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22. Calls upon the Government of Cambodia to continue to take further
measures to ensure adequate health conditions, with emphasis on ensuring such
conditions for women and children and minority groups and on the problem of the
human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and
encourages the international community to continue to support the Government to
this end;
23. Commends the continued efforts of the Government of Cambodia,
together with non-governmental organizations, local authorities and United Nations
bodies, to improve the quality of and access to education, calls for further measures
to be taken in order to ensure the right of Cambodian children to education,
especially at the primary level, in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of
the Child, 11 and requests the international community to provide assistance for the
achievement of this goal;
24. Welcomes the signing of the United Nations inter-agency memorandum
of understanding with the Ministry of the Interior on Law Enforcement against
Sexual Exploitation of Children, and encourages the Government of Cambodia to
ensure the necessary law enforcement and other measures to tackle the problem of
child prostitution and trafficking in Cambodia;
25. Notes with serious concern the problem of child labour in its worst
forms, calls upon the Government of Cambodia to ensure adequate health and safety
conditions for children and to outlaw, in particular, the worst forms of child labour,
invites the International Labour Organization to continue to extend the necessary
assistance in this regard, and encourages the Government of Cambodia to consider
ratifying the 1999 International Labour Organization Convention concerning the
Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child
Labour, Convention No. 182;
26. Also notes with serious concern the prison conditions in Cambodia, notes
with interest some improvements in the prison system, commends the continued
international assistance to improve the material conditions of detention, and calls
upon the Government of Cambodia to take the further measures necessary to
improve prison conditions, especially with regard to providing the minimum
standard of food and health care and meeting the special needs of women and
children, including by strengthening the coordinating role of the Prison Health
Department with the Ministry of Health, provincial authorities and nongovernmental organizations working in this field;
27. Urges an end to racial violence against and vilification of ethnic
minorities, including the ethnic Vietnamese, and also urges the Government of
Cambodia to take all steps to prevent such violence, as well as to meet its
obligations as a party to the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination, 12 inter alia, by seeking technical assistance;
28. Welcomes the actions taken by the Government of Cambodia to combat
illicit logging, which has seriously threatened the full enjoyment of economic, social
and cultural rights by many Cambodians, including indigenous people, expects these
efforts by the Government to continue, and welcomes the progress made on the
drafting of the new law on land;
29. Also welcomes the consideration by the Committee on the Rights of the
Child of the initial report of Cambodia submitted under the Convention on the
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Resolution 44/25, annex.
Resolution 2106 A (XX), annex.
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