A/RES/54/149
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IV
REFUGEE AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED CHILDREN
1. Urges Governments to improve the implementation of policies and programmes for the protection,
care and well-being of refugee and internally displaced children, with the necessary international
cooperation, in particular with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United
Nations Children’s Fund and the Representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons,
in accordance with the obligations of States under the Convention on the Rights of the Child;2
2. Calls upon all States and other parties to armed conflict, as well as United Nations bodies and
organizations, to give urgent attention, in terms of protection and assistance, to the fact that refugee and
internally displaced children are particularly exposed to risks in connection with armed conflict, such as
being forcibly recruited or subjected to sexual violence, abuse or exploitation;
3. Expresses its deep concern about the growing number of unaccompanied refugee and internally
displaced children, and calls upon all States and United Nations bodies and agencies and other relevant
organizations to give priority to programmes for family tracing and reunification and to continue to monitor
the care arrangements for unaccompanied refugee and internally displaced children;
V
PROGRESSIVE ELIMINATION OF CHILD LABOUR
1. Reaffirms the right of the child to be protected 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, spiritual, moral or social development;
2. Welcomes the adoption by the International Labour Organization, at the eighty-seventh session of
the International Labour Conference, held at Geneva from 1 to 17 June 1999, of the Convention concerning
the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, Convention
No. 182, and encourages all States to consider ratifying it as a matter of priority with a view to its entry into
force as soon as possible;
3. Calls upon all States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying the conventions of the
International Labour Organization relating to child labour, in particular the Convention concerning Forced
or Compulsory Labour, 1930, Convention No. 29, and the Convention concerning Minimum Age for
Admission to Employment, 1973, Convention No. 138, and to implement those Conventions;
4. Calls upon all States to translate into concrete action their commitment to the progressive and
effective elimination of child labour contrary to accepted international standards, and urges them, inter alia,
to eliminate immediately the worst forms of child labour as set out in the new International Labour
Organization Convention No. 182;
5. Also calls upon all States to assess and examine systematically the magnitude, nature and causes
of child labour and to elaborate and implement strategies for the elimination of child labour contrary to
accepted international standards, giving special attention to specific dangers faced by girls, as well as to the
rehabilitation and social reintegration of the children concerned;
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