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THE LIBREVILLE APPEAL
(Excerpt)
The
participants at the consultation of Libreville: -Bearing in mind the ILO convention
138 on the minimum age of employment and the convention 182 on the worst forms
of child labour, the UN convention on the right of the child and the OAU African
charter on the rights and the welfare of the child; -Nothing the need to urgently
adopt a specific international instrument on child trafficking in all its forms
and implications; Hereby launch an appeal for :
The elaboration and adoption
at international level of an instrument relating to child trafficking in all its
forms; the adoption by government, in short term, both at nationaland regional
level of the common platform on the fight against child trafficking in all its
forms; The involvment of social and development partners, of economic regional
organisation and of the media to attain these objectives. Done in Libreville,
24 February 2000
* Development
of Strategies to fight child trafficking for exploitative labour purposes in West
and central - 22-24 February 2000, Libreville, Gabon, Sub-regional consultation
organised by ILO and UNICEF
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