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Migrant children
36. Calls upon all States to ensure, for migrant children, the enjoyment of all
human rights as well as access to health care, social services and education of good
quality and to ensure that migrant children, and especially those who are
unaccompanied, in particular victims of violence and exploitation, receive special
protection and assistance;
Children working and/or living on the street
37. Also calls upon all States to prevent violations of the rights of children
working and/or living on the street, including discrimination, arbitrary detention and
extrajudicial, arbitrary and summary executions, torture, all kinds of violence and
exploitation, and to bring the perpetrators to justice, to adopt and implement policies
for the protection, social and psychosocial rehabilitation and reintegration of these
children and to adopt economic, social and educational strategies to address the
problems of children working and/or living on the street;
Refugee and internally displaced children
38. Further calls upon all States to protect refugee, asylum-seeking and
internally displaced children, in particular those who are unaccompanied, who are
particularly exposed to risks in connection with armed conflict, such as recruitment,
sexual violence and exploitation, to pay particular attention to programmes for
voluntary repatriation and, wherever possible, local integration and resettlement, to
give priority to family tracing and reunification and, where appropriate, to cooperate
with international humanitarian and refugee organizations, including by facilitating
their work;
Child labour
39. Calls upon all States to translate into concrete action their commitment to
the progressive and effective elimination of child labour 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, to eliminate
immediately the worst forms of child labour, to promote education as a key strategy
in this regard, including the creation of vocational training and apprenticeship
programmes and the integration of working children into the formal education
system, and to examine and devise economic policies, where necessary, in
cooperation with the international community, that address factors contributing to
these forms of child labour;
40. Urges all States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying 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) of the International Labour Organization, and calls upon
States parties to those instruments to implement them fully and to comply in a
timely manner with their reporting obligations;
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