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to the special assistance, protection and development needs of those children
through, inter alia, programmes aimed at rehabilitation and physical and
psychological recovery, and to programmes for voluntary repatriation and, wherever
possible, local integration and resettlement, to give priority to family tracing and
family reunification and, where appropriate, to cooperate with international
humanitarian and refugee organizations, including by facilitating their work;
23. Further calls upon all States to ensure, for children belonging to
minorities and vulnerable groups, including migrant children and indigenous
children, the enjoyment of all human rights as well as access to health care, social
services and education on an equal basis with others and to ensure that all such
children, in particular victims of violence and exploitation, receive special
protection and assistance;
24. Calls upon all States to protect the inheritance and property rights of
orphans in law and in practice, with particular attention to underlying gender-based
discrimination, which may interfere with the fulfilment of these rights;
25. Also 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, 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;
26. Urges all States that have not yet done so to consider signing and
ratifying or acceding to 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;
27. Calls upon all States, in particular those States in which the death penalty
has not been abolished:
(a) To abolish by law, as soon as possible, the death penalty for those below
the age of 18 years at the time of the commission of the offence;
(b) To comply with their obligations as assumed under relevant provisions of
international human rights instruments, including the Convention on the Rights of
the Child2 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; 13
(c) To keep in mind the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of
those facing the death penalty and the guarantees set out in United Nations
safeguards adopted by the Economic and Social Council;
28. Also calls upon all States to ensure that no child in detention is sentenced
to forced labour or corporal punishment or deprived of access to and provision of
health-care services, hygiene and environmental sanitation, education, basic
instruction and vocational training;
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See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.