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labour;
Also welcomes the recent holding of various international conferences on various forms of child
4. Further welcomes the efforts by the Committee on the Rights of the Child in the area of child
labour, takes note of its recommendations,17 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 reports of States parties;
5. Calls upon all States to translate into concrete action their commitment to the progressive and
effective elimination of all forms of exploitative child labour, and urges them, as a matter of priority, to
eliminate all extreme forms of child labour, such as forced labour, bonded labour and other forms of
slavery;
6. Calls upon all States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying the conventions of the
International Labour Organization concerning the abolition of forced labour and the minimum age for
employment, including for particularly hazardous work for children, and to implement those conventions;
7. Calls upon all States to support the negotiation, with a view to its early finalization, by the
International Labour Organization of a future instrument aimed at eradicating the most intolerable forms
of child labour;
8. Also calls upon all States to set specific target dates for eliminating all forms of child labour that
are contrary to accepted international standards and for ensuring the full enforcement of relevant existing
laws and, where appropriate, enacting legislation necessary to implement their obligations under the
Convention on the Rights of the Child and International Labour Organization standards ensuring the
protection of working children;
9. Further calls upon all States to recognize the right to education by making primary education
compulsory and by ensuring that all children have access to free primary education as a key strategy in
preventing child labour;
10. Calls upon all States to systematically assess and examine, in close cooperation with
international organizations such as the International Labour Organization and the United Nations
Children's Fund, the magnitude, nature and causes of the exploitation of child labour and to develop and
implement strategies for combating these practices, with a specific emphasis on the situation of girls, their
right to education and to access to schools on an equal basis with boys, in close cooperation with the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization;
11. Calls upon all States and the United Nations system to strengthen international cooperation as
a means of assisting Governments in preventing or combating violations of the rights of the child,
including the exploitation of child labour;
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 41 (A/51/41).
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