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36.
Calls upon States to translate into concrete action their obligations and
commitments related to child labour, including to the effective elimination of child labour
that is likely to be hazardous, interfere with the child’s education or be harmful to the
child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development, to eliminate
immediately the worst forms of child labour, to promote education as a key strategy in this
regard, and to examine and devise economic policies, where necessary in cooperation with
the international community, that address factors contributing to these forms of child
labour, such as poverty and social exclusion, labour mobility, discrimination and lack of
adequate social protection and educational opportunities;
37.
Urges all States that have not yet ratified the Conventions of the International
Labour Organization concerning the Minimum Age for Admission to Employment (No.
138) and the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of
Child Labour (No. 182) to consider doing so as a matter of priority, and encourages States
to consider ratifying the Convention concerning decent work for domestic workers (No.
189);
38.
Strongly condemns all acts of violence against children, and calls upon States
to take effective and appropriate legislative and other measures, including sufficient
resource allocation, to prevent, prohibit and eliminate all forms of violence against children
in all settings;
39.
Calls upon all parties to armed conflict to respect fully the relevant
provisions of applicable international law relating to the rights and protection of children in
armed conflict, including concerning the recruitment and use of children by parties to
armed conflict;
40.
Calls upon States to take, as a matter of urgency, all appropriate measures,
including through sufficient resource allocation, to prevent, and to protect children, without
discrimination of any kind, from, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
or punishment, and to abolish harmful practices that compromise the dignity and integrity
of the child and that are prejudicial to the health of boys and girls, particularly by
preventing and explicitly condemning such practices, as well as addressing violence leading
to child self-harm and suicide;
41.
Urges States to ensure that all child victims of violence, armed conflict
situations and harmful practices have access to adequately funded and appropriate gendersensitive, safe and confidential programmes and medical, social and psychological support
services to protect, treat, counsel and reintegrate child victims, as well as child-friendly and
safe spaces, including schools, and to implement protective measures to provide necessary
support for the child and for those who have the care of the child, and to provide for other
forms of prevention and for the identification, reporting, referral, investigation, treatment of
and follow-up on instances of child maltreatment and for judicial involvement;
42.
Calls upon States to provide effective remedies to redress violations of the
rights of the child, and encourages States to pay particular attention to providing childsensitive procedures, information and advice, an adequately trained workforce and, as
appropriate, alternatives to prison and alternative mechanisms for solving disputes and
seeking redress, available to children and their representatives; and also calls upon States to
provide judicial redress, with the necessary legal and other assistance, and to commit
sufficient funds to achieve these goals, as well as to provide appropriate reparation and,
where needed, measures to promote physical and psychological recovery, rehabilitation and
reintegration, including for children formerly recruited by armed groups and armed forces
or children victims of violence;
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