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(b) To increase the focus on access to quality education as a way to help
attract and keep children in school, including by emphasizing the goal of a
well-trained teaching force with appropriate salaries and working and living
conditions and ongoing professional support for children in educational settings, as
well as increasing access to information and communications technologies for
schools, and calls upon the international community to provide cooperation in these
fields;
(c) To assess and systematically examine the magnitude, nature and causes
of child labour and to strengthen the collection and analysis of data on child labour,
giving special attention to specific dangers faced by girls;
(d) To take concrete measures for the rehabilitation and social integration of
children removed from situations involving the worst forms of child labour by, inter
alia, ensuring access to education and social services;
(e) To take appropriate steps to assist one another in the elimination of the
worst forms of child labour through enhanced international cooperation and/or
assistance, including support for social and economic development, poverty
eradication programmes and universal education;
(f) To promote policies and legislation aimed at addressing national
priorities relating to the prevention and eradication of child labour through
family-centred components of policies and programmes as part of an integrated
comprehensive approach to development, bearing in mind equality between women
and men;
(g) To ensure that the applicable requirements of the International Labour
Organization for the employment of girls and boys are respected and effectively
enforced, to ensure also that girls who are employed have equal access to decent work
and equal pay and remuneration, and are protected from economic exploitation,
discrimination, sexual harassment, violence and abuse in the workplace, are aware of
their rights and have access to formal and non-formal education, skills development
and vocational training, and to raise government and public awareness as to the
nature and scope of the special needs of girls, including migrant girls, employed as
domestic workers and of those performing excessive domestic chores in their own
households;
(h) To put in place programmes and social protection systems, guided by the
principle of the best interests of the child, to support and protect migrant children,
especially the girl child, who are vulnerable to child labour, including the worst
forms of child labour;
(i) To develop gender-sensitive measures, including national action plans,
where appropriate, to eliminate child labour, including the worst forms of child
labour, including commercial sexual exploitation, slavery-like practices, forced and
bonded labour, trafficking and hazardous forms of child labour, and to ensure that
children have access to education and vocational training, health services, food,
shelter and recreation;
75. Urges all States to pursue a national policy designed to ensure the
effective eradication of child labour, and encourages those States that have not yet
done so to raise progressively the minimum age for admission to employment or
work to a level consistent with the fullest physical and mental development of
young persons;
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