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Limited access to health services;
Adolescent health;
Economic and sexual exploitation;
Children working and living in the streets;
Juvenile justice.
9.
The Committee urges the State party to take all the necessary measures to address
those recommendations from the concluding observations of the second periodic report
that have not yet been implemented and to provide adequate follow-up to the
recommendations contained in the present concluding observations on the third periodic
report.
Legislation and implementation
10. The Committee is concerned that, as indicated in the State party’s report, despite the
adoption of the Code on Children and Adolescents and of various relevant pieces of legislation,
there is still insufficient harmonization of the national legislation with the provisions of the
Convention.
11. The Committee recommends that the State party increase its efforts to guarantee the
full harmonization of its domestic law, including the Family Code and the Code on
Children and Adolescents, with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other
applicable international standards.
12. The Committee also recommends that the State party ensure, through adequate legal
provisions and regulations, that all child victims and/or witnesses of crimes, e.g. abuse,
domestic violence, sexual and economic exploitation, abduction, and trafficking, are
provided with the protection required by the Convention, and that in doing so the State
party take fully into account the United Nations Guidelines on Justice in Matters Involving
Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime (Economic and Social Council resolution 2005/20
of 22 July 2005, annex).
National Plan of Action
13. The Committee notes with appreciation the adoption in 2005 of the National Opportunities
Plan for Children and Adolescents, which was drawn up taking into account the document “A
world fit for children”, adopted by the General Assembly at its special session in 2002, but
regrets the lack of information about the resources allocated for its implementation. The
Committee also notes that several other specific plans of actions and programmes (see
e.g. paras. 72, 74 and 78 of the present report) have been adopted in the last few years, but is
concerned that they may not be adequately coordinated with the National Opportunities Plan for
Children and Adolescents.