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30. Further calls upon all States to ensure, for children belonging to
minorities and vulnerable groups, including migrant children and indigenous
children, the enjoyment of all human rights as well as access to health care, social
services and education on an equal basis with others and to ensure that all such
children, in particular victims of violence and exploitation, receive special
protection and assistance;
31. Calls upon all States to address, as a matter of priority, the vulnerabilities
faced by children affected by and living with HIV, by providing support and
rehabilitation to those children and their families, women and the elderly,
particularly in their role as caregivers, promoting child-oriented HIV/AIDS policies
and programmes and increased protection for children orphaned and affected by
HIV/AIDS, ensuring access to treatment and intensifying efforts to develop new
treatments for children, and building, where needed, and supporting the social
security systems that protect them;
32. Also calls upon all States to protect, in law and in practice, the
inheritance and property rights of orphans, with particular attention to underlying
gender-based discrimination, which may interfere with the fulfilment of these rights;
33. 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 those children have developed in the conditions in which they
lived and, where appropriate, with their meaningful participation;
Child labour
34. Calls upon all States to translate into concrete action their commitment
to the progressive and effective elimination of child labour that is likely to be
hazardous or 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, that address factors contributing to
these forms of child labour;
35. Urges all States that have not yet signed and ratified or acceded to 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 to consider doing
so;
Children alleged to have infringed or recognized as having infringed penal law
36. Calls upon all States, in particular those States in which the death penalty
has not been abolished:
(a) To abolish by law, as soon as possible, the death penalty and life
imprisonment without possibility of release for those under the age of 18 years at
the time of the commission of the offence;
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