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(f)
Increase its efforts to relieve families from additional and hidden costs of
school attendance;
(g)
Provide more demand-driven technical and vocational training and organize
vocational counselling for children;
(h)
Increase education opportunities for children outside schools and working
children through specific programmes tailored to their life conditions;
(i)
Seek technical assistance from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
7. Special protection measures (arts. 22; 30; 38; 39; 40;
37 (b)-(d); 32-36 of the Convention)
Economic exploitation, including child labour
62.
While the Committee welcomes the State party’s legislative and other measures in the
area of child labour, e.g. via the activities of labour inspectors, it remains deeply concerned about
the information that hundreds of thousands of children and adolescents are in the labour market,
especially in the informal sector, marginalized from education and victims of exploitation and
abuse. The Committee is further concerned that legislative provisions protecting children from
economic exploitation are often violated and that children are exposed to dangerous and/or
degrading work, including in mines, garbage dumps and battery recycling.
63.
The Committee is further concerned about the fact that the minimum age for admission to
employment is set at 14 years, which is below the age of the end of compulsory education that is
set at 15 years.
64.
The Committee recommends the State party to:
(a)
Undertake a survey of the number of children working, including as
domestic workers and in the agricultural sector, in order to design and implement
comprehensive strategies and policies to prevent and combat their economic exploitation.
To this end, the State party should take into adequate account the views of children
organizations;
(b)
Ensure the full implementation of legislation covering article 32 of the
Convention, and ILO Conventions No. 138 and No. 182, including the prevention of the
worst forms of child labour as listed in accordance with ILO Conventions;
(c)
Increase the minimum age for admission to employment to 15 years, when
compulsory education ends;
(d)
Ensure adequate budget allocations for the implementation of the National
Plan of Action on the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labour;