• Prosecute and punish persons and organizations
• Actively contribute to efforts at the 1998 session
engaged in and/or promoting the sex industry, sexual exploitation, acts of paedophilia, trafficking in
organs, child pornography and sex tourism involving minors, and condemn and penalize all those
offenders involved, whether local or foreign, while
ensuring that children who are victims of those
practices are not penalized;
of the International Labour Conference to draw up
a new international convention to eliminate the
most abhorrent forms of child labour;
• Consider the implementation of the actions identified in the Agenda for Action of the 1997 Oslo
Conference on Child Labour.
• Design mechanisms and strengthen international
cooperation to better protect girls and bring to
justice the perpetrators of such crimes;
G. General recommendations
• Adopt measures that ensure that judicial and legal
Actions to be taken by Governments and the
United Nations system:
processes are sensitive to the specific needs of
abused girls to prevent further traumatization or
victimization.
• Prepare programmes for the girl child as part of
national action plans in order to fully implement
the Beijing Platform for Action adopted by the
Fourth World Conference on Women;
F. Labour and the girl child
• The organizations of the United Nations system, in
Actions to be taken by Governments, international
organizations and the private sector:
particular the United Nations Children's Fund, as
the agency mandated to deal with the rights and
concerns of children, should give greater attention
to the girl child through Fund country programmes,
using its goodwill ambassadors for raising awareness on the situation of the girl child on national,
regional and international levels;
• Consider ratifying and implementing international
agreements that are designed to protect children,
including conventions of the International Labour
Organization, and bring national legislation into
conformity with those agreements in order to protect the girl child;
• The Secretary-General should report on the girl
child to the Commission on the Status of Women
prior to the five-year review of the implementation
of the Beijing Platform for Action;
• Ensure that girls who work have access to educa-
tion and vocational training, health, food, shelter
and recreation on equal and favourable conditions,
and are protected from economic exploitation,
sexual harassment and abuse in the workplace;
• Base programmes and policies for the girl child on
the rights of the child, the responsibilities, rights
and duties of the parents and the evolving capacity of the girl child, in accordance with the Beijing
Platform for Action and the Convention on the
Rights of the Child. ■
• Pay special attention to girls in the informal sector,
such as domestic workers, and develop measures
to protect their human rights and fundamental
freedoms and prevent their economic exploitation,
ill treatment and sexual abuse;
• Raise government and public awareness as to
the nature and scope of the special needs of girls
employed as domestic workers and of those performing excessive domestic chores in their own
households, and develop measures to prevent their
economic exploitation and sexual abuse;
Source: United Nations document E/1998/27
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