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cooperation with the international community, that address factors contributing to
these forms of child labour;
37. Urges all States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying 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, and calls upon
States parties to those instruments to implement them fully and to comply in a
timely manner with their reporting obligations;
Children alleged to have infringed or recognized as having infringed penal law
38.
Calls upon:
(a) All States, in particular States in which the death penalty has not been
abolished, to comply with their obligations as assumed under relevant provisions of
international human rights instruments, including, in particular, articles 37 and 40 of
the Convention on the Rights of the Child2 and articles 6 and 14 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 9 keeping in mind the safeguards
guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty and the
guarantees set out in Economic and Social Council resolutions 1984/50 of 25 May
1984 and 1989/64 of 24 May 1989, and calls upon those States 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) 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, taking into consideration the special needs of children with
disabilities in detention, in accordance with their obligations under the Convention;
Recovery and social reintegration
39. Encourages States to promote actions, including through bilateral and
multilateral technical cooperation and financial assistance, for the social
reintegration of children in difficult situations, considering, inter alia, views, skills
and capacities that these children have developed in the conditions in which they
lived and, where appropriate, with their meaningful participation;
40. Recognizes that children affected by the severe impact of natural
disasters must be provided with access to basic social services;
Prevention and eradication of the sale of children, child prostitution and child
pornography
41.
Calls upon all States:
(a) To criminalize and penalize effectively all forms of sexual exploitation
and sexual abuse of children, including all acts of paedophilia, including within the
family or for commercial purposes, child pornography and child prostitution, child
sex tourism, trafficking in children, the sale of children and their organs and the use
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See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.