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15.
Urges all States parties to withdraw reservations that are incompatible with
the object and purpose of the Convention on the Rights of the Child or the Optional
Protocols thereto;
16.
Urges all States that have not yet ratified both 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 Minimum Age for Admission to
Employment, 1973 (No. 138) of the International Labour Organization to consider doing so
as a matter of priority;
17.
Requests the High Commissioner to prepare a summary of the full-day
meeting on the rights of the child, as a follow-up to paragraph 7 of Council resolution 7/29
of 28 March 2008, before the seventeenth session of the Council;
18.
Invites the Office of the High Commissioner to conduct a study on
challenges, lessons learned and best practices in a holistic, child rights and gender-based
approach to protect and promote the rights of children working and/or living on the street,
including practices in the collection of disaggregated data and experiences on access to
child-friendly counselling, complaint and reporting mechanisms to protect the rights of
children living and/or working on the streets, in close collaboration with relevant
stakeholders, including States, the United Nations Children’s Fund and other United
Nations bodies and agencies, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on
violence against children, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children
and armed conflict, the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography and other relevant special procedures mandate holders, regional
organizations, civil society, national human rights institutions and children themselves, and
to present the study to the Human Rights Council at its nineteenth session;
19.
Decides to continue its consideration of the question of the rights of the child
in accordance with its programme of work and Human Rights Council resolution 7/29, and
to focus its next full-day meeting on children and the administration of justice;
20.
Welcomes the work and contributions of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of
children, child prostitution and child pornography, and decides to extend for a period of
three years the mandate of the Special Rapporteur, in accordance with Human Rights
Council resolution 7/13 of 27 March 2008.
46th meeting
24 March 2011
[Adopted without a vote.]
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