(c) to ensure the provision of adequate nutrition and safe drinking water;
(d) to combat disease and malnutrition within the framework of primary health care
through the application of appropriate technology;
(e) to ensure appropriate health care for expectant and nursing mothers;
(f) to develop preventive health care and family life education and provision of service;
(g) to integrate basic health service programmes in national development plans
(h) to ensure that all sectors of the society, in particular, parents, children, community
leaders and community workers are informed and supported in the use of basic
knowledge of child health and nutrition, the advantages of breastfeeding, hygiene
and environmental sanitation and the prevention of domestic and other accidents;
(i) to ensure the meaningful participation of non-governmental organizations, local
communities and the beneficiary population in the planning and management of a
basic service programme for children;
(j) to support through technical and financial means, the mobilization of local community
resources in the development of primary health care for children.
ARTICLE 15: CHILD LABOUR
1. Every child shall be protected from all forms of economic exploitation and from performing
any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child’s physical, mental,
spiritual, moral, or social development.
2. States Parties to the present Charter take all appropriate legislative and administrative
measures to ensure the full implementation of this Article which covers both the formal
and informal sectors of employment and having regard to the relevant provisions of the
International Labour Organization’s instruments relating to children, States Parties shall
in particular:
(a) provide through legislation, minimum ages for admission to every employment;
(b) provide for appropriate regulation of hours and conditions of employment;
(c) provide for appropriate penalties or other sanctions to ensure the effective enforcement
of this Article;
(d) promote the dissemination of information on the hazards of child labour to all sectors of
the community.