CRC/C/HND/CO/3 page 7 30. The Committee, reiterating its previous recommendation made upon consideration of the State party’s second periodic report, recommends that the State party abolish in all domains the biological criterion of puberty, which sets different legal age-limits for boys and girls. 3. General principles (arts. 2, 3, 6 and 12 of the Convention) Non-discrimination 31. The Committee, while noting the State party’s efforts aimed at combating all forms of discrimination, including the adoption in 2000 of the Equal Opportunities for Women Act and the ratification of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in 2002, is nevertheless concerned that discrimination and stigmatization continue to exist towards certain vulnerable groups, such as indigenous children, street children, children living in rural and remote areas and towards certain children because of their appearance (e.g. way of dressing, tattoos, symbols). The Committee is also concerned at the persistence of traditional patriarchal cultural attitudes that discriminate against girls, thus making them more vulnerable to human rights violations. 32. The Committee urges the State party to: (a) Continue revising its legislation in order to bring it into full compliance with article 2 of the Convention, and to ensure full implementation in practice of all legal provisions prohibiting discrimination; (b) Combat discrimination by ensuring equal access to education, health-care facilities and poverty alleviation programmes and pay special attention to the situation of girls; (c) Carry out comprehensive public education campaigns to prevent and combat all forms of discrimination; (d) Include in its next periodic report specific information on the measures and programmes it has undertaken that are relevant to the Convention on the Rights of the Child to follow up on the Declaration and Programme of Action adopted at the 2001 World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, also taking into account the Committee’s general comment No. 1 (CRC/GC/2001/1) on the aims of education. Best interests of the child 33. While the Committee welcomes the principle of the best interests of the child being enshrined in the State party’s legislation, it is nevertheless concerned that this principle is neither recognized nor applied in practice; for instance in the allocation of resources, in the area of child protection and in the administration of justice.