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(c)
Ensure that asylum-seeking, refugee and illegal immigrant children have
access to education and health services;
(d)
Ensure adequate nutritional and medical care for children detained in
border guard facilities;
(e)
Accede to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.
Economic exploitation
64.
The Committee, while noting the creation of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy
in 1996, which is responsible for monitoring compliance with the labour legislation, particularly
in respect of children, remains concerned that there is inadequate enforcement of the Ukrainian
Labour Code, in particular with regard to hazardous and forced labour, and that a large number
of children are reported to be working, particularly in the informal sector.
65.
The Committee recommends that the State party:
(a)
Undertake a national survey on the causes and extent of child labour with a
view to adopting and implementing a national plan of action to prevent and combat child
labour;
(b)
Continue efforts to protect all children from economic exploitation and from
performing any work 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 or social development.
Sexual exploitation and trafficking
66.
The Committee is concerned at:
(a)
The growing involvement of children in the sex industry;
(b)
The non-implementation of the national plan of action to prevent trafficking in
women and children;
(c)
The large-scale trafficking of children, in particular girls, for the purpose of
sexual and other forms of exploitation and the lack of a clearly defined minimum age of sexual
consent.
67.
The Committee recommends that the State party:
(a)
Take action to combat child trafficking, child prostitution and other forms of
sexual exploitation of children;