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REFUGEE AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED CHILDREN
1. Urges Governments to pay particular attention to the situation of refugee and internally displaced
children by continuing to design and improve the implementation of policies for their care and well-being,
with the necessary international cooperation, in particular with the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Children's Fund and international humanitarian
organizations;
2. Calls upon States and United Nations bodies, in recognizing the particular vulnerability of
refugee and internally displaced children, to protect both their safety and their developmental needs,
including health, education and psycho-social rehabilitation;
3. Expresses its deep concern about the growing number of unaccompanied refugee and internally
displaced children, and calls upon all States and United Nations bodies and agencies to ensure the early
identification and registration of unaccompanied refugee and internally displaced children, to give priority
to programmes for family tracing and reunification and to continue monitoring the care arrangements for
unaccompanied refugee and internally displaced children;
4. Calls upon all States and other parties to armed conflicts to recognize the particular vulnerability
of refugee and internally displaced children to the damaging effects of such conflicts, stresses the special
vulnerability of child-headed households, and calls upon Governments and United Nations bodies to give
these situations urgent attention, to enhance protection and assistance mechanisms and to involve women
and youth in the design, delivery and monitoring of measures taken to this effect;
5. Invites the representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons to take into
account the situation of internally displaced children in his preparation of guiding principles which are
to form part of a comprehensive framework for the protection of internally displaced persons;
VI
ELIMINATION OF EXPLOITATION OF CHILD LABOUR
1. Reaffirms the right of the child to be protected from economic exploitation and from performing
any work that is likely to be hazardous to or interfere with the child's education or to be harmful to the
child's health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development;
2. Welcomes the measures taken by Governments to eliminate the exploitation of child labour,
while recalling the Programme of Action for the Elimination of the Exploitation of Child Labour,16 and
calls upon relevant United Nations agencies, in particular the United Nations Children's Fund and the
International Labour Organization, to continue to support national efforts in this regard;
16
Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1993, Supplement No. 3 (E/1993/23), chap.
II, sect. A, resolution 1993/79, annex.
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