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1. Urges Governments to pay particular attention to the situation of refugee and internally displaced
children by continuing to design and improve the implementation of policies and programmes for their care
and well-being with the necessary international cooperation, in particular with the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Children’s Fund and international
humanitarian organizations;
2. Calls upon States and United Nations bodies, in recognizing the particular vulnerability of refugee
and internally displaced children, to protect both their safety and their developmental needs, including health,
education and psycho-social rehabilitation, and expresses its concern about adolescents in refugee camps, in
particular girls, who are at risk of gender-based violence and sexual exploitation and abuse;
3. Expresses its deep concern about the growing number of unaccompanied refugee and internally
displaced children, and calls upon all States and United Nations bodies and agencies to ensure the early
identification and registration of unaccompanied refugee and internally displaced children, to give priority to
programmes for family tracing and reunification and to continue to monitor the care arrangements for
unaccompanied refugee and internally displaced children;
4. Calls upon all States and other parties to armed conflicts to recognize the particular vulnerability of
refugee and internally displaced children to the damaging effects of such conflicts, stresses the special
vulnerability of child-headed households, and calls upon Governments and United Nations bodies to give
these situations urgent attention, to enhance protection and assistance mechanisms and to involve women and
youth in the design, delivery and monitoring of measures taken to this effect;
5. Notes the adoption by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee of the Guiding Principles on Internal
Displacement,22 and invites the Representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons to
pay special attention to the situation of internally displaced children in his work and to continue to work
closely with the Emergency Relief Coordinator and all agencies and organizations involved;
VI
ELIMINATION OF THE EXPLOITATION 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 to or interfere with the child’s education, or to be harmful to the
child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development;
2. Welcomes the measures taken by Governments to eliminate the exploitation of child labour, while
recalling the Programme of Action for the Elimination of the Exploitation of Child Labour,23 and calls upon
relevant United Nations agencies, in particular the United Nations Children’s Fund and the International
Labour Organization, to continue to support national efforts in this regard;
3.
labour;
22
Also welcomes the recent holding of various international conferences on various forms of child
E/CN.4/1998/53/Add.2, annex.
23
Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1993, Supplement No. 3 (E/1993/23), chap. II, sect.
A, resolution 1993/79, annex.
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