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programmes for reconciliation, peace consolidation, peace-building and children-tochildren networks;
27. Notes with appreciation the appointment by the Secretary-General of
child protection advisers in United Nations peacekeeping missions, and encourages
him to continue to appoint such advisers, where appropriate, to existing and future
peacekeeping operations;
28. Also notes with appreciation the Winnipeg Agenda for War-Affected
Children 23 and efforts by regional organizations to include prominently in their
policies and programmes the rights and protection of children affected by armed
conflict;
VI
Progressive elimination of child labour
1.
Reaffirms the right of the child to be protected from economic
exploitation and 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;
2.
Calls upon all States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying the
conventions of the International Labour Organization relating to child labour, in
particular the Convention concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour, 1930
(Convention No. 29), the Convention concerning Minimum Age for Admission to
Employment, 1973 (Convention No. 138) and the Convention concerning the
Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child
Labour, 1999 (Convention No. 182), and to implement those conventions;
3.
Calls upon all States to translate into
the progressive and effective elimination of
international standards, and urges them, inter
worst forms of child labour as set out in
Convention No. 182 of 1999;
concrete action their commitment to
child labour contrary to accepted
alia, to eliminate immediately the
International Labour Organization
4.
Also calls upon all States to assess and systematically examine the
magnitude, nature and causes of child labour and to elaborate and implement
strategies for the elimination of child labour contrary to accepted international
standards, giving special attention to specific dangers faced by girls, as well as to
the rehabilitation and social reintegration of the children concerned;
5.
Recognizes that primary education is one of the main instruments for
reintegrating child workers, calls upon all States to recognize the right to education
by making primary education compulsory and to ensure that all children have equal
access to free primary education as a key strategy to prevent child labour, and
recognizes, in particular, the important role of the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund in this
regard;
6.
Calls upon all States and the United Nations system to strengthen
international cooperation as a means of assisting Governments in preventing or
combating violations of the rights of the child and in attaining the objective of
eliminating child labour contrary to accepted international standards;
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