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"Obviously, we will want to take account of the honourable Member's views and the views of Parliament in preparing for the conference, which the honourable Member quite rightly points to as an important event in mobilising, not just the international conscience, but international actions in order to deal with abuses which we all condemn.
As for an oversight of practice in individual countries, we do, of course, have the possibility of applying the essential elements clauses in our agreements under the Cotonou Agreement in order to try to keep a check on what is happening.
It is important to recognise the multiplicity of reasons for the problem and to recognise the complexity of some of the solutions which are required, which in my judgement go right to the heart of what we often talk about in relation to poverty alleviation as the central part of our development assistance programmes.
I draw attention, for example, to the UNICEF strategy based on the Convention on Rights of the Child, which in my judgement goes to the centre of this debate. UNICEF strategy focuses on four main areas. First of all, raising awareness about the problem, which we are trying to do. Secondly, providing economic support to families at risk and appropriate social welfare. Again, that is part of our global strategy for poverty alleviation. Next, improving access to and quality of education and finally putting the case for children's rights and training law enforcement officials and judicial authorities. UNICEF offers an extremely convincing analysis and a convincing way forward and I hope along with the contributions made by Members of this Parliament, it will provide us with an intellectual framework for our preparations for the conference later this year."@en1
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