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Rights of the child
25. Also reaffirms the essential roles of the General Assembly, the Economic
and Social Council and the Human Rights Council for the promotion and protection
of the rights and welfare of children, including children affected by armed conflict,
notes the increasing role played by the Security Council in ensuring protection for
children affected by armed conflict, and also notes the activities undertaken by the
Peacebuilding Commission, within its mandate, in areas that promote and contribute
to the enjoyment of the rights and welfare of children;
26. Notes the efforts taken to end impunity by ensuring accountability and
punishing perpetrators of the most serious crimes against children under national
and international law, and stresses the need for the alleged perpetrators of those
crimes to be held accountable under national justice or, where applicable,
international justice;
27. Notes with appreciation the steps taken regarding Security Council
resolutions 1539 (2004) of 22 April 2004, 1612 (2005) of 26 July 2005, 1882 (2009)
of 4 August 2009, 1998 (2011) of 12 July 2011 and 2068 (2012) of 19 September
2012, and the efforts of the Secretary-General to implement the monitoring and
reporting mechanism on children and armed conflict in accordance with those
resolutions, with the participation of and in cooperation with national Governments
and relevant United Nations and civil society actors, including at the country level,
requests the Secretary-General to ensure that information collected and
communicated by the monitoring and reporting mechanism is accurate, objective,
reliable and verifiable, and in this regard encourages the work and the deployment,
as appropriate, of United Nations child protection advisers in peacekeeping
operations and political and peacebuilding missions;
Child labour
28. Reaffirms paragraphs 64 to 80 of its resolution 63/241, on the theme of
child labour, and 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, and to
eliminate immediately the worst forms of child labour;
29. Notes with interest the outcome of the Hague Global Child Labour
Conference, including the Road Map for Achieving the Elimination of the Worst
Forms of Child Labour by 2016;
30. Calls upon all States to take into account the global report of the
Director-General of the International Labour Organization on accelerating action
against child labour;
31. Urges all States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying both the
Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) 32 and the Minimum Age
Convention, 1973 (No. 138), 33 of the International Labour Organization;
Rights of children with disabilities
32. Recognizes that all children with disabilities should have full enjoyment
of their human rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis with other
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Ibid., vol. 2133, No. 37245.
Ibid., vol. 1015, No. 14862.