A/RES/50/153 Page 5 15. Takes note of the establishment by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 1994/9 of 22 July 1994 of an open-ended inter-sessional working group of the Commission on Human Rights responsible for elaborating, as a matter of priority and in close cooperation with the Special Rapporteur and the Committee on the Rights of the Child, guidelines for a possible draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child related to the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, as well as the basic measures needed for the prevention and eradication of those abnormal practices; 16. Requests that all States support efforts in the context of the United Nations system aimed at adopting efficient international measures for the prevention and eradication of all those practices and consider contributing to the drafting of an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child; 17. Welcomes the convening of the first world congress on the commercial sexual exploitation of children, to be held at Stockholm from 26 to 31 August 1996; IV Elimination of exploitation of child labour 18. conventions elimination the minimum prohibition them; Encourages Member States which have not yet done so to ratify the of the International Labour Organization relating to the of exploitation of child labour, in particular those concerning age for employment, the abolition of forced labour and the of particularly hazardous work for children, and to implement 19. Calls upon Governments to take legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to ensure the protection of children from economic exploitation, in particular the protection from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child’s education or to be harmful to the child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development; 20. Urges Governments to take all necessary measures to eliminate all extreme forms of child labour, such as forced labour, bonded labour and other forms of slavery; 21. Requests that measures be taken by Governments, at the national and international levels, within the framework of multisectoral approaches, to end exploitation of child labour in line with the commitments undertaken at the World Summit for Social Development, held at Copenhagen in March 1995, 9/ and the Fourth World Conference on Women, held at Beijing in September 1995,10/ and taking into account the results of other relevant United Nations conferences; 22. Requests the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund and ______________ 9/ See A/CONF.166/9. 10/ See A/CONF.177/20 and Add.1. /...

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