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76. Calls upon all States and the United Nations system to strengthen
international cooperation as a means of assisting Governments in ensuring the
realization of the rights of the child and in attaining the objective of eradicating
child labour contrary to accepted international standards;
77. Calls upon all States to protect children from all forms of economic
exploitation by mobilizing national partnerships and international cooperation, to
improve the conditions of children by, inter alia, providing working children with
free basic education and vocational training and integrating them into the education
system in every way possible, and to encourage support for social and economic
policies aimed at poverty eradication and at providing families, particularly women,
with employment and income-generating opportunities;
78. Calls upon the international community to promote international
cooperation to assist developing countries, upon request, in addressing child labour
and its root causes, inter alia, through social and economic policies aimed at poverty
eradication, while stressing that labour standards should not be used for
protectionist trade purposes;
79. Calls upon States and the international community to mainstream action
relating to child labour into national poverty eradication and development efforts,
especially in policies and programmes in the areas of health, education, employment
and social protection;
80. Welcomes the efforts of the Committee on the Rights of the Child in the
area of child labour, and encourages the Committee, as well as other relevant human
rights treaty bodies, within their respective mandates, to continue to monitor this
growing problem when examining the reports of States parties;
IV
Follow-up
81.
Decides:
(a) To request the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
sixty-fourth session a report on the rights of the child containing information on the
status of the Convention on the Rights of the Child2 and the issues addressed in the
present resolution, with a focus on international efforts and national progress in
tackling child labour and progress towards meeting the target of eliminating the
worst forms of child labour by 2016, as agreed in the context of the International
Labour Organization;
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(b) To request the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for
Children and Armed Conflict to continue to submit reports to the General Assembly
and the Human Rights Council on the activities undertaken in discharging her
mandate, including information on her field visits, and on the progress achieved and
the challenges remaining on the children and armed conflict agenda;
(c) To invite the Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child to
present an oral report on the work of the Committee to the General Assembly at its
sixty-fourth session as a way to enhance communication between the Assembly and
the Committee;
(d) To invite all Member States, organizations of the United Nations system,
non-governmental organizations and individuals to observe the twentieth anniversary
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