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(a) Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement
of children in armed conflict and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
(14 August and 8 May 2002, respectively);
(b) International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
(10 October 2002);
(c) International Convention on the Protection on All Migrant Workers and Members of
Their Families (9 August 2005);
(d) ILO Convention No. 182 concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the
Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (25 October 2001);
(e)
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1 July 2002);
(f) Inter-American Convention on the Forced Disappearances of Persons
(28 April 2005).
C. Factors and difficulties affecting the implementation of the Convention
7.
The Committee recognizes that despite almost nine years having passed, the State party is
still recovering from the effects of the devastating hurricane Mitch in 1998, which caused
thousands of deaths, destroyed most of the infrastructure and left over 20 per cent of the
population homeless.
D. Main subjects of concern, and recommendations
1. General measures of implementation
(arts. 4, 42 and 44, para. 6 of the Convention)
Previous recommendations of the Committee
8.
The Committee notes that some of its concerns and recommendations
(CRC/C/15/Add.105, June 1999) made upon the consideration of the State party’s second
periodic report (CRC/C/65/Add.2) have been addressed. However, it regrets that other concerns
and recommendations have been insufficiently or only partly addressed, including those related
to the following:
The need to establish adequate coordination;
The insufficient financial and human resources of the Honduras Institute of Children
and the Family (IHNFA);
Non-discrimination;
Birth registration, abuse and ill-treatment of children;