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5. Once again invites the competent United Nations agencies to look into the question of the sale of children with a view to elaborating appropriato

measures of technical assistance in the countries concerned, aimed at the

elimination of the economic and social causes of the shameful, inhuman practice

of the sale of children;

V.

The exploitation of child labour

1. Requests the Secretary-General to bring the reports submitted to the

Working Group at its sixth session on child labour in Italy, Spain,

West Halaysia and Thailand to the attention of the Governments concerned for

comments;

2. Once again calls 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;

3. Requests the Secretary-General to bring the documentation on child

labour submitted to the Working Group on Slavery at its fifth and sixth sessions

to the attention of the T50 for usc in its general survey, under article 19

of the ILO Constitution, concerning the Minimum Age Convention, and to the

attention of UNDP as it may assist the Programme in its planning of programme s

for specially deprived areas;

4. Invites UNESCO to inform Member States of its roadiness to provide

assistance for the development and adaptation of their educational systems to tha specific needs of voriting children (F/CN.4/Suh.2/451/241.1);

VI.

Debt bondage

Requests the Gueretary-General to bring the reports of the Working

Group on its fifth and sixth sessions, together with supporting documentation,

on delt bondage, to the station of the Government of Indi for information;

Invite the Songheniul to (ive priority to flawly of debt bondage

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