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Committee is especially concerned at the effects of child labour, particularly forced and
hazardous labour, living conditions of children, environment degradation, health hazards
and barriers to their freedom of movement.
22.
The Committee urges the State party to:
(a)
Establish the necessary regulatory framework and policies for business
and industry, in particular with regard to extractive industry (oil and gas) and largescale development projects such as dams and pipelines, to ensure that they respect and
protect the rights of children; and
(b)
Comply with international and domestic standards on corporate social
and environmental responsibility with a view to protecting local communities,
particularly children, from any adverse effects resulting from business operations, in
line with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the
United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework and the business and
human rights framework that were adopted by the Human Rights Council in 2008
and 2011, respectively.
Data collection
23.
While noting some initiatives by the State party to improve interdepartmental
information systems and progress made in collecting national level data on the socioeconomic situation and health and education status of the child population, the Committee
is concerned at the lack of methodological coherence in the undertaking of data collection
and the absence of disaggregated data on areas covered by the Convention.
24.
The Committee encourages the State party to set up a comprehensive data
collection system with the support of its partners and to analyse the data collected as a
basis for assessing progress achieved in the realization of child rights and for helping
design policies and programmes to implement the Convention. The data should be
disaggregated by age, sex, geographic location, ethnicity and socio-economic
background to facilitate analysis on the situation of all children. The Committee also
recommends prioritizing capacity development of institutions at the national and
subnational levels to be able to design, conduct, analyse and use evidence to monitor,
evaluate and influence policies and programmes.
Dissemination and awareness-raising
25.
While noting that awareness-raising and training workshops have been conducted
and copies of the Convention have been disseminated, the Committee is concerned that the
outreach of awareness-raising on the Convention and human rights remains in general
limited. The Committee is further concerned about the absence of a system to ensure that
the Convention is widely known.
26.
The Committee urges the State party to:
(a)
Systematically incorporate child rights issues into all curricula of the
different education levels and strengthen awareness-raising programmes, including
campaigns on the Convention, among children, adolescents, families and
communities; and
(b)
Develop a national plan of action for human rights education, as
recommended in the framework of the World Programme for Human Rights
Education.
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