizing the responsibility of the State to
provide adequate care for women in prison and their children;
(c)
To provide children of persons accused or convicted of offences with access
to their incarcerated parents or parental caregivers throughout judicial proceedings and the
period of detention, including regular and private meetings with the prisoners, and,
wherever possible, contact visits for younger children, subject to the best interests of the
child, taking into account the need to ensure the administration of justice;
(d)
To recognize, promote and protect the rights of the child affected by parental
incarceration, in particular the right to have their best interests included as an important
consideration in decisions relating to one or both of their parent’s involvement with the
criminal justice system, as well as the right not to be discriminated against because of the
actions or alleged actions of one or both of their parents;
(e)
Bearing in mind the best interests of the child, to keep children or their legal
guardians informed of the place of imprisonment of their incarcerated parents or parental
caregivers and, in advance, of any transfer, as well as of the progress of petitions for
pardons, reports presented to bodies such as clemency commissions, and the reasoning
behind the recommendations of these bodies to support or reject petitions;
(f)
To ensure that children whose parents or parental caregivers are on death
row, the inmates themselves, their families and their legal representatives are provided, in
advance, with adequate information about a pending execution, its date, time and location,
to allow a last visit or communication with the convicted person, the return of the body to
the family for burial or to inform on where the body is located, unless this is not in the best
interests of the child;
VII.
Follow-up
70.
Decides:
(a)
To request the Secretary-General to ensure the provision of appropriate staff
and facilities from the United Nations regular budget for the effective and expeditious
performance of the functions of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, special
procedures and special representatives of the United Nations system in the implementation
of their mandates and, where appropriate, to invite States to continue to make voluntary
contributions;
(b)
To request the Secretary-General to submit to the Human Rights Council, at
its twenty-second session, a report on the rights of the child, including information on the
status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child;
(c)
To remain seized of the issue and to consider, in accordance with the
programme of work of the Human Rights Council, an omnibus resolution on the rights of
the child every five years, and to focus on a theme of the rights of the child on an annual
basis in the intervening period;
(d)
To request the High Commissioner to prepare a summary of the full-day
meeting on the rights of the child before the twenty-first session of the Human Rights
Council;
(e)
To focus its next full-day meeting on the right of the child to the enjoyment
of the highest attainable standard of health, and invites the Office of the High
Commissioner to prepare a report on that issue, in close collaboration with relevant
stakeholders, including States, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health
Organization and other relevant United Nations bodies and agencies, relevant special
procedures mandate holders, regional organizations and human rights bodies, civil society,
national human rights institutions and children themselves, and to present it to the Human
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