The following example is based on a resolution submitted to the 28th IFUW Conference in 2001:

Commercial Exploitation of Children

The 29th IFUW Conference resolves:

that National Federations and Associations (NFAs) ensure that their
respective governments have not only signed but have also ratified the:

1. UN Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the
Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child>Pornography
(2002);

2.UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and its
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,
Especially Women and Children (2000);

3. UN Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the
Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (2000); and,

4. International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 182 on the Worst Forms
of Child Labour (1999).

Plan of Action

1. NFAs should identify their Government's position in relation
to the UN Optional Protocol and to the ILO Convention and, where it
is found that they have not been signed and/or ratified, lobby the
government to meet these requirements.

2. NFAs should ensure that resources are available to implement
the measures and that there is effective use of the law to prevent
the exploitation of children.

3. NFAs should monitor the extent to which there is cooperation
between the police, education organizations and information for
parents regarding the safe use of the Internet by children.

4. NFAs familiarize themselves with these documents. The UN
Optional Protocol was adopted and opened for signature, ratification
and accession by General Assembly resolution A/RES/54/263 of 25 May
2000, entered into force on 18 January 2002 . UNHCHR and UNICEF
websites have the full text. The ILO Convention 182 can be found on
the ILO website: www.ilo.org.

Submitted by: the New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women
Contact person: janedoe@ifuw.org