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minimum age or minimum ages for admission to employment, appropriate
regulations of the hours and conditions of employment and appropriate
penalties or other sanctions to ensure the effective enforcement of these
measures;
68.
Invites Governments, in accordance with the commitments made at
the World Summit for Social Development held at Copenhagen from 6 to 12 March
1995,16 to set specific target dates for eliminating all forms of child labour
which are contrary to accepted international standards, to ensure the full
enforcement of relevant existing laws and, where appropriate, to enact the
legislation necessary to implement obligations under the Convention on the
Rights of the Child16 and International Labour Organization standards ensuring
the protection of working children;
69.
Encourages Member States to strengthen international cooperation,
including through the United Nations programme of advisory services in the
field of human rights, the International Programme on the Elimination of Child
Labour of the International Labour Organization and the activities of the
United Nations Children's Fund, as a means of assisting Governments in
preventing or combating violations of the rights of the child, including the
exploitation of child labour;
70.
Recognizes the measures taken by Governments to eliminate the
exploitation of child labour, and calls upon relevant United Nations bodies
and specialized agencies, in particular the United Nations Children's Fund and
the International Labour Organization, to support national efforts in this
regard;
71.
Requests that measures be taken by Governments, at the national
and international levels, within the framework of multisectoral approaches, to
end the exploitation of child labour in line with the commitments undertaken
at the World Summit for Social Development and at the Fourth World Conference
on Women,17 held at Beijing from 4 to 15 September 1995, and taking into
account the results of other relevant United Nations conferences;
72.
Calls upon Governments to translate into concrete action their
commitment to the progressive and effective elimination of child labour and to
implement, inter alia, national action plans and the International Labour
Organization resolution on the elimination of child labour, adopted on 18 June
1996 by the International Labour Conference at its eighty-third session at
Geneva, as well as other relevant resolutions on the subject adopted by the
General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights;
73.
Requests the Secretary-General, when reporting on the
implementation of the present resolution, to cooperate closely and at an early
stage with relevant actors and United Nations organizations and bodies, in
particular the International Labour Organization and the United Nations
Children's Fund, in order to provide information on initiatives aimed at
eliminating exploitation of child labour and to recommend ways and means of
improving cooperation at the national and international levels in this field;
16
See A/CONF.166/9.
17
See A/CONF.177/20 and Add.1.
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