(f) Its support for the recommendations of the General Assembly and the International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, that whenever sanctions are imposed in the context of armed conflict, their impact on children be assessed and monitored and, to the extent there are humanitarian exceptions, they be child-focused and formulated with clear guidelines for their application; (g) The urgent need to raise the current minimum age limit set by article 38 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the recruitment and participation of any person in armed conflicts with the aim of reaching a higher standard of protection of children and of coming to an early conclusion of the work of the Working Group on a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the involvement of children in armed conflict, especially in view of the tenth anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention; 16. Calls upon all States: (a) And other parties to armed conflict to respect fully international humanitarian law and, in this regard, calls upon States parties to respect fully the provisions of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and the Additional Protocols thereto of 1977, while bearing in mind resolution 2 of the twenty-sixth International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent of 1995 entitled “Protection of the civil population in period of armed conflict”, and to respect the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child which accord children affected by armed conflict special protection and treatment; (b) And other parties to armed conflict to end the use of children as soldiers and ensure their demobilization, and to implement effective measures for the rehabilitation and reintegration into society of child soldiers and combatants, child victims in cases of armed conflict or foreign occupation, and invites the international community to assist in this endeavour; (c) And other parties concerned to continue to cooperate with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, to implement the commitments they have undertaken, and to consider carefully all the recommendations of the Special Representative and to address the issues identified; (d) In accordance with the norms, rules and provisions of international human rights instruments and international humanitarian law, to integrate in the training and gender-sensitized education programmes of their armed forces and civilian police, including those for peacekeeping, instruction on their responsibilities towards the civilian population, particularly women and children, and training to address the particular needs of children in armed conflict; (e) To address the impact on children of the use of weapons in situations of armed conflict and to address the problem of the impact of small arms and light weapons on children in armed conflict situations, in particular as a result of their illicit production and traffic; (f) And relevant United Nations bodies to continue to support national and international mine action efforts, including by continuing to contribute to the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund for Assistance in Mine Clearance, and to take further action to promote gender- and age-appropriate mine-awareness page 12