Southern African Development Community NOTING FURTHER the need to give further effect to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Core Conventions as covered by the Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, 1998, having been ratified by all Member States, and to facilitate ratification of the ILO Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122), Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102) and other core international instruments concerning labour and social security; AWARE of the human rights principles as enshrined under the major international human rights instruments; MINDFUL of the commitment to promote and protect the social and economic rights of the people of Africa and guarantee special protection to the marginalised sections of the society in line with the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, 1981, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, 1990, the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, 2003 and the Migration Policy Framework for Africa, 2006; RECOGNISING the African Youth Charter, 2006 adopted during the seventh Ordinary session of the Conference of the Heads of State and Government held on 2"d July, 2006, in Banjul, The Gambia; RECALLING the African Union Declaration and Plan of Action on Employment Promotion and Poverty Alleviation in Africa adopted by Heads of State and Government in 2004 in Ouagadougou; HAVING REGARD to the SADC Charter of Fundamental Social Rights of 26 August, 2003, signed and adopted by the Member States; CONVINCED that the Protocol will, through employment and labour sector areas of cooperation, guide employment creation, poverty reduction and its ultimate eradication, facilitation of labour migration and harmonisation of labour and social security legislation; NOTING the SADC Declaration on Productivity signed on 18 August, 1999 by Heads of State or Government; RECOGNISING the SADC Declaration of Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development adopted by Heads of State or Government in Mauritius in April 2008; REGOGNISING that SADC has, through the SADC Ministers responsible for Employment and Labour Sector approved and adopted inter alia, the following policy documents: (a) SADC Code of Conduct on Child Labour; (b) SADC Code on Social Security in the SADC; Protocol on Employment and Labour -4-