A/RES/63/241 60. Notes with appreciation the steps taken regarding Security Council resolution 1612 (2005) of 26 July 2005 and the efforts of the Secretary-General to implement the monitoring and reporting mechanism on children and armed conflict in accordance with that resolution, with the participation of and in cooperation with national Governments and relevant United Nations and civil society actors, including at the country level, as well as the work carried out by United Nations child protection advisers in peacekeeping operations; 61. Takes note with appreciation of the work of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, recognizes the increased level of activity of her office and the progress achieved since the establishment of the mandate of the Special Representative, and, bearing in mind its resolution 60/231 of 23 December 2005, recommends that the Secretary-General extend the mandate of the Special Representative for a further period of three years; 62. Also takes note with appreciation of the report of the Special Representative 32 and of the significant developments and achievements in the protection of children in armed conflict at the national and international levels, and emphasizes the contribution of her field visits conducted with the consent of the State concerned in situations of armed conflict as an important element in the implementation of her mandate; 31F 63. Recognizes the need for discussion on the issues raised in the report of the Special Representative, calls upon Member States and observers and invites relevant entities of the United Nations system as well as civil society, as appropriate, to carefully study the recommendations contained therein, and stresses the need for the views of Member States to be fully taken into account in this regard; III Child labour 33 32F 64. Expresses deep concern about the fact that about 218 million children in the world today are involved in child labour, and that more than half of those children are involved in hazardous work that is damaging to their safety, mental and physical health or moral development, including in hazardous activities in agriculture, mining and domestic labour, or in the worst forms of child labour, such as child pornography and sexual exploitation, sale and trafficking in children, forced or compulsory labour, including forced or compulsory recruitment of children for use in armed conflict, and different forms of slavery or practices similar to slavery; 65. Recognizes that a comprehensive and coherent approach to preventing and eradicating child labour must aim at poverty eradication, sustainable development and the provision of quality education and social protection measures, including protection against economic exploitation; special attention should be given to preventing any work that is likely to be hazardous, to interfere with the child’s education or to be harmful to the child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development so as to respond to the multidimensional reality of child labour; _______________ 32 A/63/227. 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. 33 16