A/HRC/34/L.49 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: Limited 23 March 2017 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-fourth session 27 February–24 March 2017 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development South Africa: amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/34/L.25 34/… Rights of the Child: protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development The sixteenth preambular paragraph should read Still concerned that 168 million children are engaged in child labour, with half of that number working in the worst forms of labour, that 5.5 million children are in forced labour, that nearly 50 million children are at increased risk of child labour, modern slavery and human trafficking, and that the worst forms of exploitation of child labour by transnational corporations and other business enterprises, as well as by private military and security companies, continue to rise at an alarming rate, GE.17-04569(E) 