Rights of the child A/RES/68/147 Right to food 29. Calls upon all States to take action to ensure the full realization of the right to food for all and to eliminate child hunger and malnutrition, including through the adoption or strengthening of national programmes to address food security and nutrition and adequate livelihoods, especially regarding vitamin A, iron and iodine deficiencies, the promotion of breastfeeding and a nutritious diet, as well as programmes, for example, school meal programmes, that should ensure adequate nutrition for all children, in order to enable all children to fully develop and maintain their physical and mental capacities; Child labour 30. Calls upon all States to translate into concrete action their commitment to the progressive and effective eradication of child labour that is likely to be hazardous, 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 and the private sector, that address factors contributing to these forms of child labour; 31. Also calls upon all States to take into account the 2013 report of the International Labour Organization on economic vulnerability, social protection and the fight against child labour, urges all States that have not yet ratified the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) 33 and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) 34 of the International Labour Organization to consider doing so as a matter of priority, and encourages States to consider ratifying the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189); 32. Urges States to substantially increase efforts to achieve the goal of eliminating the worst forms of child labour by 2016, and in this regard encourages States to fully implement the Road Map for Achieving the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour by 2016, an outcome of the Hague Global Child Labour Conference; 33. Takes note with appreciation of the Brasilia Declaration on Child Labour, the outcome document of the third Global Conference on Child Labour, held in Brasilia from 8 to 10 October 2013, and urges States to continue to promote the engagement of all sectors of society in creating an enabling environment for the eradication of child labour; Prevention and elimination of violence against children 34. Condemns all forms of violence against children, and urges all States: (a) To take effective and appropriate legislative and other measures to prohibit, prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against children in all settings, and to strengthen international, national and local cooperation and mutual assistance in this regard; _______________ 33 34 Ibid., vol. 1015, No. 14862. Ibid., vol. 2133, No. 37245. 9/19

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