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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.
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