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6. Recognizes that primary education is one of the main instruments for reintegrating child workers,
calls upon all States to recognize the right to education by making primary education compulsory and to
ensure that all children have access to free primary education as a key strategy to prevent child labour, and
recognizes, in particular, the important role of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund in this regard;
7. Calls upon all States and the United Nations system to strengthen international cooperation as a
means of assisting Governments in preventing or combating violations of the rights of the child and in
attaining the objective of the elimination of child labour contrary to accepted international standards;
8. Calls upon all States to strengthen cooperation and coordination at the national and the
international levels to address effectively the problem of child labour, in close cooperation, inter alia, with
the International Labour Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund;
VI
THE PLIGHT OF CHILDREN WORKING AND/OR LIVING ON THE STREETS
1. Calls upon Governments to seek comprehensive solutions to the problems causing children to work
and/or live on the streets and to implement appropriate programmes and policies for the protection and the
rehabilitation and reintegration of those children, bearing in mind that such children are particularly
vulnerable to all forms of violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect;
2. Calls upon all States to ensure that services are provided for children to divert them from and to
address the economic imperatives for involvement in harmful, exploitative and abusive activity;
3. Strongly urges all Governments to guarantee respect for all human rights and fundamental
freedoms, in particular the right to life, to take urgent and effective measures to prevent the killing of children
working and/or living on the streets, to combat torture and abusive treatment and violence against them and
to bring the perpetrators to justice;
4. Calls upon the international community to support, through effective international cooperation,
including technical advice and assistance, the efforts of States to improve the situation of children working
and/or living on the streets;
VII
CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES
1. Welcomes the establishment of a working group, following the decision of the Committee on the
Rights of the Child, with the aim of elaborating a plan of action on children with disabilities, in close
cooperation with the Special Rapporteur of the Commission for Social Development on Disability and other
relevant parts of the United Nations system;14
14
See CRC/C/69, paras. 310–339, CRC/C/80, paras. 244–247, and CRC/C/84, paras. 219–222.
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