• 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 4