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;
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Ibid., vol. 1015, No. 14862.
Ibid., vol. 2133, No. 37245.
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