Rights of the child 2001, para. 26

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[Reaffirming paragraphs 33 and 34 of its resolution 2000/85,] 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 the immediate elimination of the worst forms of child labour, to promote education as a key strategy in this regard, including the creation of vocational training and apprenticeship programmes and the integration of working children into the formal education system, as well as to examine and devise economic policies, where necessary, in cooperation with the international community, that address factors contributing to these forms of child labour;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Education
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
Year
2001
Paragraph type
OP
Paragraph focus
Child labour
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OP
Paragraph number
26