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Take appropriate measures to prevent the unlawful recruitment or use of
children by armed forces or groups, and work towards the unconditional
release from armed forces or groups of all children recruited or used
unlawfully by armed forces or groups, and their protection and
reintegration;
•
Take effective and appropriate measures, including legislative,
administrative and judicial, to prevent and eliminate traditional practices
that are harmful to children taking into account the physical and mental
harm caused to the child, and the different impact on girls and boys;
•
Encourage the inclusion of all children in education programmes and
strengthen children's capacities, including by enabling their equal access to
quality education for girls and boys in all stages of the displacement cycle
and in situations of statelessness; promote learning and school
environments that are safe, do not perpetuate violence, and promote a
culture of peace and dialogue; designate child-friendly spaces in camp and
urban environments; and promote access to post-primary education
wherever possible and appropriate, life-skills and vocational trainings for
adolescents and support recreational activities, sports, play and cultural
activities;
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Make all efforts to ensure integrated nutrition and health interventions and
access to adequate food through measures that address the root causes of
food insecurity and malnutrition, including by enhancing families'
enjoyment of self-reliance, age and gender-sensitive food distribution
systems, targeted nutrition programmes for pregnant women and children
during their critical first years of development, and by providing treatment
for malnourished children;
•
Make all efforts to ensure access to child-friendly health services, which
provide appropriate medical and psycho-social care for child survivors of
violence, including for children with disabilities, take steps towards
realizing access to HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support,
including antiretroviral treatment and prevention of mother to child
transmission; and for adolescents access to age-sensitive reproductive
healthcare as well as health and HIV information and education;
•
Establish and provide access to appropriate psychological support and
training programmes as required to prepare children better for social
reintegration;
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Give high priority to enabling children with disabilities to have access to
special assistance and to adequate health and social services, including
psychosocial recovery and social reintegration;
•
Develop capacities and competencies on child protection issues through
training of government officials, UNHCR staff and implementing and
operational partners to enhance knowledge of the rights of children, the
fundamentals of child protection and gender analysis;
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Facilitate the provision of child-friendly information on the conditions in
places of return to enable refugee and internally displaced children, in
particular those unaccompanied and separated and others at heightened
risk, to participate in decision-making on their return; promote respect for
protection of children's inheritance rights; and provide, where possible and
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