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11 Oct 2013

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UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

[DOC] Concluding observations on the combined third and fourth periodic reports of China (including Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions), adopted by the Committee at its sixty-fourth session (16 September – 4 October 2013)

The Committee urges...China to strengthen efforts to protect children of migrant workers from sexual exploitation and abuse and ensure that legislation relating to sexual abuse and exploitation is effectively enforced...The Committee urges mainland China as a matter of priority, to end the use of the RTL and ‘Work Study Schools’ program and [to]...Gather data on child labour, incidences of hazardous child labour and working conditions...Identify hazardous work and worst forms of labour carried out by children and strengthen protection and prohibition of employment...The Committee further recommends that the State party:...Undertake research on the root causes and extent of the commercial sexual exploitation of children, child sex tourism and sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, to identify children at risk, assess the extent of the problem and develop targeted policies and programmes in mainland China and Macau SAR...

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