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IPU urges states to penalise child abuse

The Inter-parliamentary Union (IPU) has called on states to criminalise and penalise all forms of sexual exploitation and abuse of children, including within the family.

The call came on Saturday at the end of the IPU's 106th conference, held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, at which 1300 delegates from 141 parliaments, 39 of them in Africa, also called for the "immediate elimination of the worst forms of child labour". The parliamentarians also agreed to "promote education as a key strategy as well as to examine and devise economic policies, where necessary in cooperation with the international community, that address factors contributing to these forms of child labour".

[See separate item titled 'BURKINA FASO: World's parliaments focus on the condition of children']


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