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maimed by anti-personnel landmines and unexploded ordinance; they are displaced and live
in poor economic and social situation; and schools were attacked during the many years of
systematic destruction of entire villages by the military carrying out its “four cuts” policy.
84.
The Committee urges the Government to take appropriate measures to:
(a)
Strengthen its efforts to end the armed conflict and to ensure that the
protection and promotion of children’s rights are given due consideration in any
peace negotiations;
(b)
Take all necessary measures to protect children against landmines,
including by ending the use of landmines and carrying out mine clearance
programmes, programmes for mine awareness and physical rehabilitation of child
victims;
(c)
Take all measures to guarantee the rights and well-being of internally
displaced children;
(d)
Take all possible measures to protect schools, their personnel and
students in a context of conflict;
(e)
Ensure that children affected by the conflict can be reintegrated into the
education system, including through non-formal education programmes and by
prioritizing the restoration of school buildings and facilities and provision of water,
sanitation and electricity in conflict-affected areas; and
(f)
Ratify the Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court; the
Convention on Cluster Munitions; the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of
and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition,
supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime; the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and
Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction; and the Convention on
Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May
Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (with
Protocols I, II and III).
Economic exploitation, including child labour
85.
While noting that a plan of action aimed at eliminating child labour has been
developed, the Committee is concerned about:
(a)
The widespread use of child labour in unacceptable conditions, including at
an early age or in dangerous conditions, in the food-processing, street-vending, refusecollecting and light-manufacturing industries, restaurants, teashops and family agricultural
activities, as well as in large-scale development projects in the extractive and energy
industries;
(b)
The minimum legal age for the employment of children (set at 13 years of
age);
(c)
The persistence of economic exploitation of children, including low wages,
working the same hours as adults and being engaged in dangerous and hazardous forms of
work;
(d)
The lack of enforcement of the labour laws; and
(e)
The absence of systematic labour inspections.
86.
The
Committee
recalls
its
previous
concluding
observations
(CRC/C/15/Add.237, para. 69) and strongly recommends that the State party:
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