A/HRC/7/78 page 87 (b) To comply with their obligations as assumed under relevant provisions of international human rights instruments, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; (c) To keep in mind the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty and the guarantees set out in resolutions 1984/50 of 25 May 1984 and 1989/64 of 24 May 1989 adopted by the Economic and Social Council; 31. Also calls upon all States to give greater consideration to restorative justice practices, including mediation, as an alternative to sentencing, or as part of the sentencing process with regard to offenders under the age of 18; 32. Further calls upon all States to protect children deprived of their liberty from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and to ensure that, if they are arrested, detained or imprisoned, children are provided with adequate legal assistance and that they shall have the right to maintain contact with their family through correspondence and visits, save in exceptional circumstances, and that no child in detention is sentenced or subject to forced labour or corporal punishment, or deprived of access to and provision of health-care services, hygiene and environmental sanitation, education, basic instruction and vocational training; Children of persons alleged to have or recognized as having infringed penal law 33. Calls upon all States to give attention to the impact of parental detention and imprisonment on children and, in particular: (a) To give priority to non-custodial measures, when sentencing or deciding on pretrial measures for a child’s sole or primary carer, subject to the need to protect the public and the child, and bearing in mind the gravity of the offence; (b) To identify and promote good practices in relation to the needs and physical, emotional, social and psychological development of babies and children affected by parental detention and imprisonment; Child labour 34. 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, 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, 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;