The fifty-third session of the UN Commission on Human Rights

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The 53rd session of the UN Commission on Human Rights, which met in March and April 1997, deepened its commitment to human rights but argued over economic policies that favored northern hemisphere nations. The Commission advocated death penalty abolition, upheld the rights of innocents in regional armed conflicts, and denounced terrorism. Southern hemisphere debtor countries protested against structural adjustments imposed on them by international economic regulations.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Human rights, United Nations. Commission on Human Rights, international

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The ILO Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labor

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This article discusses the International Labor Organization's Convention Concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999. The convention covers categories which should be considered intolerable: slavery, recruitment for armed conflict, sex work, illicit activities, and work dangerous to children's health and morals.

Child labor practices, Child labor

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Newly adopted protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child

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The author discusses the UN's two protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child - Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict and Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Pornography and Child Prostitution.

Child pornography, Child soldiers, Prostitution, Juvenile, Child prostitution, Children (International law)

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