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(c)
Develop a procedure to attend to the specific needs and situation of
unaccompanied child refugees;
(d)
Make every effort to end practices of discrimination against child
asylum-seekers or refugees and their families including, where relevant, through
prosecution of those responsible for such discrimination and through the use of
information campaigns;
(e)
Ensure that, where children and their families - asylum-seekers, refugees or
illegal immigrants - are detained, their conditions of detention comply with relevant
international standards and with the provisions of the Convention in particular, and that
detentions are reviewed by a court;
(f)
Ensure that asylum-seeking, refugee and illegal immigrant children have
access to education and health services, including psychological care;
(g)
Ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.
Child labour
70.
The Committee is concerned:
(a)
At the large number of children under the minimum age for working reported to
be working in the State party, particularly in rural and/or disadvantaged communities;
(b)
While noting the State party’s provision in its report of data from 1992 to 1995, at
the absence of precise up-to-date data on child labour practices.
71.
The Committee recommends that the State party:
(a)
working;
Collect and maintain up-to-date data on the number of children who are
(b)
Take steps to reduce the numbers of underage children working, giving
particular attention to the agricultural, fishing, street trade, garment manufacturing,
construction and tourism industries, and giving particular attention to children from
disadvantaged communities.
Street children
72.
The Committee is concerned:
(a)
At the number of children working and/or living on the street, and the numbers of
Roma children in particular;
(b)
At the lack of access of these children to education and health services;