34/L.49 Rights of the Child: protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

GE.17-04569(E)

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Human Rights Council Thirty-fourth session

27 February–24 March 2017

Agenda item 3

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,

political, economic, social and cultural rights,

including the right to development

South Africa: amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/34/L.25

34/… Rights of the Child: protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

The sixteenth preambular paragraph should read

Still concerned that 168 million children are engaged in child labour, with half of

that number working in the worst forms of labour, that 5.5 million children are in forced

labour, that nearly 50 million children are at increased risk of child labour, modern slavery

and human trafficking, and that the worst forms of exploitation of child labour by

transnational corporations and other business enterprises, as well as by private military and

security companies, continue to rise at an alarming rate,