reunification and, where appropriate, to cooperate with international humanitarian and refugee
organizations;
Child labour
33.
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 eliminate immediately 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;
34.
Urges all States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying and
implementing the Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the
Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999 (No. 182) and the Convention
concerning the Minimum Age for Employment, 1973 (No. 138) of the International Labour
Organization and calls upon States parties to these instruments to implement them fully and to
comply in a timely manner with their reporting obligations;
Children alleged to have or recognized as having infringed penal law
35.
Calls upon:
(a)
All States, in particular, States in which the death penalty has not been
abolished, to comply with their obligations as assumed under relevant provisions of
international human rights instruments, including in particular articles 37 and 40 of the
Convention on the Rights of the Child and articles 6 and 14 of the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, keeping in mind the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the
rights of those facing the death penalty and guarantees set out in Economic and Social
Council resolutions 1984/50 of 25 May 1984 and 1989/64 of 24 May 1989, and calls upon
those States to abolish by law as soon as possible the death penalty for those aged under 18 at
the time of the commission of the offence;
(b)
All States to protect children deprived of their liberty from torture and other
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;
(c)
All States to take appropriate steps to ensure compliance with the principle that
depriving children of their liberty should be used only as a measure of last resort and for the
shortest appropriate period of time, in particular before trial, and to ensure that, if they are
arrested, detained or imprisoned, children are provided with adequate legal assistance and are
separated from adults, to the greatest extent feasible, unless it is considered in their best
interest not to do so, and also to take appropriate steps to ensure that no child in detention is
sentenced to forced labour, corporal punishment, or deprived of access to and provision of
health-care services, hygiene and environmental sanitation, education, basic instruction and
vocational training, taking into consideration the special needs of children with disabilities in
detention, in accordance with their obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the
Child;
36.
Encourages States to develop national disaggregated statistics in the area of
juvenile justice, including statistics on children in detention;
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