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25. Provide appropriate training and education in children’s rights and protection
as well as in international humanitarian law to all civilian, military and police
personnel involved in peacekeeping operations.
26. Curb the illicit flow of small arms and light weapons and protect children from
landmines, unexploded ordnance and other war materiel that victimize them, and
provide assistance to victimized children during and after armed conflict.
27. Resolve to strengthen international cooperation, including burden-sharing in
and coordination of humanitarian assistance to countries hosting refugees, and to
help all refugees and displaced persons, including children and their families, to
return voluntarily to their homes in safety and dignity and to be smoothly
reintegrated in their societies.
28. Develop and implement policies and programmes, with necessary international
cooperation, for the protection, care and well-being of refugee children and children
seeking asylum and for the provision of basic social services, including access to
education, in addition to health care and food.
29. Give priority to programmes for family tracing and reunification, and continue
to monitor the care arrangements for unaccompanied and/or separated refugee and
internally displaced children.
30. Assess and monitor regularly the impact of sanctions on children and take
urgent and effective measures in accordance with international law with a view to
alleviating the negative impact of economic sanctions on women and children.
31.
Take all necessary measures to protect children from being taken as hostages.
32. Develop specific strategies to protect and provide for the special needs and
particular vulnerabilities of girls affected by armed conflict.
Combating child labour
33. Take immediate and effective measures to secure the prohibition and
elimination of the worst forms of child labour as a matter of urgency. Provide for the
rehabilitation and social integration of children removed from the worst forms of
child labour by, inter alia, ensuring access to free basic education and, whenever
possible and appropriate, vocational training.
34. Take appropriate steps to assist one another in the elimination of the worst
forms of child labour through enhanced international cooperation and/or assistance,
including support for social and economic development, poverty eradication
programmes and universal education.
35. Elaborate and implement strategies to protect children 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.
36. In this context, protect children from all forms of economic exploitation by
mobilizing national partnerships and international cooperation, and improve the
conditions of children by, inter alia, providing working children with free basic
education and vocational training, and integration into the education system in every
way possible, and encourage support for social and economic policies aimed at
poverty eradication and at providing families, particularly women, with employment
and income-generating opportunities.
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