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(h) The Sub-Commission should once again invite the competent United Nations agencies to look into the question of the sale of children with a view to

elaborating appropriate measures of technical assistance in the countries concerned, aiming at the elimination of the economic and social causes of the shameful, inhuman practice of the sale of children.

4. The exploitation of child labour

(i) The Sub-Commission should bring the reports submitted by the Anti-Slavery Society for the Protection of Human Rights on child labour in Italy, Spain, West Malaysia and Thailand to the attention of the Governments concerned for comments.

(j) The Sub-Commission should bring the report submitted by the Anti-Slavery Society for the Protection of Human Rights on child labour in South Africa to the attention of the Ad Hoc Working Group of Experts on Southern Africa, the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid, and the Director-General of the ILO, for consideration and appropriate action.

(k) The Sub-Commission should once again call on all Governments to ratify the ILO Convention on Minimum Age for Admission to Employment, 1973, (No. 138) and implement the relevant Recommendation No. 146, and to ensure that adequate legislation to protect the rights of working children is enacted and properly enforced.

5. Debt bondage

(1) The Sub-Commission should bring the report of the Anti-Slavery Society for the Protection of Human Rights on bonded and forced labour in India to the attention of the Government of India for comments.

6. The traffic in persons and the exploitation of the prostitution of others

(m) The Sub-Commission should invite Governments which have not yet ratified the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others of 1949 to do so.

(n) The Sub-Commission should remind States parties to the Convention of their undertaking to submit information under Art. 21, and invite them to take more effective measures to put an end to the traffic in women both within their countries and across international borders.

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7. The slavery-like practices of apartheid and colonialism

The Sub-Commission should condemn military, economic and other collaboration with South Africa, which contribute to the perpetuation of the slavery-like practice of apartheid, and express its support for General Assembly resolutions calling for wide and effective sanctions against the apartheid régime, including resolution 34/930 calling for the holding of an International Conference on Sanctions against South Africa, now scheduled for 1981;