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Children affected by armed conflict
19. Reaffirms paragraphs 51 to 63 of its resolution 63/241, condemns in the
strongest terms all violations and abuses committed against children affected by
armed conflict, and in this regard urges all States and other parties to armed conflict
that are engaged, in contravention of applicable international law, including
humanitarian law, in recruitment and use of children, in patterns of killing and
maiming of children and/or rape and other sexual violence against children, as well
as in all other violations and abuses against children, to take time-bound and
effective measures to end them, and urges all States, United Nations agencies, funds
and programmes, other relevant international and regional organizations and civil
society to continue to give serious attention to, and to protect and assist child
victims of, all violations and abuses committed against children in situations of
armed conflict, in accordance with international humanitarian law, including the
First to Fourth Geneva Conventions; 22
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20. Also reaffirms the essential roles of the General Assembly, the Economic
and Social Council and the Human Rights Council for the promotion and protection
of the rights and welfare of children, including children affected by armed conflict,
notes the increasing role played by the Security Council in ensuring protection for
children affected by armed conflict, and notes also the activities undertaken by the
Peacebuilding Commission, within its mandate, in areas that promote and contribute
to the enjoyment of the rights and welfare of children;
21. Notes with appreciation the steps taken regarding Security Council
resolutions 1539 (2004) of 22 April 2004 and 1612 (2005) of 26 July 2005, the
adoption of Council resolution 1882 (2009) on 4 August 2009 and the efforts of the
Secretary-General to implement the monitoring and reporting mechanism on
children and armed conflict in accordance with those resolutions, with the
participation of and in cooperation with national Governments and relevant United
Nations and civil society actors, including at the country level, requests the
Secretary-General to ensure that information collected and communicated by the
monitoring and reporting mechanism is accurate, objective, reliable and verifiable,
and in this regard encourages the work and the deployment, as appropriate, of
United Nations child protection advisers in peacekeeping operations and political
and peacebuilding missions;
Child labour
22. Reaffirms paragraphs 64 to 80 of its resolution 63/241, on the theme of
child labour, 23 and 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 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 and to
eliminate immediately the worst forms of child labour;
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23. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization entitled “Education for All:
Global Monitoring Report 2009”, which emphasizes the need to increase the quality
of education as a way to attract and keep children in school, as a tool in the
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
As defined by the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) and the Worst Forms of Child Labour
Convention, 1999 (No. 182) of the International Labour Organization.
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