A/HRC/22/31 providing disaster relief and humanitarian assistance in times of emergency. In such cases, all measures possible should be taken to ensure that children have uninterrupted access to health services, to (re)unite them with their families and to protect them not only with physical support (such as food and clean water) but also to encourage special parental or other psychosocial care to prevent or address fear and traumas. VI. Recommendations 89. Despite progress in many areas, child health remains an issue of concern throughout the world. The issues described in the present report pose enormous and complex challenges requiring joint efforts by a wide range of actors, including States, the international community, civil society, communities and families, as well as the private sector. A determined, enduring commitment to promote and protect the rights of all children, including their right to health, is needed so that all children everywhere grow and thrive in the full realization of all their rights. 90. In order to ensure the realization of the child right to health, OHCHR recommends that States that have not yet ratified and implemented the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Optional Protocols thereto and other international human rights instruments relevant to child health to do so as a matter of priority. States are encouraged to review and withdraw reservations to article 24 of the Convention and other rights that might infringe on children’s ability to realize the right to health. 91. OHCHR recommends that States report regularly on the implementation of the right of the child to health in their periodic reports submitted to the Committee on the Rights of the Child and in the context of their review under the universal periodic review mechanism of the Human Rights Council. 92. States are encouraged to adopt a holistic approach to the realization of the right of the child to health, which includes attention to other rights that might affect the realization of this right. The right of the child to health should be recognized in national legislation. In order to ensure access to health services and programmes, States should ensure that free, accessible, simple and expeditious birth registration is available to all children. 93. States should take appropriate legislative and other measures to fulfil the right of the child to health “to the maximum extent of their available resources”, ensuring the availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of essential health services for all children, without discrimination. 94. States are encouraged to review national laws and policies and, where necessary, amend them to ensure consonance with fulfilling the right of the child to health. To that end, comprehensive prohibition of all forms of violence against children, including practices that harm children’s health, should be included in legislation. Barriers relating to comprehensive sexual and reproductive information and services should be removed. 95. States are also encouraged to establish and make use of a comprehensive and cohesive national coordinating framework on child health, built upon the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to facilitate cooperation between ministries and different levels of Government, as well as interaction with civil society. 96. States should engage all sectors of society, including children, in the implementation of the right of the child to health. Children’s opinions should inform the policies, plans and interventions designed to address them. 17